Weekly Quiz No.32
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All historical events below occured in June, but in which year?: |
Which year? |
| 1. Morgan Freeman was born on June 1st. |
a.1937 b.1940 c.1943 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 2. General Charles De Gaulle named the premier of France. |
a.1953 b.1958 c.1963 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 3. Queen Elizabeth II is crowned in Westminster Abbey. |
a.1951 b.1953 c.1955 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 4. China leases Hong Kong to Great Britain for 99 years. |
a.1878 b.1888 c.1898 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 5. The ballpoint pen is patented in the United States |
a.1933 b.1943 c.1953 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 6. Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa. |
a.1964 b.1967 c.1970 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 7. China explodes its first H-bomb. |
a.1947 b.1957 c.1967 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 8. Official removal of the Berlin Wall begins. |
a.1988 b.1990 c.1992 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 9. North Korean troops move into South Korea |
a.1950 b.1952 c.1954 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
| 10. US Senator Robert Kennedy is shot and killed in Los Angeles. |
a.1964 b.1966 c.1968 |
| Correct year? _______________ | |
© Compiled by Tony McDermott 2005