Quiztory: Week of Dec. 12
Test your students’ knowledge of the notable events covered in findingDulcinea’s “On This Day” column this week with the Quiztory—a quiz on important events in history. A new Quiztory will run every Friday.
1. Where was Guglielmo Marconi’s North American radio station located?
2. In the race between Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole, which man’s party relied on Siberian ponies to transport supplies?
3. When Francis Drake sailed up the west coast of the North American continent, what did he call the Pacific Northwest region?
4. Which U.S. Supreme Court justice defended the internment of Japanese Americans in the early 1940s on the basis of national security?
5. Which three British ships, loaded with a cargo of tea, were vandalized by American colonists in Boston Harbor in 1773?
What’s Coming Up?
Next week, “On This Day” will take a look at the debut of Ripley’s “Believe it or Not,” the U.S. invasion of Panama, the discovery of radium and Ceausescu’s removal from office in Romania. We’ll also examine George H.W. Bush’s pardon for the Iran-Contra defendants and the ceasefire between British and German troops on Christmas day, 1914, during World War I.
