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On This Day (March 4th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 4th ?
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1.
1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first what of England ?
Astronomer Royal
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Poet Laureate
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Witchfinder General
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Lord Protector
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1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become what ?
Connecticut
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Massachusetts
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Maryland
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Pennsylvania
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3.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of which city ?
Savannah
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Boston
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Charleston
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Pensacola
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4.
1790 – France is divided into how many départements?
83
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65
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97
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104
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1791 – The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons which envisages the separation of which country into Upper and Lower regions ?
India
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Pakistan
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Canada
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Australia
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6.
1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in which colony ?
Ceylon
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Ireland
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New Zealand
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New South Wales
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1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in the east of which city ?
London
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Manchester
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Birmingham
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Leeds
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8.
1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, killing around 300 people with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to how far inland ?
2 km (1.24 mi)
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1 km (0.62 mi)
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5 km (3.10 mi)
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7 km (4.34 mi)
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1958 – Patricia Heaton, American comedy actress, known for "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The Middle" is born in Bay Village on the shores of which lake ?
Lake Michigan
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Lake Erie
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Lake Huron
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Lake Superior
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1960 – The French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in which city, killing 100 ?
Marseille, France
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Havana, Cuba
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Durban, South Africa
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Perth, Australia
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11.
1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is more popular than who ?
Jesus
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Elvis
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God
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The Queen
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12.
1977 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500 people, mostly in which city ?
Tirana, Albania
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Bucharest, Romania
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Patras, Greece
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13.
1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of which heavenly body ?
Ganymede
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Mercury
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Halley's Comet
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Kuiper Belt
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14.
2012 – A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump, killing at least 250 people in which African city ?
Khartoum
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Dar es Salaam
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Abuja
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Brazzaville
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15.
2018 – Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in which English city ?
Salisbury
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Lincoln
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York
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Exeter
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2020 - Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to tightrope walk over the Masaya Volcano in which country?
Iceland
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Nicaragua
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United States
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Philippines
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