On This Day (November 30th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish what ?

Slavery ✓

Death Penalty ✓

Taxes on Food ✓

Piracy ✓

2. 1803 – The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against which disease in Spanish America and the Philippines ?

Tuberculosis ✓

Measles ✓

Smallpox ✓

Mumps ✓

3. 1853 – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in which modern day country ?

Turkey ✓

Georgia ✓

Ukraine ✓

Bulgaria ✓

4. 1868 – A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in the Kungsträdgården, a park in which Swedish city ?

Gothenburg ✓

Malmo ✓

Karlstad ✓

Stockholm ✓

5. 1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and which other nation ?

France ✓

Ireland ✓

England ✓

Wales ✓

6. 1886 – Which Parisian cabaret music hall stages its first revue ?

Moulin Rouge ✓

Folies Bergere ✓

Le Chat Noir ✓

Le Lido ✓

7. 1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph. By what name is it better known ?

Flying Scotsman ✓

Mallard ✓

Union of South Africa ✓

City of Truro ✓

8. 1954 – The Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in which city in Alabama ?

Demopolis ✓

Evergreen ✓

Sylacauga ✓

Muscle Shoals ✓

9. 1966 – Which Caribbean nation becomes independent from the United Kingdom ?

Bahamas ✓

Barbados ✓

Jamaica ✓

St Kitts and Nevis ✓

10. 1979 – Which of Pink Floyd's albums is released on this day ?

The Wall ✓

Wish You Were Here ✓

Dark Side of the Moon ✓

Animals ✓

11. 1994 – The cruise ship MS Achille Lauro catches fire off the coast of which country ?

Malaysia ✓

Brazil ✓

New Zealand ✓

Somalia ✓

12. 1999 – Which two oil companies sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating the world's largest company ?

Shell and BP ✓

Exxon and Mobil ✓

Petronas and Total ✓

China National Petroleum and Reliance Industries ✓

13. 2001 – Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders in the USA. By what nickname was he notoriously known ?

Green River Killer ✓

Vampire of Sacramento ✓

Woodward Corridor Killer ✓

Kansas City Butcher ✓

14. 2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of where ?

Canterbury ✓

Lincoln ✓

York ✓

Salisbury ✓

15. 2018 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake with its epicenter only 15 miles from which US city causes significant property damage but no deaths ?

Reno, Nevada ✓

Hilo, Hawaii ✓

Bozeman, Montana ✓

Anchorage, Alaska ✓

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