On This Day (August 12th) Multiple Choice

1. 1492 – Christopher Columbus arrives in island group on his first voyage to the New World ?

2. 1499 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian ships and a fleet from which other empire ?

3. 1793 – The Rhône and Loire départments of France are created when which former département is split into two ?

4. 1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first invasion by which nation ?

5. 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for which invention ?

6. 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands. What animal was the quagga a sub species of ?

7. 1914 – World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on which nation prompting the countries of the British Empire to follow suit ?

8. 1944 – Which city is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces ?

9. 1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in which city ?

10. 1953 – The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s", the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb. What did the US call the bomb ?

11. 1964 – Which country is banned from the Olympic Games due to it's racist policies ?

12. 1981 – A Personal Computer is released by which company ?

13. 1990 – "Sue", the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in which US state ?

14. 1949 – Mark Knopfler, Scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer is born. He is best known as the founder of which band ?

15. Today is known in the UK as the "Glorious Twelfth". It marks the traditional start of the shooting season for which game bird ?