On This Day (January 7th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of which European country ?

Portugal ✓

Norway ✓

Sweden ✓

Lithuania ✓

2. 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in what way ?

Swimming ✓

Kayak ✓

Gas Balloon ✓

Coracle ✓

3. 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established between which two cities ?

Halifax and Liverpool ✓

Miami and Lisbon ✓

New York and London. ✓

Norfolk and Casablanca ✓

4. 1928 – A disastrous flood of which English river kills 14 people and causes extensive damage ?

Tyne ✓

Severn ✓

Mersey ✓

Thames ✓

5. 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in which battle ?

Battle of Britain ✓

Battle of the Bulge ✓

Battle of the Atlantic ✓

Battle of Guadalcanal ✓

6. 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of what ?

Stolen Spitfire airplane ✓

Hijacked Douglas DC3 ✓

Short S23 "Flying Boat" with a fire on board ✓

Unidentified Flying Object ✓

7. 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, is born in which city ?

Long Beach, California ✓

Galveston, Texas ✓

Flagstaff, Arizona ✓

Spokane, Washington ✓

8. 1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in which Southern US city ?

Jacksonville, Florida ✓

Birmingham, Alabama ✓

New Orleans, Louisiana ✓

Savannah , Georgia ✓

9. 1975 - Fans of which band riot before a Boston concert causing $30,000 damage ?

Pink Floyd ✓

Led Zeppelin ✓

Black Sabbath ✓

Deep Purple ✓

10. January 7th is "Victory Over Genocide Day" in which country ?

Rwanda ✓

Cambodia ✓

Haiti ✓

Bosnia and Herzogovina ✓

11. 1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out which company ?

NBC ✓

Amtrak ✓

Chrysler Corporation ✓

Pan-Am ✓

12. 1983 - President Reagan ends US arms embargo against which Central American country ?

Guatemala ✓

El Salvador ✓

Nicaragua ✓

Honduras ✓

13. 2007 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist, author, and host of BBC's Mastermind dies at 77 of which illness ?

Pancreatic Cancer ✓

Pneumonia ✓

Heart disease ✓

Lung Cancer ✓

14. 2015 – Twelve people are killed when terrorists open fire at the offices of which Parisian magazine?

Vogue ✓

Paris Match ✓

Charlie Hebdo ✓

Cosmopolitan ✓

15. 2018 -15 inches of snow falls in which unlikely place ?

Yucatan Peninsula ✓

The Maldives ✓

Singapore ✓

Sahara Desert ✓

16. 2020 - Several earthquakes kill four people on which Caribbean island?

Puerto Rico ✓

Cuba ✓

Hispaniola ✓

Grenada ✓

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