Tag: US president

  • Fiddler’s Bridge Rings

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    Here are some questions based on this day in history.

    1. Antonio Vivaldi, composer and virtuoso violinist was born on 4 March 1678. Where was he born?
      • Vigo, Kingdom of Galicia (now Spain)
      • Vienna, Austria
      • Venice, Republic of Venice (now Italy) 
    2. What Scottish city is located about nine miles east of the bridge, which opened this day in 1890, pictured above? 
      • Aberdeen
      • Dundee
      • Edinburgh
      Frances Perkins
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    3. Frances Perkins was the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet in the United States. Which president appointed her as the fourth US Secretary of Labor?
      • Calvin Coolidge
      • Herbert Hoover
      • Franklin D. Roosevelt 
    4. On 4 March 1966, it was claimed during an interview that we are ‘more popular than Jesus’. Who made this claim?
      • John Lennon of the Beatles
      • Cass Elliot of the Mamas & the Papas
      • Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones
    5. On this day in 1979 the first photograph of the rings of Jupiter (below) was sent back to Earth by what spacecraft?
      • Voyager 1
      • Galileo
      • Pioneer 11
    Jupiter.
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    Good luck! The answers will be posted later today.

  • One of the Big Four—Answer

    Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States and played a significant role in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, which led to the Treaty of Versailles. Wilson was an advocate for the League of Nations, although the United States never joined it. He passed away on 3 February 1924.

  • One of the Big Four

    A former US president who passed away on 3 February 1924, was one of the prominent figures known as the Big Four, the chief Allied leaders who convened at the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919. Can you identify this president?

    The answer will be posted later today.