On This Day (October 4th) Multiple Choice

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1. AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese city of Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. Cnang'an is known by what name today ?

Beijing ✓

Xi'an ✓

Shanghai ✓

Wuhan ✓

2. 1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by which Pope ?

Pope Gregory X ✓

Pope Gregory IX ✓

Pope Gregory XIII ✓

Pope Gregory XI ✓

3. 1597 – Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now which US state ?

Georgia ✓

Florida ✓

Alabama ✓

Louisiana ✓

4. 1824 – Which country adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic ?

Germany ✓

Japan ✓

Argentina ✓

Mexico ✓

5. 1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College opens as the first public college in which US state ?

California ✓

Texas ✓

Wisconsin ✓

Missouri ✓

6. 1883 – The first run of the Orient Express departs from Paris to Istanbul (then Constantinople). The last leg was by ferry from which city ?

Varna, Bulgaria ✓

Constanta, Romania ✓

Thessaloniki, Greece ✓

Odessa, Russia ✓

7. 1883 – First meeting of which organisation in Glasgow, Scotland ?

Salvation Army ✓

Girl Guides ✓

Boys Brigade ✓

Boy Scouts ✓

8. 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting which monument ?

Stone Mountain ✓

Mount Rushmore ✓

North Carolina Monument ✓

Bust of Abraham Lincoln ✓

9. 1957 – What was the name of the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth ?

Sputnik 1 ✓

Vanguard 1A ✓

Sputnik 2 ✓

Explorer 1 ✓

10. 1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed as which country ?

Swaziland ✓

Central African Republic ✓

Rwanda ✓

Lesotho ✓

11. 1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of over 633 miles per hour. But where ?

Lake Eyre, Australia ✓

Black Rock Desert, Nevada ✓

Pendine Sands, South Wales ✓

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah ✓

12. 1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in which country ?

Sierra Leone ✓

Mozambique ✓

El Salvador ✓

Sri Lanka ✓

13. 1993 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against which Leader rally outside ?

Boris Yeltsin ✓

Vladimir Putin ✓

Mikhail Gorbachev ✓

Konstantin Chernenko ✓

14. 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant missile from which country ?

Belarus ✓

Russia ✓

Kazakhstan ✓

Ukraine ✓

15. 2006 – Which controversial website is launched ?

The Pirate Bay ✓

WikiLeaks ✓

Encyclopedia Dramatica ✓

Uncyclopedia ✓

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