Where – Who – Where – Who (& When) – Where

All of today’s questions are connected to the date, March 20th. There are three places, two people and a year to find in these multiple-choice questions.

One

The first Romani language operetta, Children of the Forests, premiered on 20 March 1888. Where was it staged?

1. Bucharest, Romania
2. Kyiv, Ukraine
3. Moscow, Russia

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Two

In 1923, the Arts Club of Chicago hosted the United States’ first showing of Original Drawings by… This event signalled the club’s early embrace of modern art in America. There is an artist’s name missing from the show’s title: who is the artist?

1. Salvador Dali
2. Pablo Picasso
3. Jackson Pollock

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Three

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published on this date in 1852. Between 1832 and 1850 she lived in a city where her personal observations and research informed the basis of her story. Where was this city?

1. Alexandria, Virginia
2. Baltimore, Maryland
3. Cincinnati, Ohio

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Four

Who became the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and when did she achieve this?

1. Kelly Quinault in 1973
2. Libby Riddles in 1985
3. Molly Semyonova in 1997

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Five

Albert Einstein submitted his paper The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity in 1916. Where was he working at that time?

1. Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
2. Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin
3. Charles University, Prague

Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.

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