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On This Day (February 13th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 13th?
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1. 1542 – Which wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery ?
Catherine Howard ✓
Catherine of Aragon ✓
Catherine Parr ✓
Anne Boleyn ✓
2. 1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in which city for his trial before the Inquisition ?
Naples ✓
Madrid ✓
Marseille ✓
Rome ✓
3. 1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: Around 80 people from which clan are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange ?
MacGregor ✓
MacDonald ✓
MacDougall ✓
MacQuarrie ✓
4. 1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying the primary river and creating the modern central boulevards in which city ?
Brussels ✓
Buenos Aires ✓
Johannesburg ✓
Canberra ✓
5. 1931 – Which institution completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi ?
The Indian Railway Headquarters ✓
Indian National Congress Political Party ✓
The British Raj ✓
Indian Red Cross Society ✓
6. 1938 - Oliver Reed, English actor known for his upper-middle class, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle was born in which part of London ?
Richmond ✓
Wembley ✓
Wimbledon ✓
Dulwich Village ✓
7. 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to which German city to conduct a massive aerial bombardment ?
Hannover ✓
Dresden ✓
Berlin ✓
Leipzig ✓
8. 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", which country becomes the fourth nation to possess nuclear weapons ?
France ✓
Pakistan ✓
India ✓
China ✓
9. 1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, that appears to encase what item ?
Sharks Tooth ✓
Peach Stone ✓
Teaspoon ✓
Spark Plug ✓
10. 1978 – A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman, in which Australian city ?
Sydney ✓
Brisbane ✓
Cairns ✓
Perth ✓
11. 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in which US city ?
Birmingham, Alabama ✓
Wichita, Kansas ✓
Bangor, Maine ✓
Louisville, Kentucky ✓
12. 2001 – An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale kills at least 944 people in which country ?
New Zealand ✓
El Salvador ✓
Italy ✓
Chile ✓
13. 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest which animal ?
Elk ✓
Bison ✓
Coyote ✓
Mountain Lion ✓
14. 2012 - The European Space Agency conducts the first launch of the Vega Rocket from a spaceport in which region?
French Guiana ✓
Lapland ✓
Scottish Highlands ✓
Canary Islands ✓
15. 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, is assassinated at which airport ?
Pyongyang Sunan International Airport ✓
Osaka Kansai International Airport ✓
Seoul Incheon International Airport ✓
Kuala Lumpur International Airport ✓
16. 2021 - A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in which US state?
Washington ✓
Florida ✓
Texas ✓
Tennessee ✓
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