On This Day (September 15th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches which island group ?	Galápagos Islands	100%
2000 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in which city ?	Sydney, Australia	89%
1945 – A hurricane strikes which part of the US, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps ?	Southern Florida	67%
1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, American rock singer is born. She was a founding member of which band ?	Jefferson Airplane	56%
1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in which US city ?	Philadelphia	56%
668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in Syracuse, Italy. What was he doing at the time ?	Taking a bath	56%
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit which nation ?	United States	56%
1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, in which state ?	New South Wales	44%
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in which Canadian province as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy ?	Quebec	33%
1916 – World War I: What are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme ?	Tanks	33%
1975 – Which French department is divided into two ?	Corse	22%
1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar. The Doom Bar is at the mouth of which British river ?	River Camel	22%
1830 – British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive known as what ?	Rocket	22%
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at what speed ?	671 mph	11%
1971 – The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against what ?	Nuclear Testing	0%

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