See what you know about the year 1895
Quiz created by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye
1. Mintonette, which was invented by William G. Morgan on February 9, 1895, is now known as what sport?
2. William L. Wilson was appointed to this then cabinet-level position on March 1, 1895?
3. On January 5, 1895 French officer Alfred Dreyfus was stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on what island?
4. In the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which was signed on April 17, 1895 by China and Japan, China renounced its claims to what area?
5. What frontier outlaw was killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas on August 19, 1895?
6. The first professional American football game was played on September 3, 1895 in what American city?
7. What National Football League pioneer was born on February 2, 1895?
8. George B. Selden was granted the first U.S. patent for what invention on November 5, 1895?
9. On October 22, 1895 a major train wreck took place at Montparnasse Station in what European city?
10. On June 28, 1895 what three countries united to form the Greater Republic of Central America?
