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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
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  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
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Good luck! The answers will be posted later today.

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