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On This Day (May 16th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 16th ?
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1. 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to where ?
England ✓
Wales ✓
France ✓
Ireland ✓
2. 1842 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from which state ?
Iowa ✓
Kansas ✓
Illinois ✓
Missouri ✓
3. 1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland on the first transatlantic flight, heading for where ?
Dublin, Ireland ✓
Lisbon, Portugal ✓
Glasgow, UK ✓
Casablanca, Morocco ✓
4. 1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes which historic person ?.
Marie Antoinette ✓
Cleopatra ✓
Joan of Arc ✓
William Shakespeare ✓
5. 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now JFK) in New York City and Heathrow in London, is operated by which airline ?
El Al Israel ✓
British Overseas (BOAC) ✓
Pan Am ✓
TWA ✓
6. 1959 – The Triton Fountain in which European Capital city is turned on for the first time ?
Budapest, Hungary ✓
Valletta, Malta ✓
Paris, France ✓
Oslo, Norway ✓
7. 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first what, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California ?
Optical Laser ✓
Electron Microscope ✓
MRI Scanner ✓
Digital Thermometer ✓
8. 1969 – Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on which heavenly body ?
The Moon ✓
Mars ✓
Mercury ✓
Venus ✓
9. 1974 – Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of which country ?
Romania ✓
Yugoslavia ✓
Albania ✓
Ukraine ✓
10. 1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States states that the addictive properties of what are similar to those of heroin and cocaine ?
Alcohol ✓
Gambling ✓
Sugar ✓
Nicotine ✓
11. 1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is the first British monarch to address which organisation ?
Red Crescent ✓
US Congress ✓
World Health Organisation ✓
Oxford University ✓
12. 2003 – In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in terrorist attacks in which city ?
Marrakesh ✓
Rabat ✓
Casablanca ✓
Tangier ✓
13. 2005 – Kuwait permits what in a 35–23 National Assembly vote ?
Voting for Women ✓
Allowing Women to Drive ✓
Homosexuality ✓
Immigrant Workers ✓
14. 1953 – Which actor that portrayed James Bond is born on this day ?
Daniel Craig ✓
Pierce Brosnan ✓
Roger Moore ✓
Sean Connery ✓
15. Today is marked in the US as National what day?
National Paper Airplane Day ✓
National Take Your Dog to Work Day ✓
National Quiet Day ✓
National BBQ Day ✓
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