November 10 - This Day in History by LuskT

Champion(s):

bev48
From possibility to actuality


Runner(s)-Up:

RautY
The machines are winning


Quiz Description

A little quiz to get you through the weekend while we wait for LL75 to start.

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Questions:

November 10, 1775 - this group is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. Hoo-ah!

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United States Marine Corps

November 10, 1659 - Indian king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj defeats Afzal Khan at the Battle of Pratapgarh. In 1996, the international airport in what city was renamed in his honor?

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Mumbai

November 10, 1983 - version 1.0 of this operating system, requiring 192 KB of RAM and two - TWO! - floppy drives, was first presented to the public.

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Microsoft Windows

November 10, every year - what country celebrates Heroes' Day, known locally as Hari Pahlawan, to commemorate a battle for independence against the British and Dutch?

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Indonesia

November 10, 1956 - this American comedian and actor was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He abandoned his birth name - David Adkins - for the stage name by which he first gained notoriety on Star Search, competing against fellow comedian Dennis Miller.

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Sinbad

November 10, 1997 - WorldCom announced the acquisition of this telecommunications company, the largest merger in US history at the time. This company's antitrust lawsuit in 1974 was instrumental in the dissolution of the AT&T monopoly over American telephony.

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MCI (Microwave Communications, Inc.)

November 10, 1975 - as big news days go, this was bigger than most, as the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on what lake?

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Lake Superior

November 10, 1969 - can you tell me how to get this answer? This program debuted on National Educational Television, the forerunner to PBS.

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Sesame Street

November 10, 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley famously utters what four words in Ujiji, Tanzania?

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Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

November 10, 1759 - this poet, whose "An die Freude" was famously set to music by Ludwig von Beethoven, is born in Marbach am Neckar, Germany.

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Friedrich Schiller

November 10, 1549 - Pope Paul III dies in Rome, approximately four years after convening which council that ran from 1545 to 1563 and is often described as marking the beginning of the Counter-Reformation?

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Council of Trent

November 10, 1903 - Mary Anderson is awarded a patent for what now-ubiquitous automobile accessory? Trico is a leading manufacturer of this product today, and they were immortalized in a novelty song by Heywood Banks.

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Windshield Wipers