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On This Day (May 24th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 24th ?
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1. 1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in which Cathedral ?
Uppsala ✓
Stockholm ✓
Kristianstad ✓
Malmo ✓
2. 1607 – How many English settlers disembark in Jamestown, to form the first permanent English colony in America ?
220 ✓
54 ✓
100 ✓
500 ✓
3. 1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan for 60 guilders. That 60 guilders would today be worth approximately how much ?
$100 ✓
$10,000 ✓
$100,000 ✓
$1,000 ✓
4. 1683 – The Ashmolean Museum opens as the world's first university museum in which English city ?
London ✓
Oxford ✓
York ✓
Cambridge ✓
5. 1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as what day ?
Founder's Day ✓
The Beginning ✓
Aldersgate Day ✓
Elderman's Day ✓
6. 1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters which city, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator") ?
Merida, Venezuela ✓
Bogota, Colombia ✓
Quito, Ecuador ✓
Trujillo, Venezuela ✓
7. 1844 – Samuel Morse sends a message from the United States Capitol to his assistant in Baltimore to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line. What was the message ?
"This is a Test" ✓
"What hath God wrought" ✓
"Let Communication Begin" ✓
"Please reply now" ✓
8. 1883 – Which bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction ?
George Washington Bridge ✓
University Heights Bridge ✓
Queensboro Bridge ✓
Brooklyn Bridge ✓
9. 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo to Australia, but from where ?
Paris, France ✓
Bombay, India ✓
Cape Town, South Africa ✓
London, England ✓
10. 1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating which other team 2–1 at Crosley Field ?
Philadelphia Phillies ✓
Boston Red Sox ✓
Detroit Tigers ✓
New York Yankees ✓
11. 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in which city ?
Luxembourg, Luxembourg ✓
Antwerp, Belgium ✓
Lugano, Switzerland ✓
Turin, Italy ✓
12. 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in which city, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus ?
Birmingham, Alabama ✓
Jackson, Mississippi ✓
Lafayette, Louisiana ✓
Macon, Georgia ✓
13. 1976 – The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching which region as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine ?
California ✓
Tuscany ✓
Chile ✓
Provence ✓
14. 1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to how long in prison ?
25 years ✓
107 years ✓
240 years ✓
360 years ✓
15. 1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, artist, writer, producer and Nobel Prize laureate is born in which city ?
Green Bay, Wisconsin ✓
Waterloo, Iowa ✓
Peoria, Illinois ✓
Duluth, Minnesota ✓
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