On This Day (June 20th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1631 – The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by pirates of which nationality ?

Algerian ✓

Spanish ✓

Egyptian ✓

English ✓

2. 1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England in which town ?

Monmouth ✓

Macclesfield ✓

Bridgwater ✓

Dorchester ✓

3. 1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of which country, is assassinated ?

Nepal ✓

Romania ✓

Ethiopia ✓

Uruguay ✓

4. 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in which Canadian city ?

Hamilton, Ontario ✓

Saint John, New Brunswick ✓

Truro, Nova Scotia ✓

Regina, Saskatchewan ✓

5. 1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs on the explorer ship "Zarya", from which Russian port never to return ?

Murmansk ✓

Archangelsk ✓

Vladivostok ✓

St. Petersburg ✓

6. 1942 – The Holocaust: Four prisoners dressed as SS guards, steal an SS staff car and escape from which concentration camp ?

Dachau ✓

Auschwitz ✓

Bergen-Belsen ✓

Buchenwald ✓

7. 1945 – The U.S. Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under which operation ?

Operation Paperclip ✓

Operation Blackboard ✓

Operation Nighthawk ✓

Operation Deckchair ✓

8. 1948 – The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied Germany. The Communists respond by doing what four days later ?

Introducing the East German Mark ✓

Imposing the Berlin Blockade ✓

Prohibiting importation of currency ✓

Raising taxation on foreign nationals ✓

9. 1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France. It later splits into Mali and which other country ?

Guinea ✓

Ivory Coast ✓

Senegal ✓

Burkina Faso ✓

10. 1963 – The Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish a permanent link between Washington and Moscow. It becomes known as what ?

Presidential Line ✓

Hotline to Hell ✓

Superpower Exchange ✓

Red Telephone Link ✓

11. 1973 – Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in which city, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre ?

Buenos Aires ✓

Sao Paolo ✓

Santiago ✓

Asuncion ✓

12. 1975 – Which film is released in the US, starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters" ?

The Towering Inferno ✓

Jaws ✓

Rocky ✓

Smokey and the Bandit ✓

13. 2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in which US city ?

Corpus Christi, Texas ✓

Bakersfield, California ✓

St. Petersburg, Florida ✓

Fort Wayne, Indiana ✓

14. 1940 – John Mahoney, English actor, best known for playing Martin Crane in "Frasier" is born in which British seaside town ?

Blackpool ✓

Aberystwyth ✓

Brighton ✓

Great Yarmouth ✓

15. Today is a national food day in the US. What is it called ?

National Swedish Meatball Day ✓

National Cheese Fondue Day ✓

National Mississippi Mud Pie Day ✓

National Vanilla Milkshake Day ✓

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