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On This Day (April 27th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 27th ?
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1. 711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula by landing at which place ?
Gibraltar ✓
Punta Camarinal ✓
Isla de las Palomas ✓
Punta de Calaburras ✓
2. 1521 – Which explorer is killed by natives led by chief Lapu-Lapu in the Philippines ?
Martin Frobisher ✓
Juan Sebastián Elcano ✓
Ferdinand Magellan ✓
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés ✓
3. 1667 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for how much ?
£1 ✓
£100 ✓
£50 ✓
£10 ✓
4. 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in the village of Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as what ?
Shepherd ✓
German Soldier ✓
Truck Driver ✓
Old Woman ✓
5. 1953 – The US offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. Known as which operation ?
Operation Wolf ✓
Operation Pony Tail ✓
Operation Humble ✓
Operation Moolah ✓
6. 1960 – Which African country gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship ?
Togo ✓
Senegal ✓
Chad ✓
Gabon ✓
7. 1967 – Expo 67 officially opens with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world, in which city ?
Los Angeles, USA ✓
Madrid, Spain ✓
Montreal, Canada ✓
Tokyo, Japan ✓
8. 1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected as what in the UK ?
Leader of the House of Lords ✓
Speaker of the House of Commons ✓
Chancellor of the Exchequer ✓
Head of MI5 ✓
9. 1961 – Which country is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister ?
Sri Lanka ✓
Solomon Islands ✓
Barbados ✓
Sierra Leone ✓
10. 2005 – Which aircraft had its maiden test flight ?
Airbus A380 ✓
Boeing KC-767 ✓
Dassault Falcon 7X ✓
Bell 429 GlobalRanger ✓
11. 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower in which city ?
London ✓
Chicago ✓
New York ✓
Johannesburg ✓
12. 2018 – The Panmunjom Declaration is signed by which two countries ?
France and Spain ✓
North Korea and South Korea ✓
South Africa and Zimbabwe ✓
Chile and Argentina ✓
13. 2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of which city ?
Jerusalem ✓
Tel Aviv ✓
Haifa ✓
Cairo ✓
14. 1923 – Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, is born today, she was the first female chief of which native American tribe ?
Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma ✓
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe ✓
Seminole Tribe of Florida ✓
Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming ✓
15. 1993 – All members of the which national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal ?
Zimbabwe ✓
Tanzania ✓
Madagascar ✓
Zambia ✓
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