On This Day (May 11th) Multiple Choice

1. 912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of which empire ?

2. 1792 – Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into which river ?

3. 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of which building ?

4. 1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across which mountain range ?

5. 1833 – The "Lady of the Lake" strikes an iceberg and sinks with the loss of 265 people off the coast of which landmass ?

6. 1846 – President James K. Polk asked for a Declaration of War against which country ?

7. 1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes which National Park ?

8. 1960 – Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by which intelligence service ?

9. 1985 – Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a stadium fire at which UK football club ?

10. 1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in which city for war crimes committed during World War II ?

11. 2014 – Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by what ?

12. 1997 – Deep Blue becomes the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. Who did it beat ?

13. 1941 – Eric Burdon, English musician is born, he is best known for which band ?

14. 2001 – Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter dies on this day. What was his best known work ?

15. Today is celebrated as what in New Zealand ?