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On This Day (December 14th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 14th?
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1. 1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen of Scots on the death of her father, James V of Scotland. How old was she ?
One week ✓
Two months ✓
One year ✓
Three years ✓
2. 1751 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded in which Austrian city ?
Graz ✓
Linz ✓
Wiener Neustadt ✓
Klagenfurt ✓
3. 1780 – Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in which New York state city ?
Syracuse ✓
Buffalo ✓
Utica ✓
Albany ✓
4. 1812 – The French invasion comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from which nation ?
Spain ✓
Russia ✓
Algeria ✓
Lebanon ✓
5. 1896 – Which European city's underground railway is opened ?
Athens ✓
Hamburg ✓
Budapest ✓
Glasgow ✓
6. 1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to which other city ?
Tokyo ✓
Honolulu ✓
Hong Kong ✓
Anchorage ✓
7. 1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party at the Hotel Savoy in which South American city ?
Buenos Aires ✓
Rio de Janiero ✓
Quito ✓
Bogota ✓
8. 1918 – The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs. It was renowned for what reason ?
First election to have the results broadcast ✓
First election to allow women to vote ✓
First election to have more than three political parties ✓
First election where votes are cast in secret ✓
9. 1939 – Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading which country ?
Afghanistan ✓
Norway ✓
Nepal ✓
Finland ✓
10. 1940 – Which element is first isolated at Berkeley, California ?
Uranium ✓
Neptunium ✓
Plutonium ✓
Californium ✓
11. 1941 – World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with which Asian nation ?
Thailand ✓
Laos ✓
Vietnam ✓
Indonesia ✓
12. 1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by which planet ?
Mars ✓
Venus ✓
Mercury ✓
Saturn ✓
13. 1972 – Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon. To this day in 2020 how many people have walked on the Moon ?
Eight ✓
Fifteen ✓
Twenty ✓
Twelve ✓
14. 1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on which river ?
Yangtze ✓
Nile ✓
Amazon ✓
Volga ✓
15. 2008 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws what at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq ?
Eggs ✓
Tomatoes ✓
Shoes ✓
Flour ✓
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4 Comments
NV1
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Level 51
Dec 14, 2020
17 days left!
toowise
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Level 78
Dec 15, 2020
Almost there !
1ProximaCentauri
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Level 54
Dec 14, 2020
On the sad side of things the Sandy Hook school massacre
toowise
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Level 78
Dec 15, 2020
A sad day indeed, why the US continues allowing so many guns is beyond me, but then I live in the UK with very strict gun control, but unfortunately there is still some similar incidences here, although not as widespread.

I purposely left that event out as I thought it was too extreme!

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