home
Menu
Create
Random
0
0
0
thumbnail

On This Day (January 16th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 16th ?
Why not try other days in the series...CLICK HERE
Quiz by toowise
Rate:
Last updated: January 14, 2024
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
More quiz info >>
First submittedJanuary 16, 2020
Times taken13
Average score56.3%
Report this quizReport
Quiz and answer stats >>
Friends stats >>
4:00
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals % of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
1. 1556 – Philip II becomes King of which European country ?
Denmark ✓
Sweden ✓
Spain ✓
Netherlands ✓
2. 1581 - English parliament passes laws against what religion ?
Catholicism ✓
Islam ✓
Judaism ✓
Buddhism ✓
3. 1862 – Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have what ?
First Aiders on site at all times ✓
At least two independent means of escape ✓
Rescue equipment on all levels underground ✓
Independant air supply pumped underground ✓
4. 1864 - Mary Ann Nichols weds printer's machinist William Nichols in London, England. Mary Ann would become famous as what ?
Mistress of a serving Prime Minister ✓
Owner of the largest brothel in London ✓
Possible first victim of Jack the Ripper ✓
Leader of many suffragettes protesting for the right to vote ✓
5. 1879 - January record of snow falls in New York City, (broken Jan 7, 1996), how deep was the snow ?
8 inches ✓
24 inches ✓
13 inches ✓
9 inches ✓
6. 1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to what ?
The Samoan Islands ✓
Tahiti ✓
Puerto Rico ✓
Aleutian Islands ✓
7. 1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in which city ?
Lisbon, Portugal ✓
London, England ✓
Rome, Italy ✓
Paris, France ✓
8. 1936 - 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in which US state ?
Georgia ✓
Florida ✓
Louisiana ✓
Alabama ✓
9. 1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress and comedian, dies as a consequence of what type of tragedy ?
Plane Crash ✓
Sinking Ship ✓
Car Crash ✓
Train Crash ✓
10. 1951 World's largest gas pipeline opens from Brownsville Texas, to which US city ?
Boston ✓
Chicago ✓
Detroit ✓
New York ✓
11. 1974 – Kate Moss, English model and fashion designer is born in which town in England ?
Croyden ✓
Leatherhead ✓
Barking ✓
Milton Keynes ✓
12. 1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to which African country ?
Ethiopia ✓
Egypt ✓
Somalia ✓
Libya ✓
13. 1980 which "Beatle" is arrested at Tokyo International Airport for possession of marijuana; he is sent to jail for nine days before being deported ?
John Lennon ✓
Paul McCartney ✓
George Harrison ✓
Ringo Starr ✓
14. Today is National Religious Freedom Day in which country ?
UK ✓
Australia ✓
New Zealand ✓
USA ✓
15. 2001 - US President Bill Clinton awards a posthumous Medal of Honor to which former President?
Theodore Roosevelt ✓
Abraham Lincoln ✓
Grover Cleveland ✓
Calvin Coolidge ✓
16. 2010 - Glen Bell dies in California at the age of 86. Of which fast-food chain was he the founder?
In-N-Out Burger ✓
Papa John's ✓
Taco Bell ✓
Dunkin' Donuts ✓
No comments yet
Save Your Progress

Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024

Contact Us | Go To Top | View Mobile Site