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Trivia Questions And Answers About the Year 1924
What British submarine sinks in the English Channel and 43
are lost?
A: L-24.
Who shoots a man he erroneously thinks is Sir Charles
Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta?
A: Gopinath Saha. He is arrested soon after.
Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin
immediately begins to what?
A: Purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership.
Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first what?
A: Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The Soviet Union officially declares that Lenin died when?
A: On January 21.
Where are the 1924 Winter Olympics held?
A: In Chamonix, in the French Alps.
Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed what?
A: Leningrad. It reverts to Saint Petersburg in 1991.
Where is Lenin buried?
A: In Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square.
The United Kingdom recognizes the what?
A: Soviet Union.
What is broadcast for the first time from the Royal
Greenwich Observatory?
A: A radio time signal.
In what state does the first state execution using gas in
the United States take place?
A: Nevada.
What music by George Gershwin, is first performed in New
York City at Aeolian Hall?
A: Rhapsody in Blue.
The Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR), is
renamed what?
A: International Business Machines (IBM).
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United
States to do what?
A: Deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
Who forms a new government in Turkey?
A: İsmet İnönü.
Greece proclaims itself a what?
A: Republic.
A referendum in Greece favors the formation of what?
A: The Second Hellenic Republic.
What American media company is founded in Los Angeles?
A: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
An explosion in a mine at the Wheeling Steel Corporation in
Benwood, West Virginia kills how many men?
A: 119.
The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity,
is founded where?
A: In Omaha, Nebraska.
Where are the 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies held?
A: In Paris, France.
J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the what?
A: Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging companies owned by
whom?
A: Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.
What did University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and
Nathan Leopold, Jr. do?
A: Murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a thrill killing.
President Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into
law, granting what?
A: Citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the
United States.
Fascists kidnap and kill whom in Rome?
A: Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti.
American airman Russell Maughan flies from New York to San
Francisco in how long?
A: 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit.
Who is nominated by the Democrats to oppose Calvin Coolidge
in the presidential election?
A: John W. Davis of West Virginia.
Where does the Hanapepe massacre occur?
A: On Kauai, Hawaii.
The 8-hour work day is introduced in what country?
A: Belgium.
What fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of
Loyola University, Chicago?
A: The Alpha Delta Gamma.
Zeppelin LZ-126 makes a transatlantic delivery flight from
where to where?
A: From Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman
what?
A: Governor in the United States.
Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats whom?
A: Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
In New York City the first what is held?
A: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda,
previously believed to be a nebula, is actually what?
A: Another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in
the universe.
