On This Day (September 1st) Multiple Choice

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1. 1420 – An earthquake shakes which desert causing tsunamis thousands of miles away ?

Atacama ✓

Sahara ✓

Gobi ✓

Mojave ✓

2. 1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the 1st one built in which modern day country, is destroyed by natives ?

Mexico ✓

Venezuela ✓

Argentina ✓

Ecuador ✓

3. 1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of where by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England ?

Winchester ✓

Pembroke ✓

Ely ✓

Bute ✓

4. 1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in which US state ?

California ✓

Florida ✓

Texas ✓

New Mexico ✓

5. 1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at which place ?.

Baker City, Oregon ✓

Kelowna, British Columbia ✓

Boise, Idaho ✓

Walla Walla, Washington ✓

6. 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Telephone Dispatch Company in which city ?

London, UK ✓

Boston, USA ✓

New York, USA ✓

Washington, USA ✓

7. 1897 – The Tremont Street Subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America, in which city ?

New York ✓

Toronto ✓

Boston ✓

Montreal ✓

8. 1914 – Which Russian city changes its name to Petrograd ?

St. Petersburg ✓

Yekaterinberg ✓

Volgograd ✓

Minsk ✓

9. 1914 – The last known passenger pigeon dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. What was its name ?

Jim ✓

Georgio ✓

Norma ✓

Martha ✓

10. 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and which other country invade Poland ?

Romania ✓

Czech Republic ✓

Slovakia ✓

Hungary ✓

11. 1952 – Which novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published ?

A Farewell to Arms ✓

The Old Man and the Sea ✓

For Whom the Bell Tolls ✓

To Have and Have Not ✓

12. 1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the conflict known as what ?

Cod Wars ✓

Fish War ✓

North Atlantic Campaign ✓

Fishing Battles ✓

13. 1972 – American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion in which city ?

Moscow ✓

Boston ✓

Reykjavik ✓

Bangkok ✓

14. 1981 – A coup d'état in which African country overthrows President David Dacko ?

Rwanda ✓

Mozambique ✓

Cameroon ✓

Central African Republic ✓

15. 1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of which ship ?

Titanic ✓

Bismark ✓

Mary Rose ✓

Lusitania ✓

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