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On This Day (April 1st) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 1st?
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1. 325 – Crown Prince Jin Chengdi, succeeds his father Jin Mingdi as emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty at what age ?
4 years
12 years
19 years
7 years
2. 457 – Majorian is acclaimed emperor by the Roman army after defeating 900 Alemanni near which lake ?
Lake Como
Lake Maggiore
Lake Garda
Lake Geneva
3. 1293 – Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of where ?
York
Reims
Florence
Canterbury
4. 1545 – The city of Potosí, Bolivia, is founded after the discovery of which metal in the area ?
Gold
Copper
Silver
Tin
5. 1854 – Which of Charles Dickens' novels begins serialisation in his magazine Household Words ?
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
Pickwick Papers
Hard Times
6. 1873 – The White Star steamer RMS Atlantic sinks, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century, off the coast of which area ?
Ireland
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland
Iceland
7. 1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends how long in jail ?
One Year
Six Months
Two Years
Nine Months
8. 1944 – Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of which Swiss city ?
Lucerne
Neuchatel
Schaffhausen
St. Gallen
9. 1955 – The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in which country ?
Cyprus
Singapore
Sudan
Maldives
10. 1970 - US President Richard Nixon signs a bill limiting what from 1st Jan 1971 ?
Maximum Tax Rate
Cigarette Advertising
Speed Limits
Alcohol Sales
11. 1970 – The first of over 670,000 examples of which model of car are released into North America to compete with foreign imported cars ?
Plymouth Duster
Chevrolet Vega
Ford Pinto
AMC Gremlin
12. 1973 – A project is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India to conserve which animal ?
Tiger
Elephant
Himalayan Wolf
Flying Squirrel
13. 1976 - Which major technology company is founded on this day?
Microsoft
Google
Apple
Amazon
14. 1989 – Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge or Poll Tax is introduced in which part of the UK ?
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
England
15. 2002 - The Netherlands becomes the first nation to legalize what ?
Same Sex Marriage
Cannabis
Prostitution
Euthanasia
16. 2004 – Google announces the start of which service to the public ?
Maps
Earth
Gmail
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