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On This Day (May 16th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 16th ?
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1. 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to where ?
England
Wales
France
Ireland
2. 1842 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from which state ?
Iowa
Kansas
Illinois
Missouri
3. 1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland on the first transatlantic flight, heading for where ?
Dublin, Ireland
Lisbon, Portugal
Glasgow, UK
Casablanca, Morocco
4. 1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes which historic person ?.
Marie Antoinette
Cleopatra
Joan of Arc
William Shakespeare
5. 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now JFK) in New York City and Heathrow in London, is operated by which airline ?
El Al Israel
British Overseas (BOAC)
Pan Am
TWA
6. 1959 – The Triton Fountain in which European Capital city is turned on for the first time ?
Budapest, Hungary
Valletta, Malta
Paris, France
Oslo, Norway
7. 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first what, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California ?
Optical Laser
Electron Microscope
MRI Scanner
Digital Thermometer
8. 1969 – Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on which heavenly body ?
The Moon
Mars
Mercury
Venus
9. 1974 – Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of which country ?
Romania
Yugoslavia
Albania
Ukraine
10. 1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States states that the addictive properties of what are similar to those of heroin and cocaine ?
Alcohol
Gambling
Sugar
Nicotine
11. 1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is the first British monarch to address which organisation ?
Red Crescent
US Congress
World Health Organisation
Oxford University
12. 2003 – In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in terrorist attacks in which city ?
Marrakesh
Rabat
Casablanca
Tangier
13. 2005 – Kuwait permits what in a 35–23 National Assembly vote ?
Voting for Women
Allowing Women to Drive
Homosexuality
Immigrant Workers
14. 1953 – Which actor that portrayed James Bond is born on this day ?
Daniel Craig
Pierce Brosnan
Roger Moore
Sean Connery
15. Today is marked in the US as National what day?
National Paper Airplane Day
National Take Your Dog to Work Day
National Quiet Day
National BBQ Day
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