An assassin, an invader, mutineers, mountaineers and religious revolutionaries walk into a bar

Here are a few questions which are related to today’s date, June 8th.

  1. On 8 June 1968, James Earl Ray, who was later convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King, was arrested at…
    • London Heathrow Airport, UK
    • Mexico City International Airport
    • Salisbury Airport, Rhodesia (now Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, Zimbabwe)
  2. Today in 452, an invasion heading towards Rome, devastated the northern provinces of Italy. The invasion was lead by…
    • Attila the Hun
    • Ivan the Terrible
    • Vlad the Impaler
  3. On 8 June 1794, during the French Revolution, a new religion was inaugurated which was celebrated with festivals across France. It was called the Cult of the…
    • Cathars
    • Huguenots
    • Supreme Being
  4. On this date in 1924, British mountaineers Andrew Irvine and George Mallory went missing. Which expedition were they on?
    • British Mount Everest Expedition
    • International Expedition to Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica
    • Lost World Expedition to Mount Roraima, Guyana
  5. On 8 June 1856, a group of people arrived on Norfolk Island to be resettled from Pitcairn Island. These were descendants of the mutineers from the…
    • Amistad
    • Bounty—
    • Caine

Good luck! I will post the answers later today.

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