On This Day (June 9th) Multiple Choice

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1. AD 53 – Which Roman emperor marries Claudia Octavia ?

Nero ✓

Claudius ✓

Tiberius ✓

Galba ✓

2. 1311 – Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in which Italian cathedral ?

Duomo di Milano ✓

Cattedrale di Pisa ✓

Duomo di Siena ✓

Cattedrale di Parma ✓

3. 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map which river ?

Congo ✓

St. Lawrence ✓

Yukon ✓

Orinoco ✓

4. 1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of which future U.S. state ?

Alabama ✓

Florida ✓

Maine ✓

Georgia ✓

5. 1900 – Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies in a British prison of what disease ?

Tubercolosis ✓

Malaria ✓

Cholera ✓

Smallpox ✓

6. 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane. What was it named ?

Southern Cross ✓

Grey Goose ✓

Flying Tiger ✓

Golden Eagle ✓

7. 1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station, allegedly for what reason ?

Betraying a source ✓

Gambling debt ✓

Close to exposing a scandal ✓

Adultery ✓

8. 1934 – Which Disney character makes it's debut in The Wise Little Hen ?

Minnie Mouse ✓

Pluto ✓

Donald Duck ✓

Goofy ✓

9. 1944 – World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in which French town ?

Le Puy ✓

Fonteney-le-Comte ✓

Montbard ✓

Tulle ✓

10. 1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first of what type of vessel ?

Nuclear-powered Ballistic Missile Submarine ✓

Antarctic Research Vessel ✓

Long Range Refuelling Vessel ✓

Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier ✓

11. 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures which area ?

Sinai Peninsula ✓

West Bank ✓

Golan Heights ✓

Gaza Strip ✓

12. 1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam to burst in which US mountain range ?

Adirondack Mountains, New York ✓

Black Hills, South Dakota ✓

Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia ✓

Ozark Plateau, Missouri ✓

13. 1979 – A fire on the "Ghost Train" ride at which amusement park, kills seven people ?

Blackpool Pleasure Beach, UK ✓

Gardaland, Italy ✓

Knott's Berry Farm, USA ✓

Luna Park Sydney, Australia ✓

14. 1963 – Johnny Depp, American actor is born in which city ?

Clarksville, Tennessee ✓

Decatur, Illinois ✓

Owensboro, Kentucky ✓

Hickory, North Carolina ✓

15. What food is celebrated on this day, primarily in the USA ?

Lemon Drizzle Cake ✓

Rotisserie Chicken ✓

Blueberry Cheesecake ✓

Jellybeans ✓

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