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On This Day (February 8th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 8th ?
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1. 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder who ?
Queen Elizabeth I ✓
King James VI ✓
King Rudolf II ✓
Pope Sixtus V ✓
2. 1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in which city ?
Delhi, India ✓
Karachi, Pakistan ✓
Sydney, Australia ✓
Durban, South Africa ✓
3. 1910 - William D. Boyce founds which US youth organisation?
Boy Scouts of America ✓
Luther League ✓
American Cadet Alliance ✓
American Youth Congress ✓
4. 1921 – Lana Turner, American actress is born in which city ?
Ritzville, Washington ✓
Great Falls, Montana ✓
Elko, Nevada ✓
Wallace, Idaho ✓
5. 1922 – United States President Warren G. Harding introduces the first what to the White House ?
Pet Cat ✓
Radio Set ✓
Central Heating System ✓
Draught Beer Pump ✓
6. 1924 – The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in which state ?
Nevada ✓
Texas ✓
Alabama ✓
North Dakota ✓
7. 1950 - The Stasi is established, it is the secret police organisation of which former country?
East Germany ✓
Soviet Union ✓
Yugoslavia ✓
Czechoslovakia ✓
8. 1969 - A meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in which Mexican state ?
Chihuahua ✓
Jalisco ✓
Baja California Sur ✓
Oaxaca ✓
9. 1971 – Which stock market index opens for the first time ?
Nikkei 225 ✓
FTSE 100 ✓
IBEX 35 ✓
NASDAQ Composite ✓
10. 1974 – The crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit the American space station, returns to Earth after how many days ?
96 ✓
84 ✓
72 ✓
57 ✓
11. 1978 - Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of which Middle Eastern country ?
Qatar ✓
Bahrain ✓
Kuwait ✓
Oman ✓
12. 1981 – 21 spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Greece, after a football match between AEK Athens F.C. and which other team ?
Panathinaikos ✓
Karaiskakis Arta ✓
Olympiacos ✓
Aris Thessaloniki ✓
13. 1992 - The Ulysses spacecraft passes which planet ?
Neptune ✓
Jupiter ✓
Saturn ✓
Uranus ✓
14. 1993 – GM sues which TV network after a programme allegedly rigs two crashes to demonstrate that some pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places ?
Fox ✓
NBC ✓
ABC ✓
CBS ✓
15. 2014 - A hotel fire kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims in which city?
Aleppo, Syria ✓
Jerusalem, Israel ✓
Khartoum, Sudan ✓
Medina, Saudi Arabia ✓
16. 2015 - Which country wins the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations football championship ?
Ivory Coast ✓
Niger ✓
Cameroon ✓
Egypt ✓
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