On This Day (August 17th) Multiple Choice

1. 309/310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to which island ?

2. 1549 – The Prayer Book Rebellion is quashed in which country ?

3. 1560 – The Catholic Church is overthrown and Protestantism is established as the national religion in which country ?

4. 1597 – Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to which island group ?

5. 1740 – Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as which Pope ?

6. 1807 – Robert Fulton's "North River Steamboat" leaves which city, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world ?

7. 1883 – The first public performance of "Himno Nacional". It is which country's national anthem ?

8. 1896 – Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a person killed by what means in the United Kingdom ?

9. 1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits which city with winds at 135 miles per hour ?

10. 1945 – Which of George Orwell's novels is first published ?

11. 1953 – Addiction: First meeting of which "Anonymous" group takes place, in Southern California ?

12. 1959 – Quake Lake is formed by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake near Hebgen Lake in which US state ?

13. 1970 – Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet. Which planet ?

14. 1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving which part of North America ?

15. 2005 – Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of which country ?