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On This Day (March 12th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 12th ?
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1. 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to which Italian city ?
Ravenna ✓
Ancona ✓
Como ✓
Udine ✓
2. 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of which religious order are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church ?
Congregation of the Feuillants ✓
Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God ✓
Society of Jesus ✓
Order of Friars Minor Capuchin ✓
3. 1773 - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable founds a settlement now known as what ?
Toronto ✓
Miami ✓
New Orleans ✓
Chicago ✓
4. 1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in which city ?
Jefferson City, Missouri ✓
Dothan, Alabama ✓
Vicksburg, Mississippi ✓
Zanesville, Ohio ✓
5. 1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg had held this status for how many years ?
189 ✓
215 ✓
320 ✓
96 ✓
6. 1928 – The St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people in which State ?
California ✓
Montana ✓
Maine ✓
Colorado ✓
7. 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins a 200-mile march to the sea to protest against what ?
British rule in Ceylon ✓
British monopoly on Salt ✓
Price of cut tea ✓
Fish Quotas ✓
8. 1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of what ?
Influenza Virus ✓
Anti-Semitism ✓
Reality TV ✓
Communism ✓
9. 1950 – The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when their aircraft crashes in South Wales. At the time the world's deadliest air disaster. What type of airplane crashed ?
De Havilland Dove ✓
Vickers Viscount ✓
Avro Tudor V ✓
Handley Page Hermes ✓
10. 1967 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of which Asian country ?
Malaysia ✓
Indonesia ✓
Mongolia ✓
Bhutan ✓
11. 1968 – Which island nation achieves independence from the United Kingdom ?
Mauritius ✓
Sri Lanka ✓
Bahamas ✓
Fiji ✓
12. 1969 – Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist, founder member of Britpop band Blur, is born in which country ?
United Kingdom ✓
Ireland ✓
Germany ✓
Denmark ✓
13. 1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join which organisation ?
NATO ✓
European Union ✓
United Nations ✓
Eurovision ✓
14. 2003 – The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of which virus ?
Avian Flu ✓
Swine Flu ✓
SARS ✓
Spanish Flu ✓
15. 2009 – Which financier pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history ?
Allen Stanford ✓
Bernard Madoff ✓
Ivan Boesky ✓
Jordan Belfort ✓
16. 2020 - Due to Covid-19 the United States suspends travel from which continent?
Europe ✓
Oceania ✓
Asia ✓
Africa ✓
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