On This Day (March 24th) Multiple Choice

1. 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6. He was wounded by what weapon ?

2. 1603 – James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of which monarch ?

3. 1765 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to do what ?.

4. 1829 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act allowing Catholics to do what ?

5. 1854 – Slavery is abolished in which South American country ?

6. 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for which disease ?.

7. 1920 - The first US coast guard air station is established in which city ?

8. 1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad, the first international women's sports event begins in which city ?

9. 1944 - RAF rear gunner Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute suffering which minor injury ?

10. 1958 - Elvis Presley (Service number - 53310761) joins which branch of the military?

11. 1965 - The US probe Ranger 9 strikes the Moon, 10 miles (16 km) North East of which crater ?

12. 1986 - Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen is arrested on what charge ?

13. 1998 - Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in which city ?

14. 1999 – A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire killing 38 people in an inferno inside which tunnel ?

15. 2016 - Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić is found guilty of genocide during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and is sentenced to how many years in jail ?

16. 2008 - Which country officially becomes a democracy with its first-ever general election?