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On This Day (October 12th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 12th?
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1. 633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. Where was Hatfield Chase ?
North Wales ✓
East Anglia ✓
South Yorkshire ✓
Scottish Borders ✓
2. 1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, but where ?
Bahamas ✓
Cuba ✓
Hispaniola ✓
Antigua ✓
3. 1773 – America's first of what type of building opens ?
Synagogue ✓
Insane Asylum ✓
Mosque ✓
Maternity Hospital ✓
4. 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to do what ?
Swim across the English channel ✓
Become a French priest ✓
Be executed by guillotine ✓
Parachute from a balloon ✓
5. 1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the White House. What was it known as before ?
Executive Mansion ✓
President's Palace ✓
Presidential Residence ✓
Leadership Building ✓
6. 1915 – World War I: Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium. What was her occupation ?
Seamstress ✓
Nurse ✓
Teacher ✓
Brothel Madame ✓
7. 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at a children's hospital in which city ?
Birmingham, UK ✓
Lyon, France ✓
Boston, USA ✓
Osaka, Japan ✓
8. 1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of which city comes to an end ?
Athens ✓
Sofia ✓
Prague ✓
Budapest ✓
9. 1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev does what at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion ?
Throws his papers in the air ✓
Storms out of the room ✓
Constantly interrupts ✓
Pounds his shoe on a desk ✓
10. 1968 – Which African country becomes independent from Spain ?
Cameroon ✓
Equatorial Guinea ✓
Togo ✓
Sao Tome and Principe ✓
11. 1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from which company ?
Ford ✓
Coca-Cola ✓
Lockheed ✓
McDonalds ✓
12. 1984 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in a bomb in a hotel in which UK city ?
Brighton ✓
Plymouth ✓
Liverpool ✓
Oxford ✓
13. 1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of which planet ?
Mercury ✓
Venus ✓
Mars ✓
Earth ✓
14. 2017 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO and is immediately followed by which country ?
United Kingdom ✓
Canada ✓
Mexico ✓
Israel ✓
15. 2019 – The Hard Rock Hotel, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20 in which city ?
Las Vegas ✓
Atlanta ✓
New Orleans ✓
Chicago ✓
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