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On This Day (May 12th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 12th ?
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1. 254 – Which Pope succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church ?
Pope Cornelius ✓
Pope Sixtus II ✓
Pope Stephen I ✓
Pope Dionysius ✓
2. 1191 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre, she is crowned Queen consort of England the same day. Where were they married ?
Cyprus ✓
England ✓
Spain ✓
Wales ✓
3. 1364 – Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in which city ?
Warsaw ✓
Gdansk ✓
Katowice ✓
Krakow ✓
4. 1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in which city ?
Quito, Ecuador ✓
Lima, Peru ✓
Buenos Aires, Argentina ✓
Mexico City, Mexico ✓
5. 1881 – Which country becomes a French protectorate ?
Tunisia ✓
Algeria ✓
Chad ✓
Morocco ✓
6. 1926 – The Italian-built airship "Norge" becomes the first vessel to fly over where ?
Himalayas ✓
Atlantic Ocean ✓
North Pole ✓
Siberia ✓
7. 1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3 in Berlin, the world's first working what ?
Jet Propelled Rocket ✓
Programmable Digital Computer ✓
Radar Device ✓
Electric Train ✓
8. 1942 – World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of which river by the German submarine U-507 ?
Hudson ✓
Thames ✓
Severn ✓
Mississippi ✓
9. 1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes where ?
The Moon ✓
Pacific Ocean ✓
Siberia ✓
Kazakhstan ✓
10. 1982 – At the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with what ?
Revolver ✓
His Fists ✓
Bayonet ✓
Grenade ✓
11. 2003 – Bombings carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 26 people, at a compound in which city ?
Paris, France ✓
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ✓
Baghdad, Iraq ✓
Ankara, Turkey ✓
12. 2008 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in which Chinese province, killing over 69,000 people ?
Sichuan ✓
Hubei ✓
Jiangsu ✓
Shaanxi ✓
13. 2017 – A ransomware attack attacks over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of which of the United Kingdom's national services ?
National Air Traffic Service ✓
Royal National Lifeboat Institution ✓
National Health Service ✓
Royal Navy ✓
14. 1942 – Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter, founder member of "The Blockheads" was born. Which of these is NOT one of his hit singles ?
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll ✓
Fire Starter ✓
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick ✓
Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3 ✓
15. 2014 – Lorenzo Zambrano, Mexican businessman and philanthropist dies. What company did he transform from regional to Global ?
Cemex ✓
Grupo Carso ✓
FEMSA ✓
Banorte ✓
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