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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.
1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason in which famous former prison ?
Bastille, Paris
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Tower of London
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Spandau Prison
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Bodmin Jail
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1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off what ?
The Moon
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Mount Hood
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USS Franklin D. Roosevelt aircraft carrier
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress
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3.
49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses which river, signalling the start of civil war.
Po
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Rubicon
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Adige
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Tevere
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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
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Pittsburgh
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Cincinatti
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St.Louis
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5.
2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and a passenger coach near which Asian city kills at least 62 people ?
Chennai
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Tehran
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Dhaka
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Karachi
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6.
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
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Tasmania
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Victoria
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New South Wales
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7.
1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into which sea, killing 35 people ?
Aegean Sea
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Red Sea
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Tyrrhenian Sea
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Irish Sea
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8.
1943 - The 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - Franklin D Roosevelt leaves for which city ?
Casablanca, Morocco
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Cape Town, South Africa
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Lisbon, Portugal
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Mexico City, Mexico
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9.
1949 - RCA introduces what speed of record ?
78 RPM
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16 RPM
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45 RPM
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33 RPM
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10.
1945 – Rod Stewart, English singer-songwriter, is born in which British city ?
London
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Glasgow
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Manchester
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Belfast
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11.
Where is the 10th of January known as "Margaret Thatcher Day" ?
Grantham, UK
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United Kingdom as a whole
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Gibraltar
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Falkland Islands
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12.
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
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Londonderry
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Armagh
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Coleraine
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13.
1870 Deputy sheriff Wyatt Earp weds Urilla Sutherland in which small Texas town ?
Mirando City
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Lamar
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Fort McKavett
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South Plains
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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
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Bali
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Tahiti
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Prince Edward Island
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2015 - 72 people are killed & 169 hospitalized after a mass poisoning of beer with crocodile bile at a funeral in which African country ?
Lesotho
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Equatorial Guinea
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Madagascar
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Mozambique
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