Quiztory: Week of Feb. 6
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. In 1815, what African-American Quaker led a group of freed slaves to Sierra Leone?
2. U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was released from a Soviet prison in exchange for whom?
3. In what Scottish prison was Mary Stuart, Catholic queen of Scotland, imprisoned?
4. Who led an international movement to free Mandela in the 1980s?
5. During the presidential election of 1824, what was the United States’ only political party?
What’s Coming Up?
Next week, “On This Day” will examine Galileo and the Inquisition, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Soviet troops leaving Afghanistan and King Tut’s Tomb. We’ll also take a look at President Nixon’s trip to China, the Chicago Seven and the internment of Japanese-Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
