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On This Day (February 20th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 20th ?
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1. 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of what ?
A Dowry ✓
Import / Export Taxes ✓
Reparation Costs ✓
Safe Passage ✓
2. 1673 - First recorded auction of which commodity is held in London ?
Oil Paintings ✓
Wine ✓
Property ✓
Slaves ✓
3. 1816 – Which of Rossini's operas premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome ?
William Tell ✓
La Cenerentola ✓
The Barber of Seville ✓
Otello ✓
4. 1872 – Which museum in New York opens its doors for the first time ?
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ✓
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ✓
Museum of the City of New York ✓
American Museum of Natural History ✓
5. 1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of which capital city ?
Ankara ✓
New Delhi ✓
Gaberone ✓
Canberra ✓
6. 1927 – Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat is born in which city ?
Nassau ✓
Tokyo ✓
Havana ✓
Miami ✓
7. 1927 - Golfers in South Carolina are arrested for what reason ?
Dangerous Shots ✓
Theft from Clubhouse ✓
Trespassing ✓
Violating the Sabbath ✓
8. 1931 – The U.S. Congress approves the construction of which bridge ?
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge ✓
Golden Gate Bridge ✓
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel ✓
George Washington Bridge ✓
9. 1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in which part of the world ?
Galapagos Islands ✓
Antarctica ✓
Vatican City ✓
Great Barrier Reef ✓
10. 1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to do what ?
Use production teams to make information films ✓
Include war messages in cinemas ✓
Take cameramen to the front line ✓
Censor movies ✓
11. 1947 - A chemical mixing error causes an explosion that destroys 42 blocks in which US city ?
Los Angeles ✓
San Francisco ✓
Houston ✓
Detroit ✓
12. 1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in what time ?
4 hours 55 minutes ✓
12 hours 35 minutes ✓
6 hours 10 minutes ✓
26 hours 20 minutes ✓
13. 1998 - "Kung Fu" actor David Carradine weds actress Marina Benjamin on the back lot of which movie studio ?
Warner Brothers ✓
Universal Pictures ✓
Columbia Pictures ✓
20th Century Studios ✓
14. 2003 - During a rock concert in Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets fire to the club killing 100 people. Which rock band were playing?
KISS ✓
Great White ✓
Red Hot Chili Peppers ✓
Green Day ✓
15. 2010 – Heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of which island ?
Corsica ✓
Montserrat ✓
Madeira ✓
Fiji ✓
16. 2013 - Which country becomes the first to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars ?
Switzerland ✓
New Zealand ✓
Estonia ✓
Norway ✓
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