1935 World Trivia Questions And Answers
Where does Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia create a
military
school?
A: At Holeta.
The Italian colonies of Tripoli and Cyrenaica are joined
together as what?
A: Libya.
Whose trial begins in Flemington, New Jersey?
A: The trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
What National Park is established?
A: Dry Tortugas National Park.
Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign
Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement in which each power what?
A: Agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from
where to where?
A: Hawaii to
California.
In a shootout, who kills the Barker Gang, including Ma
Barker?
A: The FBI kills,
What company sells the world's first men's briefs, as
"jockeys", in Chicago?
A: Coopers Inc.
The first canned beer is sold where?
A: In Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company.
Iceland becomes the first country to legalize what?
A: Abortion on medical grounds.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death
for what?
A: The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
Airplanes are banned from flying over the what?
A: White House.
What classic Mickey Mouse cartoon is Released by United
Artists?
A: The Band Concert.
Adolf Hitler orders reinstatement of the air force, the
Luftwaffe, in violation of what?
A: The 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
Porky Pig makes his debut as the first major Looney Tunes
character in what?
A: I Haven't Got a Hat.
Adolf Hitler announces what in violation of the 1919 Treaty
of Versailles?
A: German re-armament.
A race riot breaks out in Harlem (New York City) after what
rumor circulates?
A: That a teenage Puerto Rican shoplifter in the S. H. Kress & Co. department
store has been brutally beaten.
Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on what radio network in the
United States?
A: NBC.
Sun Myung Moon, a teenage Presbyterian convert in Korea
under Japanese rule, claims to have a what?
A: A revelation from Jesus telling him to complete his mission from almost 2,000
years ago.
Executive Order 7034 creates what?
A: The Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States.
Joseph Stalin opens what to the public.?
A: The Moscow Metro.
T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") dies as the result of
a what?
A: A motorcycle accident in Dorset, England.
In Nozi Germany, Adolf Hitler announces the reintroduction
of what?
A: Conscription to the Wehrmacht in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
The first nighttime Major League Baseball game is played
between what two teams at Crosley Field in Cincinnati,
Ohio?
A: The Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies.
The Supreme Court of the United States declares the
National Industrial Recovery Act what?
A: Unconstitutional.
Eventual Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth appears in his
what?
A: His last career game, playing for the Boston Braves in Philadelphia against
the Phillies.
China's Kuomintang government concedes Japanese
military
control of what?
A: North-eastern China.
What is founded in Akron,
Ohio by William G. Wilson and Dr.
Robert Smith?
A: Alcoholics Anonymous.
Who makes the longest speech on Senate record, taking 15½
hours and containing 150,000 words?
A: Senator Huey Long of Louisiana.
Who defeats Max Baer at Madison Square Garden Bowl to win
the heavyweight boxing championship of the world?
A: James J. Braddock.
How does Carlos Gardel, the legendary Franco-Argentine
"Father of Tango," die?
A: In a plane crash in Medellín, Colombia.
The world's first "what" are installed in
Oklahoma City?
A: Parking meters.
President Roosevelt signs what into law?
A: The Social Security Act.
Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are in a what?
A: In a plane crash near Barrow, Alaska.
Who kills Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana, in the
Louisiana Capitol Building in Baton Rouge?
A: Carl Weiss.
Parker Brothers releases what board game in the United
States?
A: The board game Monopoly.