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On This Day (September 8th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 8th ?
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1. 1504 – Which of Michelangelo's creations is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence ?
Medici Madonna Statue
Statue of David
Statue of Moses
Statue of Madonna and Child
2. 1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in which village in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people ?
Swavesey
Little Downham
Burwell
Great Shelford
3. 1775 – The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests occurs in which European country ?
Malta
Italy
England
Denmark
4. 1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of which country ?
Sweden
Luxembourg
Belgium
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
5. 1860 – The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on which of the Great Lakes ?
Superior
Huron
Michigan
Erie
6. 1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, in which state ?
North Dakota
Montana
Washington
Wisconsin
7. 1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found in which area of the city ?
Spitalfields
Whitechapel
Shadwell
Limehouse
8. 1916 – In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in which city, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles ?
San Francisco
Washington DC
New York
Los Angeles
9. 1921 – Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her what ?
Miss New Jersey
Miss Atlantic
Miss America
Miss East Coast
10. 1926 – Which country is admitted to the League of Nations ?
Spain
Germany
United States
Italy
11. 1946 – A referendum abolishes what in Bulgaria ?
The Monarchy
Slavery
Ban on women voting
Coalition with Greece
12. 1966 – Which American science fiction television series premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap" ?
The Twilight Zone
The Jetsons
Star Trek
Lost in Space
13. 1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to what ?
Earth Tremors
Wildfires
Volcanic Activity
Heavy Snowfalls
14. 1991 – Which European nation becomes independent ?
Macedonia
Kosovo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Moldova
15. 2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open on which planet ?
Mars
Venus
Jupiter
Earth
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