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On This Day (September 12th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 12th ?
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1.
1634 – A gunpowder factory explodes in which Mediterranean city ?
Valletta
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Marseille
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Naples
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Tripoli
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2.
1814 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to which city in the War of 1812 ?
Boston
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Baltimore
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Charlotte
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Columbus
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3.
1848 – A new constitution marks the establishment of which country as a federal state ?
Germany
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France
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Switzerland
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Italy
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1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. She was carrying around 15 tons of what commodity ?
Coal
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Pineapples
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Cotton
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Gold
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5.
1915 – French soldiers rescue over 4,000 genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh mountain. The survivors were of what nationality ?
Turkish
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Armenian
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Russian
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Persian
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6.
1940 – What are discovered in Lascaux, France ?
Cave Paintings
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Mammoth Bones
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Dinosaur Fossils
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Gold Deposits
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7.
1942 – World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of which land mass ?
Horn of Africa
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Iberian Peninsula
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West Africa
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Scandinavia
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8.
1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, in which state ?
Kentucky
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California
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Maine
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West Virginia
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9.
1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in which city ?
Newport, Rhode Island
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Baltimore, Maryland
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Dallas, Texas
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10.
1959 – Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in colour. It was shown on which US network ?
PBS
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ABC
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NBC
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CBS
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11.
1962 – President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University in which city ?
Chicago
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Houston
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Los Angeles
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New York
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12.
1980 – A military coup takes place in which country ?
Turkey
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Sudan
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Haiti
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Chile
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13.
1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed by Los Macheteros, an independance faction from where ?
Florida
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Puerto Rico
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Baja California
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Yucatan Peninsula
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14.
1994 – Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 in which place ?
Central Park
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Niagara Falls
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Grand Canyon
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White House Lawn
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1913 – Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper is born. He famously won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in which city ?
Barcelona
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London
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Berlin
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Rome
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