Weekly Quiz No.6
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All historical events below occured in December, but in which year?: |
Which year? |
| 1. Frank Sinatra was born on December 12th. |
a.1912 b.1915 c.1918 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 2. Dr Barney Clark, a 61y.o. American dentist becomes the first human to receive an artificial heart. |
a.1962 b.1972 c.1982 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 3. Prohibition is repealed in America after over 13 years. |
a.1931 b.1933 c.1935 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 4. Marie Curie becomes the first woman to receive a Nobel prize. |
a.1903 b.1913 c.1923 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 5. Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, becomes the first man to reach the South Pole. |
a.1903 b.1907 c.1911 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 6. Panama declares war on the United States. |
a.1889 b.1939 c.1989 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 7. The 'Mayflower' lands at Plymouth, Massachusetts. |
a.1520 b.1620 c.1720 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 8. The Wright Brothers make their first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. |
a.1903 b.1905 c.1907 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 9. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. |
a.1961 b.1964 c.1967 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 10. Thomas Edison demonstrates the first sound recording, reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb in West Orange, New Jersey. |
a.1877 b.1887 c.1897 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
© Compiled by Tony McDermott 2004