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On This Day (May 11th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 11th ?
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1. 912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of which empire ?
Kanem Empire ✓
Byzantine Empire ✓
First Bulgarian Empire ✓
Khmer Empire ✓
2. 1792 – Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into which river ?
Columbia River ✓
Amazon River ✓
Congo River ✓
Mekong River ✓
3. 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of which building ?
Ritz Hotel ✓
Westminster Abbey ✓
Globe Theatre ✓
House of Commons ✓
4. 1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across which mountain range ?
Andes, Bolivia ✓
Blue Mountains, Australia ✓
Southern Alps, New Zealand ✓
Ural Mountains, Russia ✓
5. 1833 – The "Lady of the Lake" strikes an iceberg and sinks with the loss of 265 people off the coast of which landmass ?
Newfoundland ✓
Greenland ✓
Iceland ✓
Svalbard ✓
6. 1846 – President James K. Polk asked for a Declaration of War against which country ?
United Kingdom ✓
France ✓
Spain ✓
Mexico ✓
7. 1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes which National Park ?
Bryce Canyon, Utah ✓
Glacier, Montana ✓
Crater Lake, Oregon ✓
Mesa Verde, Colorado ✓
8. 1960 – Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by which intelligence service ?
CIA ✓
MI-5 ✓
Mossad ✓
KGB ✓
9. 1985 – Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a stadium fire at which UK football club ?
Bradford City ✓
Bristol Rovers ✓
Queens Park Rangers ✓
Crewe Alexandra ✓
10. 1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in which city for war crimes committed during World War II ?
The Hague ✓
Lyon ✓
Nuremburg ✓
Prague ✓
11. 2014 – Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by what ?
Lions Entering the Stadium ✓
Sniper Firing Shots ✓
Fire Breaking Out ✓
Tear Gas Thrown by Police ✓
12. 1997 – Deep Blue becomes the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. Who did it beat ?
Garry Kasparov ✓
Anatoly Karpov ✓
Vladimir Kramnik ✓
Teimour Radjabov ✓
13. 1941 – Eric Burdon, English musician is born, he is best known for which band ?
Led Zeppelin ✓
The Animals ✓
The Kinks ✓
Moody Blues ✓
14. 2001 – Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter dies on this day. What was his best known work ?
Discworld ✓
The Hunger Games ✓
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ✓
Foundation Series ✓
15. Today is celebrated as what in New Zealand ?
National Porridge Day ✓
National Kiwi Fruit Day ✓
National Sausage Day ✓
National Chocolate Fish Day ✓
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