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On This Day (March 5th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 5th?
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1.
1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to do what ?
Explore Unknown Lands.
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Collect Taxes
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Trade Slaves
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Execute Witches
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2.
1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" is added to the Index of Forbidden Books how many years after it was first published ?
14
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51
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73
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104
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3.
1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait is opened and connects which island to the UK mainland ?
Skye
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Anglesey
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Sheppey
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Canvey
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4.
1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of where ?
Italy
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Naples
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Sicily
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Sardinia
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5.
1872 – George Westinghouse patents which of his inventions ?
Rotary Steam Engine
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Air Brake
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Air Shock Absorber
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Pneumatic Pump
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6.
1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use what mode of transport for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines ?
Bi-Planes
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Motorcycles
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Airships
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Bicycles
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7.
1936 – First flight of K5054, the first prototype advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom, by what name is it better known ?
Supermarine Spitfire
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Hawker Hurricane
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Boulton Paul Defiant
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Westland Whirlwind
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8.
1946 – Winston Churchill coins which phrase in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri ?
Eastern Bloc
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Iron Curtain
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Cold War
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Superpower
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9.
1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at his Volynskoe dacha near which Russian city ?
St. Petersburg
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Yekaterinburg
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Moscow
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Nizhny Novgorod
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10.
1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world. Which company manufactured it ?
Acorn Computers
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Sinclair Research
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Amstrad
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International Computers Ltd
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11.
2012 – Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through which African country ?
Madagascar
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Kenya
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Mozambique
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Tanzania
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12.
1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in which city ?
Tupelo, Mississippi
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky
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Camden, Tennessee
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13.
1948 – Edmond Montague Grant, better known as Eddy Grant, singer-songwriter and musician was born in which village ?
Ocho Rios, Jamaica
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Plaisance, Guyana
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Arima, Trinidad and Tobago
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Davy Hill, Montserrat
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14.
Today is St Piran's Day, the "national" day of which English county ?
Cornwall
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Devon
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Kent
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Cheshire
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15.
1824 – The United Kingdom officially declares war on which former country ?
Ceylon
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Rhodesia
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Burma
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Sikh Empire
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