1910 International Trivia Questions With Answers
In January what was the first aviation meeting to be held
in the United States?
A: The 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field near Los
Angeles.
What did William D. Boyce found?
A: The Boy Scouts of America.
Boutros Ghali, the first native-born prime minister of
Egypt, is what?
A: Assassinated.
In March, there was uprising against what in Albania?
A: Ottoman rule.
In France Raymonde de Laroche is awarded pilot's license
#36 by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, becoming the what?
A: The first woman authorized to fly an airplane.
Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang
dynasty, is now what?
A: Illegal.
The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
comes out and is considered to be the what?
A: The first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös,
Hungary kills
how many people?
A: 312.
In April, Comet Halley is visible from Earth, and won't be
seen again until what year?
A: 1986.
In may, who becomes King of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland upon the death of his father, Edward VII?
A: George V.
Where is the second NAACP meeting?
A: It was held in New York.
What happened to the earth in may?
A: It passes through the tail of Halley's Comet.
The Union of South Africa is what?
A: Created.
In June, the British Ship Terra Nova leaves
London on its
way toward a what?
A: An Antarctic expedition.
The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first
commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. How
long did the flight take?
A: Nine hours.
The ballet The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu), the first major
work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets
Russes, is premièred in what city?
A: Paris, bringing the composer international fame.
African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats American boxer
James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking what?
A: Race riots across the United States.
A wireless telegraph sent from the SS Montrose results in
what?
A: The identification, arrest and execution of
murderer Dr. Hawley Crippen.
Ottoman forces capture what city to put down the Albanian
Revolt of 1910?
A: Shkodër.
A fire at the Brussels International 1910 destroys what?
A: Exhibitions of Britain and France.
The Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty is what?
A: Signed.
Montenegro is proclaimed a what?
A: An independent kingdom under Nicholas I.
Emperor Sunjong of Korea abdicates and the country's
monarchy is what?
A: Abolished.
What does the Vatican introduce?
A: A compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon
ordination.
First publication of infrared photographs, by whom in the
Royal Photographic Society's journal?
A: Professor Robert Williams Wood.
Where is the hull of RMS Olympic is launched?
A: At the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast.
Who is crowned King of Siam, after the death of his father,
King Chulalongkorn (Rama V)?
A: Vajiravudh (Rama VI).
The first air flight for the purpose of delivering
commercial freight takes place where?
A: In the United States.
The flight, made by Wright brothers pilot Philip Parmalee,
is between where?
A: Dayton and Columbus,
Ohio.
In the first takeoff from a ship by a fixed-wing aircraft,
Eugene Ely takes off from what?
A: A temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham
in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
The Mexican Revolution begins when Francisco I. Madero
proclaims the elections of 1910 what?
A: Null and void, and calls for an armed revolution at 6 p.m. against the
illegitimate presidency/dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.
A form of pneumonic plague spreads through northeastern
China, killing more than how many people?
A: 40,000.
Henry Ford sells how many automobiles?
A: 10,000.
