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On This Day (February 26th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 26th ?
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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
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Java
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Borneo
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Sumatra
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2.
1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at which London Theatre ?
Apollo Theatre
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Alhambra Theatre
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Palace Theatre
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New Gaiety Theatre
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3.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing which US National Park.?
Crater Lake
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Grand Canyon
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Carlsbad Caverns
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Zion
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4.
1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry, UK, which leads directly to the development of what ?
RADAR
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Spitfire Aircraft
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Land Mines
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Bouncing Bombs
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5.
1980 – Egypt and which other country establish full diplomatic relations ?
Syria
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Libya
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Jordan
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Israel
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6.
1995 – The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses how much ?
$500 million
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$1.4 billion
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$4.5 billion
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$750 million
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7.
2008 – The New York Philharmonic performs in which Asian city for the first time ?
Phnom Penh
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Vladivostok
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Pyongyang
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Manila
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8.
1947 – Sandie Shaw, English singer was born in Essex on this day, apart from her music, how was her act memorable ?
Flamboyant dresses
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Performing with bare feet
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Bald Head
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Running around the stage
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9.
1616 - The Roman Inquisition delivers an injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in what ?
The Earth being round rather than flat
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The existance of other moons on other planets
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That all things fall at the same acceleration rate
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The Earth orbiting the Sun
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10.
2013 – A hot air balloon crashes, killing 19 people, near which African city ?
Luxor, Egypt
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Windhoek, Namibia
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Mombasa, Kenya
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Casablanca, Morocco
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11.
1863 - Abraham Lincoln signs an Act, establishing a single national what ?
Postage Rate
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Telegraph Service
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Currency
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Cost per Mile of Rail Travel
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12.
1881 - P&O's SS Ceylon sails from Liverpool to begins the world's first pleasure cruise to do what ?
Sail around the World
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Sail to Australia and New Zealand
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Sail across the Atlantic
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Sail to Antarctica
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13.
1952 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own what ?
Gold Mine
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Atomic Bomb
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Oil and Gas Fields
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Supersonic Aircraft
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14.
1997 – David Doyle, American actor dies of a heart attack at 67. For which role is he most famous ?
Alfred in "Batman and Robin"
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Bosley in "Charlies Angels"
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Higgins in "Magnum P.I."
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Sheriff Rosco Coltrane in "The Dukes of Hazzard"
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15.
1975 - What type of transplant is televised for the first time ?
Liver
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Heart
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Lung
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Kidney
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