Daily Quiz
Published: August 13, 2008 at 1:01 am
Heinrich Kraemer and Johann Sprenger published Malleus melefircarum, which became the authoritative encyclopedia of this.
Published: July 24, 2008 at 1:01 am
The Chinese Exclusion Act, prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, was passed by Congress in this year.
Published: July 23, 2008 at 1:01 am
During the Civil War, this officer rode a gelding named Rienzi.
Published: July 22, 2008 at 1:01 am
Even though he had lost the lower part of his right arm in the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War, this explorer led an expedition down the Green and Colorado rivers, through the Grand Canyon:
Published: July 21, 2008 at 1:01 am
Eleanor Roosevelt suggested that this person should be added to the four faces of Mount Rushmore.
Published: July 20, 2008 at 1:01 am
Brother Jasper initiated this American tradition.
Published: July 19, 2008 at 1:01 am
This ancient south Arabian kingdom flourished in the 5th-1st centuries BC in what is now southern Yemen.
Published: July 18, 2008 at 1:01 am
This was the only U.S. vice president whose election was determined by the Senate.
Published: July 17, 2008 at 1:01 am
This British officer gave American partisan leader Francis Marion the nickname of 'The Swamp Fox.'
Published: July 16, 2008 at 1:01 am
Anne Frank was imprisoned in this German concentration camp.
Published: July 15, 2008 at 1:01 am
The failed invasion of Cuba by CIA-backed Cuban refugees, known as the Bay of Pigs, took place on this date.
Published: July 14, 2008 at 1:01 am
William Wrigley, Jr., owned the Chicago Cubs baseball team and named their stadium after himself, but he made his millions creating an empire based on this.
Published: July 13, 2008 at 1:01 am
This Celtic leader of the Iceni tribe rose up in revolt against the Roman occupation of Britain.
Published: July 12, 2008 at 1:01 am
In direct reprisal for the killing of Nazi Gestapo official Reinhard Heydrich by Czech agents, this town was completely destroyed and thousands of its residents murdered.
Published: July 11, 2008 at 1:01 am
This ancient Briton mounted a guerrilla uprising against the Romans in AD 43.
Published: July 10, 2008 at 1:01 am
This legendary hero of the American Revolution was nearly beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore in 1812.
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