On This Day (January 10th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 10th ?

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1. 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses which river, signalling the start of civil war.

Po ✓

Rubicon ✓

Adige ✓

Tevere ✓

2. 1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason in which famous former prison ?

Bastille, Paris ✓

Tower of London ✓

Spandau Prison ✓

Bodmin Jail ✓

3. 1810 – William Haines, English-Australian politician is born on this day in London, he would eventually become the 1st Premier of which Australian state ?

Queensland ✓

Tasmania ✓

Victoria ✓

New South Wales ✓

4. 1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from which city ?

Louisville ✓

Pittsburgh ✓

Cincinatti ✓

St.Louis ✓

5. 1870 Deputy sheriff Wyatt Earp weds Urilla Sutherland in which small Texas town ?

Mirando City ✓

Lamar ✓

Fort McKavett ✓

South Plains ✓

6. 1943 - The 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - Franklin D Roosevelt leaves for which city ?

Casablanca, Morocco ✓

Cape Town, South Africa ✓

Lisbon, Portugal ✓

Mexico City, Mexico ✓

7. 1945 – Rod Stewart, English singer-songwriter, is born in which British city ?

London ✓

Glasgow ✓

Manchester ✓

Belfast ✓

8. 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off what ?

The Moon ✓

Mount Hood ✓

USS Franklin D. Roosevelt aircraft carrier ✓

Boeing B-29 Superfortress ✓

9. 1949 - RCA introduces what speed of record ?

78 RPM ✓

16 RPM ✓

45 RPM ✓

33 RPM ✓

10. 1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into which sea, killing 35 people ?

Aegean Sea ✓

Red Sea ✓

Tyrrhenian Sea ✓

Irish Sea ✓

11. 1971 - Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in which Northern Irish city ?

Belfast ✓

Londonderry ✓

Armagh ✓

Coleraine ✓

12. 2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and a passenger coach near which Asian city kills at least 62 people ?

Chennai ✓

Tehran ✓

Dhaka ✓

Karachi ✓

13. 2015 - 72 people are killed & 169 hospitalized after a mass poisoning of beer with crocodile bile at a funeral in which African country ?

Lesotho ✓

Equatorial Guinea ✓

Madagascar ✓

Mozambique ✓

14. 2016 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, dies on this day in New York City. On which island were his ashes scattered ?

Zanzibar ✓

Bali ✓

Tahiti ✓

Manhattan ✓

15. Where is the 10th of January known as "Margaret Thatcher Day" ?

Grantham, UK ✓

United Kingdom as a whole ✓

Gibraltar ✓

Falkland Islands ✓

16. 2023 - Legendary Rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies on this day. Apart from his own Jeff Beck Group, with which band is he most associated ?

The Animals ✓

The Kinks ✓

The Yardbirds ✓

The Easybeats ✓

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