On This Day (February 20th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of what ?

A Dowry ✓

Import / Export Taxes ✓

Reparation Costs ✓

Safe Passage ✓

2. 1673 - First recorded auction of which commodity is held in London ?

Oil Paintings ✓

Wine ✓

Property ✓

Slaves ✓

3. 1816 – Which of Rossini's operas premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome ?

William Tell ✓

La Cenerentola ✓

The Barber of Seville ✓

Otello ✓

4. 1872 – Which museum in New York opens its doors for the first time ?

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ✓

The Metropolitan Museum of Art ✓

Museum of the City of New York ✓

American Museum of Natural History ✓

5. 1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of which capital city ?

Ankara ✓

New Delhi ✓

Gaberone ✓

Canberra ✓

6. 1927 – Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat is born in which city ?

Nassau ✓

Tokyo ✓

Havana ✓

Miami ✓

7. 1927 - Golfers in South Carolina are arrested for what reason ?

Dangerous Shots ✓

Theft from Clubhouse ✓

Trespassing ✓

Violating the Sabbath ✓

8. 1931 – The U.S. Congress approves the construction of which bridge ?

San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge ✓

Golden Gate Bridge ✓

Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel ✓

George Washington Bridge ✓

9. 1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in which part of the world ?

Galapagos Islands ✓

Antarctica ✓

Vatican City ✓

Great Barrier Reef ✓

10. 1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to do what ?

Use production teams to make information films ✓

Include war messages in cinemas ✓

Take cameramen to the front line ✓

Censor movies ✓

11. 1947 - A chemical mixing error causes an explosion that destroys 42 blocks in which US city ?

Los Angeles ✓

San Francisco ✓

Houston ✓

Detroit ✓

12. 1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in what time ?

4 hours 55 minutes ✓

12 hours 35 minutes ✓

6 hours 10 minutes ✓

26 hours 20 minutes ✓

13. 1998 - "Kung Fu" actor David Carradine weds actress Marina Benjamin on the back lot of which movie studio ?

Warner Brothers ✓

Universal Pictures ✓

Columbia Pictures ✓

20th Century Studios ✓

14. 2003 - During a rock concert in Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets fire to the club killing 100 people. Which rock band were playing?

KISS ✓

Great White ✓

Red Hot Chili Peppers ✓

Green Day ✓

15. 2010 – Heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of which island ?

Corsica ✓

Montserrat ✓

Madeira ✓

Fiji ✓

16. 2013 - Which country becomes the first to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars ?

Switzerland ✓

New Zealand ✓

Estonia ✓

Norway ✓

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