On This Day (November 5th) Multiple Choice

1. 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested for trying to blow up which London building ?

2. 1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by a Miami Chief known by what name ?

3. 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in which state ?

4. 1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined how much ?

5. 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for what type of machine ?

6. 1917 – Which leader calls for the October Revolution ?

7. 1940 – Who is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term ?

8. 1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of an opera by which composer ?

9. 1986 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit which Chinese city – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949 ?

10. 1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel owned by which chain ?

11. 1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife does what ?

12. 2007 – Android mobile operating system is unveiled by which company ?

13. 2013 – Which country launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe ?

14. 2015 – Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of which country ?

15. Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated on this day in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and which Canadian province ?