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On This Day (October 5th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 5th?
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1.
816 – King Louis is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope. What was his nickname ?
Louis the Unready
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Louis the Pious
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Louis the Flamboyant
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Louis the Grateful
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1143 – King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises which nation as a Kingdom ?
Portugal
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Andorra
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France
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Ireland
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1550 – Which city in present-day Chile is founded ?
Antofagasta
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Punta Arenas
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Concepcion
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Valparaiso
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1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates which North American coastal region ?
Cape Cod
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Bay of Fundy
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Chesapeake Bay
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Florida Keys
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5.
1905 – The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in how many minutes ?
45
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27
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31
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39
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1930 – British airship R101 crashes on its maiden voyage in France en route to which country ?
India
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Kenya
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Yemen
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Switzerland
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1936 – A march protesting against unemployment and poverty sets off for London from which Northern English town ?
Sunderland
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Jarrow
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Carlisle
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Kendal
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1945 – A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of which studio ?
Universal
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Paramount
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MGM
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Warner Brothers
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1947 – President Truman makes the first televised address from which part of the White House ?
North Lawn
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East Wing
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Oval Office
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Emergency Operations Center
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1966 – A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near which city suffers a partial meltdown ?
Detroit, USA
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Marseille, France
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Bristol, UK
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Vancouver, Canada
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1970 – The British Trade Commissioner is kidnapped by members of which militant paramilitary group ?
PIRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army)
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FLQ (Quebec Liberation Front)
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BLA (Balochistan Liberation Army)
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ETA (Basque Country and Freedom)
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1982 – Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with what substance cause seven deaths ?
Arsenic
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Ground Glass
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Cyanide
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Anthrax
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1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first person in space from which country ?
Haiti
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Monaco
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Algeria
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Canada
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1986 – Mordechai Vanunu's story in The Sunday Times reveals which country's secret nuclear weapons ?
Israel
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Iran
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North Korea
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Egypt
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2016 - Police in the which Indian city arrest more than 750 people suspected of defrauding U.S. citizens from a fake call center ?
Bengaluru
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Puducherry
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Thane
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Patna
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