Q 33: The U2 hit single ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ refers to the Bloody Sunday in Derry, Northern Ireland, 30 January 1972, where 26 unarmed protesters and bystanders were shot by the British Army. 22 January 1905 was another ‘Bloody Sunday’, this time in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. What happened there? A: Around 1,200 mostly unarmed soldiers heckled the unpopular tsar Nicholas I in front of the Winter Palace; guard regiments opened fire, killing 254 B: Several thousand striking workers walked to the Winter Palace to hand over a petition to the tsar; the army units at the palace shot into the crowd, killing c. 1,000 people C: Tsar Alexander II and 14 bystanders were killed, when a bomb was thrown into his carriage by a left-wing revolutionary THE CORRECT ANSWER IS B
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 08:05:19 +0000
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