Test Your Knowledge of Prohibition

Question 1

Which amendment outlined the passage of Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

18th

Question 2

Which institutions were exempt from Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 3

What famous gangster rose to power during Prohibition and is called the “king of Chicago crime”?

Accepted Answer

Al Capone

Question 4

During prohibition, Yuengling and Anheuser Busch both refitted their breweries to make:

Accepted Answer

Ice Cream

Question 5

Prohibition continues in parts of how many states to this day:

Accepted Answer

10

Question 6

What reason is credited for ending Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 7

Which of the following Temperance organizations had the greatest influence?

Accepted Answer

The Anti-Saloon League

Question 8

Prohibition was so immensely unpopular that it only lasted a few years. In what year was it repealed?

Accepted Answer

1933

Question 9

What was the name of the act that helped define the 18th Amendment?

Accepted Answer

The Volstead Act

Question 10

Some states refused to enforce Prohibition

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

What was a speakeasy?

Accepted Answer

Illegal bar

Question 12

What famous Robber Baron helped fund the Temperance movements that led to Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

John D. Rockefeller

Question 13

What percentage of the Prohibition Bureau (designed to enforce the laws of Prohibition) was considered corrupt?

Accepted Answer

20%

Question 14

What popular prohibition drink consisted of 0.5% alcoholic beer injected with toxic rubbing alcohol?

Accepted Answer

Needle Beer

Question 15

Which president signed the 21st amendment?

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 16

The Cullen-Harrison Act, which amended the Volstead Act, permitted manufacturing and sale of low-alcohol beer and wines

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

The 21st Amendment repealed prohibition across the country, including at the state and local levels

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

It was never illegal to drink alcohol during prohibition

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Which state is credited as being the most stubbornly anti-Prohibition states in the Union?

Accepted Answer

Maryland

Question 20

21st Amendment

Accepted Answer

Repealed Prohibition

Questions 20