Quiz  /  This Day in History Quiz: June 2 Quiz

  • 1. 
    On June 2, 1953, 27-year-old Elizabeth II was crowned queen of the United Kingdom. Which monarch did she succeed?

  • Edward VIII
  • Victoria
  • George VI
  • William IV

  • 2. 
    On June 2, 1941, this American baseball player, nicknamed “the Iron Horse” for his record-setting number of consecutive games played, died of ALS.

  • Babe Ruth
  • Joe DiMaggio
  • Lou Gehrig
  • Ted Williams

  • 3. 
    On June 2, 1946, in the aftermath of World War II and the death of Benito Mussolini, the people of Italy passed a referendum to replace the monarchy with which form of government?

  • anarchy
  • a dictatorship
  • an oligarchy
  • a republic

  • 4. 
    On June 2, 1886, Frances Folsom married a U.S. president, thereby becoming the youngest first lady in American history. Who was her husband?

  • Grover Cleveland
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Abraham Lincoln

  • 5. 
    U.S. spacecraft Surveyor 1 made a soft landing on the Moon on June 2, 1966. True or false: Surveyor was the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon.

  • false
  • true

  • 6. 
    Which American musician who figured importantly in the emergence of rock and roll as a distinct style died on June 2, 2008?

  • Fats Domino
  • Ray Charles
  • Bo Diddley
  • Chuck Berry
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