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On This Day (February 23rd) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 23rd ?
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1.
1739 – At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former what ?
Wife
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School Teacher
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Employer
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Doctor
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1836 – Texas Revolution: The Siege of the Alamo (prelude to the Battle of the Alamo) begins in which Texan city ?
San Antonio
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Dallas
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Houston
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Amarillo
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1874 - Major Walter Clopton Winfield patents a game called "Sphairistike" , nowadays known as what ?
Badminton
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Lawn Tennis
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Croquet
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Crown Green Bowls
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4.
1886 - "The Times" of London publishes the world's first what ?
Classified ad
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Horoscope
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Strip Cartoon
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Photograph
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5.
1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of which metal from the electrolysis of it's oxide ?
Mercury
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Copper
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Magnesium
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Aluminium
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6.
1887 – Which European holiday region is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000 ?
Amalfi Coast
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French Riviera
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Costa Brava
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Algarve
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7.
1904 - The United States acquires control of which area for $10 million ?
Guantanamo Bay
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Northern Mariana Islands
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Panama Canal Zone
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Wake Island
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1905 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form which service club ?
Lions Club
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Round Table
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Rotary Club
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Kiwanis
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9.
1923 - Great Britain lowers import duty from 26% to 5% on products from which country ?
Germany
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United States
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Australia
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France
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10.
1934 – Leopold III becomes King of which European nation ?
Belgium
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Luxembourg
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Denmark
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Sweden
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11.
1940 - Which of Walt Disney's animated movies is released on this day ?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Bambi
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Pinocchio
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Lady and the Tramp
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12.
1941 – Which element is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg ?
Uranium
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Plutonium
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Neptunium
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Helium
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13.
1954 – The first mass inoculation of children with the Salk vaccine against which disease begins in Pittsburgh ?
Polio
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Smallpox
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Tetanus
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Rubella
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2008 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on which island, marking the first operational loss of a B-2 ?
Iceland
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Hawai'i
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Sardinia
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Guam
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2010 – Unknown criminals pour more than 21⁄2 million litres of what, into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, creating an environmental disaster ?
Milk
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Acid
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Diesel Oil
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Formaldehyde
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2021 - Four simultaneous prison riots leave 79 dead in which country?
Ecuador
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Angola
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Laos
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Albania
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