Quiztory: Week of Feb. 13
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 new era of diplomacy between the United States and China dawned on April 6, 1971, when China invited nine Americans to play what sport in China?
2. When was the last Japanese-American internment camp in the United States closed?
3. What was the name of Galileo’s book, published in 1632, in which he explained the Copernican theory?
4. What document did the Soviet Union, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States sign in 1988, creating a timetable for the Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan?
5. When was Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s citizenship in the former Soviet Union restored?
What’s Coming Up?
Next week, “On This Day” will examine dueling in Washington, D.C., the assassination of Malcolm X and the “Miracle on Ice.” We’ll also take a look at Mexican Gen. Santa Anna’s siege of the Alamo, the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, Muhammad Ali’s heavyweight title and the 1993 car bombing of the World Trade Center.
