On This Day (February 26th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1606 – The Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of which island ?

New Guinea ✓

Java ✓

Borneo ✓

Sumatra ✓

2. 1616 - The Roman Inquisition delivers an injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in what ?

The Earth being round rather than flat ✓

The existance of other moons on other planets ✓

That all things fall at the same acceleration rate ✓

The Earth orbiting the Sun ✓

3. 1863 - Abraham Lincoln signs an Act, establishing a single national what ?

Postage Rate ✓

Telegraph Service ✓

Currency ✓

Cost per Mile of Rail Travel ✓

4. 1881 - P&O's SS Ceylon sails from Liverpool to begins the world's first pleasure cruise to do what ?

Sail around the World ✓

Sail to Australia and New Zealand ✓

Sail across the Atlantic ✓

Sail to Antarctica ✓

5. 1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at which London Theatre ?

Apollo Theatre ✓

Alhambra Theatre ✓

Palace Theatre ✓

New Gaiety Theatre ✓

6. 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing which US National Park.?

Crater Lake ✓

Grand Canyon ✓

Carlsbad Caverns ✓

Zion ✓

7. 1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry, UK, which leads directly to the development of what ?

RADAR ✓

Spitfire Aircraft ✓

Land Mines ✓

Bouncing Bombs ✓

8. 1947 – Sandie Shaw, English singer was born in Essex on this day, apart from her music, how was her act memorable ?

Flamboyant dresses ✓

Performing with bare feet ✓

Bald Head ✓

Running around the stage ✓

9. 1952 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own what ?

Gold Mine ✓

Atomic Bomb ✓

Oil and Gas Fields ✓

Supersonic Aircraft ✓

10. 1975 - What type of transplant operation is televised for the first time ?

Liver ✓

Heart ✓

Lung ✓

Kidney ✓

11. 1980 – Egypt and which other country establish full diplomatic relations ?

Syria ✓

Libya ✓

Jordan ✓

Israel ✓

12. 1995 – The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses how much ?

$500 million ✓

$1.4 billion ✓

$4.5 billion ✓

$750 million ✓

13. 1997 – David Doyle, American actor dies of a heart attack at 67. For which role is he most famous ?

Alfred in "Batman and Robin" ✓

Bosley in "Charlies Angels" ✓

Higgins in "Magnum P.I." ✓

Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in "The Dukes of Hazzard" ✓

14. 2008 – The New York Philharmonic performs in which Asian city for the first time ?

Phnom Penh ✓

Vladivostok ✓

Pyongyang ✓

Manila ✓

15. 2013 – A hot air balloon crashes, killing 19 people, near which African city ?

Luxor, Egypt ✓

Windhoek, Namibia ✓

Mombasa, Kenya ✓

Casablanca, Morocco ✓

16. 2021 - 279 female students are kidnapped by bandits in which African country?

Burkina Faso ✓

Nigeria ✓

Angola ✓

Central African Republic ✓

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