1919 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Quentin

Quentin Roosevelt, aged 20, died in aerial combat over France on July 14, 1918. His brothers Theodore Jr., Archie, and Kermit also served in the U.S. armed forces in World War I.

Answer: Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), was a Marxist theorist and founder of the Spartakusbund, precursor to the Communist Party in Germany. She was killed along with her lover, Karl Liebknecht. Russian-born anarchist Emma Goldman lived most of her life in the United States, but witnessed the Russian Revolution first-hand. Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist whose works were deeply affected by the loss of her son in World War I. Gertrude Himmelfarb, wife of Irving Kristol, has been an active conservative cultural historian in the later 20th century.

Answer: Weimar

The Bauhaus was created by the merging of preexisting Fine Arts and Arts & Crafts schools in Weimar. After falling out of political favor, the school moved in 1925 to Dessau, where Gropius designed the famous Bauhaus complex. The school moved again in 1932 to Berlin, but was shut down the following year by the Nazi regime.

Answer: Sir Barton

Sir Barton easily won the Belmont Stakes to take the first-ever Triple Crown. Man o' War won the Preakness and Belmont the following year, but did not run in the Kentucky Derby. Gallant Fox and Omaha were Triple Crown winners in 1930 and 1935 respectively.

Answer: St. John's, Newfoundland

St. John's, Newfoundland provided the shortest distance for a trans-Atlantic hop.

Answer: Herbert Asquith

Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when the war began, was replaced by David Lloyd George in 1916. Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando, represented the United States, France, and Italy respectively. With Lloyd George, these leaders were known collectively as the "Big Four".

Answer: Chicago, Illinois

A week of murderous civil unrest stemmed from the accidental drowning of a black youth at a public beach.

Answer: Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge gained national prominence by this action and was elected Vice-President of the United States in the following year. When President Warren Harding died in office in 1923, Coolidge succeeded him. The colorful James Michael Curley was mayor of Boston several times and governor of Massachusetts (1935-37). Part of his final mayoral term was served in jail on a mail fraud charge.

Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1893-1924), was a Republican who led the fight against U.S. entry into the League of Nations. John F. Fitzgerald, known as "Honey Fitz", was twice Boston mayor and was the grandfather of John F. Kennedy.

Answer: Volstead Act

The 18th Amendment made the use of intoxicating liquors illegal, launching the Prohibition Era. The Volstead Act, named after its chief sponsor, Andrew Volstead of Minnesota, specified provisions enforcing this amendment. The Mann Act of 1910 banned the interstate transport of females for immoral purposes.

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff, enacted in 1930 to raise protective tariff rates, was blamed for exacerbating the Depression. The Sedition Act of 1918, passed in the heat of World War I, made it a crime to express disloyal opinions about the government; it was repealed in 1921.

Answer: Nancy Astor

Lady Astor (1879-1964), an American who married into Britsh nobility, was actually the second woman elected to Parliament, but the first to take a seat. Constance Markiewicz of Ireland was elected in 1918, but, owing to her loyalty to the revolutionary Sinn Fein, declined to take her seat. Jennie Jerome Churchill, also an American, was the wife of one Parliamentarian, Randolph Churchill, and the mother of another, Winston Churchill. Consuelo Vanderbilt, yet another American who married into British nobility, did not participate in politics. Sylvia Pankhurst, along with her mother and sister, were ardent exponents of the women's suffrage movement. 1919 was also an important year for suffrage in the United States, as the 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote.