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On This Day (February 22nd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 22nd ?
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1. 1371 – Robert II becomes King of which country ?
Scotland ✓
Denmark ✓
England ✓
Castille ✓
2. 1819 – Spain sells Florida to the United States for which amount ?
$10 million ✓
$15 million ✓
$5 million ✓
$2 million ✓
3. 1856 – The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in which city ?
Boston ✓
Pittsburgh ✓
Chicago ✓
St. Louis ✓
4. 1878 – Frank Woolworth opens the first of many five-and-dime Woolworth stores in which city in New York State?
Utica ✓
Syracuse ✓
Buffalo ✓
Schenectady ✓
5. 1907 - The first cabs fitted with taxi meters begin operating in which city ?
New York ✓
Paris ✓
Tokyo ✓
London ✓
6. 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to do what from the White House ?
Fly in a helicopter ✓
Rescue a turkey ✓
Deliver a radio address ✓
Command an army ✓
7. 1933 - Malcolm Campbell sets a new world land speed record driving his famous "Blue Bird" car at Daytona Beach, Florida, at just over what speed ?
198 mph ✓
272 mph ✓
301 mph ✓
243 mph ✓
8. 1959 – Lee Petty wins which NASCAR race that is held for the first time ever ?
Southern 500 ✓
Virginia 500 ✓
Nashville 500 ✓
Daytona 500 ✓
9. 1962 – Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host, a.k.a. "The Crocodile Hunter", was born in Essendon, a suburb of which Australian city ?
Perth ✓
Melbourne ✓
Sydney ✓
Hobart ✓
10. 1983 – The notorious Broadway flop "Moose Murders" opens and closes on the same night at which Broadway venue ?
Winter Garden Theatre ✓
Eugene O'Neill Theatre ✓
New Amsterdam Theatre ✓
Richard Rodgers Theatre ✓
11. 1997 – In Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland, British scientists announce that an adult sheep has been successfully cloned, what was its name ?
Poppy ✓
Dolly ✓
Annie ✓
Shaun ✓
12. 2011 – New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes which city, killing 185 people ?
Christchurch ✓
Auckland ✓
Dunedin ✓
Wellington ✓
13. 2015 – A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in which Asian river, killing 70 people ?
Indus River ✓
Irrawaddy River ✓
Padma River ✓
Godavari River ✓
14. 2018 – A man throws a grenade, and dies from a second explosion but injuring no-one else at the U.S embassy in which European capital city ?
Podgorica, Montenegro ✓
Sofia, Bulgaria ✓
Lisbon, Portugal ✓
Tirana, Albania ✓
15. 2018 - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak stirs up controversy by declaring he prefers what to the national dish of rice ?
Quinoa ✓
Potato ✓
Couscous ✓
Pasta ✓
16. 2006 - The UK's largest heist takes place at a Securitas depot in which county?
Cheshire ✓
Devon ✓
Kent ✓
Lincolnshire ✓
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