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On This Day (October 3rd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 3rd?
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1. 382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in which region ?
Balkans
Transylvania
Silesia
Calabria
2. 1712 – The Duke of which Scottish town issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor ?
Edinburgh
Ayr
Montrose
Hawick
3. 1792 – A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in the south of which country ?
Costa Rica
Chile
Colombia
Mexico
4. 1795 – Slave rebel leader Tula is executed on which Caribbean island ?
Jamaica
Hispaniola
Grenada
Curacao
5. 1912 – U.S. forces defeat rebels from which country at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill ?
Mexico
Nicaragua
Haiti
Guatemala
6. 1918 – King Boris III accedes to the throne of which country ?
Bulgaria
Romania
Morocco
Malta
7. 1932 – Iraq gains independence from which nation ?
France
Iran
United Kingdom
Soviet Union
8. 1942 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record altitude of how many kilometres ?
101
85
52
63
9. 1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in which city ?
New Orleans
New York
Miami
Atlanta
10. 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's which nuclear power ?
Second
Fourth
Third
Fifth
11. 1963 – A violent coup in which country begins two decades of military rule ?
Ecuador
Honduras
Sierra Leone
Laos
12. 1981 – The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in which part of the UK ends after seven months and ten deaths ?
Scotland
England
Wales
Northern Ireland
13. 1991 – Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in which field ?
Literature
Physics
Chemistry
Medicine
14. 2009 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, and which other country join together in the Turkic Council ?
Turkmenistan
Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan
Georgia
15. 2010 – The 19th Commonwealth Games commences in which city ?
Glasgow
Brisbane
Delhi
Durban
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