On This Day (February 5th) Multiple Choice

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1. 789 – Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, ceding land from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first state to be known as what ?

Morocco ✓

Senegal ✓

Tunisia ✓

Algeria ✓

2. 1782 – The Spanish defeat British forces and capture which island ?

Menorca ✓

Majorca ✓

Tenerife ✓

Gran Canaria ✓

3. 1788 – Robert Peel, Politician, Prime Minister and founder of the Metropolitan Police is born in which English town ?

Bury, Lancashire ✓

Tamworth, Staffordshire ✓

Macclesfield, Cheshire ✓

Kings Lynn, Norfolk ✓

4. 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public in which city ?

London, England ✓

St. Petersburg, Russia ✓

Paris, France ✓

Vienna, Austria ✓

5. 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, weighing over 97kg is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. It is known as what ?

Big Yellow ✓

Beautiful Bounty ✓

Worthy Prospect ✓

Welcome Stranger ✓

6. 1922 - Which long running magazine is published for the first time ?

Time ✓

Vogue ✓

National Geographic ✓

Reader's Digest ✓

7. 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory in London begins broadcasting what ?

Hourly Time Signals ✓

BBC Radio ✓

Military Signals ✓

Radio Pulses to Space ✓

8. 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost, and so far not recovered, by the US Air Force off the coast of which city ?

Tampa, Florida ✓

Savannah, Georgia ✓

Portland, Maine ✓

Nome, Alaska ✓

9. 1966 - The BBC opens a relay radio station on which remote island ?

South Georgia ✓

Ascension Island ✓

Tristan da Cunha ✓

Pitcairn Island ✓

10. 1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of what ?

Tyres ✓

Fuel Quality ✓

Passengers and Baggage ✓

Air Cargo Containers ✓

11. 1990 - Actor Rowan Atkinson, known for portraying Mr.Bean and Edmund Blackadder, weds Sunetra Sastry in which city ?

London ✓

New York ✓

Mumbai ✓

Brisbane ✓

12. 1996 - British supermarket chains stock the first GM food to be sold in the country, what is it ?

Tomato Puree ✓

Spinach ✓

Canned Sweetcorn ✓

Bananas ✓

13. 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid what ?

Cancer Research ✓

Holocaust Survivors ✓

Global Warming Research ✓

Famine Relief ✓

14. 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting a rebellion in which island nation ?

East Timor ✓

Comoros ✓

Haiti ✓

Grenada ✓

15. 2004 Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in which British body of water ?

The Wash ✓

Firth of Forth ✓

Bristol Channel ✓

Morecambe Bay ✓

16. 2021 - Eleven cops are arrested for rioting whilst trying to break up a demonstration by cyclists in which city?

Beijing ✓

Mexico City ✓

Amsterdam ✓

Johannesburg ✓

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