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Trivia Questions And Answers About The 1920s

How many suspected communists and anarchists are arrested and held without trial in the United States following raids in several cities?
A: 4,025.

Babe Ruth is traded by the Red Sox for how much money?
A:  $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time.

Bolsheviks increase troops from four divisions to twenty along the what?
A: Polish border

The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected what?
A: Socialist assemblymen.

Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley does what?
A: He climbs the Woolworth Building in New York City.

He reaches the 30th floor before being what?
A: Arrested.

Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the League of Nations holds its first what?
A: Council meeting, in Paris.

 

The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic is recognized de facto by whom?
A: European powers in Versailles.

Who does the New York Times ridicule?
A: The American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard.

Prohibition in the United States begins with what?
A: The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect.

The United States Senate votes against joining the what?
A: League of Nations.

The Australian Country Party is officially formed, led by whom?
A: Nelson Pollard.

The oldest surviving pro wrestling match on film takes place, with Joe Stecher defeating whom?
A: Earl Caddock.

The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed, ending what?
A: The Estonian War of Independence.

 

Who are executed by firing squad near Irkutsk?
A: Admiral Kolchak and Viktor Pepelyayev.

Leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Italy meet to discuss the partitioning of what?
A: The Ottoman Empire.

Switzerland rejoins what?
A: The League of Nations.

What league is founded in Chicago?
A: The League of Women Voters.

The United States Senate refuses to ratify what?
A: The Treaty of Versailles.

In Emeryville, California, the first "what" to employ an imitation rabbit opens?
A: Dog racing track.

Hungarian Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes what?
A: The Regent of Hungary.

 

Where does the world's first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government takes place?
A: In Sweden.

Who takes over when Nils Edén resigns?
A: Hjalmar Branting.

What army, a communist army 60,000 men strong, is formed in Germany?
A: The Ruhr Red Army.

Greece begins using the what?
A: The Gregorian calendar.

The United States Congress refuses to ratify the what?
A: Treaty of Versailles.

Admiral Miklós Horthy declares that Hungary is a what?
A: Monarchy without anyone on the throne.

British recruits to the Royal Irish Constabulary begin to arrive where?
A: In Ireland.

 

Sir William Robertson is promoted to Field Marshal, the first man to what?
A: Rise from private (enlisted 1877) to the highest rank in the British Army.

The German army marches to where?
A: The Ruhr to fight the Ruhr Red Army.

Álvaro Obregón flees from Mexico City during a trial intended to what?
A: Ruin his reputation.

Álvaro Obregón announces in Chilpancingo that he intends to do what?
A: Fight against the rule of Venustiano Carranza.

Where do the 1920 Summer Olympics open?
A: In Antwerp, Belgium.

The Olympic symbols of what are first displayed at the games?
A: Five interlocking rings and the associated flag.

Polish and anti-Soviet Ukrainian troops attack who?
A: The Red Army in Soviet Ukraine.

 

Where is the first game of Negro National League baseball played?
A: In Indianapolis, Indiana.

Where does a Bolshevik coup fail?
A: In the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

Polish troops occupy what city?
A:  Kiev.

The first flight of what Dutch air company, from Amsterdam to London, takes place?
A: KLM.

Álvaro Obregón's troops enter what city?
A:  Mexico City.

Who becomes president of Czechoslovakia?
A: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

The United States Post Office Department rules what?
A: That children may not be sent via parcel post.

 

Germany declares its neutrality in the war between what two countries?
A: Poland and Soviet Russia.

Who becomes Canada's ninth prime minister?
A: Arthur Meighen.

Pancho Villa takes over Sabina and contacts de la Huerta to offer his what?
A: Conditional surrender. He signs his surrender on July 28.

France prohibits the sale or prescription of what?
A: Contraceptives.

Catholic riots in Belfast in protest at the continuing what?
A: British Army presence.

The Red Army is defeated in what battle?
A: The Battle of Warsaw.

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, guaranteeing what?
A: Women's suffrage.

The National Football League is established as the what?
A:  American Professional Football Association.

The first domestic radio sets come to what?
A: Stores in the United States.

Adolf Hitler makes his first what?
A: Public political speech, in Austria.

In the 1920 World Series, the   beat what team to win their first World Series title?
A: the Brooklyn Dodgers.

 
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