Quiztory: Week of Oct. 3
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. Who sent a memo on Oct. 7, 1940, to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s advisors proposing aggressive action against Japan?
2. When did much of Europe switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar?
3. Who wrote “Guerilla Warfare” and was killed by CIA operatives and members of the Bolivian army in 1967?
4. Where did writer Edgar Allen Poe die?
5. Which film was the first full-length film to feature the voices of its actors?
What’s Coming Up?
Next week, “On This Day” will take a look at Christopher Columbus’ landing in the Caribbean Islands, Italy’s declaration of war on Nazi Germany and the Cuban Missile Crisis. We’ll also examine the American athletes that gave the black power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, and the kidnapping of Quebec’s Minister of Labor by militant separatists in 1970.
