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On This Day (January 31st) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on January 31st ?
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1. 1606 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot is executed by what means ?
Hung, Drawn and Quartered ✓
Beheading ✓
Stoning ✓
Burned at the Stake ✓
2. 1747 – The first clinic for the treatment of what condition opens at London Lock Hospital ?
Insanity ✓
Jaundice ✓
Venereal Diseases ✓
Leprosy ✓
3. 1863 - The first black Civil War regiment, known as what are mustered into the US army ?
North Carolina Volunteers ✓
South Carolina Volunteers ✓
Georgia Free Volunteers ✓
Alabama Volunteers ✓
4. 1874 - Whose gang robs a train at Gads Hill, Missouri ?
Billy the Kid ✓
Butch Cassidy ✓
Jesse James ✓
Doc Holliday ✓
5. 1915 – In World War I, Germany is the first to make large-scale use of what in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia ?
Tanks ✓
Airplanes ✓
Poison Gas ✓
Trenches ✓
6. 1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in which Scottish city during a campaign for shorter working hours ?
Glasgow ✓
Edinburgh ✓
Dundee ✓
Stirling ✓
7. 1928 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to which Asian city ?.
Tashkent ✓
Alma-Ata (Almaty) ✓
Irkutsk ✓
Vladivostok ✓
8. 1950 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop what ?
Spy Satellites ✓
Hydrogen Bombs ✓
Nuclear Submarines ✓
Stealth Bombers ✓
9. 1956 - Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of which South American country ?
Brazil ✓
Argentina ✓
Chile ✓
Paraguay ✓
10. 1968 – Which Pacific nation gains independence from Australia ?
Palau ✓
Kiribati ✓
Nauru ✓
Vanuatu ✓
11. 1971 – Which Apollo mission with Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, lifts off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon ?
Apollo 14 ✓
Apollo 15 ✓
Apollo 12 ✓
Apollo 16 ✓
12. 1981 – Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor is born in which city ?
Memphis ✓
Phoenix ✓
Denver ✓
Miami ✓
13. 1990 - What opens in Moscow, Soviet Union for the first time ?
KFC ✓
Burger King ✓
Pizza Hut ✓
McDonalds ✓
14. 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in the capital of which Asian country, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400 ?
Bangladesh ✓
Sri Lanka ✓
Afghanistan ✓
Iraq ✓
15. 2020 – The United Kingdom's membership of the European Union ceases in accordance with Article 50 after how many years of being a member state ?
42 ✓
38 ✓
51 ✓
47 ✓
16. 2023 - The last ever Boeing 747 is delivered to Atlas Air. How many 747s were built including the prototype?
2,038 ✓
1,574 ✓
747 ✓
7,470 ✓
nichster
+1
Level 55
Jan 31, 2020
Congratulations on one month of this. Let's hope for 11 more!
toowise
+1
Level 78
Jan 31, 2020
Thanks Nichster, I'm still enthusiastic, alls looking well for the year at the moment ......posted on day 31 of 366
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