History quiz 1
How's your knowledge of world events? Can you name the city or town in which the following events took place? No internet use permitted of course and good luck - some are easy but some perhaps not so.
1. 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre 2. 1979 Hostages kidnapped at American embassy
3. 1974 Ali vs. Foreman, "The Rumble in the Jungle"
4. 1972 Terrorists kill members of the Israeli Olympic team
5. 1968 Democracy movement crushed by Soviet tanks
6. 1967 "The Summer of Love"
7. 1963 Assassination of John F. Kennedy
8. 1963 Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech
9. 1948 Supplies airlifted in to relieve this city from a Soviet blockade
10. 1943 Turning point of WWII as Nazis fail to capture this city
11. 1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
12. 1903 First powered flight
13. 1854 John Snow traces a cholera outbreak to a contaminated well
14. 1836 Battle of the Alamo
15. 1812 The easternmost point of Napoleon's conquests
16. 1789 Storming of the Bastille
17. 7617 Continental Congress issues American Declaration of Independence
18. 1589 Galileo drops two object of different mass from a tower to prove
that they fall at the same rate
19. 570 Birth of Muhammad
20. 632 Death of Muhammed
1. 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre 2. 1979 Hostages kidnapped at American embassy
3. 1974 Ali vs. Foreman, "The Rumble in the Jungle"
4. 1972 Terrorists kill members of the Israeli Olympic team
5. 1968 Democracy movement crushed by Soviet tanks
6. 1967 "The Summer of Love"
7. 1963 Assassination of John F. Kennedy
8. 1963 Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech
9. 1948 Supplies airlifted in to relieve this city from a Soviet blockade
10. 1943 Turning point of WWII as Nazis fail to capture this city
11. 1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
12. 1903 First powered flight
13. 1854 John Snow traces a cholera outbreak to a contaminated well
14. 1836 Battle of the Alamo
15. 1812 The easternmost point of Napoleon's conquests
16. 1789 Storming of the Bastille
17. 7617 Continental Congress issues American Declaration of Independence
18. 1589 Galileo drops two object of different mass from a tower to prove
that they fall at the same rate
19. 570 Birth of Muhammad
20. 632 Death of Muhammed
