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.