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On This Day (February 5th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 5th ?
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1.
1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture which island ?
Menorca
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Majorca
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Tenerife
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Gran Canaria
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1852 – The New Hermitage Museum, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public in which city ?
London, England
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St. Petersburg, Russia
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Paris, France
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Vienna, Austria
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1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, weighing over 97kg is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. It is known as what ?
Big Yellow
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Beautiful Bounty
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Worthy Prospect
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Welcome Stranger
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1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory in London begins broadcasting what ?
Hourly Time Signals
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BBC Radio
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Military Signals
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Radio Pulses to Space
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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
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Savannah, Georgia
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Portland, Maine
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Nome, Alaska
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6.
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
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Senegal
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Tunisia
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Algeria
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1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid what ?
Cancer Research
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Holocaust Survivors
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Global Warming Research
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Famine Relief
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2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting a rebellion in which island nation ?
East Timor
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Comoros
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Haiti
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Grenada
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1788 – Robert Peel, Politician, Prime Minister and founder of the Metropolitan Police is born in which English town ?
Bury, Lancashire
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Tamworth, Staffordshire
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Macclesfield, Cheshire
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Kings Lynn, Norfolk
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1922 - Which long running magazine is published for the first time ?
Time
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Vogue
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National Geographic
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Reader's Digest
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1966 - The BBC opens a relay radio station on which remote island ?
South Georgia
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Ascension Island
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Tristan da Cunha
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Pitcairn Island
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1996 - British supermarket chains stock genetically modified what ? - the first GM food to be sold in the country ?
Tomato Puree
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Spinach
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Canned Sweetcorn
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Bananas
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1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of what ?
Tyres
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Fuel Quality
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Passengers and Baggage
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Air Cargo Containers
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1990 - Actor Rowan Atkinson weds Sunetra Sastry in which city ?
London
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New York
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Mumbai
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Brisbane
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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
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Firth of Forth
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Bristol Channel
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Morecambe Bay
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