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On This Day (January 30th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 30th ?
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1. 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for how long ?
One month
Eight months
Five years
Two years
2. 1804 - Scottish explorer Mungo Park leaves England seeking the source of which river ?
Congo
Niger
Nile
Limpopo
3. 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connects which island to the rest of mainland UK ?
Anglesey
Skye
Sheppey
Walney
4. 1847 – Yerba Buena is renamed as which city in California ?
Sacramento
San Diego
San Francisco
Los Angeles
5. 1858 - Charles Hallé founds the Hallé Orchestra in which English city ?
Manchester
Leeds
Birmingham
Norwich
6. 1883 - The England cricket team is presented with The Ashes after the Sydney Test Match, but the ashes of what?
Bat
Bails
Ball
Wickets
7. 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane passenger rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from where ?
Kingston, Jamaica
Havana, Cuba
Nassau, Bahamas
Hamilton, Bermuda
8. 1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor and author is born in which US city ?
Miami, Florida
Houston, Texas
San Bernardino, California
Seattle, Washington
9. 1934 - Actor and comedian Lou Costello marries burlesque dancer Anne Battler, how many children did they eventually have ?
1
3
4
2
10. 1965 - The State funeral of Winston Churchill takes place at which London Landmark ?
St.Pauls Cathedral
Westminster Abbey
Tower of London
Houses of Parliament
11. 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance takes place on the roof of Apple Records in which city ?
New York
Hamburg
Liverpool
London
12. 1973 - Which rock band play their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens, NY ?
The Ramones
Aerosmith
New York Dolls
Kiss
13. 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called what ?
Elk Cloner
Moose Dropper
Reindeer Rider
Antelope Aid
14. 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes what ?
North Korea
Same Sex Marriage
Marijuana Use
Abortion
15. 2013 - Naro-1, the first carrier rocket, is launched by which country?
Sri Lanka
Argentina
Morocco
South Korea
16. 2019 - Peter Paul Rubens’s 1608 drawing "Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms" sells for how much at auction in New York ?
$1.6 million
$12.9 million
$8.2 million
$3.3 million
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