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On This Day (March 16th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 16th ?
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1. 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant after the Fall of Montségur are killed in which manner?
Hung ✓
Burned ✓
Stabbed ✓
Drowned ✓
2. 1322 – The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in which conflict ?
Despenser Wars ✓
Wars of Scottish Independence‎ ✓
War of the Two Peters ✓
Wars of the Roses ✓
3. 1818 – In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated soldiers of which nationality ?
Bolivian ✓
Guatamalan ✓
Chilean ✓
Argentinian ✓
4. 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at which venue ?
Wembley Stadium ✓
Highfield Stadium ✓
Stamford Bridge Stadium ✓
The Oval ✓
5. 1924 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy. Fiume is now in Croatia and known as what ?
Rijeka ✓
Porec ✓
Zadar ✓
Dubrovnik ✓
6. 1926 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, in which US city ?
Glocester, Rhode Island ✓
Tolland, Connecticut ✓
Auburn, Massachusetts ✓
Nashua, New Hampshire ✓
7. 1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of which Treaty ?
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ✓
Treaty of Versailles ✓
Treaty of Lausanne ✓
Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine ✓
8. 1940 – First person killed (James Isbister) in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on which area ?
Plymouth, Devon ✓
Thames Estuary ✓
Glasgow Docks ✓
Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands ✓
9. 1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding. What model was it ?
Fairlane ✓
Ranchero ✓
Thunderbird ✓
Skyliner ✓
10. 1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, what model is it ?
Oldsmobile Toronado ✓
Chevrolet Corvair ✓
Holden Monaro ✓
Pontiac Firebird ✓
11. 1978 – The Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time, off the coast of where ?
Brittany ✓
Cornwall ✓
British Columbia ✓
Donegal ✓
12. 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists in which city ?
Damascus, Syria ✓
Beirut, Lebanon ✓
Ankara, Turkey ✓
Muscat, Oman ✓
13. 1991 – An airplane crashes on the side of Otay Mountain, California carrying eight members of which country singers band ?
Johnny Cash ✓
Trisha Yearwood ✓
Merle Haggard ✓
Reba McEntire ✓
14. 1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery after how many years ?
72 ✓
130 ✓
106 ✓
173 ✓
15. 2003 – American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah, Palestine trying to obstruct what ?
Israeli Soldiers ✓
Truck Movements ✓
Demolition of a Home ✓
Felling of Trees ✓
16. 2010 - The Kasubi Tombs are destroyed by fire. They are the only World Heritage Site of which country?
Uganda ✓
Kyrgyzstan ✓
Panama ✓
Tonga ✓
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