On This Day (December 11th) Multiple Choice

1. 1282 – Battle of Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near which Welsh town ?

2. 1602 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of which European city ?

3. 1688 – Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee to France, throws the Great Seal of the Realm into which river ?

4. 1816 – Which state becomes the 19th U.S. state ?

5. 1907 – The Parliament Buildings of which nation are almost completely destroyed by fire ?

6. 1917 – World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters which city on foot and declares martial law ?

7. 1946 – Which United Nations organisation is established ?

8. 1962 – Arthur Lucas is the last person to be executed in Canada. What crime was he convicted of ?

9. 1968 – A Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, and Marianne Faithfull, is filmed in Wembley, London. Who organised it ?

10. 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the final Apollo mission to land on the Moon. It was which mission to land there ?

11. 1978 – A heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. On which airlines cargo depot was it committed ?

12. 1994 – A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila to which city ? (The captain is able to safely land the plane)

13. 1997 – The Kyoto Protocol treaty opens for signature. It concerns which global issue ?

14. 2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England. It is alongside which motorway ?

15. 2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a Ponzi scheme valued at how much ?