On This Day (December 10th) Multiple Choice

1. 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with which wife of Henry VIII ?

2. 1768 – The first edition of which reference book is published ?

3. 1817 – Which state becomes the 20th U.S. state ?

4. 1884 – Which novel by Mark Twain is published for the first time ?

5. 1896 – Alfred Jarry's play "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris. What happened at the end of the performance ?

6. 1901 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on which anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death ?

7. 1902 – The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam on which African river ?

8. 1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals in which English city ?

9. 1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy ships "HMS Prince of Wales" and "HMS Repulse" are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near which land mass ?

10. 1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in which field ?

11. 1963 – Which island gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah ?

12. 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in which city ?

13. 1983 – Democracy is restored in which country with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín ?

14. 1999 – Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of which country, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election ?

15. 2016 – Two explosions outside a football stadium in which city kill 38 people and injure 166 others ?