Protest
Five real newspaper headlines about protest, printed between 1900 and 2011, with their dates removed. Read each one and guess the year it was published. No multiple choice and no trivia questions, just the headline as it was printed.
There are 2 rounds of five in this topic, and a new one appears whenever the archive has enough for it.
Headline one
The Times
1900
The Boxer Rebellion, an anti-foreign uprising backed by the Empress Dowager Cixi, besieged the foreign legations in Peking for 55 days. An eight-nation international military force eventually relieved the legations and suppressed the rebellion. The aftermath forced China to accept the humiliating Boxer Protocol, imposing massive reparations and foreign military presence.
Headline two
The Times
1956
On 4 November 1956, Soviet forces launched a massive military assault on Budapest to crush the Hungarian Revolution that had briefly ousted the communist government. An estimated 2,500 Hungarians were killed and 200,000 fled the country as refugees. The uprising had briefly raised hopes of a break from Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.
Headline three
The Irish Times
1972
On 30 January 1972, British Army paratroopers opened fire on a civil rights march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, killing fourteen people, all of them unarmed Catholic civilians. The day became known as Bloody Sunday and was a pivotal moment in the Troubles, dramatically increasing IRA recruitment and hardening nationalist opinion. A full independent inquiry under Lord Saville, completed in 2010, concluded that the shootings were unjustified and that soldiers had fired on unarmed civilians.
Headline four
The Times
1980
The Solidarity trade union was founded at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980 under the leadership of electrician Lech Wałęsa following a series of strikes. It became the first independent trade union in a Soviet bloc country, attracting ten million members within months. Solidarity's rise ultimately contributed to the peaceful collapse of communism in Poland and across Eastern Europe.
Headline five
The Guardian
2011
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned on February 11, 2011, after eighteen days of massive protests centred on Tahrir Square in Cairo. The resignation came as the Egyptian military made clear it would not use force against the demonstrators. Mubarak's fall was the most dramatic moment of the Arab Spring wave of uprisings that swept North Africa and the Middle East.
Answer the five above to see your score.
Scoring works as it does in the daily game. Each headline is worth up to 100 points, and you lose two points for every year you are out. Being a decade wrong still earns you 80. A perfect round is 500.
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