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On This Day (May 5th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 5th?
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1. 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on and claims which island for Spain ?
Jamaica
Hispaniola
Tenerife
Grenada
2. 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for inventing a technique of doing what ?
Dying Cloth
Cutting Paper
Weaving Straw
Preserving Fruit
3. 1835 – The first railway in continental Europe opens between which two cities ?
Paris and Lille
Brussels and Mechelen
Amsterdam and Utrecht
Cologne and Dusseldorf
4. 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with which composer as the guest conductor ?
Brahms
Verdi
Tchaikovsky
Debussy
5. 1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that what type of evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder ?
Photographic
Blood Type
Microscopic
Fingerprint
6. 1936 – Italian troops occupy which city ?
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Valetta, Malta
Tripoli, Libya
Djibouti, Djibouti
7. 1945 – World War II: Battle of Castle Itter takes place, the only battle in which American and what other troops fought cooperatively ?
Italian
German
Australian
Norwegian
8. 1961 – Which astronaut becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight ?
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
John Glenn
Alan Shepard
9. 1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near which city, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. ?
Milan
Udine
Palermo
Aosta
10. 1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms which country's embassy in London after a six-day siege ?
Iran
Iraq
Syria
Egypt
11. 1992 – Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia (Corsica): 18 people are killed when one of the terraces collapses at a football match between SC Bastia and what other team ?
Paris St. Germain
Olympique de Marseille
AC Ajaccio
FC Mulhouse
12. 1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay receives what punishment in Singapore for theft and vandalism ?
One Month Imprisonment
$3000 Fine
100 Hours Community Service
Six Strokes of the Cane
13. 1959 – Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist, is born. He is best known as the frontman for which band ?
Hootie and the Blowfish
Buzzcocks
Echo and the Bunnymen
Happy Mondays
14. Today is commemorated as "Martyrs' Day" in which European country ?
Albania
Estonia
Andorra
Kosovo
15. Today is also commemorated internationally as what ?
International Truckers Day
International Midwives Day
International Politicians Day
International Lumberjacks Day
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