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On This Day (January 23rd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 23rd ?
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1. 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the death toll of which may have been as high as 830,000, hits which province in China ?
Jilin ✓
Shaanxi ✓
Hunan ✓
Zhejiang ✓
2. 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by the first recorded instance of which method ?
Firearm ✓
Lynching ✓
Suffocation ✓
Poison ✓
3. 1719 – Which Principality still in existance today was created within the Holy Roman Empire ?
Liechtenstein ✓
San Marino ✓
Monaco ✓
Luxembourg ✓
4. 1846 – Slavery is abolished in which African country ?
Morocco ✓
Egypt ✓
Tunisia ✓
Angola ✓
5. 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the United States' first woman to practice which profession ?
Dentist ✓
Doctor ✓
University Professor ✓
Optician ✓
6. 1951 – Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, American captain and pilot, famous for landing his airplane on the Hudson River, was born in which Texan city ?
Knox City ✓
Denison ✓
Marble Falls ✓
Marathon ✓
7. 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to what toy to the Wham-O toy company ?
Yo-yo ✓
Action Man / G.I.Joe ✓
Frisbee ✓
Lego ✓
8. 1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves which South American country ?
Colombia ✓
Venezuela ✓
Bolivia ✓
Peru ✓
9. 1960 - A Bathysphere, crewed by Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh, reaches the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It was named after which Italian city ?
Venice ✓
Trieste ✓
Naples ✓
Verona ✓
10. 1963 – Which African country's War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite ?
Equatorial Guinea ✓
Republic of Congo ✓
Togo ✓
Guinea-Bissau ✓
11. 1967 – Which English town is founded by an Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people ?
Milton Keynes ✓
Telford ✓
Warrington ✓
Peterborough ✓
12. 1983 - A radioactive Russian satellite falls into which Ocean ?
Pacific ✓
Arctic ✓
Indian ✓
Atlantic ✓
13. January 23rd is "Bounty Day" on which remote island ?
Tristan da Cunha ✓
Easter Island ✓
Pitcairn Island ✓
Spitsbergen ✓
14. 2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in which Chinese city, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China ?
Beijing ✓
Shanghai ✓
Nanning ✓
Dalian ✓
15. 2005 – Johnny Carson, American talk show host, television personality, and producer dies in which U.S. city ?
Los Angeles, California ✓
New York City, New York ✓
Fort Worth, Texas ✓
Boise, Idaho ✓
16. 2018 - The China - United States Trade War begins when President Trump places tariffs on Chinese made solar panels and which other commodity?
Wind Turbines ✓
Rice Wine ✓
Washing Machines ✓
Tyres ✓
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