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On This Day (March 11th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 11th ?
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1. 222 – Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with which of his relations, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt ?
His Son ✓
His Mother ✓
His Daughter ✓
His Cousin ✓
2. 1702 – England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time. What was it called ?
Oxford Gazette ✓
Berrow's Worcester Journal ✓
Stamford Mercury ✓
The Daily Courant ✓
3. 1787 - Naval officer Horatio Nelson weds Frances Nisbet at the Montpelier Estate on which Caribbean island ?
Nevis ✓
Barbuda ✓
Anguilla ✓
Grand Cayman ✓
4. 1869 - The West first learns of which creature via French missionary Armand David who receives a skin from a hunter ?
Platypus ✓
Anaconda ✓
Manatee ✓
Giant Panda ✓
5. 1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery begins, located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain, in which regional area?
South Wales ✓
Yorkshire ✓
East Midlands ✓
Potteries ✓
6. 1927 – Samuel Lionel Rothafel opens which theatre in New York City?
Times Square Theatre ✓
Roxy Theatre ✓
Palace Theatre ✓
Lyceum Theatre ✓
7. 1941 – World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs which Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan ?
Provisions Act ✓
Supplies Act ✓
Allied Help Act ✓
Lend-Lease Act ✓
8. 1945 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in which island group ?
Caroline Islands ✓
Northern Mariana Islands ✓
Gilbert Islands ✓
Shortland Islands ✓
9. 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of which German concentration camp, is captured by British troops ?
Dachau ✓
Auschwitz ✓
Buchenwald ✓
Sachsenhausen ✓
10. 1978 – Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack a bus in which country ?
Yemen ✓
Egypt ✓
Syria ✓
Israel ✓
11. 1986 - Today marks 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st, in which year ?
753 BC ✓
625 BC ✓
1025 BC ✓
567 BC ✓
12. 1990 – Which country declares itself independent from the Soviet Union ?
Lithuania ✓
Kazakhstan ✓
Georgia ✓
Tajikistan ✓
13. 1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female to hold which government post ?
Secretary of the Treasury ✓
Ambassador to the United Nations ✓
Attorney General ✓
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives ✓
14. 2011 – Which Japanese nuclear power station was destroyed by a tsunami that also killed thousands of people?
Takahama ✓
Fukoshima ✓
Sendai ✓
Ashihama ✓
15. 2013 - Falkland Islands’ sovereignty referendum: What percentage of residents choose to remain an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom ?
95.2% ✓
89.9% ✓
99.8% ✓
78.4% ✓
16. 2021 - US President Joe Biden signs into law the American Rescue Package following which event?
War in Afghanistan ✓
Collapse of various banks ✓
Hurricane Elsa ✓
Covid-19 pandemic ✓
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