On This Day (October 21st) Multiple Choice

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1. 1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by which Pope ?

Marcellus II ✓

Adrian VI ✓

Urban VII ✓

Innocent III ✓

2. 1520 – João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. He calls them by what name ?

The Winswept Isles ✓

Islands of the 11,000 Virgins ✓

New Madeira ✓

Islands of Lost Souls ✓

3. 1774 – The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include which word ?

Liberty ✓

Freedom ✓

Equality ✓

Peace ✓

4. 1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to which war ?

Boer War ✓

Platine War ✓

Crimean War ✓

Second Anglo-Burmese War ✓

5. 1879 – Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for which invention ?

Kinetoscope ✓

Incandescent light bulb ✓

Carbon microphone ✓

Movie camera ✓

6. 1907 – The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of which two countries ?

Iran and Iraq ✓

China and Mongolia ✓

Chile and Argentina ✓

Uzbekistan and Tajikistan ✓

7. 1910 – HMS Niobe arrives in which harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy ?

Saint John ✓

Quebec City ✓

Halifax ✓

Vancouver ✓

8. 1940 – The first edition of which Ernest Hemingway novel is published ?

For Whom the Bell Tolls ✓

Green Hills of Africa ✓

The Torrents of Spring ✓

The Old Man and the Sea ✓

9. 1944 – World War II: Which city falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies ?

Bocholt ✓

Aachen ✓

Trier ✓

Baden-Baden ✓

10. 1945 – Women vote for the first time during the 1945 legislative election in which country ?

Spain ✓

Portugal ✓

France ✓

Ireland ✓

11. 1959 – In New York City, which museum opens to the public ?

The Museum of Modern Art ✓

American Museum of Natural History ✓

Solomon R. Guggenheim ✓

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum ✓

12. 1966 – A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in which region of the UK, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren ?

South Wales ✓

Scottish Borders ✓

East Anglia ✓

North Yorkshire ✓

13. 1986 – Pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy, in which Middle Eastern country ?

Jordan ✓

Syria ✓

Kuwait ✓

Lebanon ✓

14. 2005 – Images of which dwarf planet are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery ?

Makemake ✓

Eris ✓

Ceres ✓

Haumea ✓

15. 1953 – Eric Faulkner, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist is born. He is best known as a member of which Scottish band ?

Bay City Rollers ✓

Runrig ✓

Simple Minds ✓

Big Country ✓

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