On This Day (November 8th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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2004 – Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold in which city ? Fallujah
100%
1957 – Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and and which other city ? Honolulu
100%
1957 – The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over which island in the Pacific ? Christmas Island
75%
1889 – Which state is admitted as the 41st U.S. state ? Montana
75%
1291 – The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to which island ? Murano
75%
1602 – The Bodleian Library at which University is opened to the public ? Oxford
75%
1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours, near which European city ? Prague
75%
1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in which city ? Munich
50%
1973 – Which body part of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million ? Right Ear
50%
1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray whilst experimenting with what ? Electricity
25%
1987 – A Provisional IRA bomb explodes during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces in which Northern Irish town ? Enniskillen
25%
2013 – Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of which country ? Philippines
25%
1965 – The Murder Act 1965 is passed, abolishing the death penalty in the UK, except in certain cases. In what year was the death penalty completely abolished ? 1998
0%
1946 – Roy Wood, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer is born. He was a co-founder of which band ? Electric Light Orchestra
0%
The USA celebrates which drink on this day ? National Harvey Wallbanger Day
0%
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