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On This Day (February 24th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 24th ?
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1. 1386 – King Charles III of Naples is assassinated in which city ?
Constantinople ✓
Rome ✓
Sofia ✓
Buda ✓
2. 1525 – A Spanish-Austrian army defeats which country's army at the Battle of Pavia?f
Italy ✓
France ✓
England ✓
Egypt ✓
3. 1809 – Which London Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute ?
Globe ✓
Drury Lane ✓
Adelphi ✓
Lyceum ✓
4. 1831 – What is the name of the first removal treaty, forcing the Choctaws in Mississippi to cede land east of the river, in accordance with the Indian Removal Act ?
The Treaty of Grazing Horse Meadow ✓
The Treaty of Buffalo Hide Mountain ✓
The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek ✓
The Treaty of Rattlesnake Ridge ✓
5. 1854 – The first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution is released on this day. What was it called ?
Penny Red ✓
Penny Black ✓
Halfpenny Green ✓
Twopenny Blue ✓
6. 1875 – The SS Gothenburg sinks off the Australian coast, killing approximately 100 people, after hitting what ?
A Blue Whale ✓
The Great Barrier Reef ✓
Rottnest Island ✓
One of the Twelve Apostles Limestone Stacks ✓
7. 1916 – The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate patients with which complaint ?
Leprosy ✓
Typhoid ✓
Smallpox ✓
Tuberculosis ✓
8. 1920 – Nancy Astor became the first woman to do what in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ?
Vote ✓
Give Birth ✓
Get Arrested ✓
Make a Speech ✓
9. 1934 - High-ranking member of British intelligence Kim Philby weds communist Litzi Friedmann in which city ?
London, UK ✓
Madrid, Spain ✓
Istanbul, Turkey ✓
Vienna, Austria ✓
10. 1942 - Voice of America begins broadcasting in which language ?
English ✓
French ✓
German ✓
Spanish ✓
11. 1976 – The current constitution of which country is formally proclaimed ?
Jamaica ✓
St. Vincent and the Grenadines ✓
Cuba ✓
Haiti ✓
12. 1978 – A group of 5 people from which California city get lost in the Plumas National Forest of the Sierra Nevada ? (Four of their bodies are found in June of the same year, but one of them is still missing to this day)
Yuba City ✓
Chico ✓
Redding ✓
Merced ✓
13. 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa and offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of whom ?
Ronald Reagan ✓
Salman Rushdie ✓
Queen Elizabeth II ✓
Jerry Falwell ✓
14. 1989 – United Airlines Flight 811, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section en route to New Zealand from which city ?
Honolulu ✓
Los Angeles ✓
San Francisco ✓
New York ✓
15. 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after how many years ?
41 ✓
29 ✓
32 ✓
37 ✓
16. 2022 - Russian President, Vladimir Putin, orders a full-scale invasion of which country?
Ukraine ✓
Kazakhstan ✓
Belarus ✓
Georgia ✓
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