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On This Day (May 25th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 25th ?
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1.
240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of which Comet ?
Comet Hale-Bopp
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Halley's Comet
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Encke’s Comet
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Comet Hyakutake
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2.
1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes which Spanish city back from the Moors ?
Toledo
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Salamanca
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Cadiz
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A Coruna
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3.
1660 – Which monarch lands at Dover to begin the Restoration of the British monarchy ?
Anne
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James II
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Charles II
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William III
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4.
1787 – After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of how many states is secured ?
Twelve
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Seven
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Three
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Fourteen
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5.
1878 – Which of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas opens at the Opera Comique in London ?
Mikado
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Pirates of Penzance
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Iolanthe
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H.M.S. Pinafore
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6.
1935 – Jesse Owens breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in which city ?
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Dayton, Ohio
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Rockford, Illinois
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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7.
1940 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures which French port ?
Calais
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Dunkerque
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Boulogne-sur-Mer
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Le Havre
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8.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of which university ?
Houston
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Stanford
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Harvard
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CalTech
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9.
1961 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress a goal to do what ?
End Racism
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Implement a National Health Service
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End Communism
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Put a Man on the Moon
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10.
1977 – Which famous movie is released in theaters?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Star Wars
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Saturday Night Fever
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Rocky
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11.
1977 – The Chinese government removes a decade old ban on the works of which person ?
William Skakespeare
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Oscar Wilde
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Charles Dickens
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Ernest Hemingway
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12.
1985 – Which country is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people ?
Sri Lanka
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Malaysia
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Bangladesh
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Papua New Guinea
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13.
1986 – Which major charity event takes place ?
Live Aid
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Hands Across America
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Race for Life
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Farm Aid
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14.
2001 – Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest despite having which disability ?
Only One Leg
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Only One Arm
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Deafness
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Blindness
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15.
2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of "The Oprah Winfrey Show". The show aired in how many countries worldwide ?
149
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98
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162
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130
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