Quiztory: Week of May 22
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. What was Adolf Eichmann called by his classmates as a child in Linz, Austria?
2. How did P.T. Barnum prove the strength of the Brooklyn Bridge a year after it first opened?
3. When was the so-called evolution law, a result of the case of State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, repealed?
4. How many complaints of witchcraft were made in Connecticut between 1638 and 1697?
5. How long did it take to construct the Bismarck, Germany’s famed battleship?
What’s Coming Up?
Next week, “On This Day” will examine the first climbers to reach the peak of Mount Everest, the Johnstown, Pa., flood and the Fenian raid into Canada. We’ll also take a look at the duel between Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson, Lou Gehrig, the “zoot suit riots” of Los Angeles and the Tiananmen Square demonstration.
