Quiztory: Week of Dec. 5
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. When did Boris Yeltsin resign and cede power to Vladimir Putin?
2. Who is credited with initially spreading the word that gold was found in the American River?
3. How many American servicemen died on board the battleship USS Arizona as a result of the Japanese bombing of a U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor?
4. In 2001, which country was voted off the United Nations Human Rights Commission?
5. Which magazine published a story about Thomas Edison’s phonograph invention in its Dec. 22, 1877, edition?
What’s Coming Up?
Next week, “On This Day” will take a look at Guglielmo Marconi and his radio signal experiments, Sir Francis Drake’s explorations and Roald Amundsen’s journey to the South Pole. We’ll also examine Adolf Eichmann’s trial, the Boston Tea Party, the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk and the internment of Japanese Americans in the 1940s.
