Commems Collection Classic: Friday Night Quiz #03

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commems CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives United States 12254 Posts	Posted 04/15/2022 5:50 pm A Friday night US history trivia quiz: Which of the following events in US history took place the same year that the Battle of Antietam 75th Anniversary half dollar was released? A. The March of Dimes was founded. B. Amelia Earhart disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean. C. A US peacetime military draft was signed into law. D. The movie "Gone with the Wind" premiered. Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved. Report this Post to the Staff

Spence Moderator United States 34393 Posts	Posted 04/15/2022 6:07 pm I'm not gonna use google, so this is a complete guess: all four. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
Bump111 Pillar of the Community United States 3323 Posts	Posted 04/15/2022 8:39 pm I know that "D" occurred in 1939, so that one is out. Not sure when the other choices took place. Also trying to avoid Google... Perhaps the March of Dimes option is correct - I think the anniversary set came out in 1997? Have no idea about Amelia Earhart and I think the peacetime draft was later. I'm going with "A". "Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae Report this Post to the Staff
smat45 Pillar of the Community United States 2333 Posts	Posted 04/16/2022 06:22 am "A" was my first guess... smat Report this Post to the Staff
nickelsearcher Moderator United States 15389 Posts	Posted 04/16/2022 07:03 am Fun quiz commems - it allows us to refresh our memory on these events. The answer is B - Ameila Earhart disappeared in the same year. The March of Dimes founding missed that year by 4 days. The other events occurred 3 years later. Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art Report this Post to the Staff
commems CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives United States 12254 Posts	Posted 04/16/2022 07:34 am Yes, the correct answer is "B" - Amelia Earhart's disappearance! The Battle of Antietam 75th Anniversary half dollar was approved, struck and released in 1937. The coin was sponsored by the Washington County Historical Society of Hagerstown, Maryland. The coins were offered by the Society for $1.65 each. The same year, 1937, Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to solo across North America (1928) and the first to make a solo trip across the Atlantic Ocean (1932), disappeared on July 2, 1937 while flying over the Pacific Ocean during a trip around the world with her navigator Fred Noonan. An exhaustive search for the remains of Earhart and/or Noonan, as well as wreckage from the plane, was conducted in the years that followed, but nothing was found. Over the past few years, some believe the remains of Aerhart and her plane have been found on Nikumaroro (a small, uninhabited island in the Western Pacific; it is part of Kiribati) - the evidence is not definitive/conclusive, however. So, the mystery may continue! The event years for each of the above: A. 1938 B. 1937 C. 1940 D. 1939 Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved. Report this Post to the Staff
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