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On This Day (February 7th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 7th ?
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1. 1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later king Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of which region ?
Wales ✓
Wessex ✓
Sussex ✓
Northumberland ✓
2. 1497 – In Florence, Italy, supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn art, books, and what other items in a "Bonfire of the Vanities" ?
Wigs ✓
Masks ✓
Sheet Music ✓
Cosmetics ✓
3. 1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves which city after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar ?
Manila ✓
Singapore ✓
Rangoon ✓
Jakarta ✓
4. 1900 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to the first incidence of which disease in the continental United States ?
Typhoid ✓
Bubonic Plague ✓
Yellow Fever ✓
Ebola ✓
5. 1900 – Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of which South African town?
Mafeking ✓
Ladysmith ✓
Durban ✓
East London ✓
6. 1922 – Hattie Jacques, English actress, was born on this day, for which movie franchise is she best known ?
James Bond ✓
Hammer Horror ✓
Pink Panther ✓
Carry On ✓
7. 1962 – The United States bans all imports and exports from which country ?
USSR ✓
China ✓
Cuba ✓
Venezuela ✓
8. 1965 - Beatle George Harrison undergoes which operation ?
Vasectomy ✓
Tonsillectomy ✓
Appendectomy ✓
Cataract Surgery ✓
9. 1974 – Which country gains independence from the United Kingdom ?
Grenada ✓
Bahamas ✓
Antigua and Barbuda ✓
Trinidad and Tobago ✓
10. 1979 – Which two planets orbits cross for the first time since either was discovered ?
Neptune and Uranus ✓
Uranus and Saturn ✓
Saturn and Jupiter ✓
Pluto and Neptune ✓
11. 1979 – Josef Mengele, German SS officer and physician a.k.a. "The Angel of Death" dies in Sao Paolo by what means?
Run over by a truck ✓
Shot by Muggers ✓
Drowns whilst suffering a stroke ✓
Executed by Mossad agents ✓
12. 1991 – The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launched a mortar attack on which building ?
Houses of Parliament ✓
Buckingham Palace ✓
10 Downing Street ✓
Windsor Castle ✓
13. 1992 – Which Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union ?
The Lisbon Treaty ✓
The Maastricht Treaty ✓
The Treaty of Rome ✓
The Amsterdam Treaty ✓
14. 1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in which city ?
Islamabad, Pakistan ✓
Baghdad, Iraq ✓
Kabul, Afghanistan ✓
Damascus, Syria ✓
15. 2009 - Bushfires in which state leave 173 dead in the worst disaster in Australian history?
Victoria ✓
Queensland ✓
New South Wales ✓
Western Australia ✓
16. 2014 - Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints date back more than 800,000 years, the oldest known outside Africa. Where were they found?
Bavaria, Germany ✓
Irkutsk, Russia ✓
Norfolk, UK ✓
Gujarat, India ✓
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