September 15 — This Day in History

 Question 1

On September 15, 1835, naturalist Charles Darwin arrived aboard the HMS Beagle at which archipelago, where his observations later laid the groundwork for his theory of natural selection?

A) Falkland Islands

B) Galápagos Islands

C) Hawaiian Islands

D) Canary Islands

Correct Answer: B) Galápagos Islands

Question 2

Which infamous antisemitic legislation, enacted in Nazi Germany on this date in 1935, systematically stripped German Jews of their citizenship?

A) Nuremberg Laws

B) Enabling Act

C) Reichstag Decrees

D) Berlin Edicts

Correct Answer: A) Nuremberg Laws

Question 3

September 15 is commemorated as a turning point in World War II when Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) repelled large-scale daylight raids by which aerial force?

A) Regia Aeronautica

B) Imperial Japanese Air Service

C) Luftwaffe

D) Vichy French Air Force

Correct Answer: C) Luftwaffe

Question 4

In September 1959, who made history by becoming the first Soviet head of state to visit the United States when he landed at Andrews Air Force Base?

A) Joseph Stalin

B) Leonid Brezhnev

C) Nikita Khrushchev

D) Yuri Andropov

Correct Answer: C) Nikita Khrushchev

Question 5

On September 15, 1963, a deadly Ku Klux Klan bombing targeting Civil Rights activists killed four young Black girls inside a Baptist church in which American city?

A) Montgomery, Alabama

B) Birmingham, Alabama

C) Selma, Alabama

D) Atlanta, Georgia

Correct Answer: B) Birmingham, Alabama

Question 6

By defeating Leon Spinks in a rematch on September 15, 1978, which legendary pugilist became the first boxer in history to win the world heavyweight crown three times?

A) Joe Frazier

B) George Foreman

C) Muhammad Ali

D) Sonny Liston

Correct Answer: C) Muhammad Ali

Question 7

On September 15, 2008, which Wall Street investment bank filed for Chapter 11, triggering the climax of the global subprime mortgage crisis in the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history?

A) Bear Stearns

B) Lehman Brothers

C) Merrill Lynch

D) Washington Mutual

Correct Answer: B) Lehman Brothers

Question 8

Brokered under U.S. auspices in September 2020, Israel signed diplomatic normalization pacts known as the Abraham Accords with Bahrain and which other Gulf nation?

A) Qatar

B) Kuwait

C) Oman

D) United Arab Emirates

Correct Answer: D) United Arab Emirates

Question 9

Which private spaceflight launched on September 15, 2021, by SpaceX, entered history as the first orbital mission crewed entirely by civilian amateurs without professional astronauts?

A) Polaris Dawn

B) Inspiration4

C) Axiom Mission 1

D) DearMoon

Correct Answer: B) Inspiration4

Question 10

Prince Harry, who was born on September 15, 1984, holds which official British peerage title conferred upon him in 2018?

A) Duke of Cambridge

B) Duke of Edinburgh

C) Duke of Sussex

D) Duke of York

Correct Answer: C) Duke of Sussex