On This Day (October 25th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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2019 – Hundreds of tourists flock to which natural landmark to climb it for the last time before a ban on climbing goes into effect ? Uluru
100%
1993 – Vincent Price, American actor dies. He is best known for which genre of film ? Horror
80%
1147 – Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer which city ? Lisbon
80%
1854 – Which battle, memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade, takes place during the Crimean War ? Battle of Balaclava
40%
1983 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade which country, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop is executed in a coup d'état ? Grenada
40%
1760 – King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of which monarch ? King George II
40%
1927 – The Italian luxury liner "SS Principessa Mafalda" sinks off the coast of which country ? Brazil
20%
1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies in which English prison ? Brixton
20%
1913 – Klaus Barbie, German SS captain is born. He was known by what nickname ? Butcher of Lyon
20%
2010 – More than 700 species of ancient insects are discovered preserved in amber in an ancient rainforest in which country ? India
20%
285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, they are now the patron saints of which professions ? Leather workers, curriers and shoemakers
20%
1997 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of which country ? Republic of the Congo
20%
1944 – Second World War: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by what ? The ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
20%
Today is commemorated globally as what ? World Pasta Day
20%
2015 – More than 200 black bears are killed in a single day in which U.S. state after officials allow the hunting of the animals for the first time in 21 years ? Florida
0%
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