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On This Day (February 26th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 26th ?
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1. 1606 – The Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of which island ?
New Guinea ✓
Java ✓
Borneo ✓
Sumatra ✓
2. 1616 - The Roman Inquisition delivers an injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in what ?
The Earth being round rather than flat ✓
The existance of other moons on other planets ✓
That all things fall at the same acceleration rate ✓
The Earth orbiting the Sun ✓
3. 1863 - Abraham Lincoln signs an Act, establishing a single national what ?
Postage Rate ✓
Telegraph Service ✓
Currency ✓
Cost per Mile of Rail Travel ✓
4. 1881 - P&O's SS Ceylon sails from Liverpool to begins the world's first pleasure cruise to do what ?
Sail around the World ✓
Sail to Australia and New Zealand ✓
Sail across the Atlantic ✓
Sail to Antarctica ✓
5. 1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at which London Theatre ?
Apollo Theatre ✓
Alhambra Theatre ✓
Palace Theatre ✓
New Gaiety Theatre ✓
6. 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing which US National Park.?
Crater Lake ✓
Grand Canyon ✓
Carlsbad Caverns ✓
Zion ✓
7. 1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry, UK, which leads directly to the development of what ?
RADAR ✓
Spitfire Aircraft ✓
Land Mines ✓
Bouncing Bombs ✓
8. 1947 – Sandie Shaw, English singer was born in Essex on this day, apart from her music, how was her act memorable ?
Flamboyant dresses ✓
Performing with bare feet ✓
Bald Head ✓
Running around the stage ✓
9. 1952 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own what ?
Gold Mine ✓
Atomic Bomb ✓
Oil and Gas Fields ✓
Supersonic Aircraft ✓
10. 1975 - What type of transplant operation is televised for the first time ?
Liver ✓
Heart ✓
Lung ✓
Kidney ✓
11. 1980 – Egypt and which other country establish full diplomatic relations ?
Syria ✓
Libya ✓
Jordan ✓
Israel ✓
12. 1995 – The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses how much ?
$500 million ✓
$1.4 billion ✓
$4.5 billion ✓
$750 million ✓
13. 1997 – David Doyle, American actor dies of a heart attack at 67. For which role is he most famous ?
Alfred in "Batman and Robin" ✓
Bosley in "Charlies Angels" ✓
Higgins in "Magnum P.I." ✓
Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in "The Dukes of Hazzard" ✓
14. 2008 – The New York Philharmonic performs in which Asian city for the first time ?
Phnom Penh ✓
Vladivostok ✓
Pyongyang ✓
Manila ✓
15. 2013 – A hot air balloon crashes, killing 19 people, near which African city ?
Luxor, Egypt ✓
Windhoek, Namibia ✓
Mombasa, Kenya ✓
Casablanca, Morocco ✓
16. 2021 - 279 female students are kidnapped by bandits in which African country?
Burkina Faso ✓
Nigeria ✓
Angola ✓
Central African Republic ✓
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