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On This Day (March 2nd) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 2nd?
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Last updated: March 2, 2020
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1.
1127 – Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of where ?
Flanders
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Luxembourg
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Holstein
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Wessex
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2.
1657 – Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths; it lasted how long ?
Two Weeks
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Three Days
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Eight Days
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One Month
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3.
1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and what other denomination of banknote ?
Ten Shillings
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Five Pounds
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Ten Pounds
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Two Pounds
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4.
1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean near to which Royal residence ?
Buckingham Palace
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Balmoral Castle
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Osborne House
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Windsor Castle
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5.
1903 – The Martha Washington Hotel opens, the first hotel exclusively for women, in which city ?
New York
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Washington
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Chicago
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Los Angeles
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6.
1917 – The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants which people United States citizenship?
Native American
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Hawaiian
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Puerto Rican
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Alaskan
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7.
1933 – Which well known movie opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall ?
King Kong
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Duck Soup
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Sons of the Desert
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Alice in Wonderland
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8.
1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes what name ?
Pope John XIII
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Pope Pius XII
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Pope Benedict XV
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Pope Gregory XVI
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9.
1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress in Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute. What name was the plane given ?
Betty Boop
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Pretty Girl III
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Minnie Mooch
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Lucky Lady II
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10.
1970 – Which former nation declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown ?
Ceylon
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Swaziland
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Rhodesia
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British Honduras
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11.
1941 – World War II: German military units enter which country for the first time after it joins the Axis Pact ?
Bulgaria
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Croatia
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Romania
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Slovakia
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12.
1969 – The first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted from which city ?
Toulouse, France
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Bristol, UK
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Madrid, Spain
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London, UK
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13.
1458 – George of Poděbrady is chosen as the king of which Middle Age region ?
Galicia
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Bohemia
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Leinster
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Pomerania
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14.
1950 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer, one half of "The Carpenters" was born in which city ?
Richmond, Virginia
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Amarillo, Texas
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New Haven, Connecticut
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Fresno, California
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15.
1955 – Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of which of his relations ?
Father
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Son
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Grandson
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Nephew
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