On This Day (January 17th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of which sea ?

North Sea ✓

South China Sea ✓

Adriatic Sea ✓

Red Sea ✓

2. 1860 – Douglas Hyde, Irish academic, politician and 1st President of Ireland, was born in which Irish county ?

County Roscommon ✓

County Donegal ✓

County Sligo ✓

County Cork ✓

3. 1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for which island group?

Aleutian Islands ✓

Virgin Islands ✓

Hawaiian Islands ✓

Cayman Islands ✓

4. 1920 - What is banned in the US on this day ?

Opium production ✓

Tobacco ✓

Alcohol ✓

X rated films ✓

5. 1929 – Which cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip ?

Popeye the Sailor Man ✓

Fred Flintstone ✓

Yosemite Sam ✓

Andy Capp ✓

6. 1938 - Joseph P. Kennedy (father of JFK) becomes the 44th United States Ambassador to which European country ?

Italy ✓

Sweden ✓

United Kingdom ✓

Spain ✓

7. 1945 – The SS-Totenkopfverbände begin the evacuation of which concentration camp as Soviet forces close in ?

Dachau ✓

Bergen-Belsen ✓

Auschwitz ✓

Buchenwald ✓

8. 1950 – The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in which US city ?

Detroit ✓

Baltimore ✓

Denver ✓

Boston ✓

9. 1966 – A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over which country, killing seven airmen, and dropping four 70-kiloton nuclear bombs ?

Germany ✓

Spain ✓

Portugal ✓

Morocco ✓

10. 1977 – Capital punishment in the United States resumes, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by what means in Utah ?

Electric Chair ✓

Firing Squad ✓

Lethal Injection ✓

Hanging ✓

11. 1996 – Which country applies for membership of the European Union ?

Slovakia ✓

Slovenia ✓

Poland ✓

Czech Republic ✓

12. 1997 - The NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely for what reason ?

Financial Misconduct ✓

Kicking Cameraman ✓

Drug Use ✓

Alcohol Abuse ✓

13. 2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to what time in response to North Korea's first nuclear test ?

Quarter to Midnight ✓

Eleven Thirty ✓

Five minutes to Midnight ✓

Ten minutes to Midnight ✓

14. 2008 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author dies of renal failure in which city ?

Reykjavik, Iceland ✓

Halifax, NS, Canada ✓

Los Angeles, CA, USA ✓

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK ✓

15. 2014 - 21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in which Asian city ?

Bangkok, Thailand ✓

Yangon, Myanmar ✓

Ankara, Turkey ✓

Kabul, Afghanistan ✓

16. 2023 - An avalanche kills 28 people in which region?

Uttarakhand, India ✓

Tibet, China ✓

British Columbia, Canada ✓

Ticino, Switzerland ✓

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