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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 battle ended the Scottish Wars of Independence?

2. How long did it take a Houston jury to convict Muhammad Ali of draft evasion?

3. Why didn’t U.S. forces fire back at a Japanese submarine that fired on Fort Stevens, Ore.?

4. Who is the main source of information on the mutiny of Henry Hudson’s attempt to find the Northwest Passage?

5. Under what name was Anne Frank’s diary originally published?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day”will examine President Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, the killing of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith, the Treaty of Versailles and Einstein’s theory of special relativity. We’ll also take a look at the Supreme Court’s decision on capital punishment statues, the Battle of Gettysburg and the Continental Congress.

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. Where were Nelson Mandela and other African National Congress members sentenced to life in prison? Robben Island

2. Who wrote the first published account of Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment? Joseph Priestley

3. A photo of whose dying body became a symbol of the Soweto uprising in South Africa? 13-year-old Hector Pieterson

4. Who honored Vlad Dracula as a national hero in Romania’s Hall of Fame? Former Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu

5. How did Dowager Empress Longyu rise to power? She bore the Xianfeng emperor’s only son

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. Where were Nelson Mandela and other African National Congress members sentenced to life in prison?

2. Who write the first published account of Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment?

3. A photo of whose dying body became a symbol of the Soweto uprising in South Africa?

4. Who honored Vlad Dracula as a national hero in Romania’s Hall of Fame?

5. How did Dowager Empress Longyu rise to power?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine Nelson Mandela, “Miranda” warnings, Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment and Captain Bligh’s landing on Timor. We’ll also take a look at Vlad the Impaler, Chinese Empress Longyu and the first hijacking of a commercial flight.

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. It is believed that Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy for what reason? Revenge for Kennedy’s support of Israel

2. Where did the Germans think the Allies were planning to invade Normandy? Pas de Calais

3. In Cohen v. California, why did Justice Harry Blackmun argue that Cohen’s action wasn’t protected by the First Amendment? Because it “was mainly conduct and little speech”

4. Who tried to launch a rocket full of mail between two Scottish islands in the 1930s? Gerhard Zucker

5. What is the name of the cove where some of the pioneers of the Mormon handcart expedition sought shelter during a snowstorm? Martin’s Cove

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. It is believed that Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy for what reason?

2. Where did the Germans think the Allies were planning to invade Normandy?

3. In Cohen v. California, why did Justice Harry Blackmun argue that Cohen’s action wasn’t protected by the First Amendment?

4. Who tried to launch a rocket full of mail between two Scottish islands in the 1930s?

5. What is the name of the cove where some of the pioneers of the Mormon handcart expedition sought shelter during a snowstorm?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine Nelson Mandela, “Miranda” warnings, Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment and Captain Bligh’s landing on Timor. We’ll also take a look at Vlad the Impaler, Chinese Empress Longyu and the first hijacking of a commercial flight.

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 did Tenzing Norgay bury at the top of Mount Everest? Biscuits and chocolate

2. Who drafted an American version of the Code Duello, a list of rules governing duels? South Carolina Gov. John Lyde Wilson

3. What did The New York Times call the 1866 Fenian raid into Canada? “Fenian Folly”

4. What were Lou Gehrig’s two nicknames? “The Iron Horse” and “Pride of the Yankees”

5. Time Magazine named which participant of the Tiananmen Square demonstration one of the 100 most influential people of the 20^th century? “Tank man”

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. What did Tenzing Norgay bury at the top of Mount Everest?

2. Who drafted an American version of the Code Duello, a list of rules governing duels?

3. What did The New York Times call the 1866 Fenian raid into Canada?

4. What were Lou Gehrig’s two nicknames?

5. Time Magazine named which participant of the Tiananmen Square demonstration one of the 100 most influential people of the 20^th century?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, D-Day, “Missile Mail” and the Crusaders’ siege of Jerusalem. We’ll also take a look at the Mormon handcart expedition, the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and three inmates’ escape from Alcatraz.

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 was Adolf Eichmann called by his classmates as a child in Linz, Austria? “The little Jew”

2. How did P.T. Barnum prove the strength of the Brooklyn Bridge a year after it first opened? He ushered 21 elephants back and forth across it.

3. When was the so-called evolution law, a result of the case of State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, repealed? 1967

4. How many complaints of witchcraft were made in Connecticut between 1638 and 1697? 43

5. How long did it take to construct the Bismarck, Germany’s famed battleship? Three 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. What was Adolf Eichmann called by his classmates as a child in Linz, Austria?

2. How did P.T. Barnum prove the strength of the Brooklyn Bridge a year after it first opened?

3. When was the so-called evolution law, a result of the case of State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, repealed?

4. How many complaints of witchcraft were made in Connecticut between 1638 and 1697?

5. How long did it take to construct the Bismarck, Germany’s famed battleship?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine the first climbers to reach the peak of Mount Everest, the Johnstown, Pa., flood and the Fenian raid into Canada. We’ll also take a look at the duel between Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson, Lou Gehrig, the “zoot suit riots” of Los Angeles and the Tiananmen Square demonstration.

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 journalist published an article in McClure’s magazine exposing Standard Oil’s ruthless practices? Ida Tarbell

2. Why was Charlie Chaplin barred from reentering the U.S. in 1952? He was considered a security risk.

3. How many days did it take for the ash from Mount St. Helens to circle the globe following the volcanic eruption in 1980? 17 days

4. Where was Amelia Earhart originally planning to land on her first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean? Paris

5. Harvey Milk gave his most famous speech in opposition to what proposition? Proposition 6, or the Briggs Initiative

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