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Statistics for On This Day (July 16th) Multiple Choice
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- This quiz has been taken 12 times
- The average score is 6 of 15
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1941 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter is born. What was the name of his band ? | The Aces | 78%
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| 1251 – Celebrated by the Carmelite Order - but doubted by modern historians - as the day when Saint Simon Stock had a vision of who ? | Virgin Mary | 78%
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| 1965 – Which road tunnel in the European Alps opens on this day ? | Mont Blanc Tunnel | 67%
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| 997 – Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in which country ? | Greece | 56%
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| 1935 – The world's first example of which device is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ? | Parking Meter | 56%
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| 1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves which port with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island ? | San Francisco | 56%
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| 2015 – Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in which US city ?. | Chattanooga, Tennessee | 44%
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| 1948 – The "Miss Macao" passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, is the first commercial aircraft to be subject to what event ? | Hijacking | 33%
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| 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission. Over the following decades, it evolves into which city ? | San Diego | 33%
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| 1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in which country ? | Australia | 22%
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| 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from which launch pad ? | Kennedy Space Centre, Florida | 22%
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| 2013 – Around 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized in eastern India after eating what ? | School Lunch | 22%
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| 1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for how many consecutive games, a streak that still stands as an MLB record ? | 56 | 11%
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| 1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off which UK island group causing 20 fatalities ? | Isles of Scilly | 11%
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| 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by a bank in which country ? | Sweden | 11%
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