On This Day (October 7th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of what ? Far side of the Moon
64%
1840 – Willem II becomes King of which nation ? Netherlands
57%
1988 – A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice, the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales. Off the coast of where ? Alaska, USA
50%
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University in the most lopsided college football game in American history. What was the score ? 222 - 0
43%
1996 – Which news channel begins broadcasting ? Fox News
43%
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris by what means ? Hot Air Balloon
36%
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S. in which state ? Massachusetts
36%
1477 – Which Swedish university is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year ? Uppsala
36%
1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people on which island ? Puerto Rico
21%
1864 – American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in which Brazilian seaport ? Salvador
21%
1944 – World War II: During an uprising, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV, in which concentration camp ? Birkenau
14%
1919 – Which airline, the oldest still operating under its original name, is founded ? KLM
7%
1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. What was it's original name ? Project Astronaut
7%
2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 was the first asteroid impact detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere. It exploded over which country ? Sudan
7%
1912 – The Stock Exchange of which city sees its first transaction ? Helsinki
0%
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