On This Day (November 27th) Multiple Choice

1. 511 – King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve. Lutetia is now known as which French city ?

2. 1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church is laid in which city ?

3. 1835 – James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for which crime in England ?

4. 1856 – The Coup of 1856 leads to which nation's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution ?

5. 1868 – Battle of Washita River: U S Army Lieutenant Colonel George Custer leads an attack on Native Americans from which tribe that are living on reservation land ?

6. 1942 – World War II: The French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands in which port ?

7. 1945 – CARE was founded to a send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II. What does the acronym CARE stand for ?

8. 1962 – Charlie Benante, American drummer and songwriter is born. He is best known as the drummer in which thrash metal band ?

9. 1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball. What other sport did she participate in ?

10. 1971 – The Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars. Which nation built it ?

11. 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after he had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings across England. Whic book was he a co-founder of ?

12. 1978 – City mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White in which city ?

13. 1989 – A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. Which organisation claimed responsibility ?

14. 2001 – An atmosphere of which gas is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet ?

15. 2009 – A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and which other city ?