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On This Day (April 16th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 16th ?
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1. 1346 – Stefan Dušan is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, How was he known ?
The Mighty ✓
The Great ✓
The Benevolent ✓
The Invincible ✓
2. 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, in which country ?
Mexico ✓
Colombia ✓
Argentina ✓
Cuba ✓
3. 1746 – Which battle is fought in Scotland between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by the Duke of Cumberland ?
Battle of Bannockburn ✓
Battle of Culloden ✓
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh ✓
Battle of Ancrum Moor ✓
4. 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the which river ?
Danube ✓
Volga ✓
Rhine ✓
Jordan ✓
5. 1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, establishing what ?.
Border with Mexico ✓
Rates of Taxes ✓
Diplomatic Relations with Russia ✓
Border with Canada ✓
6. 1853 – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane, now part of which city ?
Mumbai ✓
Delhi ✓
Kolkatta ✓
Chennai ✓
7. 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in which state ?
Colorado ✓
Nevada ✓
Wyoming ✓
Utah ✓
8. 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across which body of water ?
North Sea ✓
English Channel ✓
Lake Superior ✓
Gulf of Mexico ✓
9. 1917 – Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in which country ?
Sweden ✓
India ✓
Switzerland ✓
Japan ✓
10. 1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C better known as what ?
Monowitz ✓
Colditz ✓
Molsdorf ✓
Königstein ✓
11. 1992 – The "Katina P" runs aground spilling 60,000 tons of crude oil into the ocean of the coast of which African city ?
Maputo, Mozambique ✓
Mombasa, Kenya ✓
Luanda, Angola ✓
Conakry, Guinea ✓
12. 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting how many new member states into the European Union ?
Five ✓
Seven ✓
Ten ✓
Three ✓
13. 1972 – Apollo program: The launch of which mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida takes place on this day ?
Apollo 13 ✓
Apollo 15 ✓
Apollo 17 ✓
Apollo 16 ✓
14. 1963 – Which of the Osmond family was born this day ?
Jimmy ✓
Donny ✓
Marie ✓
Merrill ✓
15. 1780 – Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of where ?
Salzburg ✓
Munster ✓
Basel ✓
Luxembourg ✓
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