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On This Day (May 13th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 13th ?
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1. 1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in which city after being convicted of treason ?
The Hague ✓
Amsterdam ✓
Rotterdam ✓
Utrecht ✓
2. 1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become which U.S. state ?
Kentucky ✓
Oklahoma ✓
Tennessee ✓
Arkansas ✓
3. 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England for Australia, with eleven ships full of what ?
Cattle ✓
Construction Materials ✓
Grain ✓
Convicts ✓
4. 1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from who ?
Colombia ✓
Spain ✓
Argentina ✓
France ✓
5. 1861 – Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to which other city ?
Lahore ✓
Kotri ✓
Makli ✓
Nawabshah ✓
6. 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his what ?
Electric Pen ✓
Kinetophone ✓
Quadruplex Telegraph ✓
Electric Railway ✓
7. 1943 – World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in which country ?
Malta ✓
Turkey ✓
Tunisia ✓
Morocco ✓
8. 1950 – The very first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at which circuit ?
Silverstone, UK ✓
Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium ✓
Indianapolis, USA ✓
Monza, Italy ✓
9. 1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first person to circumnavigate the world by what means of transport ?
Unicycle ✓
Amphibious Vehicle ✓
Canoe ✓
Military Tank ✓
10. 1967 – Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the first Muslim President of which country ?
Lebanon ✓
Kenya ✓
Indonesia ✓
India ✓
11. 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in what place ?
Piazza San Pietro, Vatican City ✓
Piazza San Marco, Venice ✓
Piazza della Signoria, Florence ✓
Piazza del Duomo, Milan ✓
12. 1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to achieve which feat ?
Row Solo across the Atlantic ✓
Conquer Everest without Oxygen or Sherpas ✓
Reach the South Pole unaided ✓
Walk from Cairo to Cape Town ✓
13. 2012 – Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on which road ?
Mexican Federal Highway 10 ✓
Mexican Federal Highway 1 ✓
Mexican Federal Highway 40 ✓
Mexican Federal Highway 66 ✓
14. 1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer, is born. What was his nickname ?
Brown Bomber ✓
Magic Fist ✓
The Superman of the South ✓
Alabama Attacker ✓
15. 1950 – Stevland Hardaway Judkins, American singer-songwriter, and pianist, is also born on this day. By what name is he better known ?
Bobby Brown ✓
Liberace ✓
Bruce Brubaker ✓
Stevie Wonder ✓
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