Over at the NY Times, the Upshot team has developed a weekly game called the Flashback, which will cause history-lovers to rejoice. Each Sunday, there will be a new Flashback quiz to play, where you’ll drag clues before or after other events based on which occurred earlier or later. If you need the NYT Flashback Quiz Answers for September 3rd, 2023, we have them for you!
NYT Flashback Quiz Answers for September 3 2023
There are eight clues that are given one at a time and must be arranged in chronological order: from oldest-occurring to most recently-occurring. A perfect score on the quiz results in 28 points with each correctly-placed clue earning 2 to 5 points depending on difficulty level. Here are the answers in chronological order:
- Circa 0 BCE: Indigenous peoples hunt bison by guiding them over a blind cliff at the Wahkpa Chu’gn Buffalo Jump, in what’s now Montana. (Clue 1)
- Circa 1100-1200s: Some of the first restaurants emerge in the Song Dynasty, serving dim sum and regional dishes to those traveling between bustling cities. (Clue 7)
- 1850: Harriet Tubman makes the first of her roughly 13 trips to Maryland’s Eastern Shore, freeing about 70 enslaved people. (Clue 5)
- 1894: President Cleveland makes Labor Day a federal holiday, amid a tense national strike by railroad workers. (Starting Clue)
- 1918: Marguerite Harrison goes to Europe as America’s first international female spy, meeting Trotsky and Lenin. (Clue 6)
- Circa 1935-6: Marcel Breuer designs the “Long Chair.” Its Modernist style and laminated plywood would become more widely used in furniture. (Clue 8)
- 1948: “Center pivot” irrigation is invented, where a long line of sprinklers pivot around a central water pump, reshaping the Great Plains. (Clue 3)
- 1973: Chile’s military overthrows the nation’s elected president, Salvador Allende. (Clue 2)
- 1984: The Supreme Court ends the NCAA’s control over college football TV rights, allowing schools to negotiate their own deals. (Clue 4)
This should help you finish up this week’s quiz as we have provided the NYT Flashback Quiz Answers for September 3rd, 2023. You can check the archives for answers to past NYT Flashback Quizzes.
