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On This Day (March 10th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 10th ?
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1. 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into which city ?
Cairo
Rome
Athens
Carthage
2. 1526 - Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, marries Princess Isabella of Portugal, his 1st cousin, in which city ?
Porto
Nice
Seville
Venice
3. 1535 - Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers which island group ?
Galapagos Islands
The Azores
Svalbard
Seychelles
4. 1762 - French Huguenot, Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after suffering what ?
Pneumonia
Run over by a Horse
Typhoid
Torture by Authorities
5. 1801 - First official census in Great Britain, revealing a population of approximately how many people ?
7 million
10 million
12 million
15 million
6. 1804 – In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from which country to the United States ?
France
Spain
United Kingdom
Netherlands
7. 1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to do what ?
Lift a Boat over Obstructions
Produce Barbed Wire
Keep Wine Chilled
Brand Cattle Painlessly
8. 1876 - First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says what to his assistant Thomas Watson ?
"Hello, Hello, Can you hear me ?"
"Sorry, wrong number"
"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you"
"Can you bring my lunch Watson"
9. 1939 - Seventeen villages in the Hyderabad area of India are damaged by what ?
Mudslides
Hailstones
Rampaging Elephants
Political Unrest
10. 1951 - FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines the post of commissioner for which sport ?
Ice Hockey
Basketball
Football
Baseball
11. 1977 – Astronomers discover the rings of which planet ?
Saturn
Uranus
Jupiter
Neptune
12. 1982 - The United States places an embargo on which country's petroleum imports due to their support of terrorist groups ?
Libya
Venezuela
Iran
Iraq
13. 1987 - Which country announces a formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer ?
Ireland
Mexico
Vatican City
China
14. 1988 - An avalanche at the Swiss ski resort of Klosters almost kills which member of the British Royal Family ?
Princess Anne
Prince Andrew
Prince Charles
Prince Philip
15. 1997 - "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" starring Sarah Michelle Geller premieres on which television network ?
NBC
Warner Bros. Television
BBC
Fox
16. 2023 - Which bank collapses after a run on it's deposits ?
Silicon Valley Bank
Atlantic Union Bank
First Hawaiian Bank
Webster bank
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