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On This Day (October 16th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 16th?
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1. 1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland. What was different about this king ?
Blind ✓
Female ✓
Originally the court jester ✓
Of African Descent ✓
2. 1793 – French Revolution: Marie Antoinette is executed in the Place de la Revolution in ParisPlace de la Bastille. Place de la Revolution is now known by what name ?
Place de la Concorde ✓
Jardins du Trocadero ✓
Place de la Bastille ✓
Place de la Nation ✓
3. 1847 – Which novel by Charlotte Bronte is published in London ?
Villette ✓
Shirley ✓
Jane Eyre ✓
The Professor ✓
4. 1882 – The The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad opens for business. By what name was it commonly known ?
Nickel Plate Railroad ✓
Steel Track railroad ✓
Golden Spike Railroad ✓
Gateway to the Lakes Railroad ✓
5. 1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the first what in the United States ?
Fast Food Restaurant ✓
Childrens Nursery ✓
Gymnasium ✓
Family Planning Clinic ✓
6. 1923 – Which media and film company is founded ?
Universal Studios ✓
20th Century Fox ✓
The Walt Disney Company ✓
Paramount Studios ✓
7. 1946 – Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by what means ?
Firing Squad ✓
Hanging ✓
Lethal Injection ✓
Electric Chair ✓
8. 1947 – The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from which country ?
Japan ✓
France ✓
Netherlands ✓
United Kingdom ✓
9. 1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in which city ?
Lahore ✓
Islamabad ✓
Rawalpindi ✓
Karachi ✓
10. 1968 – Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in which field ?
Literature ✓
Peace ✓
Chemistry ✓
Physiology or Medicine ✓
11. 1975 – Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists in which country ?
Indonesia ✓
Malaysia ✓
East Timor ✓
Papua New Guinea ✓
12. 1978 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since what year ?
1645 ✓
1523 ✓
1285 ✓
1496 ✓
13. 1995 – A bridge is opened connecting which UK island to the mainland for the first time ?
Isle of Wight ✓
Anglesey ✓
Isle of Sheppey ✓
Skye ✓
14. 1998 – Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in which city on a murder extradition warrant ?
Berlin ✓
Tokyo ✓
London ✓
Johannesburg ✓
15. 1943 – Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player is born. He was a founding member of which rock band ?
Bachman Turner Overdrive ✓
Rush ✓
Steppenwolf ✓
Blood, Sweat & Tears ✓
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