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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.

 
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