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On This Day (May 18th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 18th ?
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1. 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of what to the citizens in Constantinople ?
Food ✓
Water ✓
Religious Material ✓
Clothing ✓
2. 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch. In which two modern day countries was Antioch ?
Israel and Lebanon ✓
Iraq and Jordan ✓
Turkey and Syria ✓
Saudi Arabia and Egypt ✓
3. 1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now where ?
Nicaragua ✓
Venezuela ✓
Puerto Rico ✓
Suriname ✓
4. 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making what activity illegal ?
Prostitution ✓
Gambling ✓
Alcohol Production ✓
Slavery ✓
5. 1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Canada, after leaving the United States. By what name is Parrtown known today ?
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia ✓
Saint John, New Brunswick ✓
Montreal, Quebec ✓
Winnipeg, Manitoba ✓
6. 1896 – A mass panic during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people on Khodynka Field in which city ?
Moscow ✓
St. Petersburg ✓
Vladivostok ✓
Yekaterinburg ✓
7. 1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to achieve what feat ?
Row from California to Hawaii ✓
Reach the North Pole ✓
Break the Sound Barrier ✓
Walk around the World ✓
8. 1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in which Middle Eastern city ?
Baghdad, Iraq ✓
Muscat, Oman ✓
Tehran, Iran ✓
Damascus, Syria ✓
9. 1974 – India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so, in a project named what ?
Bright Light ✓
Punjabi Power ✓
Laughing Shiva ✓
Smiling Buddha ✓
10. 1980 – Which volcano erupts killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage ?
Mount St. Helens, USA ✓
Mount Asama, Japan ✓
Mount Etna, Italy ✓
Soufrière Hills, Montserrat ✓
11. 1990 – A modified train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph) in which country ?
Germany ✓
Italy ✓
France ✓
Spain ✓
12. 2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making which country secular ?
Bhutan ✓
Nepal ✓
Thailand ✓
Taiwan ✓
13. 2009 – The LTTE (Tamil Tigers) are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending how many years of fighting between the two sides ?
26 ✓
35 ✓
50 ✓
18 ✓
14. 1949 – Rick Wakeman, English keyboardist and songwriter, is born. With which "Prog Rock" band is he most known ?
King Crimson ✓
Pink Floyd ✓
Yes ✓
Jethro Tull ✓
15. Today is recognised as what day internationally ?
World Poverty Awareness Day ✓
World Peace Day ✓
World Rain Forest Protection Day ✓
World AIDS Vaccine Day ✓
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