History in the Month of December
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15 questions · Published November 20, 2023
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Which of these blonde bombshells was Playboy magazine's first ever centerfold on December 1, 1953?
With a cover price of just fifty cents, the first issue of Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine featured actress Marilyn Monroe as its centerfold.
- Multiple Choice
2. In what country did Dr. Christiaan Barnard perform the first successful human heart transplant on December 3, 1967?
Cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, in December 1967.
- Drag and Drop Reorder
3. Arrange these films by American animator and December birthday boy Walt Disney in chronological order.
- 1.Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- 2.Dumbo
- 3.Bambi
- 4.Pinocchio
Released in 1937, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was the first full-length Disney animated feature film.
"Pinocchio" came next in 1940.
"Dumbo" (1941) was released the following year.
And "Bambi" was introduced in 1942.
- Multiple Choice
4. What popular children's verse did Thomas Edison recite on December 6, 1877, while demonstrating his newly invented phonograph?
Thomas Edison tested his first phonograph machine by reciting the nineteenth-century nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
- Multiple Choice
5. On December 8, 1980, former Beatle John Lennon was outside the _________, his New York City apartment building, when he was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were returning home to the Dakota following a recording session with Robert Plant when Mark David Chapman shot Lennon four times at close range.
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