Quiztory: Week of Feb. 27
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 acted as an intermediary between the Charles Lindbergh family and their child’s kidnapper in 1932?
2. When was Winston Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech published in Russia?
3. After Berlin’s Reichstag was burned down in 1933, what did German President Paul von Hindenburg sign “for the Protection of the People and the State”?
4. When did Britain relinquish Rhodesia as a colony?
5. Who videotaped the beating of Rodney King by a group of white Los Angeles police officers in 1991?
What’s Coming Up?
Next week, “On This Day” will examine Dred Scott’s Supreme Court case, Daniel Webster and Russia’s February revolution. We’ll also take a look at ‘Axis Sally,’ the founding of the Girl Scouts of America and the Hanafi Muslim Siege of 1977.
