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On This Day (October 25th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 25th?
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1. 285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, they are now the patron saints of which professions ?
Bookbinders, authors and librarians ✓
Blacksmiths and coppersmiths ✓
Millers, harvesters and bakers ✓
Leather workers, curriers and shoemakers ✓
2. 1147 – Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer which city ?
Lisbon ✓
Prague ✓
Gerona ✓
Florence ✓
3. 1760 – King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of which monarch ?
King Edward VI ✓
King George II ✓
King Charles II ✓
King Edward V ✓
4. 1854 – Which battle, memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade, takes place during the Crimean War ?
Siege of Sevastopol ✓
Battle of Malakoff ✓
Battle of Balaclava ✓
Battle of Inkerman ✓
5. 1913 – Klaus Barbie, German SS captain is born. He was known by what nickname ?
Doctor Death ✓
Klaus the Ripper ✓
Torturer General ✓
Butcher of Lyon ✓
6. 1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies in which English prison ?
Brixton ✓
Strangeways ✓
Dartmoor ✓
Durham ✓
7. 1927 – The Italian luxury liner "SS Principessa Mafalda" sinks off the coast of which country ?
Senegal ✓
Brazil ✓
Spain ✓
Argentina ✓
8. 1944 – Second World War: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by what ?
An enemy torpedo ✓
Floating mine ✓
The ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. ✓
Kamikaze plane ✓
9. 1983 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade which country, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop is executed in a coup d'état ?
Haiti ✓
Grenada ✓
Dominican Republic ✓
Guatemala ✓
10. 1993 – Vincent Price, American actor dies. He is best known for which genre of film ?
Horror ✓
Comedy ✓
Romance ✓
Adventure ✓
11. 1997 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of which country ?
Republic of the Congo ✓
Angola ✓
Cameroon ✓
Sierra Leone ✓
12. 2010 – More than 700 species of ancient insects are discovered preserved in amber in an ancient rainforest in which country ?
Sri Lanka ✓
India ✓
Indonesia ✓
Papua New Guinea ✓
13. 2015 – More than 200 black bears are killed in a single day in which U.S. state after officials allow the hunting of the animals for the first time in 21 years ?
Alabama ✓
Montana ✓
Florida ✓
Maine ✓
14. 2019 – Hundreds of tourists flock to which natural landmark to climb it for the last time before a ban on climbing goes into effect ?
Mount Rushmore ✓
Uluru ✓
Leaning Tower of Pisa ✓
Great Pyramid of Giza ✓
15. Today is commemorated globally as what ?
World Pasta Day ✓
World Sushi Day ✓
World Rice Day ✓
World Cake Day ✓
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