1917 Trivia Quiz Questions And Answers
The University of
Oregon defeats the University of
Pennsylvania 14–0 in U.S. college football's 3rd what?
A: Annual Rose Bowl Game.
The Royal Bank of Canada takes over what bank?
A: Quebec Bank.
The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai
Peninsula is captured by who?
A: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column at the
Battle of Rafa.
The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for how
much money?
A: $25 million.
A blast at a "what" in London kills 73 and injures over
400?
A: Munitions factory.
President Wilson calls for what?
A: "peace without victory" in Germany.
British armed merchantman SS Laurentic is what?
A: Sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland) with the loss of 354 of the 475
aboard.
An anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco occurs and
police close about how many houses of prostitution?
A: About 200.
The United States ends its search for whom?
A: Pancho Villa.
Pershing's troops in Mexico begin what?
A: Withdrawing back to the United States.
In February, the United States severs diplomatic relations
with what country?
A: Germany.
The new constitution of what country is adopted?
A: Mexico.
Who is arrested in Paris for spying?
A: Mata Hari.
President Woodrow Wilson of the United States announces
what to Congress?
A: The breaking of diplomatic relations with Germany
The U.S. government releases the text of the what, to the
public?
A: Zimmermann Telegram.
The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans what?
A: United States citizenship.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson begins his what?
A: Second term.
Who is elected president of Mexico?
A: Venustiano Carranza.
What does Emperor Nicholas II of Russia do?
A: Abdicates his throne and his son's claims.
This is considered to be the end of the what after 196
years?
A: The Russian Empire.
The United States takes possession of the Danish West
Indies, which become what?
A: The US Virgin Islands.
In April, what does President Woodrow Wilson asks the
United States Congress for?
A: A declaration of war on Germany.
The United States declares war on what country?
A: Germany.
In Petrograd, 40,000 ethnic Estonians demand what?
A: National autonomy within Russia.
Canadian troops win what battle?
A: The Battle of Vimy Ridge.
Brazil severs diplomatic relations with what country?
A: Germany.
Vladimir Lenin arrives where?
A: At the Finland Station in Petrograd.
The nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is
consecrated what?
A: Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV
Robert Nivelle is replaced as Commander-in-Chief of the
what?
A: French Army by Philippe Pétain.
The Selective Service Act passes the United States
Congress, giving the President what?
A: The power of conscription.
Over 300 acres (73 blocks) are destroyed in what fire of
1917?
A: The Great Atlanta Fire.
The first "what" are awarded?
A: Pulitzer Prizes.
Who receives the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia
Ward Howe)?
A: Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe Elliott and Florence Hall.
Who receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work
With Americans of Past and Present Days?
A: Jean Jules Jusserand.
Herbert Bayard Swope receives the first Pulitzer for "what"
for his work for the New York World?
A: Journalism.
King Constantine I of Greece abdicates for the first time,
being succeeded by whom?
A: His son Alexander.
The first major German bombing raid on London by what,
leaves 162 dead and 432 injured?
A: Fixed-wing aircraft.
Greece joins the war on whose side?
A: The Allies.
A labor dispute ignites a "what" in East St. Louis,
Illinois, which leaves 250 dead?
A: Race riot.
Where is the Lions Clubs International formed?
A: In the United States.
Russian troops mutiny, abandon the Austrian front, and do
what?
A: Retreat to the Ukraine.
Hundreds are shot by whom during the retreat?
A: Their commanding officers.
The Russian Provisional Government enacts what?
A: Women's suffrage.
Russia is declared a republic by what?
A: The Provisional Government.
Leon Trotsky is elected Chairman of the what?
A: The Petrograd Soviet.
The Moscow Soviet votes to side with whom?
A: The Bolsheviks.
At Vincennes outside Paris, what Dutch dancer is executed
by firing squad for spying for Germany?
A: Mata Hari.
In a "Night of Terror" in the United States, influential
suffragettes from the Silent Sentinels are deliberately subjected to what?
A: Physical assaults by guards while imprisoned.
Who becomes prime minister of France?
A: Georges Clemenceau.
The National Hockey League is formed in Montreal as a
replacement for what?
A: The recently disbanded National Hockey Association.
Annie Besant becomes president of what?
A: The Indian National Congress.
Finland declares what?
A: Independence from the Russian Empire.
Jesse Lynch Williams' Why Marry?, the first dramatic play
to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens where?
A: At the Astor Theatre in New York.
President Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control
Act to place most U.S. railroads under what?
A: The United States Railroad Administration.
