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