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On This Day (February 29th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 29th ?
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1.
February 29, also known as leap day or leap year day, is a date added to most years that are divisible by 4, but for what reason ?
Realign the seasons
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Fun
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Change Daylight Saving Time
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To mess up calendars
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2.
1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to do what ?
Prevent them attacking
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Provide him with supplies
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Establish his superiority
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Study their behaviour
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3.
1712 – In a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar, in Sweden February 29th is followed by which date ?
March 2nd
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March 1st
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February 30th
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February 29th (again)
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4.
1916 - Tokelau is annexed by which country ?
New Zealand
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Australia
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France
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United Kingdom
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5.
1916 - In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to what age ?
13
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14
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15
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16
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6.
1940 - Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award for her performance in which film ?
The Wizard of Oz
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Stagecoach
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Gone With The Wind
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Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
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7.
1944 - Karol Wojtyla, future Pope John Paul II, is injured in Krakow by what ?
Falling Masonry
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Stray Bullet
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Nazi Truck
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Beaten by Soldiers
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1944 – World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded led by American General Douglas MacArthur under the name of Operation what ?
Brewer
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Corkscrew
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Matador
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Teardrop
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9.
1976 - Jeffrey Atkins better known as Ja Rule, American rapper and actor, is born in which New York City borough ?
Manhattan
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Queens
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The Bronx
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Brooklyn
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10.
1988 - Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to announce what ?
His Divorce
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Upcoming Trial
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Resignation
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He is Gay
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11.
1996 - The siege of which city officially ends ?
Niamey
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Sarajevo
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Kabul
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Grozny
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12.
2004 – Following a coup Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of which country ?
Haiti
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Dominican Republic
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El Salvador
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Guatemala
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2008 - Following a leak in the foreign media, the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence decides to withdraw which royal from a tour of Afghanistan?
Prince Andrew
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Prince William
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Prince Charles
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Prince Harry
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2008 - Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claimed what ?
She was a nurse at Auschwitz
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She hid in a basement in Berlin
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She lived with a pack of wolves in the forest
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She escaped to North Africa
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15.
2012 - Veteran actor Dick Van Dyke (86) weds make-up artist Arlene Silver (40) in which Californian city ?
Malibu
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Ventura
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Laguna Beach
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Santa Cruz
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16.
2020 - The United States and the Taliban sign an agreement to bring peace to Afghanistan in which city?
Baku
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Muscat
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Doha
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Abu Dhabi
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