On This Day (January 22nd) Multiple Choice

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1. 1506 – The first contingent of how many Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican ?

50 ✓

100 ✓

150 ✓

200 ✓

2. 1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in which city ?

Columbus, Ohio ✓

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ✓

St. Louis, Missouri ✓

Indianapolis, Indiana ✓

3. 1901 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies on which British island ?

Isle of Man ✓

Isle of Wight ✓

Isle of Skye ✓

Isle of Anglesey ✓

4. 1906 – SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on which Canadian Island, killing more than 130 people ?

Baffin Island ✓

Prince Edward Island ✓

Anticosti island ✓

Vancouver Island ✓

5. 1915 – Over 600 people are killed in which Mexican city, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon ?

Durango ✓

Monterrey ✓

Merida ✓

Guadalajara ✓

6. 1920 – Sir Alf Ramsey, English footballer and coach of the World Cup winning team in 1966 is born in which English town ?

Dartford, Kent ✓

Leatherhead, Surrey ✓

Dagenham, Essex ✓

Watford, Hertfordshire ✓

7. 1924 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from which political party ?

Conservative ✓

Labour ✓

Liberal ✓

Whig ✓

8. 1927 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and which other soccer team ?

Manchester City ✓

Aston Villa ✓

Bolton Wanderers ✓

Sheffield United ✓

9. 1941 – British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from forces of which country during Operation Compass ?

Germany ✓

Japan ✓

Italy ✓

Turkey ✓

10. 1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in which city ?

Los Angeles ✓

San Francisco ✓

Las Vegas ✓

Seattle ✓

11. 1957 - Israeli forces withdraw from where ?

Sinai Peninsula ✓

Gaza Strip ✓

West Bank ✓

Lebanon ✓

12. 1959 - USAF concludes that less than what percentage of UFOs are actually unknown objects ?

<10% ✓

<25% ✓

<1% ✓

<5% ✓

13. 1970 – The Boeing 747, enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy Airport to which airport ?

Paris Charles de Gaulle ✓

London Heathrow ✓

Amsterdam Schiphol ✓

Madrid Barajas ✓

14. 1999 - An Australian missionary and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car, in which country?

Pakistan ✓

Bangladesh ✓

India ✓

Sri Lanka ✓

15. 2005 - Donald Trump weds former model Melania Knauss at the Bethesda by the Sea Episcopal Church in which city ?

Long Beach, California ✓

Palm Beach, Florida ✓

Corpus Christi, Texas ✓

Portland, Maine ✓

16. 2014 - Water vapour is detected on which dwarf planet ?

Ceres ✓

Pluto ✓

Makemake ✓

Eris ✓

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