findingEducation’s Digital Teachers’ LoungeTips and insights from the findingEducation team.

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 famous media magnate tried to prevent the 1941 release of the classic film, “Citizen Kane”?

2. What company was behind the first commercial jet flight, and what became of it?

3. How did cooperation between the War Department and U.S. media blunt the impact of Japan’s “balloon bomb” attacks on the U.S. during World War II? 

4. In 1970, what was the announcement by President Nixon that led to protests at conservative Kent State University, which ended with four students dead?

5. What cause did both German and American investigators cite for the Hindenburg explosion at the time of the incident?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week’s “On This Day” will examine the end of WWII in Europe,  the end of the Berlin Blockade and the birth of Israel. We’ll also explore the FDA’s approval of birth control, the dust storm that devastated the Great Plains and the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory

Did you take the Quiztory last week? Now it’s time to check your answers:

1. Where were members of the Easter Rising rebellion imprisoned? Frongoch internment camp

2. Who formed the Suez Canal Company? French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps

3. Where did the residents of Pripyat relocate to following the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown? Slavutych

4. What was the first commercially successful steamship in the U.S.? The Clermont

5. Which pope canonized Joan of Arc? Pope Benedict XV

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory, The Answer Sheet

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. Where were members of the Easter Rising rebellion imprisoned?

2. Who formed the Suez Canal Company?

3. Where did the residents of Pripyat relocate to following the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown?

4. What was the first commercially successful steamship in the U.S.?

5. Which pope canonized Joan of Arc?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine the premiere of “Citizen Kane,” the first commercial jet flight, a Japanese WWII balloon bomb and the crash of the Hindenburg. We’ll also take a look at Nancy Reagan’s use of astrologers, the Kent State shootings and the sinking of the Lusitania.

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory

Did you take the Quiztory last week? Now it’s time to check your answers:

1. Where were members of the Easter Rising rebellion imprisoned? Frongoch internment camp

2. Who formed the Suez Canal Company? Ferdinand de Lesseps

3. Where did the residents of Pripyat relocate to following the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown? Slavutych

4. What was the first commercially successful steamship in the U.S.? The Clermont

5. Which pope canonized Joan of Arc? Pope Benedict XV

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory, The Answer Sheet

Did you take the Quiztory last week? Now it’s time to check your answers:

1. What country sent missiles to Cuba after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion? Soviet Union

2. Who was the mayor of San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake? Eugene E. Schmitz

3. What was the first-ever nationally televised congressional inquiry? Army-McCarthy hearings

4. How long did the Mariel boatlift exodus last? Seven months

5. Who was the leader of the Jewish resistance movement within the Warsaw ghetto? Mordechai Anielewicz

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory, The Answer Sheet

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 country sent missiles to Cuba after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion?

2. Who was the mayor of San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake?

3. What was the first-ever nationally televised congressional inquiry?

4. How long did the Mariel boatlift exodus last?

5. Who was the leader of the Jewish resistance movement within the Warsaw ghetto?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine the Easter Rising, the Suez Canal, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant meltdown and explorer Ferdinand Magellan. We’ll also take a look at Aldrich Ames, Joan of Arc and Adolf Hitler’s suicide.

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory

Did you take the Quiztory last week? Now it’s time to check your answers:

1. What position did Jackie Robinson play for the Brooklyn Dodgers? Second base

2. Where was Napoleon exiled for the second time? St. Helena

3. When was the reentry malfunction of Vostok 1 revealed to the public? 1996

4. Which Polish director made a film about the Katyn massacre in 2007? Andrzej Wajda

5. Who killed John Wilkes Booth? Union soldier Boston Corbett

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory, The Answer Sheet

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 position did Jackie Robinson play for the Brooklyn Dodgers?

2. Where was Napoleon exiled for the second time?

3. When was the reentry malfunction of Vostok 1 revealed to the public?

4. Which Polish director made a film about the Katyn massacre in 2007?

5. Who killed John Wilkes Booth?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine the Bay of Pigs invasion, the San Francisco earthquake, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and Rosie Ruiz’s fake Boston Marathon victory. We’ll also take a look at the 1980 exodus of Cubans to the United States, the McCarthy hearings and Coca-Cola’s release of “New Coke.”

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory

Did you take the Quiztory last week? Now it’s time to check your answers:

1. How much money did the Marshall Plan provide in aid to Europe? More than $13 billion

2. Who was Martin Luther King Jr. speaking with when he was fatally shot? Jesse Jackson

3. What disease did Anne Sullivan suffer from as a child? Trachoma

4. Which U.S. president continued production of the neutron bomb after President Jimmy Carter temporarily halted production? Ronald Reagan

5. How long did the “Mercury Seven” serve in Project Mercury? 5 years

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory, The Answer Sheet

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. How much money did the Marshall Plan provide in aid to Europe?

2. Who was Martin Luther King Jr. speaking with when he was fatally shot?

3. What disease did Anne Sullivan suffer from as a child?

4. Which U.S. president continued production of the neutron bomb after President Jimmy Carter temporarily halted production?

5. How long did the “Mercury Seven” serve in Project Mercury?

What’s Coming Up?

Next week, “On This Day” will examine Jackie Robinson joining the Brooklyn Dodgers, Napoleon’s exile, the polio vaccination and the Katyn massacre. We’ll also take a look at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the sinking of the Titanic and the ammonium nitrate explosion in Texas City in 1947.

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
Tags: Quiztory