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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 position did Jackie Robinson play for the Brooklyn Dodgers?

2. Where was Napoleon exiled for the second time?

3. When was the reentry malfunction of Vostok 1 revealed to the public?

4. Which Polish director made a film about the Katyn massacre in 2007?

5. Who killed John Wilkes Booth?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine the Bay of Pigs invasion, the San Francisco earthquake, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and Rosie Ruiz’s fake Boston Marathon victory. We’ll also take a look at the 1980 exodus of Cubans to the United States, the McCarthy hearings and Coca-Cola’s release of “New Coke.”

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

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

1. How much money did the Marshall Plan provide in aid to Europe? More than $13 billion

2. Who was Martin Luther King Jr. speaking with when he was fatally shot? Jesse Jackson

3. What disease did Anne Sullivan suffer from as a child? Trachoma

4. Which U.S. president continued production of the neutron bomb after President Jimmy Carter temporarily halted production? Ronald Reagan

5. How long did the “Mercury Seven” serve in Project Mercury? 5 years

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

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. How much money did the Marshall Plan provide in aid to Europe?

2. Who was Martin Luther King Jr. speaking with when he was fatally shot?

3. What disease did Anne Sullivan suffer from as a child?

4. Which U.S. president continued production of the neutron bomb after President Jimmy Carter temporarily halted production?

5. How long did the “Mercury Seven” serve in Project Mercury?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine Jackie Robinson joining the Brooklyn Dodgers, Napoleon’s exile, the polio vaccination and the Katyn massacre. We’ll also take a look at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the sinking of the Titanic and the ammonium nitrate explosion in Texas City in 1947.

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

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

1. Who did Gov. Dick Thornburgh advise to evacuate after the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island? Children and pregnant women

2. From what movie did John Hinckley Jr. get the idea to assassinate President Ronald Reagan? “Taxi Driver”

3. When was the Alaskan territory officially transferred to the United States? Oct. 18, 1867

4. What document issued by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella declared that all Jews must leave Spain before the end of July 1492? The Alhambra Decree

5. Who called the Falkland Islands conflict between Argentina and Britain “two bald men fighting over a comb”? Jorge Luis Borges

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

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. Who did Gov. Dick Thornburgh advise to evacuate after the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island?

2. From what movie did John Hinckley Jr. get the idea to assassinate President Ronald Reagan?

3. When was the Alaskan territory officially transferred to the United States?

4. What document issued by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella declared that all Jews must leave Spain before the end of July 1492?

5. Who called the Falkland Islands conflict between Argentina and Britain “two bald men fighting over a comb”?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the Marshall Plan, Helen Keller and the Rwandan genocide. We’ll also take a look at President Carter and the neutron bomb, President Truman and the steel industry, and the “Mercury Seven.”

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

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

1. How far was the Selma-to-Montgomery march? 54 miles

2. When was the Equal Rights Amendment most recently reintroduced? October 2009

3. Following Patrick Henry’s “Liberty or Death” speech, who ordered royal soldiers to remove gunpowder from Williamsburg so that it couldn’t be used by colonialists? Lord Dunmore, royal governor of Virginia

4. What event at a New York City factory galvanized the labor and progressive movements of the early 1900s? Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

5. Which 1978 document outlined a framework for peace between Egypt and Israel? Camp David Accords

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

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. How far was the Selma-to-Montgomery march?

2. When was the Equal Rights Amendment most recently reintroduced?

3. Following Patrick Henry’s “Liberty or Death” speech, who ordered royal soldiers to remove gunpowder from Williamsburg so that it couldn’t be used by colonialists?

4. What event at a New York City factory galvanized the labor and progressive movements of the early 1900s?

5. Which 1978 document outlined a framework for peace between Egypt and Israel?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine Three Mile Island, Charles Manson and his followers, the banishment of Jews from Spain during the Spanish Inquisition and Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands. We’ll also take a look at the U.S. purchase of Alaska, Hitler’s boycott of Jewish businesses and the deadly collision of two 747s on a Tenerife runway.

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

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

1. A 1990 documentary claimed that who was responsible for the November 1974 Birmingham pub bombings? Seamus McLoughlin

2. How many times was Caesar stabbed by a group of senators hoping to restore the Roman republic? 23

3. What did St. Patrick use to teach new believers about the Holy Trinity? A three-leaf clover

4. When did the Academy Awards first air on national radio? 1944

5. What was Gandhi’s protest march called in which thousands of people symbolically made their own salt from seawater? “March to the Sea”

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

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. A 1990 documentary claimed that who was responsible for the November 1974 Birmingham pub bombings?

2. How many times was Caesar stabbed by a group of senators hoping to restore the Roman republic?

3. What did St. Patrick use to teach new believers about the Holy Trinity?

4. When did the Academy Awards first air on national radio?

5. What was Gandhi’s protest march called in which thousands of people symbolically made their own salt from seawater?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine the Selma-to-Montgomery march, the Exxon Valdez Alaska oil spill, Patrick Henry’s “liberty or death” speech and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. We’ll also take a look at the first woman executed by electric chair, Elvis Presley joining the Army and the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty.

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

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

1. What proposal in 1820 attempted to maintain the balance of slave and free states in the United States Senate? The Missouri Compromise

2. Who was the first member of the American Girl Guides, later known as the Girl Scouts? Margaret “Daisy Doots” Gordon

3. After Russia’s February Revolution began in 1917, to whom did Czar Nicholas II try to cede his throne? His brother, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

4. When was Dred Scott, a slave who sued for freedom after spending time in free territory, finally freed? May 26, 1857

5. What was the name of Axis Sally’s most notorious radio broadcast, intended to frighten Allied soldiers? “Vision of Invasion”

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