1922 Trivia Questions and Answers
The British Empire is at its largest extent, covering a
quarter of the world and ruling over how many people?
A: One in four people on earth.
What League is founded in Norway?
A: The Social Democratic Youth League.
The first "what" is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto?
A: Successful insulin treatment of
diabetes.
The British government releases the remaining what?
A: Irish prisoners captured in the War of Independence.
The flu epidemic has claimed how many victims in Britain?
A: 804.
Who becomes Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government?
A: Michael Collins.
Christian K. Nelson patents the what?
A: Eskimo Pie.
Snowfall from the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in
Washington, D.C., causes what?
A: The roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.
Radio KZKZ-AM, the second radio station in what country,
begins broadcasting?
A: the Philippines.
What happened to Irish American film director William
Desmond Taylor?
A: He was murdered.
What magazine is first published?
A: Ring Magazine.
DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of what?
A: Reader's Digest.
Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds whom, to become the
259th pope?
A: Pope Benedict XV.
The Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty is signed between
who?
A: The United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Italy.
President Harding introduces the first what in the White
House?
A: radio.
What Finnish Minister of the Interior is assassinated by
Ernst Tandefelt?
A: Heikki Ritavuori.
What happens to French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru?
A: He is beheaded by the guillotine.
A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United
States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is what?
A: Rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for what?
A: Sedition.
Who becomes King of Egypt?
A: Fuad I.
In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to how long?
A: Six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).
The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States
what?
A: Navy aircraft carrier.
Joseph Stalin is appointed to what position?
A: General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
The United Kingdom's Prince of Wales arrives in Yokohama
aboard HMS Renown and rides by
train to Tokyo, starting a what?
A: A one month visit to Japan.
The State of Massachusetts does what?
A: Opens all public offices to women.
The leader of the underground Estonian Communist Party
Viktor Kingissepp is what?
A: Executed in Estonia.
In The Bronx, construction begins on what?
A: Yankee Stadium.
Where does radio station KGU begin broadcasting?
A: In Hawaii.
A 20-ton "what" lands near Blackstone,
Virginia, USA?
A: Meteorite.
What British Liberal MP is jailed for seven years for fraud
?
A: Horatio Bottomley.
What is dedicated In Washington, D.C.?
A: The Lincoln Memorial.
U.S. première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North,
the first what?
A: Commercially successful feature length documentary film.
President Harding makes his first what?
A: Speech on the radio.
Irish Republican Army agents assassinate whom?
A: British Army field marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London.
Who becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco?
A: Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi.
Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from where?
A: Siberia.
The Kingdom of Hungary joins what?
A: The League of Nations.
Rebecca L. Felton becomes the first female what?
A: US senator, when Georgia's governor gives her a temporary appointment.
Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest ever what?
A: Prime Minister of Italy at age 39.
The Ottoman Empire is "what" after 600 years and its last
sultan Mehmed VI, abdicates?
A: Abolished.
In Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men
find what?
A: The entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to
enter what?
A: The tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
The California "what" becomes extinct?
A: grizzly bear.
