Fiddler’s Bridge Rings

Here are some questions based on this day in history.

1. Antonio Vivaldi, composer and virtuoso violinist was born on 4 March 1678. Where was he born?
   • Vigo, Kingdom of Galicia (now Spain)
   • Vienna, Austria
   • Venice, Republic of Venice (now Italy) 
2. What Scottish city is located about nine miles east of the bridge, which opened this day in 1890, pictured above? 
   • Aberdeen
   • Dundee
   • Edinburgh

   

3. Frances Perkins was the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet in the United States. Which president appointed her as the fourth US Secretary of Labor?
   • Calvin Coolidge
   • Herbert Hoover
   • Franklin D. Roosevelt 
4. On 4 March 1966, it was claimed during an interview that we are ‘more popular than Jesus’. Who made this claim?
   • John Lennon of the Beatles
   • Cass Elliot of the Mamas & the Papas
   • Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones
5. On this day in 1979 the first photograph of the rings of Jupiter (below) was sent back to Earth by what spacecraft?
   • Voyager 1
   • Galileo
   • Pioneer 11

Good luck! The answers will be posted later today.