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On This Day (April 25th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 25th ?
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1. 799 – After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, which Pope flees to the Frankish court of King Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection ?
Pope Leo III
Pope Gregory III
Pope Sisinnius
Pope Theodore II
2. 1134 – Which city was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the _____ Bishopric around 1094 ?
Budapest
Barcelona
Zagreb
Tirana
3. 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person to be executed by what means ?
Firing Squad
Guillotine
Poison
Garrote
4. 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for which construction project ?
Channel Tunnel
Panama Canal
Mont Blanc Tunnel
Suez Canal
5. 1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require what ?
Drivers Licences
Voter Registration
Automobile License Plates.
Firearms Licences
6. 1940 – The flag of which island group is approved by the British occupation government ?
Faroe Islands
Malta
Falkland Islands
Canary Islands
7. 1945 – Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in which city ?
Geneva
Rio de Janiero
Odessa
San Francisco
8. 1954 – Bell Telephone Laboratories publicly demonstrates the first practical what ?
Wind Turbine
Solar Cell
Lithium Battery
Cell Phone
9. 1960 – Which United States Navy submarine completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe ?
USS Seadragon
USS Triton
USS Tullibee
USS Skate
10. 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about what ?
Nuclear War
Poverty
Communism
Human Rights
11. 1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond the orbit of which heavenly body ?
Jupiter
Neptune
Pluto
Uranus
12. 1990 – Violeta Chamorro becomes the first woman to take office as the President of which country ?
El Salvador
Costa Rica
Belize
Nicaragua
13. 2001 – Michele Alboreto is killed while testing which car at the Lausitzring in Germany ?
BMW i8
Audi R8
McLaren F1
Lamborghini Huracan
14. 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by which army in 1937 ?
Italian
German
British
French
15. 2005 – Which two countries sign accession treaties to join the European Union ?
Hungary and Slovakia
Romania and Poland
Bulgaria and Romania
Moldova and Albania
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