On This Day (February 27th) Multiple Choice

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1. 425 – Which city's university is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia?

Constantinople ✓

Rome ✓

Damascus ✓

Athens ✓

2. 1557 - Which country opens an Embassy in London for the first time ?

Russia ✓

France ✓

Spain ✓

China ✓

3. 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland, to expel people from which race from Scotland ?

English ✓

Irish ✓

French ✓

Viking ✓

4. 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in which UK county ?

Lancashire ✓

Nottinghamshire ✓

Yorkshire ✓

Northamptonshire ✓

5. 1813 - US Congress authorizes the use of which form of transport to deliver mail ?

Covered Wagons ✓

Rail ✓

Steamboats ✓

Kayaks ✓

6. 1874 - Baseball is played in England for the first time at which sports facility ?

Wimbledon Tennis Club ✓

Lord's Cricket Ground ✓

Aintree Racecourse ✓

Stamford Bridge Football Ground ✓

7. 1900 – Which German football (Soccer) club is founded on this day ?

Borussia Dortmund ✓

Bayer Leverkusen ✓

FC Kaiserslautern ✓

Bayern Munich ✓

8. 1916 – Ocean liner SS Maloja struck a mine and sank with the loss of 155 lives near which English port ?

Portsmouth ✓

Dover ✓

Plymouth ✓

Ramsgate ✓

9. 1930 - Which island is declared a Norwegian dependency ?

Svalbard ✓

Jan Mayen Island ✓

Bouvet Island ✓

Peter I Island ✓

10. 1963 – Which island nation receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo ?

Dominican Republic ✓

Jamaica ✓

Grenada ✓

St. Lucia ✓

11. 1964 – The Government of Italy asks for help to protect which iconic building ?

Colosseum of Rome ✓

Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice ✓

Milan Cathedral ✓

Leaning Tower of Pisa ✓

12. 1971 – Sara Blakely, American billionaire businesswoman, is born on this day. She is the founder of which clothing company ?

Victoria's Secret ✓

Guess ✓

North Face ✓

Spanx ✓

13. 2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at which London Airport ?

Heathrow ✓

Stansted ✓

Gatwick ✓

Southend ✓

14. 2004 – Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding which event?

Mass Suicide attempt in Niigata ✓

Poisoning the water source in Kumamoto ✓

Tokyo Subway Sarin attack ✓

Bomb attack on Okayama bus station ✓

15. 2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims. The quake triggered a tsunami that struck where shortly after ?

Hawai'i ✓

Easter Island ✓

Galapagos Islands ✓

New Zealand ✓

16. 2015 -Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated whilst out walking with his girlfriend in which city?

Irkutsk ✓

Moscow ✓

Nizhy Novgorod ✓

St. Petersburg ✓

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