Statistics for On This Day (February 26th) Multiple Choice

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  • The average score is 7 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1952 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own what ?Atomic Bomb
80%
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing which US National Park.?Grand Canyon
80%
1606 – The Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of which island ?New Guinea
80%
1616 - The Roman Inquisition delivers an injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in what ?The Earth orbiting the Sun
80%
1980 – Egypt and which other country establish full diplomatic relations ?Israel
60%
1947 – Sandie Shaw, English singer was born in Essex on this day, apart from her music, how was her act memorable ?Performing with bare feet
60%
1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry, UK, which leads directly to the development of what ?RADAR
60%
1995 – The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses how much ?$1.4 billion
40%
2013 – A hot air balloon crashes, killing 19 people, near which African city ?Luxor, Egypt
40%
1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at which London Theatre ?Palace Theatre
40%
2008 – The New York Philharmonic performs in which Asian city for the first time ?Pyongyang
40%
1997 – David Doyle, American actor dies of a heart attack at 67. For which role is he most famous ?Bosley in "Charlies Angels"
20%
1975 - What type of transplant is televised for the first time ?Kidney
20%
1881 - P&O's SS Ceylon sails from Liverpool to begins the world's first pleasure cruise to do what ?Sail around the World
20%
1863 - Abraham Lincoln signs an Act, establishing a single national what ?Currency
0%

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