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On This Day (May 6th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on May 6th ?
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1. 1536 – King Henry VIII orders what be placed in every church ?
Statue of Jesus ✓
English-language Bibles ✓
Cushions for Kneeling in Prayer ✓
Incense Burners ✓
2. 1682 – Louis XIV of France moves his court to where ?
Château de Fontainebleau ✓
Luxembourg Palace ✓
Tuileries Palace ✓
Palace of Versailles ✓
3. 1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of which newspaper ?
New York Herald ✓
Southern Illustrated News ✓
Washington Post ✓
Milwaukee Sentinel ✓
4. 1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in which State ?
Wisconsin ✓
Illinois ✓
Nebraska ✓
South Dakota ✓
5. 1889 – Which landmark is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition ?
Leaning Tower of Pisa ✓
Neuschwanstein Castle ✓
Alhambra Palace ✓
Eiffel Tower ✓
6. 1937 – The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst in which state ?
New Hampshire ✓
New Jersey ✓
Maryland ✓
Rhode Island ✓
7. 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for which of his novels ?
The Grapes of Wrath ✓
East of Eden ✓
The Pastures of Heaven ✓
Of Mice and Men ✓
8. 1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the what ?
Sub 10 Second 100m ✓
Lands End to John O'Groats Challenge ✓
Sub 4 Minute Mile ✓
Trans Sahara Challenge ✓
9. 1960 – The first televised royal wedding, when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey, was watched by at least how many viewers ?
10 million ✓
5 million ✓
50 million ✓
20 million ✓
10. 1966 – Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for murders in which part of England ?
Lancashire Moorland ✓
Isle of Wight ✓
East Anglia ✓
Cornish Riviera ✓
11. 1983 – What are revealed as a hoax after being examined by experts ?
Photo of Loch Ness Monster ✓
Hitler Diaries ✓
Photo of Fairies ✓
Alien Tapes ✓
12. 1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of what ?
New British Embassy in Paris ✓
French Consulate in Manchester ✓
Channel Tunnel ✓
Airbus Factory ✓
13. 1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed, up eight days after he disappeared, on a riverbank in which State ?
Maryland ✓
Colorado ✓
New York ✓
Maine ✓
14. 2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to do what ?
Fire a Gun ✓
Attend a Jewish Ceremony ✓
Visit his 100th Country ✓
Enter a Mosque ✓
15. 2013 – Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in which US city ?
Cleveland ✓
Nashville ✓
Los Angeles ✓
Phoenix ✓
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