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On This Day (April 13th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 13th ?
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1. 1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" makes its world-premiere in which city ?
Hannover, Germany ✓
Vienna, Austria ✓
Dublin, Ireland ✓
Paris, France ✓
2. 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and do what else ?
Sit in Parliament ✓
Establish Churches ✓
Establish Faith Schools ✓
Become Police Officers ✓
3. 1870 – Which New York City museum is founded on this day ?
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ✓
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ✓
The Morgan Library & Museum ✓
New York Transit Museum ✓
4. 1873 – The Colfax massacre takes place, in which more than 60 men of what ethnicity are murdered ?
Black ✓
Chinese ✓
Jewish ✓
Native American ✓
5. 1941 – A Pact of neutrality is signed between the USSR and which other country ?
China ✓
Finland ✓
Poland ✓
Japan ✓
6. 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches Project MKUltra, it is designed with what objective ?
Establishing Spy Networks ✓
Mind Control ✓
Hiding Secret Weapons ✓
Inventing Spy Gadgets ✓
7. 1958 – American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in which city ?
Budapest ✓
Montreal ✓
Moscow ✓
Cairo ✓
8. 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for which1963 film ?
Lilies of the Field ✓
How the West Was Won ✓
Tom Jones ✓
The L-Shaped Room ✓
9. 1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first what ?
Spy Satelitte ✓
Monorail System ✓
Aircraft Black Box Device ✓
Satellite Navigation System. ✓
10. 1976 – Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in which country ?
Kenya ✓
Finland ✓
Laos ✓
El Salvador ✓
11. 1987 – Portugal and China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in which year ?
1999 ✓
2000 ✓
2001 ✓
1998 ✓
12. 1997 – Which golfer becomes the youngest to win the Masters Tournament ?
Jose Maria Olazabal ✓
Jesper Parnevik ✓
Tiger Woods ✓
Mark O'Meara ✓
13. 2017 – The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on which of Afghanistan's provinces ?
Kandahar ✓
Nangarhar ✓
Helmand ✓
Badakhshan ✓
14. Today is a memorial day in Slovakia, What is it called ?
Struggle for Human Rights Day ✓
Day of the Victims of Holocaust ✓
Birth of Ľudovít Štúr Day ✓
Unfairly Prosecuted Persons Day ✓
15. 1992 - Which World Leader announces he will seek divorce from his wife ?
Nelson Mandela, South Africa ✓
Turgut Özal, Turkey ✓
François Mitterrand, France ✓
Paul Keating, Australia ✓
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