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On This Day (January 10th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 10th ?
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1. 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses which river, signalling the start of civil war.
Po ✓
Rubicon ✓
Adige ✓
Tevere ✓
2. 1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason in which famous former prison ?
Bastille, Paris ✓
Tower of London ✓
Spandau Prison ✓
Bodmin Jail ✓
3. 1810 – William Haines, English-Australian politician is born on this day in London, he would eventually become the 1st Premier of which Australian state ?
Queensland ✓
Tasmania ✓
Victoria ✓
New South Wales ✓
4. 1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from which city ?
Louisville ✓
Pittsburgh ✓
Cincinatti ✓
St.Louis ✓
5. 1870 Deputy sheriff Wyatt Earp weds Urilla Sutherland in which small Texas town ?
Mirando City ✓
Lamar ✓
Fort McKavett ✓
South Plains ✓
6. 1943 - The 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - Franklin D Roosevelt leaves for which city ?
Casablanca, Morocco ✓
Cape Town, South Africa ✓
Lisbon, Portugal ✓
Mexico City, Mexico ✓
7. 1945 – Rod Stewart, English singer-songwriter, is born in which British city ?
London ✓
Glasgow ✓
Manchester ✓
Belfast ✓
8. 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off what ?
The Moon ✓
Mount Hood ✓
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt aircraft carrier ✓
Boeing B-29 Superfortress ✓
9. 1949 - RCA introduces what speed of record ?
78 RPM ✓
16 RPM ✓
45 RPM ✓
33 RPM ✓
10. 1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into which sea, killing 35 people ?
Aegean Sea ✓
Red Sea ✓
Tyrrhenian Sea ✓
Irish Sea ✓
11. 1971 - Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in which Northern Irish city ?
Belfast ✓
Londonderry ✓
Armagh ✓
Coleraine ✓
12. 2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and a passenger coach near which Asian city kills at least 62 people ?
Chennai ✓
Tehran ✓
Dhaka ✓
Karachi ✓
13. 2015 - 72 people are killed & 169 hospitalized after a mass poisoning of beer with crocodile bile at a funeral in which African country ?
Lesotho ✓
Equatorial Guinea ✓
Madagascar ✓
Mozambique ✓
14. 2016 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, dies on this day in New York City. On which island were his ashes scattered ?
Zanzibar ✓
Bali ✓
Tahiti ✓
Manhattan ✓
15. Where is the 10th of January known as "Margaret Thatcher Day" ?
Grantham, UK ✓
United Kingdom as a whole ✓
Gibraltar ✓
Falkland Islands ✓
16. 2023 - Legendary Rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies on this day. Apart from his own Jeff Beck Group, with which band is he most associated ?
The Animals ✓
The Kinks ✓
The Yardbirds ✓
The Easybeats ✓
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