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On This Day (March 13th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 13th ?
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1. 874 – The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, in which city ?
Constantinople
Rome
Damascus
Athens
2. 1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel takes place, traditionally regarded as the start of which war?
Hundred Years War
Northern Seven Years' War
Eighty Years War
Long Turkish War
3. 1781 – William Herschel discovers which planet ?
Neptune
Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
4. 1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in which city ?
Leipzig
Vienna
Budapest
Salzburg
5. 1877 - American Chester Greenwood patents his invention that he designed at 15 years of age. What did he invent?
Folding Beach Chair
Earmuffs
Furniture Castor Wheels
Shoe Spats
6. 1881 - Alexander II of Russia is assassinated in St.Petersburg by what means ?
Shot
Stabbed
Bombed
Drowned
7. 1900 - In France the length of the working day for women and children is limited by law to how many hours ?
11
12
9
14
8. 1915 - Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes it for what ?
Watermelon
Golf Ball
Egg
Grapefruit
9. 1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach what in schools ?
Sex Ed
Evolution
Religion
Music
10. 1935 - What are introduced in Great Britain for the first time on this day ?
Driving Tests
Different Rates of Income Taxes
Beaver Colonies
War Bonds
11. 1943 - Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them where ?
In His House and Garden
In Nearby Forests
In His Factory
In Local Caves
12. 1955 - Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of which country ?
Nepal
Bhutan
Bahrain
Thailand
13. 1996 - A gunman kills sixteen primary school children and their teacher in which Scottish town?
Banff
Hawick
Dunblane
Portree
14. 2012 - 110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with what near Dhaka, Bangladesh ?
Dock Wall
Oil Tanker
Submarine
Shipping Container
15. 2013 - Aleqa Hammond’s Siumut party wins the parliamentary elections in which regional territory ?
Faroe Islands
Catalonia
Wales
Greenland
16. 2018 - US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired by President Donald Trump using what method ?
Face to Face
Tweet
Telephone
E-Mail
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