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On This Day (February 27th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 27th ?
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1. 425 – Which city's university is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia?
Constantinople ✓
Rome ✓
Damascus ✓
Athens ✓
2. 1557 - Which country opens an Embassy in London for the first time ?
Russia ✓
France ✓
Spain ✓
China ✓
3. 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland, to expel people from which race from Scotland ?
English ✓
Irish ✓
French ✓
Viking ✓
4. 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in which UK county ?
Lancashire ✓
Nottinghamshire ✓
Yorkshire ✓
Northamptonshire ✓
5. 1813 - US Congress authorizes the use of which form of transport to deliver mail ?
Covered Wagons ✓
Rail ✓
Steamboats ✓
Kayaks ✓
6. 1874 - Baseball is played in England for the first time at which sports facility ?
Wimbledon Tennis Club ✓
Lord's Cricket Ground ✓
Aintree Racecourse ✓
Stamford Bridge Football Ground ✓
7. 1900 – Which German football (Soccer) club is founded on this day ?
Borussia Dortmund ✓
Bayer Leverkusen ✓
FC Kaiserslautern ✓
Bayern Munich ✓
8. 1916 – Ocean liner SS Maloja struck a mine and sank with the loss of 155 lives near which English port ?
Portsmouth ✓
Dover ✓
Plymouth ✓
Ramsgate ✓
9. 1930 - Which island is declared a Norwegian dependency ?
Svalbard ✓
Jan Mayen Island ✓
Bouvet Island ✓
Peter I Island ✓
10. 1963 – Which island nation receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo ?
Dominican Republic ✓
Jamaica ✓
Grenada ✓
St. Lucia ✓
11. 1964 – The Government of Italy asks for help to protect which iconic building ?
Colosseum of Rome ✓
Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice ✓
Milan Cathedral ✓
Leaning Tower of Pisa ✓
12. 1971 – Sara Blakely, American billionaire businesswoman, is born on this day. She is the founder of which clothing company ?
Victoria's Secret ✓
Guess ✓
North Face ✓
Spanx ✓
13. 2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at which London Airport ?
Heathrow ✓
Stansted ✓
Gatwick ✓
Southend ✓
14. 2004 – Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding which event?
Mass Suicide attempt in Niigata ✓
Poisoning the water source in Kumamoto ✓
Tokyo Subway Sarin attack ✓
Bomb attack on Okayama bus station ✓
15. 2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims. The quake triggered a tsunami that struck where shortly after ?
Hawai'i ✓
Easter Island ✓
Galapagos Islands ✓
New Zealand ✓
16. 2015 -Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated whilst out walking with his girlfriend in which city?
Irkutsk ✓
Moscow ✓
Nizhy Novgorod ✓
St. Petersburg ✓
Gassu
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Level 70
Feb 27, 2020
BAAAAYEEEERN!
toowise
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Level 78
Feb 27, 2020
Haha, happy to oblige Gassu !
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