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On This Day (September 10th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 10th ?
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1. 1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits which city ?
Constantinople ✓
Rome ✓
Athens ✓
Lisbon ✓
2. 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland takes place near which town ?
Dumfries ✓
Carlisle ✓
Musselburgh ✓
Alnwick ✓
3. 1573 – German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in which city ?
Copenhagen ✓
Brugges ✓
Utrecht ✓
Hamburg ✓
4. 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for which type of device ?
Sewing Machine ✓
Printing Press ✓
Microscope ✓
Cooking Utensil ✓
5. 1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora. How many more asteroids did he discover ?
over 100 ✓
12 ✓
None ✓
3 ✓
6. 1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. What was the empress' nickname ?
Lillibut ✓
Sisi ✓
Betty ✓
Liza ✓
7. 1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship is held at which British stadium ?
Belle Vue, Manchester ✓
White City, London ✓
Loomer Road, Stoke on Trent ✓
Wembley, London ✓
8. 1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address what problem in the Mediterranean Sea ?
International Piracy ✓
Water Pollution ✓
Beach Quality ✓
Refugees ✓
9. 1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton off the coast of which country ?
United Kingdom ✓
Norway ✓
Germany ✓
Denmark ✓
10. 1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on which island ?
Sicily ✓
Crete ✓
Java ✓
Madagascar ✓
11. 1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal. What event did he win ?
Weightlifting ✓
1500 metres ✓
Marathon ✓
Diving ✓
12. 1967 – The people of which overseas territory vote to remain a British dependency ?
Cayman Islands ✓
Gibraltar ✓
Virgin Islands ✓
Pitcairn Islands ✓
13. 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by what means ?
Guillotine ✓
Crucifixion ✓
Garrote ✓
Dismemberment ✓
14. 2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the civil war in which country ?
Cameroon ✓
Angola ✓
Rwanda ✓
Sierra Leone ✓
15. 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in which Swiss city ?
Zurich ✓
Geneva ✓
Bern ✓
Lucerne ✓
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