On This Day (September 13th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to which city to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism ?

Lyon ✓

Geneva ✓

Munich ✓

Luxembourg ✓

2. 1645 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh near which Scottish town ?

Montrose ✓

Newtonmore ✓

Stranraer ✓

Selkirk ✓

3. 1788 – The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, which city becomes the country's temporary capital ?

New York ✓

Philadelphia ✓

Baltimore ✓

Boston ✓

4. 1814 – During the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes what ?

"The Star-Spangled Banner" ✓

"Danny Boy" ✓

"Land of Hope and Glory" ✓

"D'ye ken John Peel" ✓

5. 1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1 1⁄4 inches in diameter being driven through which internal part of his body ?

Heart ✓

Liver ✓

Brain ✓

Lung ✓

6. 1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in which way ?

Electric Chair ✓

Falling from a skyscraper under construction ✓

Aspirin overdose ✓

Automobile accident ✓

7. 1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian, the highest peak of which mountain ?

Mount Kenya ✓

Großglockner ✓

Kaufmann Peaks ✓

Mount Elbrus ✓

8. 1923 – Following a military coup, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship in which country ?

Peru ✓

Morocco ✓

Spain ✓

Guatemala ✓

9. 1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the Parliament of which country ?

Australia ✓

New Zealand ✓

United Kingdom ✓

Canada ✓

10. 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use what ?

Disk storage ✓

Mouse ✓

Printed Circuit Boards ✓

CRT Monitor ✓

11. 1962 – An appeals court orders which university to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university ?

Harvard University ✓

University of Alabama ✓

University of Mississippi ✓

Yale University ✓

12. 1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 in which European city ?

Berlin ✓

Brussels ✓

Birmingham ✓

Barcelona ✓

13. 1968 – Cold War: Which country leaves the Warsaw Pact ?

Bulgaria ✓

Hungary ✓

Poland ✓

Albania ✓

14. 1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa is held. It is led by who ?

Nelson Mandela ✓

Desmond Tutu ✓

F.W. de Klerk ✓

Walter Sisulu ✓

15. 2018 – The Merrimack Valley gas explosions: One person is killed, 25 are injured, when excessive natural gas pressure caused fires and explosions in which US state ?

Maryland ✓

Maine ✓

Massachusetts ✓

Minnesota ✓

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