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On This Day (March 1st) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 1st?
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1. 1565 – Which modern day "megacity" is founded ?
Rio de Janiero ✓
Chengdu ✓
Chennai ✓
Mexico City ✓
2. 1628 – Charles I of England mandated that every county in England pay which tax by this date?
Window Tax ✓
Bedroom Tax ✓
Ship Tax ✓
Tollgate Tax ✓
3. 1692 – Sarah Good is brought before local magistrates in a village in Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as what ?
Slave Revolts ✓
Salem Witch Trials ✓
Cotton Theft Trial ✓
First Serial Killers Trial ✓
4. 1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from which country ?
Mexico ✓
United Kingdom ✓
United States ✓
Spain ✓
5. 1845 – United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex which area ?
Puerto Rico ✓
Alaska ✓
Hawai'i ✓
Republic of Texas ✓
6. 1854 – German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg, Germany after how long?
Six Months ✓
Three Weeks ✓
Two Years ✓
A Decade ✓
7. 1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; The city of Lincoln becomes the state capital after having its name changed from what ?
York ✓
Lancaster ✓
Chester ✓
London ✓
8. 1870 – Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of which war ?
Bolivian War ✓
Uruguayan War ✓
Venezuelan War ✓
Paraguayan War ✓
9. 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train, killing 96 people, in which state?
Washington ✓
Oregon ✓
Idaho ✓
Montana ✓
10. 1946 – Which UK institution is nationalised ?
Great Western Railway ✓
Bank of England ✓
British Road Services ✓
British Broadcasting Corporation ✓
11. 1954 – Catherine Bach, American actress, best known for playing Daisy Duke in the Dukes of Hazzard is born in which city ?
Lexington, Kentucky ✓
Knoxville, Tennessee ✓
Rock Hill, South Carolina ✓
Warren, Ohio ✓
12. 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on which heavenly body becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface ?
Venus ✓
Mars ✓
Moon ✓
Mercury ✓
13. 1981 – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in which British prison ?
HMP Barlinnie, Glasgow ✓
HMP Strangeways, Manchester ✓
HMP Maze, Antrim ✓
HMP Frankland, Durham ✓
14. 2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article. What is it about ?
MoonJune Record Label ✓
Jordanhill Railway Station, Scotland ✓
Priscilla Wright (singer) ✓
Arabi Malayalam Writing System ✓
15. 2008 - Ten people are killed when Armenian police clash with a peaceful protest against what?
Fraudulent Presidential Elections ✓
Police Brutality ✓
High Inflation ✓
National Minimum Wage ✓
16. 2014 - 35 people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at which Chinese railway station?
Qujing ✓
Chengdu ✓
Kunming ✓
Yancheng ✓
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