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On This Day (March 6th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 6th ?
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1. 1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over which King who loses control of Normandy ?
King Henry of Flanders
King John of England
King Valdemar II of Denmark
King Alfonso VIII of Castile
2. 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan is known to arrive at which island ?
Guam
Hawai'i
Ascension
Falkland Islands
3. 1646 - Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America from the General Court of Massachusetts for what invention ?
Waterwheel
Scythe
Cattle Corral
Type of Saddle
4. 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found what ?
Empire Outpost
Religious Hermitage
Convict Settlement.
Mining Village
5. 1834 – York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as which modern day city ?
Montreal
Toronto
Ottawa
Winnepeg
6. 1836 - After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, how many Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are killed ?
187
525
1006
729
7. 1899 – The Bayer company registers which product as a trademark ?
Alka Seltzer
Rennie
Canesten
Aspirin
8. 1921 - Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear what ?
Headscarfs
Full body bathing costumes
Long Sleeve tops
Skirts below the knee
9. 1945 – World War II: Which German city is captured by American troops ?
Hannover
Cologne
Stuttgart
Bonn
10. 1957 – Which nation becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the UK ?
Ghana
Nigeria
Botswana
Zambia
11. 1967 - Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva approaches the US Embassy and asks for political asylum in which city ?
New Delhi
Tokyo
Berlin
Vienna
12. 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193 after leaving which port ?
Dover
Ramsgate
Zeebrugge
Ostend
13. 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in which British Overseas Territory ?
Akrotiri
Hong Kong
Bermuda
Gibraltar
14. 1992 - One of the earliest computer viruses begins to affect computers. It is named after which artist?
William Turner
Henri Matisse
Michelangelo
Sandro Botticelli
15. 1997 - Which of Picasso's paintings is stolen from a London gallery, and then recovered a week later ?
The Old Guitarist
Tête de Femme
The Weeping Woman
Harlequin
16. 2018 - World's oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula how many years previously ?
132
76
104
59
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