Fabulous Fantastic Fiascoes

1. On this day in 1831, American writer Edgar Allan Poe was court-martialled for disobedience and expelled from…
   • Annapolis naval academy
   • Marine Corps Base Quantico
   • West Point military academy
2. Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo was born on 6 March in…
   • 1375
   • 1475
   • 1575
3. On 6 March 1840, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, went into use featuring an image of…
   • Jonas Furrer, president of Switzerland
   • Victoria, queen of Great Britain
   • Martin Van Buren, president of the US
4. The first female to travel in space was born on this day in 1937, she was…
   • Valentina Ponomaryova
   • Svetlana Savitskaya
   • Valentina Tereshkova 
5. The Alamo, San Antonio fell and was captured today in 1836 following a siege which had lasted…
   • 3 days
   • 13 days
   • 31 days
6. On 6 March 1899, acetylsalicylic acid is patented by Felix Hoffmann at the German company Bayer under the genericized trademark…
   • Aspirin
   • Ibuprofen
   • Paracetamol 
7. This day in 1964 a boxer changed his name to Muhammad Ali. He had had changed his name from…
   • Augustus Amber
   • Balbinus Beryl
   • Cassius Clay
8. Today in 1853, La traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi, was premiered at La Fenice opera house in Venice. The composer later described it as…
   • Fabulous
   • Fantastic
   • Fiasco
9. The first First Lady to hold an official press conference in the White House did so on 6 March. She was…
   • Eleanor Roosevelt
   • Jackie Kennedy
   • Pat Nixon
10. At a meeting of the Russian Chemical Society, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table on this day in …
    • 1869
    • 1895
    • 1921

Good luck! The answers will be posted later today.