It's time to test your knowledge.

No, we won't ask you any dates. But March was a history-making month. Try your hand at this fairly random sampling of noteworthy happenings.

Multiple guess, as my teachers used to say.

1. March was a good month for government. What amazingly important document was ratified by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia on 1 March 1781?
   
   • The Pure Food and Drug Act
   • The Articles of Confederation
   • Magna Carta
   • The Guano Islands Act
2. March was also a bad month for government. Who was indicted for conspiring to obstruct justice on 1 March 1974?
   
   • Tony Blair
   • Henry Kissinger
   • Margaret Thatcher
   • The Watergate conspirators
3. Texas phenom Sam Houston was born on 2 March 1793. Why was he removed as governor of Texas in 1861?
   
   • He had joined the Cherokee tribe.
   • He fought with Mexico.
   • He refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy.
   • He had a town named after him.
4. Why did the US Secretary of War have to call out troops to quell a riot on 3 March 1913?
   
   • One word: suffragettes
   • Two words: angry peaceniks
   • Three words: The Ku Klux Klan
   • Two people: Eugene V Debs and Emma Goldman
5. Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell was born in March. Where did he hail from?
   
   • Philadelphia
   • Edinburgh
   • Berlin
   • Trenton, New Jersey
6. How did Charles II pay off a huge debt on 4 March 1681?
   
   • He auctioned off his spaniels.
   • He sent all his creditors to Carolina Colony.
   • He gave William Penn huge tracts of land.
   • He sold his snuffboxes to France.
7. 5 March 1770 was the date of the infamous Boston Massacre. What started this ill-advised police action?
   
   • A snowball
   • A bomb
   • Name calling
   • Paul Revere's horse
8. On 4 March 1946, Winston Churchill complained about something that had gone up in Europe. What was it?
   
   • The Berlin Wall
   • An 'Iron Curtain'
   • The Eiffel Tower
   • Euro Disney
9. Yuri Gagarin was born 9 March 1934 in Gzhatsk, Russia. How long did his historic orbital flight in 1961 last?
   
   • 108 minutes
   • 3 hours
   • 3 days
   • 5 days
10. Harold Wilson was born on 11 March 1916. Where?
    
    • London
    • Capetown, South Africa
    • Huddersfield
    • Brightling

You knew all this, right? Just in case, click the picture for the answers and more snark.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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