On This Day (December 12th) Multiple Choice

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1. 884 – King Carloman II, King of West Francia, dies after an accident whilst doing what activity ?

Fishing ✓

Hunting ✓

Lovemaking ✓

Cooking ✓

2. 1388 – Maria of Enghien sells the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to which Republic ?

Republic of Venice ✓

Republic of Siena ✓

Republic of Florence ✓

Republic of Amalfi ✓

3. 1862 – American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on which river ?

Atchafalaya River ✓

Blind River ✓

Mississippi River ✓

Yazoo River ✓

4. 1866 – Oaks Colliery explosion: The worst mining disaster in England kills 361 miners and rescuers near to which town ?

Silverdale, Staffordshire ✓

Worksop, Nottinghamshire ✓

Barnsley, West Yorkshire ✓

Redruth, Cornwall ✓

5. 1870 – Joseph H. Rainey of which state becomes the second black U.S. congressman ?

South Carolina ✓

Louisiana ✓

Tennessee ✓

Florida ✓

6. 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. It was the Morse Code for which letter ?

A (.-) ✓

S (...) ✓

R (.-.) ✓

O (---) ✓

7. 1915 – Frank Sinatra, American singer, actor, and producer is born in which city in the New York Metropolitan area ?

Hoboken ✓

Poughkeepsie ✓

Mount Vernon ✓

Fort Lee ✓

8. 1935 – The Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by which Nazi Holocaust perpetrator ?

Adolf Eichmann ✓

Hermann Göring ✓

Martin Bormann ✓

Heinrich Himmler ✓

9. 1939 – HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of which part of the United Kingdom with the loss of 124 men ?

Mull of Kintyre ✓

Isles of Scilly ✓

Cape Wrath ✓

Gibraltar Point ✓

10. 1979 – The Tumaco earthquake shakes which two countries killing between 300–600, and generating a large tsunami ?

Mexico and Guatemala ✓

Venezuela and Guyana ✓

Colombia and Ecuador ✓

Peru and Bolivia ✓

11. 1988 – A rail crash kills thirty-five after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom near which station ?

Manchester Piccadilly ✓

Birmingham New Street ✓

Bristol Temple Meads ✓

Clapham Junction ✓

12. 2006 – Peter Boyle, American actor dies on this day. He is known for playing the character of Frank Barone in which TV sitcom ?

Everybody Loves Raymond ✓

How I Met Your Mother ✓

Mork and Mindy ✓

Diff'rent Strokes ✓

13. 2012 – Which country successfully launches its first satellite, "Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2" ?

South Korea ✓

North Korea ✓

Cambodia ✓

Vietnam ✓

14. 2019 – Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, catches fire while docked in which port ?

Odessa ✓

Archangelsk ✓

Murmansk ✓

Vladivostok ✓

15. The World Health Organisation designates this day as what ?

Universal Health Coverage Day ✓

Malnutrition Awareness Day ✓

World Cancer Day ✓

Clean Water for All Day ✓

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