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On This Day (March 3rd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 3rd ?
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1. 1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in which Italian city ?
Vicenza ✓
Venice ✓
Verona ✓
Viterbo ✓
2. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins which Battle?
Battle of Valcour Island ✓
Battle of the Chesapeake ✓
Battle of Nassau ✓
Battle of Sullivan's Island ✓
3. 1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on which country ?
Afghanistan ✓
China ✓
Nepal ✓
Japan ✓
4. 1873 – The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send what through the mail ?
Firearms and Ammunition ✓
Live Animals ✓
Poisonous Substances ✓
Obscene Publications ✓
5. 1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in which French city ?
Paris ✓
Nice ✓
Lyon ✓
Bordeaux ✓
6. 1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of which sport is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ?
Curling ✓
Tennis ✓
Ice Hockey ✓
Archery ✓
7. 1923 – Which well known magazine is published for the first time ?
Cosmopolitan ✓
Time ✓
Harper's Bazaar ✓
The Economist ✓
8. 1934 - John Dillinger breaks out of jail using what ?
File Baked in a Cake ✓
Home Made Explosive ✓
Wooden Pistol ✓
Rope made from Sheets ✓
9. 1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper "Flamman" in which city ?
Luleå, Sweden. ✓
Vaasa, Finland ✓
Drammen, Norway ✓
Jelgava, Latvia ✓
10. 1943 – World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at which tube station ?
Chancery Lane ✓
Elephant & Castle ✓
Golders Green ✓
Bethnal Green ✓
11. 1975 - Linda McCartney is charged in the United States with what ?
Non Payment of Taxes ✓
Assault ✓
Drink Driving ✓
Possession of Marijuana ✓
12. 1985 - "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis premieres on which US TV service ?
NBC ✓
ABC ✓
Fox ✓
CBS ✓
13. 1990 - Carole Gist (20) is the first African American to become what ?
Ambassador to Russia ✓
State Senator ✓
Miss USA ✓
Captain of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleading Team ✓
14. 1992 - US President George H. W. Bush apologizes for what ?
Raising Taxes ✓
Gulf War ✓
US Slave Trade ✓
Homelessness ✓
15. 2017 - Which gaming console is released worldwide?
Playstation 4 ✓
Wii U ✓
Xbox One ✓
Nintendo Switch ✓
16. 2018 – Sir Roger Bannister, English athlete, and the first man to run a sub four-minute mile dies of Parkinson's Disease in which British town ?
Cambridge ✓
Oxford ✓
Aberdeen ✓
Aberystwyth ✓
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