On This Day (August 3rd) Multiple Choice

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1. 435 – Deposed Archbishop of Constantinople, Nestorius, is exiled by Roman Emperor, Theodosius II, to a monastery in which country ?

San Marino ✓

Frankish Empire ✓

Egypt ✓

Galicia ✓

2. 1057 – Frederik van Lotharingen elected as Pope Stephen IX. He is the first Pope from which country ?

Belgium ✓

Hungary ✓

Sweden ✓

Denmark ✓

3. 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while he was in which modern day place ?

Maine ✓

Newfoundland ✓

Nova Scotia ✓

New Brunswick ✓

4. 1601 – Long War: Austria captures which European region in the Battle of Goroszló ?

Bavaria, Germany ✓

Venetia, Italy ✓

Bohemia, Czechia ✓

Transylvania, Romania ✓

5. 1811 – First ascent of which mountain by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer ?

Eiger ✓

Matterhorn ✓

Jungfrau ✓

Mont Blanc ✓

6. 1829 – The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by which two peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River ?

Cherokee and Crow ✓

Shawnee and Seneca ✓

Sioux and Shoshone ✓

Apache and Navajo ✓

7. 1900 – Which well known tyre company is founded ?

Firestone ✓

Michelin ✓

Goodyear ✓

Dunlop ✓

8. 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France, while which country declares its neutrality ?

Switzerland ✓

Sweden ✓

Spain ✓

Romania ✓

9. 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in which US city ?

Christmas, Michigan ✓

Santa Claus, Indiana ✓

Snowflake, Arizona ✓

Rudolph, Ohio ✓

10. 1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers killing over 50 people in which city ?

Bissau ✓

Lisbon ✓

Porto ✓

Macau ✓

11. 1977 – Which corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers ?

IBM ✓

Microsoft ✓

Tandy ✓

Sinclair ✓

12. 1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction, in which city ?

Auckland, New Zealand ✓

Sydney, Australia ✓

Buenos Aires, Argentina ✓

Johannesburg, South Africa ✓

13. 2005 – The president of which country is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia ?

Niger ✓

Burkina Faso ✓

Mauritania ✓

Benin ✓

14. 2019 – Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in which city ?

Warsaw ✓

Moscow ✓

Sofia ✓

Baku ✓

15. 2019 – Twenty-three people are killed and 23 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas. It occured in a store belonging to which company ?

Walmart ✓

Target ✓

Ikea ✓

Aldi ✓

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