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On This Day (April 2nd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 2nd ?
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1. 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in which city ?
Vienna, Austria
Budapest, Hungary
Salzburg, Austria
Munich, Germany
2. 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in which St. Petersburg building ?
Winter Palace
St. Isaac's Cathedral
Mariinsky Palace
St. Michael's Castle
3. 1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands. It was known to the Argentinians as Operation ...what ?
Malvinas
Rosario
Ganso
Morsa
4. 1979 – A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases what disease ?
Tubercolosis
Smallpox
Foot and Mouth
Anthrax
5. 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a what ?
Adulterer
Communist
Traitor
Bigamist
6. 2015 – Four men steal items worth up to £200 million from an underground safe deposit facility in which area of London ?
Hatton Garden
Heathrow
Knightsbridge
Fitzrovia
7. 999 - Gerbert of Aurillac elected as the first French what ?
President
Prime Minister
Pope
Ambassador to England
8. 1902 - "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in which city ?
New York
Chicago
Miami
Los Angeles
9. 1827 - US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing what ?
Lead Pencils
Screws
Jigsaws
Mittens
10. 1905 - A long distance railway opens between which two cities ?
Moscow and Vladivostok
Madrid and Munich
Cairo and Capetown
New York and San Francisco
11. 1932 - Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for which kidnapped relative ?
Daughter
Son
Wife
Brother
12. 1965 - Rodney King, African American motorist beaten by LA cops, was born in which city ?
Sacramento
San Diego
Los Angeles
San Francisco
13. 1972 - New York Mets manager Gil Hodges collapses just minutes after completing a round of golf in West Palm Beach, Florida, and dies of what condition ?
Heart Attack
Pneumonia
Liver Failure
Brain Tumour
14. 1986 - Four US passengers are killed by a bomb at a TWA counter in which airport ?
Gatwick Airport, UK
Schipol Airport, Amsterdam
Athens Airport, Greece
Orly Airport, Paris
15. 2011 - Grammy Awarded singer Michael Buble weds actress-model Luisana Lopilato at the Villa Maria Paz private mansion near which city ?
Cancun, Mexico
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Havana, Cuba
Alicante, Spain
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