On This Day (September 10th) Multiple Choice

1. 1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits which city ?

2. 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland takes place near which town ?

3. 1573 – German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in which city ?

4. 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for which type of device ?

5. 1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora. How many more asteroids did he discover ?

6. 1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. What was the empress' nickname ?

7. 1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship is held at which British stadium ?

8. 1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address what problem in the Mediterranean Sea ?

9. 1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton off the coast of which country ?

10. 1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on which island ?

11. 1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal. What event did he win ?

12. 1967 – The people of which overseas territory vote to remain a British dependency ?

13. 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by what means ?

14. 2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the civil war in which country ?

15. 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in which Swiss city ?