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On This Day (March 28th) Multiple Choice

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1. 37 - Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus accepts the titles of the Principate. He is better known by what name ?
Nero
Caligula
Domitian
Caracalla
2. 1566 – The foundation stone of which capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette ?
Paramaribo, Suriname
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Valletta, Malta
Windhoek, Namibia
3. 1842 – First concert of which Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai ?
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra
Arab Youth Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
4. 1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near which town ?
Riverport, NS, Canada
Martigues, France
Jijel, Algeria
Pattaya City, Thailand
5. 1914 – Everett Ruess, American explorer, poet, and painter was born in Oakland, California. Just over 20 years later he disappeared in a remote part of which state ?
Utah
Oregon
Washington
Montana
6. 1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane "City of Liverpool" is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger does what on board ?
Knocks out the Pilot
Opens a Door
Starts a Fire
Breaks a Window
7. 1946 – The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of what ?
Drug Smuggling
Shipping Lanes
Air Routes
Nuclear Power
8. 1948 - Musician Nat King Cole weds jazz singer Maria Hawkins at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in which New York neighborhood ?
Greenwich Village
SoHo
Harlem
Crown Heights
9. 1960 - A Scotch whisky factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters in which Scottish city ?
Glasgow
Dundee
Aberdeen
Inverness
10. 1968 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a protest for what ?
Cheaper Meals
World Peace
Better Education
Less Deforestation
11. 1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement opposing the junta in Greece on which broadcasting service ?
Voice of America
Radio Luxembourg
BBC World Service
Radio Moscow
12. 1979 – A coolant leak at which nuclear reactor leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown ?
Dounreay, UK
Three Mile Island, USA
Chernobyl, Ukraine
Fukushima Daiichi, Japan
13. 2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier from which nation ?
United Kingdom
United States
France
Netherlands
14. 2006 – Massive protests are mounted against France's First Employment Contract law, meant to reduce what ?.
Working Hours
Retirement Age
Workplace Accidents
Youth Unemployment
15. 2017 - The United Kingdom introduces what denomination of currency with a secret security feature to stop counterfeiting ?
£2 coin
£50 note
£10 note
£1 coin
16. 2023 - Paul O'Grady, English presenter, comedian and drag queen, dies aged 67. What was his drag character's name?
Lily Savage
Racy Tracy
Barbara Bikini
Gorgeous George
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2 Comments
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Level 64
Mar 28, 2020
You're so good to keep going with these quizzes! I'm not very good at them though, it seems :) (By the way, you've left the answer in question 3).
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Level 81
Mar 28, 2020
Oops, well spotted. I thought I'd help you out, not really I must have copy/pasted that question and forgot to rearrange it. Thanks for pointing it out.

Dont worry too much about doing well on these, I tried a couple of Jan and Feb ones yesterday and didnt get them all myself.

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