On This Day (March 4th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 4th ?

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1. 1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first what of England ?

Astronomer Royal ✓

Poet Laureate ✓

Witchfinder General ✓

Lord Protector ✓

2. 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become what ?

Connecticut ✓

Massachusetts ✓

Maryland ✓

Pennsylvania ✓

3. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of which city ?

Savannah ✓

Boston ✓

Charleston ✓

Pensacola ✓

4. 1790 – France is divided into how many départements?

83 ✓

65 ✓

97 ✓

104 ✓

5. 1791 – The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons which envisages the separation of which country into Upper and Lower regions ?

India ✓

Pakistan ✓

Canada ✓

Australia ✓

6. 1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in which colony ?

Ceylon ✓

Ireland ✓

New Zealand ✓

New South Wales ✓

7. 1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in the east of which city ?

London ✓

Manchester ✓

Birmingham ✓

Leeds ✓

8. 1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, killing around 300 people with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to how far inland ?

2 km (1.24 mi) ✓

1 km (0.62 mi) ✓

5 km (3.10 mi) ✓

7 km (4.34 mi) ✓

9. 1958 – Patricia Heaton, American comedy actress, known for "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The Middle" is born in Bay Village on the shores of which lake ?

Lake Michigan ✓

Lake Erie ✓

Lake Huron ✓

Lake Superior ✓

10. 1960 – The French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in which city, killing 100 ?

Marseille, France ✓

Havana, Cuba ✓

Durban, South Africa ✓

Perth, Australia ✓

11. 1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is more popular than who ?

Jesus ✓

Elvis ✓

God ✓

The Queen ✓

12. 1977 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500 people, mostly in which city ?

Tirana, Albania ✓

Varna, Bulgaria ✓

Bucharest, Romania ✓

Patras, Greece ✓

13. 1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of which heavenly body ?

Ganymede ✓

Mercury ✓

Halley's Comet ✓

Kuiper Belt ✓

14. 2012 – A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump, killing at least 250 people in which African city ?

Khartoum ✓

Dar es Salaam ✓

Abuja ✓

Brazzaville ✓

15. 2018 – Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in which English city ?

Salisbury ✓

Lincoln ✓

York ✓

Exeter ✓

16. 2020 - Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to tightrope walk over the Masaya Volcano in which country?

Iceland ✓

Nicaragua ✓

United States ✓

Philippines ✓

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