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On This Day (October 5th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 5th?
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1. 816 – King Louis is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope. What was his nickname ?
Louis the Unready
Louis the Pious
Louis the Flamboyant
Louis the Grateful
2. 1143 – King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises which nation as a Kingdom ?
Portugal
Andorra
France
Ireland
3. 1550 – Which city in present-day Chile is founded ?
Antofagasta
Punta Arenas
Concepcion
Valparaiso
4. 1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates which North American coastal region ?
Cape Cod
Bay of Fundy
Chesapeake Bay
Florida Keys
5. 1905 – The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in how many minutes ?
45
27
31
39
6. 1930 – British airship R101 crashes on its maiden voyage in France en route to which country ?
India
Kenya
Yemen
Switzerland
7. 1936 – A march protesting against unemployment and poverty sets off for London from which Northern English town ?
Sunderland
Jarrow
Carlisle
Kendal
8. 1945 – A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of which studio ?
Universal
Paramount
MGM
Warner Brothers
9. 1947 – President Truman makes the first televised address from which part of the White House ?
North Lawn
East Wing
Oval Office
Emergency Operations Center
10. 1966 – A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near which city suffers a partial meltdown ?
Detroit, USA
Marseille, France
Bristol, UK
Vancouver, Canada
11. 1970 – The British Trade Commissioner is kidnapped by members of which militant paramilitary group ?
PIRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army)
FLQ (Quebec Liberation Front)
BLA (Balochistan Liberation Army)
ETA (Basque Country and Freedom)
12. 1982 – Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with what substance cause seven deaths ?
Arsenic
Ground Glass
Cyanide
Anthrax
13. 1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first person in space from which country ?
Haiti
Monaco
Algeria
Canada
14. 1986 – Mordechai Vanunu's story in The Sunday Times reveals which country's secret nuclear weapons ?
Israel
Iran
North Korea
Egypt
15. 2016 - Police in the which Indian city arrest more than 750 people suspected of defrauding U.S. citizens from a fake call center ?
Bengaluru
Puducherry
Thane
Patna
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