On This Day (March 16th) Multiple Choice

1. 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant after the Fall of Montségur are killed in which manner?

2. 1322 – The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in which conflict ?

3. 1818 – In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated soldiers of which nationality ?

4. 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at which venue ?

5. 1924 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy. Fiume is now in Croatia and known as what ?

6. 1926 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, in which US city ?

7. 1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of which Treaty ?

8. 1940 – First person killed (James Isbister) in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on which area ?

9. 1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding. What model was it ?

10. 1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, what model is it ?

11. 1978 – The Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time, off the coast of where ?

12. 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists in which city ?

13. 1991 – An airplane crashes on the side of Otay Mountain, California carrying eight members of which country singers band ?

14. 1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery after how many years ?

15. 2003 – American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah, Palestine trying to obstruct what ?

16. 2010 - The Kasubi Tombs are destroyed by fire. They are the only World Heritage Site of which country?