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On This Day (December 30th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on December 30th?
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1. 999 – The combined forces of Munster and Meath inflict a crushing defeat on the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin in what is now which Irish county ?
County Mayo
County Longford
County Sligo
County Kildare
2. 1460 – Wars of the Roses: Lancastrians kill the 3rd Duke of York and win which battle ?
Battle of Worksop
Battle of Wakefield
Battle of Blore Heath
Battle of Tewkesbury
3. 1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest. The majority of the land is in which state ?
Arizona
California
Texas
New Mexico
4. 1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in which city ?
Singapore
Manila
Jakarta
Madrid
5. 1905 – Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell in which US state ?
Idaho
Montana
Wyoming
Nevada
6. 1916 – Russian mystic and advisor to Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. Where was his body found ?
In a forest outside St. Petersburg
Murmansk harbour
In a Moscow river
On the shores of Lake Baikal
7. 1916 – The last coronation in which country is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita ?
Bulgaria
Hungary
Turkey
Romania
8. 1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in which city ?
Hong Kong
Delhi
Beijing
Tokyo
9. 1935 – The Italian Air Force bombs a Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. Which nation operated the hospital ?
Sweden
United Kingdom
Switzerland
United States
10. 1952 – An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashes on which island after an engine failure ?
Cyprus
Ascension
Malta
Madeira
11. 1993 – Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with which nation ?
Italy
Ireland
Pakistan
Panama
12. 2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in which city kills 194 ?
Rio de Janiero
Barcelona
Buenos Aires
Mexico City
13. 2006 – Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed. It is the 2nd largest airport in Europe after which other facility ?
Paris - Charles de Gaulle
London - Heathrow
Amsterdam - Schipol
Rome - Fiumcino
14. 2009 – A suicide bomber kills nine people at Camp Chapman, a key facility of the CIA in which country ?
Iraq
Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
15. 2017 – In a bid to reduce accidents Nepal bans solo climbers, double amputees and climbers with which other disability from scaling its mountains ?
Deaf
Epilepsy
Blind
Heart disease
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