On This Day (February 24th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1386 – King Charles III of Naples is assassinated in which city ?

Constantinople ✓

Rome ✓

Sofia ✓

Buda ✓

2. 1525 – A Spanish-Austrian army defeats which country's army at the Battle of Pavia?f

Italy ✓

France ✓

England ✓

Egypt ✓

3. 1809 – Which London Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute ?

Globe ✓

Drury Lane ✓

Adelphi ✓

Lyceum ✓

4. 1831 – What is the name of the first removal treaty, forcing the Choctaws in Mississippi to cede land east of the river, in accordance with the Indian Removal Act ?

The Treaty of Grazing Horse Meadow ✓

The Treaty of Buffalo Hide Mountain ✓

The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek ✓

The Treaty of Rattlesnake Ridge ✓

5. 1854 – The first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution is released on this day. What was it called ?

Penny Red ✓

Penny Black ✓

Halfpenny Green ✓

Twopenny Blue ✓

6. 1875 – The SS Gothenburg sinks off the Australian coast, killing approximately 100 people, after hitting what ?

A Blue Whale ✓

The Great Barrier Reef ✓

Rottnest Island ✓

One of the Twelve Apostles Limestone Stacks ✓

7. 1916 – The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate patients with which complaint ?

Leprosy ✓

Typhoid ✓

Smallpox ✓

Tuberculosis ✓

8. 1920 – Nancy Astor became the first woman to do what in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ?

Vote ✓

Give Birth ✓

Get Arrested ✓

Make a Speech ✓

9. 1934 - High-ranking member of British intelligence Kim Philby weds communist Litzi Friedmann in which city ?

London, UK ✓

Madrid, Spain ✓

Istanbul, Turkey ✓

Vienna, Austria ✓

10. 1942 - Voice of America begins broadcasting in which language ?

English ✓

French ✓

German ✓

Spanish ✓

11. 1976 – The current constitution of which country is formally proclaimed ?

Jamaica ✓

St. Vincent and the Grenadines ✓

Cuba ✓

Haiti ✓

12. 1978 – A group of 5 people from which California city get lost in the Plumas National Forest of the Sierra Nevada ? (Four of their bodies are found in June of the same year, but one of them is still missing to this day)

Yuba City ✓

Chico ✓

Redding ✓

Merced ✓

13. 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa and offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of whom ?

Ronald Reagan ✓

Salman Rushdie ✓

Queen Elizabeth II ✓

Jerry Falwell ✓

14. 1989 – United Airlines Flight 811, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section en route to New Zealand from which city ?

Honolulu ✓

Los Angeles ✓

San Francisco ✓

New York ✓

15. 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after how many years ?

41 ✓

29 ✓

32 ✓

37 ✓

16. 2022 - Russian President, Vladimir Putin, orders a full-scale invasion of which country?

Ukraine ✓

Kazakhstan ✓

Belarus ✓

Georgia ✓

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