Trivia Quiz Questions From the Year 1925
Kristiania, the capital of Norway, reverted to its original
name of what?
A: Oslo.
Where did Benito Mussolini make a pivotal speech?
A: In the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
He took personal responsibility for the actions of what?
A: His Blackshirts.
He challenged his political opponents to remove him from
office and then promised to do what?
A: Take charge of restoring order to Italy within forty-eight hours.
Historians now trace this speech to the beginning of
Mussolini's what?
A: Dictatorship.
Who became first female governor of Texas?
A: Ma Ferguson.
What new magazine was published?
A: The New Yorker.
Art Gillham recorded for Columbia Records the first what?
A: Western Electric masters to be commercially released.
What earthquake struck northeastern
North America?
A: The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake.
The inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as President of the
United States was the first to be what?
A: Broadcast on radio.
The British Royal Air Force bombarded mountain strongholds
of whom?
A: Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan.
The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs")
was founded on what campus?
A: Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas (now the University of
Central Arkansas).
The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history,
rampaged through what three states?
A: Missouri, Illinois, and
Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027.
Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signed the Butler Act,
prohibiting the teaching of what in the state's public schools?
A: Evolution.
What radio station in Ft. Wayne, Indiana began
broadcasting?
A: WOWO.
Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen left Washington, D.C.
to begin a what?
A: A two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
The Patent and Trademark Office was transferred to what?
A: The Department of Commerce.
What did F. Scott Fitzgerald publish?
A: The Great Gatsby.
What happened to Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted
of the murder of 24 boys and young men?
A: He was beheaded in Germany.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announced
what?
A: Britain's return to the gold standard.
Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes was arrested
for teaching what?
A: Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
British explorer Percy Fawcett sent a last telegram to his
wife, before what?
A: He disappeared in the Amazon.
Who founded the Chrysler Corporation?
A: Walter Percy Chrysler.
A 6.8 earthquake destroyed the downtown of what
California
city?
A: Santa Barbara.
In Dublin, Ireland, who became the first female member of a
stock exchange in the world?
A: Oonagh Keogh.
In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" began
with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of what?
A: Teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in
class and fined how much?
A: $100.
What National Memorial was dedicated in South Dakota?
A: Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
London's first "what" were introduced?
A: enclosed double-decker buses.
What secret agent is executed by the OGPU, the secret
police of the Soviet Union?
A: Sidney Reilly.
Who was crowned as King of Siam?
A: Prajadhipok (Rama VII).