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On This Day (March 5th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 5th?
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1. 1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to do what ?
Explore Unknown Lands
Collect Taxes
Trade Slaves
Execute Witches
2. 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" is added to the Index of Forbidden Books how many years after it was first published ?
14
51
73
104
3. 1824 – The United Kingdom officially declares war on which former country ?
Ceylon
Rhodesia
Burma
Sikh Empire
4. 1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait is opened and connects the UK mainland to which island?
Skye
Anglesey
Sheppey
Canvey
5. 1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of where ?
Italy
Naples
Sicily
Sardinia
6. 1872 – George Westinghouse patents which of his inventions ?
Rotary Steam Engine
Air Brake
Air Shock Absorber
Pneumatic Pump
7. 1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use what mode of transport for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines ?
Bi-Planes
Motorcycles
Airships
Bicycles
8. 1936 – First flight of K5054, the first prototype advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom, by what name is it better known ?
Supermarine Spitfire
Hawker Hurricane
Boulton Paul Defiant
Westland Whirlwind
9. 1946 – Winston Churchill coins which phrase in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri ?
Eastern Bloc
Iron Curtain
Cold War
Superpower
10. 1948 – Edmond Montague Grant, better known as Eddy Grant, singer-songwriter and musician was born in which country ?
Jamaica
Guyana
Trinidad and Tobago
Barbados
11. 1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at his Volynskoe dacha near which Russian city ?
St. Petersburg
Yekaterinburg
Moscow
Nizhny Novgorod
12. 1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in which city ?
Tupelo, Mississippi
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Camden, Tennessee
13. 1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world. Which company manufactured it ?
Acorn Computers
Sinclair Research
Amstrad
International Computers Ltd
14. 2012 – Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through which African country ?
Madagascar
Kenya
Mozambique
Tanzania
15. 1965 - A leftist uprising occurs against British Colonial Presence in which country?
Pakistan
Bahrain
Sri Lanka
Yemen
16. 2021 - Pope Francis begins a historic visit amidst the Covid-19 pandemic to which country?
Kazakhstan
Vietnam
Algeria
Iraq
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