1939 Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
What company is founded as an electronics company in Palo
Alto, California?
A: Hewlett-Packard.
Amelia Earhart is officially declared what?
A: Dead after her disappearance.
Who forms the new government of Turkey?
A: Refik Saydam. (11th government)
Adolf Hit*ler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion
program intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of what?
A: Crushing the Royal Navy by 1944.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain states what in
the House of Commons?
A: That any German attack on France will be automatically considered an attack
on Britain.
The Golden Gate International Exposition opens where?
A: In San Francisco.
Sit-down strikes are outlawed by what?
A: The Supreme Court of the United States.
Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds whom as the 260th
pope?
A: Pope Pius XI.
In Bombay, begins a fast protesting against British rule in
India?
A: Mohandas Gandhi.
Students at Harvard University demonstrate the new
tradition of what to reporters?
A: Swallowing goldfish.
The Slovak provincial assembly proclaims independence, and
who becomes the president of the independent Slovak government?
A: Priest Jozef Tiso.
Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt marries whom?
A: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
After an ultimatum of March 20, Germany takes what
from Lithuania?
A: Memelland.
What war begins?
A: The Slovak–Hungarian War.
The University of Oregon defeats what school 46–33 in
Evanston, Illinois, to win the championship of the first NCAA men's basketball
tournament?
A: Ohio State University.
What dictator assumes power in Madrid?
A: Francisco Franco, and remains in power until 1975.
American adventurer Richard Halliburton delivers a last
message from a Chinese junk, before he what?
A: Disappears on a voyage across the
Pacific Ocean.
Faisal II becomes King of what country?
A: Iraq.
The Slovak–Hungarian War ends with Slovakia doing what?
A: Ceding eastern territories to Hungary.
Hungary leaves what?
A: The League of Nations.
What Steinbeck novel is first published?
A: The Grapes of Wrath.
Billie Holiday records "Strange Fruit", the first what?
A: Anti-lynching song.
The Federal Security Agency (FSA) is founded in the USA,
along with what?
A: The Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Health Service.
The 1939 New York World's what opens.
A: Fair.
Major League Baseball's
Lou Gehrig, the legendary Yankee
first baseman known as "The Iron Horse", ends his 2,130 consecutive games played
streak after contracting what?
A: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Spain leaves what?
A: The League of Nations.
Lina Medina, a 5-year-old Peruvian girl, gives birth to a
baby boy, becoming what?
A: The youngest confirmed mother in medical history.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrive in Quebec City to
begin what?
A: The first-ever tour of Canada by Canada's monarch.
Sweden, Norway, and Finland refuse what?
A: Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts.
Pan-American Airways begins trans-Atlantic what?
A: Mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from Port
Washington, New York.
Siam is renamed what?
A: "Thailand".
The St. Louis, a ship carrying a cargo of 907 Jewish
refugees, is denied permission to land where?
A: Florida after already having been turned away from Cuba.
Where is the first Little League Baseball game played?
A: In Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
What is officially dedicated in Cooperstown, New York?
A: National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
In the last public guillotining in France,
murderer Eugen
Weidmann is what?
A: Decapitated by the guillotine.
Ford tractor with Ferguson hydraulic three-point hitch
first demonstrated where?
A: At Dearborn, Michigan.
The 1st World “what” opens in New York City?
A: Science Fiction Convention.
Whose head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore?
A: Theodore Roosevelt's.
The Einstein–Szilárd letter is signed, advising President
Roosevelt of the potential use of what?
A: Uranium to construct an atomic bomb.
MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L.
Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, premieres
where?
A: At Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
The first televised Major League Baseball games were shown
on what experimental station?
A: W2XBS.
Norway, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland declare their what?
A: Neutrality.
The United Kingdom, France, New Zealand, Australia and
India (by its Viceroy) declare what?
A: War on Germany.
President Roosevelt advocates what?
A: Neutrality in a nationwide radio address.