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Test your students’ knowledge of the notable events covered in findingDulcinea’s “On This Day” column this week with Quiztory. It makes a fun extra credit assignment.

1. What famous media magnate tried to prevent the 1941 release of the classic film, “Citizen Kane”?

2. What company was behind the first commercial jet flight, and what became of it?

3. How did cooperation between the War Department and U.S. media blunt the impact of Japan’s “balloon bomb” attacks on the U.S. during World War II? 

4. In 1970, what was the announcement by President Nixon that led to protests at conservative Kent State University, which ended with four students dead?

5. What cause did both German and American investigators cite for the Hindenburg explosion at the time of the incident?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week’s “On This Day” will examine the end of WWII in Europe,  the end of the Berlin Blockade and the birth of Israel. We’ll also explore the FDA’s approval of birth control, the dust storm that devastated the Great Plains and the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory

Michael Sauers is the technology innovation librarian for the Nebraska Library Commission, the chair of the Nebraska Library Association and a frequent conference presenter. He has also authored nine books, and maintains a very funny and forward thinking blog at The Travelin’ Librarian.

Michael earned his master’s degree in library science from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy, and has been working in libraries for 15 years.

As Sauers appears to be part of an inner circle of technology librarian bloggers, findingEducation asked if he worried that other librarians might have difficulty relating to  him.

“I am always learning. They’re learning, too. I would hope that if it ever gets to the point where people can’t relate to what I’m doing, I would say I probably shouldn’t be doing it anymore,” he said.

Sauers tweets @msauers

fE: Why did you become a librarian?

MS: Through high school and college, I worked in bookstores. A year after I graduated, I was still living at home and still working in a bookstore at the mall. One day my parents asked me, “What are you doing with the rest of your life?” So I considered graduate school, trying to figure out what I could possibly do with an American Studies degree. And I realized, “Hah, library school! Hmm. I love books!” I realize it’s a cliché, but that’s why I went to library school.

I fully intended to be a reference librarian, but then in about 1994, the Web happened. I got to library school and discovered the Internet. I latched on and started teaching computer stuff to the other students there, and I pretty much haven’t stopped since.

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Subject: Integrated Technology
Tags: Integrated Technology, technology

Did you take the Quiztory last week? Now it’s time to check your answers:

1. Where were members of the Easter Rising rebellion imprisoned? Frongoch internment camp

2. Who formed the Suez Canal Company? French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps

3. Where did the residents of Pripyat relocate to following the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown? Slavutych

4. What was the first commercially successful steamship in the U.S.? The Clermont

5. Which pope canonized Joan of Arc? Pope Benedict XV

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory, The Answer Sheet