{"id":9630,"date":"2019-11-21T21:13:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=9630"},"modified":"2019-11-25T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T14:40:04","slug":"quiz-older-or-younger-than-augsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2019\/11\/21\/quiz-older-or-younger-than-augsburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: Older or younger than Augsburg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Augsburg\u2019s founding in 1869, the university is celebrating the past and the present with sesquicentennial events all year long. Think you know history? Test your knowledge: Identify whether each of the events below is older or younger than Augsburg.<\/p>\n<p>1. The first recorded baseball game occurs.<\/p>\n<p>2. Abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman are born.<\/p>\n<p>3. Leaders sign Norway\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n<p>4. Abraham Lincoln serves as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>5. Victor Hugo publishes the novel \u201cLes Mis\u00e9rables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6. Pharmacist John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n<p>7. The first automobile with an internal combustion engine is invented.<\/p>\n<p><em>Answers: 1. Older; 1846. 2. Older; 1818 and 1822. 3. Older; 1814. 4. Older; 1861\u201365. 5. Older; 1862. 6. Younger; 1886. 7. Older; 1807.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Augsburg\u2019s founding in 1869, the university is celebrating the past and the present with sesquicentennial events all year long. Think you know history? Test your knowledge: Identify whether each of the events below is older or younger than Augsburg. 1. The first recorded baseball game occurs. 2. Abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":9907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-9630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-fall-winter-2019"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10053,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions\/10053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}