On This Day (June 8th) Multiple Choice

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1. 793 – Vikings raid an abbey on which island, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles ?

Skokholm ✓

Skye ✓

Lindisfarne ✓

Fetlar ✓

2. 1783 – Laki, a volcano in which country, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine ?

Japan ✓

Iceland ✓

New Zealand ✓

Mexico ✓

3. 1867 – The Coronation of Franz Joseph takes place making him the King of which nation ?

Hungary ✓

Denmark ✓

Austria ✓

Greece ✓

4. 1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was what type of device ?

Type of Abacus ✓

Mathematical Equation ✓

Punched Card Calculator ✓

Filing Cabinet ✓

5. 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates which movie company ?

Pathé ✓

Paramount Pictures ✓

RKO Pictures ✓

Universal Pictures ✓

6. 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures which city, whose name is changed to one meaning "Northern Capital" ?

Peking (Beijing) ✓

Bombay (Mumbai) ✓

Tananarive (Antananarivo) ✓

Fort Lamy (N'Djamena) ✓

7. 1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the Government of which country ?

Ireland ✓

United Kingdom ✓

Canada ✓

Australia ✓

8. 1940 – World War II: The completion of the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign known as Operation what ?

Operation Viking ✓

Operation Envelope ✓

Operation Alphabet ✓

Operation Oaktree ✓

9. 1949 – Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as what ?

Homosexuals ✓

Tax Evaders ✓

Possible Spies ✓

Members of the Communist Party ✓

10. 1949 – Which of George Orwell's novels is published ?

Animal Farm ✓

Nineteen Eighty Four ✓

Homage to Catalonia ✓

Down and Out in Paris and London ✓

11. 1959 – USS Barbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via what means ?

Rockets ✓

Balloons ✓

Submarines ✓

Remote Control Airplanes ✓

12. 1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes the country to be what type of zone ?

Fair Trade Zone ✓

Free Trade Zone ✓

Nuclear Free Zone ✓

Clean Air Zone ✓

13. 1992 – The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in which city ?

Cape Town, South Africa ✓

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ✓

Berlin, Germany ✓

Tokyo, Japan ✓

14. 1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in which country ?

Bosnia and Herzogovina ✓

Iraq ✓

Syria ✓

Serbia ✓

15. 2009 – Two American journalists are sentenced to 12 years penal labour after being found guilty of illegally entering which country ?

Kyrgyzstan ✓

Iran ✓

North Korea ✓

Venezuela ✓

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