Answers to February 16 Trivia

1. Which famous explorer was killed in Hawaii on the fourteenth of February, 1779?

Charles Darwin
Captain Cook
Francis Drake
John Cabot

2. What solar body did Astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discover on the eighteenth of February, 1930?

Saturn
Pluto
Uranus
Callistro

3. Whose Manifesto was published on the twenty-first of February, 1848?

Mao Tse-Tung
Adolph Hitler
Karl Marx
Benito Mussolini

4. Which vaccination was first given to school children on the twenty-third of February, 1954?

Scarlet Fever
Small Pox
Polio
Measles

5. Which Olympian made history by becoming the first person to win five individual medals in February, 1980?

Eric Heiden
Mark Spitz
Michael Phelps
Dorothy Hamil