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On This Day (March 10th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 10th ?
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1.
298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into which city ?
Cairo
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Rome
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Athens
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Carthage
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2.
1526 - Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, marries Princess Isabella of Portugal, his 1st cousin, in which city ?
Porto
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Nice
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Seville
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Venice
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3.
1535 - Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers which island group ?
Galapagos Islands
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The Azores
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Svalbard
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Seychelles
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4.
1762 - French Huguenot, Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after suffering what ?
Pneumonia
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Run over by a Horse
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Typhoid
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Torture by Authorities
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5.
1801 - First official census in Great Britain, revealing a population of approximately how many people ?
7 million
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10 million
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12 million
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15 million
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6.
1804 – In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from which country to the United States ?
France
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Spain
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United Kingdom
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Netherlands
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7.
1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to do what ?
Lift a Boat over Obstructions
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Produce Barbed Wire
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Keep Wine Chilled
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Brand Cattle Painlessly
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1876 - First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says what to his assistant Thomas Watson ?
"Hello, Hello, Can you hear me ?"
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"Sorry, wrong number"
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"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you"
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"Can you bring my lunch Watson"
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9.
1939 - Seventeen villages in the Hyderabad area of India are damaged by what ?
Mudslides
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Hailstones
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Rampaging Elephants
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Political Unrest
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1951 - FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines the post of commissioner for which sport ?
Ice Hockey
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Basketball
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Football
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Baseball
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11.
1977 – Astronomers discover the rings of which planet ?
Saturn
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Uranus
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Jupiter
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Neptune
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12.
1982 - The United States places an embargo on which country's petroleum imports due to their support of terrorist groups ?
Libya
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Venezuela
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Iran
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Iraq
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13.
1987 - Which country announces a formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer ?
Ireland
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Mexico
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Vatican City
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China
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14.
1988 - An avalanche at the Swiss ski resort of Klosters almost kills which member of the British Royal Family ?
Princess Anne
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Prince Andrew
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Prince Charles
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Prince Philip
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15.
1997 - "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" starring Sarah Michelle Geller premieres on which television network ?
NBC
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Warner Bros. Television
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BBC
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Fox
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16.
2023 - Which bank collapses after a run on it's deposits ?
Silicon Valley Bank
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Atlantic Union Bank
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First Hawaiian Bank
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Webster bank
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