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This Week in History –6/13/10 to 6/19/10
Estimated play time: Approximately 15 minutes
Number of players: Unlimited
Supplies needed: Scoring board/pad; noisemakers
Overview: This weekly trivia quiz looks at historical events for each day of this coming week – just a question or two per day. You can choose to make this a standard group game … or you might think about posting the questions for each day-perhaps in the dining room or the elevator - to inspire participation even from those residents who don’t join in on the group game activities.
Standard play:
1. Divide the players into teams. Give one player on each team a noisemaker (New Year’s blower, bell, etc.)
2. Read the question aloud.
3. Discussion is permitted among teammates. When they think they have the answer, one member of the team signals with the noisemaker.
4. The first team to signal answers the question. If the answer is right, score 10 points for that team on the score pad. If the answer is wrong, the other teams have a chance to signal.
5. Play until all questions have been asked and answered.
As always, the host has the final say in any disputes.
This Week in History – 6/13/10 to 6/19/10
Questions
Sunday, June 13
1. On this date in 1966, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda vs. Arizona decision that required police to do this before questioning a suspect.
2. On this date in 1967, Lyndon Johnson nominated this Solicitor General to become the first black justice on the Supreme Court.
3. On this date in 2004, George H. W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday by doing this.
Monday, June 14
4. On this date in 1940, Nazi troops encountered no resistance as they entered this European capital. Knowing the Nazis were coming, the government troops had withdrawn to avoid a battle that would destroy the historical and artistic treasures of their city.
Tuesday, June 15
5. On this date in 1992, Vice PresidentDan Quayle instructed a child in a Trenton, NJ elementary school to spell this word – incorrectly.
6. On this date in 1995, OJ Simpson struggled to put on a pair of gloves that prosecutors said were worn by the killer of Simpson’s ex-wife. This moment inspired Simpson attorney Johnny Corcoran’s most famous summation line from the trial. Do you remember the line?
Wednesday, June 16
7. On this date in 1903, this five year-old beverage company in North Carolinatook on its present-day brand name—fifteen years after its much larger rival in Atlanta trademarked its similar drink.
8. On this date—again in 1903—this business and manufacturing pioneer launched his Dearborn, Michigan company with $28,000 in cash from a dozen investors. Within a couple of decades, his business grew into one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.
Thursday, June 17
9. On this date in 1775, British and Colonial troops fought this misnamed battle in an attempt to remove the British from Boston. It was actually fought on Breed’s Hill.
10. On this date in 1885, this gift from France to honor the 100th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America arrived by boat in New York Harbor. It traveled in pieces -packed into 214 crates - and took four months to reassemble.
11. On this date in 1972, Richard Nixon’s downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside the Democratic National Headquarters in this Washington DC complex.
Friday, June 18
12. On this date in 1942, this co-writer of hits such as I Want To Hold Your Hand, Yesterday, and A Hard Day’s Night was born in England.
13. On this date in 1983, Sally Ride became the first woman to do this.
Saturday, June 19
14. On this date in 1953, this couple, convicted of conspiring to pass US atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, was executed at Sing Sing Prison in upstate New York.
This Week in History – 6/13/10 to 6/19/10
Answers
Sunday, June 13
1. The Miranda case required that the police inform a suspect of his constitutional rights to remain silent and to have a lawyer represent him to protect him against self-incrimination.
2. Thurgood Marshall
3. Bush (the senior) parachuted out of an airplane.
Monday, June 14
4. Paris. The Germans occupied France for the next four years.
Tuesday, June 15
5. Potato. The boy had spelled it right, but Quayle incorrectly insisted he put an ‘e’ at the end (potatoe).
6. “If the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit.”
Wednesday, June 16
7. Pepsi-Cola
8. Henry Ford (The Ford Motor Company)
Thursday, June 17
9. The Battle of Bunker Hill
10. The Statue of Liberty.
11. The Watergate
Friday, June 18
12. (Beatle) Paul McCartney
13. Ride was the first woman astronaut and the first woman to blast off into space along with four colleagues aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
Saturday, June 19
14. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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