Quiz  /  This Day in History Quiz: August 9

  • 1. 
    Who defeated Pompey the Great at the Battle of Pharsalus on August 9, 48 BCE?

  • Marcus Porcius Cato
  • Cleopatra
  • Scipio Africanus
  • Julius Caesar

  • 2. 
    Where was Michael Brown, a Black teenager, fatally shot by a white police officer on August 9, 2014, setting off days of civil unrest and protests?

  • Atlanta, Georgia
  • Louisville, Kentucky
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Ferguson, Missouri

  • 3. 
    On what city in Japan did the United States drop an atomic bomb on August 9, 1945?

  • Tokyo
  • Ōsaka
  • Nagasaki
  • Hiroshima

  • 4. 
    To what team was Wayne Gretzky traded on August 9, 1988?

  • Hartford Whalers
  • Montreal Canadiens
  • Los Angeles Kings
  • Edmonton Oilers

  • 5. 
    The songs “Greatest Love of All,” “Saving All My Love for You,” and “How Will I Know” appeared on the debut album of the singer who was born on August 9, 1963. Who is she?

  • Whitney Houston
  • Madonna
  • Miriam Makeba
  • Gloria Estefan
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