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On This Day (December 20th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 20th?
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1.
1334 – Cistercian monk Jacques Fournier is elected as which Pope ?
Pope John XXII
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Pope Clement VI
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Pope Innocent VI
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Pope Benedict XII
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1832 – "HMS Clio" under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at Port Egmont under orders to take possession of which island group ?
Cayman Islands
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Falkland Islands
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Maldives
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Cook Islands
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3.
1860 – Which state becomes the first to attempt to secede from the United States ?
South Carolina
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Texas
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Maine
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Florida
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1915 – World War I: The last troops from which nation are evacuated from Gallipoli ?
South Africa
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Australia
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United Kingdom
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Germany
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1917 – The first Soviet secret police force, is founded. By what name was it known ?
Stasi
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KGB
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Thinkpol
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Cheka
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6.
1946 – Which popular Christmas film is first released in New York City ?
Miracle on 34th Street
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Christmas in Connecticut
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It's a Wonderful Life
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White Christmas
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1951 – The EBR-1 becomes the first nuclear breeder reactor to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs. In which US state was it ?
New Mexico
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Idaho
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New Jersey
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California
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1957 – The initial production version of which Boeing airplane makes its first flight ?
707
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747
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737
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777
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1968 – A serial killer known by what name kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California ?
Woodward Corridor Killer
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Midtown Slasher
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The Zodiac Killer
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Shoe Fetish Slayer
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1971 – Which international aid organization is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France ?
Secours Populaire Français
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Médecins Sans Frontières
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Bibliothèques Sans Frontières
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Solidarités International
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11.
1973 – The Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated in Madrid by what means ?
Letter Bomb
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Shooting
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Knife attack
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Car bomb
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12.
1984 – The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying gasoline derails in which of the UK's hilly regions ?
Pennines
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Snowdonia
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Cairngorms
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South Downs
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1987 – In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry "Doña Paz" sinks after colliding with the oil tanker "MT Vector" in the Tablas Strait in which country ?
Indonesia
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Philippines
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Malaysia
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Japan
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2004 – A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of which bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland ?
Barclays Bank
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National Westminster Bank
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HSBC
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Northern Bank
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2007 – The "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch" by which artist is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art ?
Henri Matisse
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Claude Monet
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Pablo Picasso
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Henri Rousseau
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