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On This Day (September 20th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 20th ?
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Last updated: September 20, 2020
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1.
1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as which Antipope ?
Clement VII
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Alexander V
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Benedict XIII
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John XXIII
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1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlucar de Barrameda on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Where is Sanlucar de Barrameda ?
Portugal
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Spain
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Italy
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France
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1835 – Which decade-long war starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil ?
War of the Generals
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Thousand Days' War
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Ragamuffin War
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Contestado War
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1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of which city by troops loyal to the East India Company ?
Mumbai
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Chennai
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Kolkatta
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Delhi
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1906 – The Cunard Line's "RMS Mauretania" is launched at which port ?
Belfast
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Liverpool
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Newcastle upon Tyne
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Southampton
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6.
1942 – The Holocaust: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv in which country ?
Poland
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Ukraine
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Lithuania
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Belarus
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1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed due to World War II. Which British film won the most prestigious award ?
Brief Encounter
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The Lost Weekend
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The Third Man
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Men Without Wings
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1962 – James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering which University ?
Princeton
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Mississippi
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Oxford
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Harvard
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9.
1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched from which port ?
Portsmouth
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Belfast
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Clydebank
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Liverpool
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10.
1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to do what ?
Have a name change
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Reverse direction
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Make landfall in the same place twice
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Cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
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1973 – Singer Jim Croce, and five others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in which US state ?
Georgia
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Alabama
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Louisiana
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Florida
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1977 – Which Asian country is admitted to the United Nations ?
Mongolia
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Vietnam
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Nepal
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Afghanistan
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1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in which city ?
Beirut, Lebanon
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Damascus, Syria
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Amman, Jordan
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Jerusalem, Israel
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2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on ....." , what ?
Drugs
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Terror
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Obesity
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Slavery
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2019 – Roughly 4 million people demonstrate against climate change. 16-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in which city ?
Stockholm
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London
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New York
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Tokyo
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