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On This Day (September 16th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 16th ?
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1.
1620 – Pilgrims set sail from England on which ship ?
Mayflower
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Beagle
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Mary Rose
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Victory
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2.
1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland. He is sometimes called what ?
Old Faithful
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Old Rednose
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Old Pretender
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Old Blueblood
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3.
1863 – Robert College, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert in which city ?
London
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Tehran
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Cairo
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Istanbul
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1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun, the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily, prints its first issue in which city in New York state ?
Albany
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Ithaca
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Syracuse
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Rochester
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5.
1908 – Which major motor manufacturer is founded ?
Toyota
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Peugeot
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General Motors
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Mercedes Benz
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6.
1920 – A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in which road in New York City ?
Wall Street
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Park Avenue
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Lexington Avenue
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Broadway
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7.
1943 – World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around which city ?
Palermo
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Salerno
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Brindisi
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Taranto
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1955 – A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to do what ?
Travel under the Arctic Pack Ice
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Enter a US port overtly
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Sail up the Amazon river
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Launch a Ballistic Missile
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1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in which city ?
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Taizhou, China
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Osaka, Japan
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Davao, Philippines
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10.
1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of which Samuel Barber composition ?
A Hand of Bridge
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Cave of the Heart
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Vanessa
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11.
1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from which country ?
Australia
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New Zealand
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United Kingdom
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Portugal
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12.
1976 – Champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a reservoir in which Asian capital city ?
Yerevan
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Baku
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Bishkek
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Tashkent
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1979 – Eight people escaped from which country to the west in a homemade hot air balloon ?
North Korea
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Albania
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East Germany
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Cuba
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1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of which political organisation ?
Palestine Liberation Organisation
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Sinn Fein
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Communist Party of Great Britain
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Workers Revolutionary Party
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2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in which Italian city ?
Naples
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Palermo
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Milan
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Trieste
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