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JDI 1920's Quiz
JDI 1920's Quiz
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1
Which country was created in 1922, upon the signing of a treaty in London?
Wales
Scotland
England
Ireland
2
The first radio broadcast of this company took place in 1922:
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
The British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
The Cable News Network (CNN)
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
3
Which movie won the Oscar for Outstanding Picture at the first Academy Awards in 1929?
Wings
The Racket
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
7th Heaven
4
What was the title of the first feature-length talking movie, released in 1927?
The Singing Fool
Lights of New York
The Jazz Singer
Tenderloin
5
The Soviet Union became a country in what year?
1922
1991
1926
1945
6
Which baseball player was purchased by the New York Yankees in 1920?
Lou Gehrig
Joe DiMaggio
Tony Lazzeri
Babe Ruth
7
Frederick Banting and John Macleod won the Novel Prize in 1923 for discovering what?
Penicillin
Insulin
Germ Theory
Anaesthetic
8
American writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote this work, which was published in 1925:
The Great Gatsby
The Stranger
The Sound and the Fury
Ulysses
9
In what year was the first modern-day Winter Olympics Games?
1921
1920
1924
1929
10
The League of Nations was founded in 1920 following WWI. What country did not join the League of Nations?
France
Brazil
Great Britain
United States
11
This parade is the largest parade in the world and first started in the fall of 1924:
The Philadelphia Mummers Parade, Pennsylvania
St. Patrick's Day Parade, Dublin
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, NYC
Dia De Los Muertos Parade, Mexico
12
This device became a popular source for news and entertainment for Americans after WWI:
Television
Video
Newspaper
Radio
13
Before winning the 1928 presidential election, he was a worldwide engineer:
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
14
Which of these sodas was created in 1929?
Mountain Dew
Coca-Cola
7 Up
Sprite
15
What musician was NOT part of the Jazz Age in the 1920's?
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
Wynston Marsalis
Duke Ellington
16
In which year did Amelia Earhart become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
1926
1925
1920
1928
17
This medical contraption was first used in 1928 on patients suffering from polio:
Nebulizer
Back brace
Iron lung
Leg crutches
18
On August 18, 1920, women in the U.S. won the right to do what?
Divorce
Work
Vote
Drive
19
Who was on the first cover of TIME Magazine, released on March 3, 1923?
Warren G. Harding
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Joseph G. Cannon
20
This famous baseball player set a home-run record in 1927:
Lou Gehrig
Ted Williams
Babe Ruth
Jackie Robinson