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On This Day (April 7th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 7th ?
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1. 1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's "St John Passion", at St. Nicholas Church, in which city ?
Leipzig
Vienna
Budapest
Paris
2. 1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and which other country ?
France
United Kingdom
Spain
Portugal
3. 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the which river ?
Colorado
Missouri
Mississippi
Yukon
4. 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells for the first time an item he had invented the previous year, what was it ?
Incubator
Moisturising Cream
Headache Cure
Friction Match
5. 1906 – Which volcano erupts and devastates the nearby city ?
Mount Etna
Mount Asama
Mount Vesuvius
Mount Cameroon
6. 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be have which honour ?
Depicted on US postage stamp
Purple Heart
State Senator
Street named after him
7. 1946 – Which country's independence from France is officially recognised ?
Algeria
Mozambique
Mali
Syria
8. 1949 – Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards, was opened on Broadway ?
Oklahoma !
South Pacific
The King and I
Carousel
9. 1964 – What kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio ?
Semi-truck
Bulldozer
Motorcycle
School Bus
10. 1968 – Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at which circuit ?
Hockenheim
Spa
Imola
Monza
11. 1976 – Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party in the UK after being arrested on what charge ?
Libel
Theft of Party funds
Tax Fraud
Faking his own Death
12. 1989 – Soviet submarine "Komsomolets" sinks, killing 42 sailors, in which sea?
Kara Sea
Barents Sea
Baltic Sea
Norwegian Sea
13. 1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favour of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over what product ?
Tractors
Furniture
Bananas
Pharmaceuticals
14. 2009 – Mass protests begin across which country under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent ?
Moldova
Zimbabwe
Myanmar
Venezuela
15. 1964 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor is born in which city ?
Auckland
Sydney
Wellington
Perth
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