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Quiz about On This Day IV
Quiz about On This Day IV

On This Day: IV Trivia Quiz


A number of events for you to try and remember. The date is provided, but can you remember what happened on that date?

A multiple-choice quiz by doomed. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
doomed
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
223,800
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. January 26th, 1905 a magnificent diamond was found, the largest rough stone ever found. Weighing nearly 1.5lb or 3106 carats (621.2g), the Cullinan diamond was of the highest quality. Where was it mined? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. January 27th 1967 saw astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee die on the ground of asphyxiation when fire broke out in their module. Which command module took their lives? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. January 28th 1986 saw yet another tragic event take place for the US/NASA space programme, nineteen years after the deaths of three astronauts. Millions of viewers witnessed which space shuttle explode killing all seven on board?

Answer: (One word)
Question 4 of 10
4. January 29th 1596 saw Sir Francis Drake buried at sea. Which of these towns is closest to his place of birth? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. January 30th 1948 saw India's "Great Soul" Mahatma Gandhi assassinated. Who was his killer? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. January 31st 1943 saw the first statistics of the battle of Stalingrad released. How many casualties approximately were recorded in one the bloodiest of battle of World War Two? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. On February 1st 1901 as guns fired in salute from many a British and foreign warship, a naval escort led the royal yacht Alberta and its precious cargo into Portsmouth harbour en route to the funeral in London of which monarch?

Answer: (Two words)
Question 8 of 10
8. February 2nd 1989 saw which nation's army withdraw from Afghanistan after 9 years of occupation? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. February 3rd 1468 saw the 'Father of the printing press' pass away. He was a blind, impoverished German goldsmith from Mainz and died in obscurity. It was he who had developed movable type printing method in Europe and oil based inks that were making a fortune for Johann Fust and his son-in-law, Peter Schoffer. They had used his techniques to mass produce copies of the bible. Who was this inventor? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. February 4th 1928 the black American dancer Josephine Baker had raised a storm of protest in Vienna. Members of Adolf Hitler's fast growing Nazi party were outraged by stage act. What nickname was given to Baker's type of dance? Hint



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1. January 26th, 1905 a magnificent diamond was found, the largest rough stone ever found. Weighing nearly 1.5lb or 3106 carats (621.2g), the Cullinan diamond was of the highest quality. Where was it mined?

Answer: South Africa

The Cullinan was literally priceless when found, it far outweighed the previous record-holder, the 995.2-carat Excelsior, found in South Africa in 1893. The stone was then cut into a number of stones, and many of them ended up in the British crown jewels.
2. January 27th 1967 saw astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee die on the ground of asphyxiation when fire broke out in their module. Which command module took their lives?

Answer: Apollo I

The fire was caused by a short circuit in the cabin. Plastics which were normally fire resistant ignited in the pure oxygen used by the astronauts. The tragedy was a serious setback for the Apollo programme which was gearing itself to put a man on the moon by 1970, fulfilling the dream of the late President Kennedy.
3. January 28th 1986 saw yet another tragic event take place for the US/NASA space programme, nineteen years after the deaths of three astronauts. Millions of viewers witnessed which space shuttle explode killing all seven on board?

Answer: Challenger

The Challenger exploded in a ball of fire soon after blasting off for its tenth flight. The shuttle's fuel tanks, containing liquid hydrogen and oxygen, exploded 10 miles from the ground. It was NASA's second space tragedy (after the 1967 disaster) and was a major blow to its program.

The crew included Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher who had won her place on the flight in a nationwide competition. Challenger itself seemed reluctant to undertake its final mission, the launch was postponed five times and only went ahead after unseasonal ice was chipped from the shuttle.
4. January 29th 1596 saw Sir Francis Drake buried at sea. Which of these towns is closest to his place of birth?

Answer: Plymouth

Drake was born in Tavistock. A national hero to the English and a bloodthirsty pirate to the Spanish, he was buried at sea off the coast of Panama after suffering weeks of dysentary. The most famous English seaman of the Elizabethian age, Drake first put to sea in 1566. Eleven years later, when the Queen gave him command of five ships, he became the man after after Magellan to command an expedition to sail around the world. From his native Tavistock, near Plymouth, Drake went to defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588 and was acclaimed as England's hero. His final voyage to the West Indies, however, was unsuccessful.
5. January 30th 1948 saw India's "Great Soul" Mahatma Gandhi assassinated. Who was his killer?

Answer: Nathuram Godse

The great prophet of non-violence was still weak from a lengthy fast and from urging peace talks between Muslims and Hindus. Gandhi was walking through a New Delhi garden on his way to prayer when Godse stepped from the crowd and fired three shots into Gandhi's body.
Gandhi's last words were "Ram Ram" meaning "Oh God, Oh God". Godse made no attempt to flee and was saved from a lynching at the hands of the furious crowd by air force officers.
6. January 31st 1943 saw the first statistics of the battle of Stalingrad released. How many casualties approximately were recorded in one the bloodiest of battle of World War Two?

Answer: 1,700,000

The Red Army had held Stalingrad in the greatest and bloodiest land battle of the war. The German army was belived to have lost 850,000 troops and the Soviets almost as many in a seven month struggle that had destroyed most of the strategic city on the Volga.

The German commander, Von Paulus, who twice rejected Russian General Zhukov's surrender terms, and was promoted to Field Marshal by Hitler in a desperate attempt to stop him capitulating. But Hitler failed to live up to a promise to relieve the city with air drops and thousands of German soldiers starved to death in the bitter cold.
7. On February 1st 1901 as guns fired in salute from many a British and foreign warship, a naval escort led the royal yacht Alberta and its precious cargo into Portsmouth harbour en route to the funeral in London of which monarch?

Answer: Queen Victoria

The cortege was hardly visible through the smoke of the guns, which kept booming out till the Alberta reached the harbour. The Queen had died at Osborne on the Isle of Wight on January 22nd, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. She was 82, and had lived and reigned longer than any other British monarch.
Queen Victoria was only 18 when she came to the throne and left her nation as one of the most powerful on earth.
8. February 2nd 1989 saw which nation's army withdraw from Afghanistan after 9 years of occupation?

Answer: Soviet Union

The final armoured column of Red Army forces went home after withdrawing from the capital, Kabul. The USSR had agreed two years before as part of the Geneva agreement they made to have their forces out by February 15th 1989. The last 120,000 troops made their way up the Salang Highway, watchful of ambushes by US backed mujahideen guerrillas.

The Russians had left large amounts of arms behind for the government forces. Afghan President Najibullah, who continued to rule under emergency powers, stated that a life or death struggle with the guerrillas would now begin.
9. February 3rd 1468 saw the 'Father of the printing press' pass away. He was a blind, impoverished German goldsmith from Mainz and died in obscurity. It was he who had developed movable type printing method in Europe and oil based inks that were making a fortune for Johann Fust and his son-in-law, Peter Schoffer. They had used his techniques to mass produce copies of the bible. Who was this inventor?

Answer: Johann Gutenberg

Gutenberg had also transformed a wine press into a press capable of printing pages in his "Gothic" type. In 1450 he borrowed a large amount of money from Fust to develop his system of movable type cast in lead. Five years later Fust foreclosed on the mortgage and took possession of the type and presses, setting himself up as a printer.

Despite Gutenberg's personal failure, his cheap method of mass producing pages had freed the written word from the monopoly of the monasteries.
10. February 4th 1928 the black American dancer Josephine Baker had raised a storm of protest in Vienna. Members of Adolf Hitler's fast growing Nazi party were outraged by stage act. What nickname was given to Baker's type of dance?

Answer: Hot Jazz

Broadway star Miss Baker's highly 'provocative' dress was immensely popular in her Paris revue, but in Vienna she drew angry complaints from Austria's Nazis, who accused her of public indecency. But what they really found offensive was not the amount of Miss Baker's skin on view but its colour.
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