On This Day (October 8th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of where ?

Macedonia ✓

Greece ✓

Croatia ✓

Bosnia ✓

2. 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England after becoming the second wife of which king ?

King John ✓

King Henry III ✓

King Edward I ✓

King Richard I ✓

3. 1480 – The Great stand on the Ugra river puts an end to Tartar rule over which city ?

St. Petersburg ✓

Odessa ✓

Murmansk ✓

Moscow ✓

4. 1821 – Which nations Navy is established during the War of Independence ?

Peru ✓

Ecuador ✓

Brazil ✓

Venezuela ✓

5. 1829 – Which locomotive wins the Rainhill Trials ?

Perseverance ✓

Rocket ✓

Novelty ✓

Cycloped ✓

6. 1895 – Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by infiltrators from which country ?

Russia ✓

China ✓

Japan ✓

France ✓

7. 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a game of which sport ?

Football ✓

Baseball ✓

Hockey ✓

Basketball ✓

8. 1941 – World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach which body of water ?

Caspian Sea ✓

Black Sea ✓

Lake Baikal ✓

Sea of Azov ✓

9. 1956 – Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series. Which team was he playing for ?

Boston Red Sox ✓

New York Yankees ✓

Cleveland Indians ✓

St. Louis Cardinals ✓

10. 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in which country ?

Cuba ✓

Peru ✓

Bolivia ✓

Colombia ✓

11. 1970 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in which field ?

Chemistry ✓

Literature ✓

Peace ✓

Physics ✓

12. 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of which country ?

United States ✓

United Kingdom ✓

Canada ✓

Australia ✓

13. 1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at which venue ?

Lake Windermere, UK ✓

Lake Guntersville, USA ✓

Blowering Dam, Australia ✓

Lake Maggiore, Italy / Switzerland ✓

14. 2014 – Thomas Eric Duncan dies, he was the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with what disease ?

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ✓

Ebola virus ✓

Marburg virus ✓

Zika virus ✓

15. 2019 – About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of parliament in which city ?

Dublin ✓

London ✓

Paris ✓

Berlin ✓

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