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On This Day (October 7th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 7th?
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Last updated: October 7, 2020
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1. 1477 – Which Swedish university is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year ?
Uppsala
Gothenburg
Stockholm
Linkoping
2. 1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S. in which state ?
New York
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Maine
3. 1840 – Willem II becomes King of which nation ?
Sweden
Norway
Netherlands
Denmark
4. 1864 – American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in which Brazilian seaport ?
Recife
Belem
Salvador
Sao Luis
5. 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris by what means ?
Through the underground catacombs
In a foul waste cart
Dressed as a female refugee
Hot Air Balloon
6. 1912 – The Stock Exchange of which city sees its first transaction ?
Helsinki
Lisbon
Frankfurt
Zagreb
7. 1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University in the most lopsided college football game in American history. What was the score ?
156 - 3
354 - 12
222 - 0
98 - 0
8. 1919 – Which airline, the oldest still operating under its original name, is founded ?
Lufthansa
KLM
British Airways
QANTAS
9. 1944 – World War II: During an uprising, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV, in which concentration camp ?
Birkenau
Belsen
Auschwitz
Dachau
10. 1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. What was it's original name ?
Project Spaceman
Project Rocket
Project Astronaut
Project Stingray
11. 1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of what ?
Earth from Space
Near side of the Moon
Far side of the Moon
Earth with the Sun behind
12. 1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people on which island ?
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Jamaica
Grand Cayman
13. 1988 – A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice, the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales. Off the coast of where ?
Alaska, USA
Manitoba, Canada
Greenland
Kamchatka, USSR
14. 1996 – Which news channel begins broadcasting ?
MSNBC
CNN
BBC World
Fox News
15. 2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 was the first asteroid impact detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere. It exploded over which country ?
Russia
Sudan
Mexico
Australia
4 Comments
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Level 43
Feb 9, 2024
Lol this is my birthday
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Level 78
Feb 9, 2024
Happy Birthday for later in the year. This quiz will be updated on or around the date. It will be updated every leap year!
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Level 77
Jun 8, 2024
You should add a question about 2023.
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Level 78
Jun 9, 2024
I did start updating these quizzes at the beginning of the year, I think I got as far as April. However, as soon as I revised and resubmitted the quiz, it was lost within a few hours due to the massive number of user-generated quizzes being uploaded. Quizzes soon go down the list when there are 10 or 20 being uploaded at a time all about the same thing, football facts or music catalogues for obscure teams or artists.

None of the updated quizzes were getting takes, so I thought it was a bit of a wasted effort to be honest.

I may go back to them at some point, who knows?