The Year 1933 Trivia Quiz Questions And Answers
Construction begins on what bridge in
San Francisco Bay?
A: Golden Gate Bridge begun.
Who makes the first commercial flight between
Australia and
New Zealand?
A: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.
The U S Congress votes favorably for Philippines
independence, against the view of whom?
A: President Hoover.
What is ratified?
A: The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified,
changing Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20 starting in
1937.
Who forms a government in France?
A: Édouard Daladier.
The Lone Ranger makes his debut on what?
A: American radio.
In February who gives his "Proclamation to the German
People" in Berlin?
A: Adolf Hitler.
What do officers on the USS Ramapo record?
A: A 34-meter high sea-wave in the
Pacific Ocean.
The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces
the first what?
A: Singing telegram.
In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate whom?
A: President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead fatally wounds the Mayor
of Chicago, Anton Cermak.
What magazine is published for the first time in the United
States?
A: Newsweek.
Where does the original film version of King Kong, starring
Fay Wray, premiere?
A: At Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy Theatre in New York City.
What university is established?
A: Ching Yun.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is what?
A: Dedicated.
President Hoover is succeeded by whom?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
FDR is sworn in by whom?
A: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.
Who becomes United States Secretary of Labor, and the first
female member of the United States Cabinet?
A: Frances Perkins.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "Bank
holiday",
doing what?
A: Closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the
'holiday' ends on March 13).
Where does an earthquake kill 117 people?
A: in Long Beach, California.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the
first time as what?
A: President of the United States, in the first of his "Fireside chats".
Dachau, the first German concentration camp, is what?
A: Completed (it opens March 22).
The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler
what?
A: Dictator of Germany.
What does Japan leave?
A: The League of Nations.
The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the
mission of what?
A: Relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague decides
what?
A: That Greenland belongs to Denmark .
President Roosevelt declares a national emergency and
issues Executive Order 6102, making it illegal for what?
A: U.S. citizens to own substantial amounts of monetary
gold or bullion.
Sale of some beer is legalized in the United States under
what?
A: The Cullen-Harrison Act of March 22.
The United States officially goes off what standard?
A: The gold standard.
The Gestapo secret police are established in Germany
by whom?
A: Hermann Göring.
President Roosevelt signs an act creating the what?
A: The Tennessee Valley Authority.
What Walt Disney classic Silly Symphony cartoon is first
released by United Artists?
A: The Three Little Pigs.
Where does the first drive-in movie theater open?
A: In Pennsauken Township, near Camden, New Jersey.
Who is sentenced to prison in India?
A: Gandhi.
Where is the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game
played?
A: At Comiskey Park in Chicago.
"Machine Gun Kelly" and Albert Bates kidnap whom, and
demand $200,000 ransom?
A: Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman.
Several members of what gang are injured or captured during
a running battle with local police near Dexter,
Iowa?
A: The Barrow Gang.
More than 3,000 Assyrian Iraqis are killed by whom?
A: Iraq government troops.
Winston Churchill makes his first public speech warning of
the dangers of what?
A: German rearmament.
Who forms a new government in Spain?
A: Alejandro Lerroux.
Who, while waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in
Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction?
A: Leó Szilárd.
Air France is formed by the merger of what?
A: Five French airline companies, beginning operations with 250 planes.
October 17 – Scientist Albert Einstein arrives in the
United States where he does what?
A: Settles permanently as a refugee from Germany.
What Marx Brothers' anarchic comedy film is released?
A: Duck Soup.
The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution is
passed, repealing what?
A: Prohibition.
The United States Federal Government outlaws what plant?
A: Cannabis.
A coup attempt against whom fails in the United States?
A: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
US President Roosevelt rejects what?
A: Socialism and government ownership of industry.
Where does the first Krispy Kreme doughnut store open?
A: In Nashville, Tennessee.
