On This Day (October 4th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting which monument ? Mount Rushmore
83%
1957 – What was the name of the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth ? Sputnik 1
83%
1993 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against which Leader rally outside ? Boris Yeltsin
67%
1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed as which country ? Lesotho
67%
2006 – Which controversial website is launched ? WikiLeaks
67%
1824 – Which country adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic ? Mexico
33%
1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College opens as the first public college in which US state ? Texas
33%
AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese city of Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. Cnang'an is known by what name today ? Xi'an
33%
1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of over 633 miles per hour. But where ? Black Rock Desert, Nevada
17%
1883 – First meeting of which organisation in Glasgow, Scotland ? Boys Brigade
17%
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant missile from which country ? Ukraine
17%
1597 – Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now which US state ? Georgia
0%
1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in which country ? Mozambique
0%
1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by which Pope ? Pope Gregory XIII
0%
1883 – The first run of the Orient Express departs from Paris to Istanbul (then Constantinople). The last leg was by ferry from which city ? Varna, Bulgaria
0%
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