… At least, not on anything that happened in the past century!
I’ve called y’all’s attention to the NYT’s Flashback quiz before, explaining why I like it so much. And it’s not just because I almost always get 100 percent on it.
I do occasionally miss one of the items, but I’ve never swung and missed by this much on something happening between, say, 1750 and now.
Here’s the one I totally missed on the most recent one:
Germany makes the last payment of its World War I reparations. The total bill adds up to 121 billion gold marks, plus interest.
So do you know the date? Without looking it up? (And Ken, you’re disqualified, on account of your connections to the Vaterland.)
Maybe you all do. All I know is, I was quite embarrassed. I console myself by reflecting that I got this one right, even though when I get one wrong, it’s usually a B.C. date:
Egyptian elites entomb their loved ones with “Books of the Dead,” convinced their spells will help them master a happy afterlife.
But by way of full disclosure, I should tell you that that whole millennium was wide open, so it would have been hard to miss…
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