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1. 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with which wife of Henry VIII ?
Anne Boleyn
Catherine Howard
Jane Seymour
Catherine Parr
2. 1768 – The first edition of which reference book is published ?
Encyclopædia Britannica
Whitaker's Almanack
Oxford English Dictionary
Who's Who
3. 1817 – Which state becomes the 20th U.S. state ?
Missouri
Nevada
Ohio
Mississippi
4. 1884 – Which novel by Mark Twain is published for the first time ?
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
5. 1896 – Alfred Jarry's play "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris. What happened at the end of the performance ?
No-one applauded
A riot broke out
Rotten vegetables were thrown on stage
The actors were carried aloft to a bar
6. 1901 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on which anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death ?
Fifth
Second
Tenth
First
7. 1902 – The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam on which African river ?
Congo
Limpopo
Nile
Zambezi
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 ?
Exeter
Manchester
Sheffield
London
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 ?
Malay Peninsula
New Guinea
Kamchatka Peninsula
New Caledonia
10. 1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in which field ?
Peace
Chemistry
Literature
Physics
11. 1963 – Which island gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah ?
Bahrain
Zanzibar
Singapore
Sri Lanka
12. 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in which city ?
Chiba
Osaka
Tokyo
Sapporo
13. 1983 – Democracy is restored in which country with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín ?
Ecuador
Peru
Chile
Argentina
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 ?
New Zealand
Australia
Jamaica
Ireland
15. 2016 – Two explosions outside a football stadium in which city kill 38 people and injure 166 others ?