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On This Day (April 8th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 8th ?
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1. 1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in which city, is dedicated ?
New York City ✓
London ✓
Buenos Aires ✓
Cairo ✓
2. 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on which Aegean island ?
Kos ✓
Santorini ✓
Milos ✓
Mykonos ✓
3. 1904 – Longacre Square in Manhattan is renamed what ?
Union Square ✓
Times Square ✓
Madison Square ✓
Lincoln Square ✓
4. 1906 – Auguste Deter dies, he was the first person to be diagnosed with which disease ?
Alzheimer's Disease ✓
Lyme Disease ✓
Legionnaires' Disease ✓
Meningococcal Disease ✓
5. 1911 – Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers what ?
Hafnium ✓
Cosmic Rays. ✓
Blood Platelets ✓
Superconductivity ✓
6. 1918 – Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell what on the streets of New York City's financial district ?
Tickets to their latest films ✓
Shares in a Theatre Company ✓
War Bonds ✓
Old Clothes ✓
7. 1924 – Sharia courts are abolished as part of reforms by the new leader in which country ?
Turkey ✓
Indonesia ✓
Lebanon ✓
Jordan ✓
8. 1950 – India and which other country sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact ?
Bangladesh ✓
Pakistan ✓
China ✓
Tibet ✓
9. 1952 – In an attempt to avert a workers strike, U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic what ?
Flour Mills ✓
Lumber Yards ✓
Transport Companies ✓
Steel Mills ✓
10. 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over which city ?
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan ✓
Moncton, New Brunswick ✓
Sudbury, Ontario ✓
Kamloops, British Columbia ✓
11. 1975 – In his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager Frank Robinson manages which team ?
Milwaukee Brewers ✓
Baltimore Orioles ✓
Cleveland Indians ✓
San Diego Padres ✓
12. 2006 – The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Ontario. The murders are linked to which motorcycle club ?
Sons of Silence ✓
Bandidos Motorcycle Club ✓
Hells Angels ✓
Outlaws Motorcycle Club ✓
13. 2008 – The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in which country ?
Bahrain ✓
United Arab Emirates ✓
Taiwan ✓
United States ✓
14. 1953 - Jomo Kenyatta is convicted of involvement with the Mau Mau rebellion and sentenced to how many years in a Kenyan jail ?
Two ✓
Twelve ✓
Four ✓
Seven ✓
15. 1983 - In front of a live audience of 20 tourists, David Copperfield makes which landmark disappear ?
Mount Rushmore ✓
Statue of Liberty ✓
Lincoln Memorial ✓
Liberty Bell ✓
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