On This Day (April 16th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 16th ?

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1. 1346 – Stefan Dušan is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, How was he known ?

The Mighty ✓

The Great ✓

The Benevolent ✓

The Invincible ✓

2. 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, in which country ?

Mexico ✓

Colombia ✓

Argentina ✓

Cuba ✓

3. 1746 – Which battle is fought in Scotland between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by the Duke of Cumberland ?

Battle of Bannockburn ✓

Battle of Culloden ✓

Battle of Pinkie Cleugh ✓

Battle of Ancrum Moor ✓

4. 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the which river ?

Danube ✓

Volga ✓

Rhine ✓

Jordan ✓

5. 1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, establishing what ?.

Border with Mexico ✓

Rates of Taxes ✓

Diplomatic Relations with Russia ✓

Border with Canada ✓

6. 1853 – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane, now part of which city ?

Mumbai ✓

Delhi ✓

Kolkatta ✓

Chennai ✓

7. 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in which state ?

Colorado ✓

Nevada ✓

Wyoming ✓

Utah ✓

8. 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across which body of water ?

North Sea ✓

English Channel ✓

Lake Superior ✓

Gulf of Mexico ✓

9. 1917 – Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in which country ?

Sweden ✓

India ✓

Switzerland ✓

Japan ✓

10. 1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C better known as what ?

Monowitz ✓

Colditz ✓

Molsdorf ✓

Königstein ✓

11. 1992 – The "Katina P" runs aground spilling 60,000 tons of crude oil into the ocean of the coast of which African city ?

Maputo, Mozambique ✓

Mombasa, Kenya ✓

Luanda, Angola ✓

Conakry, Guinea ✓

12. 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting how many new member states into the European Union ?

Five ✓

Seven ✓

Ten ✓

Three ✓

13. 1972 – Apollo program: The launch of which mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida takes place on this day ?

Apollo 13 ✓

Apollo 15 ✓

Apollo 17 ✓

Apollo 16 ✓

14. 1963 – Which of the Osmond family was born this day ?

Jimmy ✓

Donny ✓

Marie ✓

Merrill ✓

15. 1780 – Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of where ?

Salzburg ✓

Munster ✓

Basel ✓

Luxembourg ✓

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