On This Day (March 5th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait is opened and connects the UK mainland to which island? Anglesey
67%
2021 - Pope Francis begins a historic visit amidst the Covid-19 pandemic to which country? Iraq
67%
1946 – Winston Churchill coins which phrase in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri ? Iron Curtain
67%
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 ? Sinclair Research
67%
1872 – George Westinghouse patents which of his inventions ? Air Brake
33%
1824 – The United Kingdom officially declares war on which former country ? Burma
33%
1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to do what ? Explore Unknown Lands
33%
2012 – Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through which African country ? Madagascar
33%
1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at his Volynskoe dacha near which Russian city ? Moscow
33%
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
33%
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 ? 73
0%
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 ? Airships
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1965 - A leftist uprising occurs against British Colonial Presence in which country? Bahrain
0%
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 ? Camden, Tennessee
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1948 – Edmond Montague Grant, better known as Eddy Grant, singer-songwriter and musician was born in which country ? Guyana
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1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of where ? Sardinia
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