Technology Trivia
What communication device (which may be in your pocket/on your desk at this very moment) was first released on June 29, 2007?
What is the iPhone?
What year was Juneteenth officially recognized as a national federal holiday?
What is June 17, 2021?
President Joe Biden signed the bill ( Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 117–17 (text) (PDF)) on June 17, 2021, making Juneteenth the eleventh American federal holiday and the first to obtain legal observance as a federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was designated in 1983. Juneteenth is observed as the anniversary of June 19, 1865.
June is designated as ____ month, celebrating LGBTQ+ culture, the uplifting of LGBTQ+ voices, and support of LGBTQ+ rights
What is Pride Month?
Father's Day is celebrated on the ___ Sunday of June
What is the 3rd Sunday of June?
This feathered friend of Mickey Mouse made his first movie debut on June 9, 1934...
Who is Donald Duck?
This communication system of dots and dashes was patented on June 20, 1840.
What is Morse Code?
Juneteenth has historically been celebrated under many different names. List one of them
What is:
Freedom Day
Jubilee Day
Cel-Liberation Day
Second Independence Day
Emancipation Day
The acronym LGBTQIA+ stands for the following...
What is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, (and + is etc).
What is the longest day of the year?
What is summer solstice? (June 20, 2024)
Summer Solstice shifts between June 20, 21, and 22, and has the most sunlight of any day of the year. By contrast, Winter Solstice celebrates the longest night (and shortest day) of the year in December.
On June 30, 1997, this popular book series was released by author J.K. Rowling...
What is Harry Potter?
This software tech giant, whose products you have most likely used today, was formally incorporated on June 25, 1981.
What is Microsoft?
Juneteenth was originally celebrated in this state...
Juneteenth was originally celebrated in Texas, on June 19, 1866.
It marked the first anniversary of the day that Black people there first learned of the Emancipation Proclamation, more than two years after it was initially issued.
This country hosts the world's largest Pride parade...
What is Brazil?
This patriotic holiday is celebrated on June 14...
What is Flag Day?
Much to the joy of the band "Village People", what organization was founded in London on June 6, 1844.
What is the YMCA?
This item was first demonstrated in NYC on June 27, 1929 and brought a vivid & visual new form of entertainment to American homes.
What is color television?
The first public demonstration of color TV was held by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images were a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system was used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington.
This figure is referred to as "the father of the Juneteenth Holiday"...
Who is Rep. Al Edwards of Houston, Texas?
Leading the charge was Rep. Al Edwards of Houston, often referred to as “the father of the Juneteenth holiday,” who framed it as a “source of strength” for young people, according to Hayes Turner.
The ____ Uprising on June 28, 1969 was seen as a critical moment in sparking the LGBTQ movement.
What is the Stonewall Uprising?
On June 6, 1944, the event when more than 150,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy, France, as part of the largest seaborne invasion in history during World War II...
What is D-Day or Operation Overlord?
What was the name of Hollywood's first summer blockbuster, which opened in June of 1975?
What is Jaws?
In June of 1922, Warren G Harding became the first US President to broadcast a message over what medium?
What is radio?
What is the period after Juneteenth known as?
What is the scatter?
Undeterred by the recommendation to remain in place, many former slaves left the area during the original reading. In the following weeks formerly enslaved people left Texas in great numbers to find family members and make their way in the postbellum United States.
The name of the artist who designed the first Pride flag in 1978, which originally had 8 stripes with each color symbolizing a different concept.
Who is Gilbert Baker?
Fun Fact! This flag first flew on Gay Pride Day in San Francisco on June 25, 1978.
This branch of the U.S. military was formed on June 14, 1775...
What is the U.S. Army?
This movie shares a title with the deity for whom the month of June is named...
What is Juno?
June is named after the Roman goddess Juno – the god of marriage and childbirth, and the wife of Jupiter, king of the gods.