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On This Day (April 12th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 12th ?
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1. 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of which city ?
Canterbury
York
Rome
Paris
2. 1012 – Duke Oldřich of Bohemia deposes and does what to his brother Jaromír who then flees to Poland ?
Blinds him
Tries to Imprison him
Leaves him Penniless
Orders his Death
3. 1204 – The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls and enter which city ?
Rome
Carthage
Athens
Constantinople
4. 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and what other country's ships ?
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
Malta
5. 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow whos rule over Greece ?
Serbia
Italy
Ottoman Empire
Egypt
6. 1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in England, cause it to collapse. In which city ?
Manchester
Liverpool
Birmingham
Bristol
7. 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes which South African region ?
Cape Province
Transvaal
KwaZulu-Natal
Gauteng
8. 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle tests what for the first time in Rugby, England ?
Helicopter
Hovercraft
Wind Turbine
Jet Engine
9. 1955 – A vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective against which disease ?
Polio
Smallpox
Tubercolosis
Measles
10. 1961 – The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, aboard which spacecraft ?
Rodnik 2
Elektro B
Vostok 1
Kosmos 4
11. 1963 – The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in which body of water ?
Gulf of Finland
Norwegian Sea
Bay of Biscay
Danish Straits
12. 1983 – Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of which city ?
New Orleans
Chicago
Las Vegas
Denver
13. 1992 – Which theme park has its official opening today ?
Disneyland Paris
Epcot
Universal Studios Japan
Legoland Windsor
14. 2009 – Which country officially abandons its own currency ?
North Korea
Liechtenstein
Zimbabwe
Suriname
15. 1947 – Alex Briley, American disco singer, and member of the Village People was born today, which character did he portray in the band ?
Cowboy
The G.I.
Cop
Indian Chief
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