1922 Trivia Quiz

Answer: June 16, 1904

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." So begins Joyce's long, challenging tale that encompasses one day, June 16, 1904, in the lives of Dubliners Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom. June 16 is known the world over by Joyce fans as "Bloomsday".

Answer: Pius XI

Pius XI succeeded Benedict XV and was Pope from 1922 to 1939. During his papacy, the Lateran Treaties, ending formal hostilities with the government of Italy, were signed. Paul V and Urban VIII reigned in the 17th century; John XXII reigned in the 14th century.

Answer: Wyoming

The Teapot Dome oil field is located north of Casper, Wyoming. The ensuing scandal shook the administration of President Warren G. Harding and unleashed a long Senate investigation. Fall was eventually sentenced to one year in prison for his misdeeds.

Answer: Daniel Chester French

Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), whose first major commission was the statue of the Minute Man (1875) in Concord, Massachusetts, studied Matthew Brady's photographs of Lincoln in his modeling of his sculpture for the Lincoln Memorial. Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) died before the Lincoln Memorial project began, while Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941) was occupied with the Confederate Memorial at Stone Mountain, Georgia before taking on the great task of Mount Rushmore. Horatio Greenough, who sculpted a seated statue of George Washington in a Roman toga, lived in the first half of the 19th century.

Answer: Judy Garland

Frances Gumm, with two of her sisters, performed on stage as a child in an act known as the Gumm Sisters. In 1934, comedian George Jessel suggested the troupe choose a more appealing name. Thus they became the Garland Sisters and Frances decided to be known as Judy. She was signed to a contract by MGM the following year.

Answer: Michael Collins

Michael Collins (1890-1922), a revolutionary leader in Ireland's struggle for independence from the United Kingdom, was a casualty of the civil war that broke out when factions of the Irish Republican Army, led by Eamon de Valera, refused to adhere to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. De Valera (1882-1975), who was not directly implicated in Collins' death, later resorted to political means and became President of Ireland. Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) was named President of the short-lived republic that was proclaimed in the Easter Rising of 1916; he was subsequently executed by the British. Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) was the most prominent Irish politician in the first half of the 19th century.

He campaigned for Irish rights, but disdained violent insurrection.

Answer: Smyrna

The tragedy of Smyrna (today Izmir, Turkey) resulted when the Greek attempt to exploit the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I was countered by rising Turkish nationalism led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Assignment of blame for this disaster remains controversial to this day.

Answer: Newspaper editor

Mussolini founded a newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia, in 1914 to advance the Fascist cause. He was briefly in the military during World War I and he eventually entered parliament a year before the events that made him "Il Duce".

Answer: Howard Carter

The English archaeologist Howard Carter (1874-1939) began excavations in the Valley of the Kings in 1915. His countryman Arthur Evans (1851-1941) was largely responsible for excavating the ancient site of Knossos on Crete. The German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) excavated at the site of ancient Troy in Turkey. Hiram Bingham (1875-1956), an American, discovered the lost Inca city of Machu Pichu in Peru.

Answer: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

In the aftermath of the Russian Civil War, the USSR was formed as a multinational state composed of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Caucasian republics. The American Federation of Labor was founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers. The League of Nations was founded in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I.

The Ivy League, an athletic conference of eight elite East Coast colleges, was informally referred to in the 1930s, but did not formally organize as a football conference until 1945 and as a full athletic confrence until 1954.