On This Day (January 30th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for how long ?

One month ✓

Eight months ✓

Five years ✓

Two years ✓

2. 1804 - Scottish explorer Mungo Park leaves England seeking the source of which river ?

Congo ✓

Niger ✓

Nile ✓

Limpopo ✓

3. 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connects which island to the rest of mainland UK ?

Anglesey ✓

Skye ✓

Sheppey ✓

Walney ✓

4. 1847 – Yerba Buena is renamed as which city in California ?

Sacramento ✓

San Diego ✓

San Francisco ✓

Los Angeles ✓

5. 1858 - Charles Hallé founds the Hallé Orchestra in which English city ?

Manchester ✓

Leeds ✓

Birmingham ✓

Norwich ✓

6. 1883 - The England cricket team is presented with The Ashes after the Sydney Test Match, but the ashes of what?

Bat ✓

Bails ✓

Ball ✓

Wickets ✓

7. 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane passenger rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from where ?

Kingston, Jamaica ✓

Havana, Cuba ✓

Nassau, Bahamas ✓

Hamilton, Bermuda ✓

8. 1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor and author is born in which US city ?

Miami, Florida ✓

Houston, Texas ✓

San Bernardino, California ✓

Seattle, Washington ✓

9. 1934 - Actor and comedian Lou Costello marries burlesque dancer Anne Battler, how many children did they eventually have ?

1 ✓

3 ✓

4 ✓

2 ✓

10. 1965 - The State funeral of Winston Churchill takes place at which London Landmark ?

St.Pauls Cathedral ✓

Westminster Abbey ✓

Tower of London ✓

Houses of Parliament ✓

11. 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance takes place on the roof of Apple Records in which city ?

New York ✓

Hamburg ✓

Liverpool ✓

London ✓

12. 1973 - Which rock band play their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens, NY ?

The Ramones ✓

Aerosmith ✓

New York Dolls ✓

Kiss ✓

13. 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called what ?

Elk Cloner ✓

Moose Dropper ✓

Reindeer Rider ✓

Antelope Aid ✓

14. 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes what ?

North Korea ✓

Same Sex Marriage ✓

Marijuana Use ✓

Abortion ✓

15. 2013 - Naro-1, the first carrier rocket, is launched by which country?

Sri Lanka ✓

Argentina ✓

Morocco ✓

South Korea ✓

16. 2019 - Peter Paul Rubens’s 1608 drawing "Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms" sells for how much at auction in New York ?

$1.6 million ✓

$12.9 million ✓

$8.2 million ✓

$3.3 million ✓

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