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On This Day (April 12th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 12th ?
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1. 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of which city ?
Canterbury ✓
York ✓
Rome ✓
Paris ✓
2. 1012 – Duke Oldřich of Bohemia deposes and does what to his brother Jaromír who then flees to Poland ?
Blinds him ✓
Tries to Imprison him ✓
Leaves him Penniless ✓
Orders his Death ✓
3. 1204 – The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls and enter which city ?
Rome ✓
Carthage ✓
Athens ✓
Constantinople ✓
4. 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and what other country's ships ?
Wales ✓
Scotland ✓
Ireland ✓
Malta ✓
5. 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow whos rule over Greece ?
Serbia ✓
Italy ✓
Ottoman Empire ✓
Egypt ✓
6. 1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in England, cause it to collapse. In which city ?
Manchester ✓
Liverpool ✓
Birmingham ✓
Bristol ✓
7. 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes which South African region ?
Cape Province ✓
Transvaal ✓
KwaZulu-Natal ✓
Gauteng ✓
8. 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle tests what for the first time in Rugby, England ?
Helicopter ✓
Hovercraft ✓
Wind Turbine ✓
Jet Engine ✓
9. 1955 – A vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective against which disease ?
Polio ✓
Smallpox ✓
Tubercolosis ✓
Measles ✓
10. 1961 – The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, aboard which spacecraft ?
Rodnik 2 ✓
Elektro B ✓
Vostok 1 ✓
Kosmos 4 ✓
11. 1963 – The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in which body of water ?
Gulf of Finland ✓
Norwegian Sea ✓
Bay of Biscay ✓
Danish Straits ✓
12. 1983 – Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of which city ?
New Orleans ✓
Chicago ✓
Las Vegas ✓
Denver ✓
13. 1992 – Which theme park has its official opening today ?
Disneyland Paris ✓
Epcot ✓
Universal Studios Japan ✓
Legoland Windsor ✓
14. 2009 – Which country officially abandons its own currency ?
North Korea ✓
Liechtenstein ✓
Zimbabwe ✓
Suriname ✓
15. 1947 – Alex Briley, American disco singer, and member of the Village People was born today, which character did he portray in the band ?
Cowboy ✓
The G.I. ✓
Cop ✓
Indian Chief ✓
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