Quiztory: Week of Sept. 19
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. What was the first organized baseball team in history?
2. Which member of the Polish resistance allowed himself to be captured by the Nazis?
3. When did Congress pass the Bill of Rights?
4. Who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford on Sept. 22, 1975?
5. When was J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” published?
Come back on Monday to check your answers.
What’s Coming Up?
Next week, “On This Day” will profile the first person to successfully decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, and we’ll take a look at the 1995 civil control agreement between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Look for articles on the 1982 Tylenol-poisoning scare, the world’s first hydroelectric power plant and the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910. We’ll also profile Charles Schulz, creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip.
