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On This Day (March 6th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 6th ?
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1.
1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over which King who loses control of Normandy ?
King Henry of Flanders
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King John of England
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King Valdemar II of Denmark
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King Alfonso VIII of Castile
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1521 – Ferdinand Magellan is known to arrive at which island ?
Guam
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Hawai'i
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Ascension
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Falkland Islands
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3.
1646 - Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America from the General Court of Massachusetts for what invention ?
Waterwheel
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Scythe
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Cattle Corral
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Type of Saddle
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1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found what ?
Empire Outpost
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Religious Hermitage
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Convict Settlement.
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Mining Village
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5.
1834 – York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as which modern day city ?
Montreal
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Toronto
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Ottawa
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Winnepeg
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1836 - After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, how many Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are killed ?
187
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525
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1006
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729
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1899 – The Bayer company registers which product as a trademark ?
Alka Seltzer
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Rennie
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Canesten
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Aspirin
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1921 - Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear what ?
Headscarfs
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Full body bathing costumes
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Long Sleeve tops
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Skirts below the knee
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1945 – World War II: Which German city is captured by American troops ?
Hannover
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Cologne
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Stuttgart
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Bonn
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10.
1957 – Which nation becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the UK ?
Ghana
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Nigeria
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Botswana
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Zambia
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11.
1967 - Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva approaches the US Embassy and asks for political asylum in which city ?
New Delhi
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Tokyo
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Berlin
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Vienna
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12.
1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193 after leaving which port ?
Dover
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Ramsgate
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Zeebrugge
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Ostend
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1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in which British Overseas Territory ?
Akrotiri
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Hong Kong
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Bermuda
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Gibraltar
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14.
1992 - One of the earliest computer viruses begins to affect computers. It is named after which artist?
William Turner
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Henri Matisse
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Michelangelo
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Sandro Botticelli
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15.
1997 - Which of Picasso's paintings is stolen from a London gallery, and then recovered a week later ?
The Old Guitarist
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Tête de Femme
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The Weeping Woman
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Harlequin
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2018 - World's oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula how many years previously ?
132
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76
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104
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59
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