On This Day (December 1st) Multiple Choice

1. 1662 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on a frozen lake watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine in which London park ?

2. 1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of which nation ?

3. 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in which city ?

4. 1913 – The first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere begins operation in which city ?

5. 1913 – Which motor company introduces the first moving assembly line ?

6. 1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of which kingdom ?

7. 1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against which country ?

8. 1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested, an incident which leads to which Alabama city's bus boycott ?

9. 1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, West Germany, after accusations of what ?

10. 1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from which nation ?

11. 1977 – Pinwheel pay TV is launched in the US. It is now known by what name ?

12. 1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes on which Mediterranean island, killing all 180 people on board ?

13. 1988 – Which awareness day was proclaimed worldwide for the first time by the UN member states ?

14. 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed. How far below the seabed is the tunnel ?

15. 2017 – A 100-megawatt Tesla Powerpack system, which is the world's largest lithium-ion battery, is launched in Jamestown, in which Australian state ?