The Roaring Twenties Trivia Quiz

Answer: An Unidentified Soldier

On Armistice Day (November 11) 1920, both England and France simultaneously honoured soldiers killed during WWI with the creation of the world's first two such memorials. In London, an unidentified British serviceman was buried at Westminster Abbey in the "Tomb of the Unknown Warrior" whilst in Paris "La tombe du soldat inconnu" was created under the arch of the Arc de Triomphe.

The United States, Portugal and Italy unveiled similar memorials in 1921 and other countries have followed suit since.

Other significant events of 1920 include the foundation of the National Football League (NFL); the final ratification of the 18th amendment to begin Prohibition; Babe Ruth debuted for the NY Yankees; and 19th amendment to give women the vote in the USA was passed.

Answer: White Castle

The first White Castle restaurant opened on the corner of First and Main in downtown Wichita, Kansas in 1921. A year later, they opened their second store, in El Dorado, Kansas, and thus began the chain. They became known not only for their distinctive burgers, but also for the 28-feet by 28-feet pre-fabricated square white buildings. The price of a single White Castle slider started at five cents in 1921, and that price remained static into the 1940s. Thereafter White Castles were ten cents apiece for many years. 'Time' magazine named White Castle as "the most influential burger of all time" in 2014.

Other significant events in 1921 include the first Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City NJ; the release of Charlie Chaplin's full-length, silent comedy drama "The Kid"; the Red Army's invasion of Georgia and occupation of previously-Chinese held Mongolia; the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics to Albert Einstein; the opening of the first birth control clinic in London; and the Nazi Party's adoption of Adolf Hitler as their 'Fuhrer'.

Answer: The Polo Grounds

Named Brotherhood Park, it was built in 1890 and the Polo Grounds was the home of the New York Giants baseball franchise until its departure for San Francisco in 1957. The Yankees played here from 1913 until 1922, when they moved into "The House that Ruth Built" in the Bronx. The expansion New York Mets played their first two seasons here, in 1962-63, before moving to Shea Stadium in Queens. The Polo Grounds also hosted NFL football, with the Giants playing here from 1925 until 1955, and the Titans of New York (later renamed the New York Jets) moving in from 1960 until the stadium closed in 1963.

Other significant events in 1922 include Gandhi sentenced to six years in prison for sedition in British India, although he served only two; the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington DC; the Hollywood Bowl opens; the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is founded; Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy; the Ottoman Empire is abolished after more than 600 years of history; Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter Tutankhamun tomb in Egypt; and the Irish Free State is founded.

Answer: Le Mans 24-hour Race

Thirty-three cars lined up for the start of the first Le Mans 24-hour race on May 26, 1923 and, remarkably, thirty of them were still going at the end. The winners were Frenchmen André Lagache and René Léonard, driving a Chenard-Walcker Sport, who completed 128 laps of the 10.8-mile long circuit -- a total of 2209.536 km (1,381 miles) at an average speed of 92.064 km/hr (60 mph).

The same manufacturer claimed second place with two more French drivers at the helm, whilst a Frenchman and a Belgian driving a Bignan 11HP Desmo Sport finished third. Fourth place and the prize for the fastest lap (9.39 minutes) were Englishman Frank Clement and Canada's Captain John Duff, known as "The Bentley Boys", who would win the race the following year.

Other significant events in 1923 include: the first issue of "Time" magazine is published; Louis Armstrong makes his first recording; Wembley Stadium opens in London; Mount Etna erupts making 60,000 homeless in Italy; the "Hollywoodland" sign (later to become just "Hollywood") is inaugurated in California; the Walt Disney Company is founded; and Hitler leads the Nazis in the famous 'Beer hall Putsch' in Munich and is later arrested.

Answer: Chamonix, France

The first Winter Olympic Games opened on January 25, 1924 in the shadow of Mont Blanc, with the commune of Chamonix in the Rhone-Alpes region of southeastern France hosting the event.

The very first Winter Olympics gold medal was won by American speed-skater Charles Jewtraw. There were a total of five speed-skating events and three of figure skating. Nordic sports accounted for five events, military patrol, ski jumping, Nordic combined and two cross-country skiing events. Bobsleigh, curling and ice hockey brought the total number of events to 16.

Strangely, Great Britain, a nation hardly renowned for its winter sports, sent the highest number of competitors (44), with 43 from the host nation, France. Despite the large number of participants, though, it was not a happy games for the French, who finished ninth in the medal table with just three bronzes. In total, 258 competitors took part, 247 of them men. (Compare that with the 2014 winter Olympics in Russia, where 2,873 participants from 88 countries contested 98 events.) The medal table was headed by Norway, with four gold and 17 medals in all, with Finland in second place (4 gold and 11 total medals).

Other significant events in 1924 include Stalin taking control in Russia following the death of Lenin; Ramsey MacDonald becoming Britain's first Labour Prime Minister; George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" is first performed; the New York-based company Computing Tabulating Recording Company is renamed International Business Machines (IBM); the British Empire Exhibition is staged at Wembley Stadium in London; J. Edgar Hoover becomes head of the Bureau of Investigation; English climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappear on Mount Everest; and the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

Answer: Tennessee

John Thomas Scopes was a science teacher in Rhea County in southeastern Tennessee. The State of Tennessee charged him with violating the Butler Act, a state law passed on March 21, 1925 which forbade public school teachers from suggesting that there was an alternative to the biblical account of Creation.

The prosecution was led by 3-time Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, arguing the Fundamentalist view that the word of God, as laid out in the Bible, takes precedence over mankind's acquired knowledge. For the defence, noted agnostic and famed defence attorney Clarence Darrow, paid for by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), put the case for the Modernists that believing in both evolution and religion was not inconsistent.

Scopes was found guilty and fined $100 (which may not seem like much, but is the equivalent to more than $1,300 in today's money), but the verdict was later overturned on a technicality.

Other significant events in 1925 include publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"; the foundation of the Chrysler Corporation; the first volume of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" in published; 40,000 Ku Klux Klan members demonstrate on the streets of Washington DC; Mount Rushmore is dedicated in South Dakota; and the first surrealist exhibition opens in Paris.

Answer: 400 miles

Officially called the "Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System", Mammoth Cave National Park is located mostly in Edmonson County in central Kentucky. It was officially designated as a National Park in 1941 and 40 years after that as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. More than twice as extensive as the world's second-largest explored system, the underwater caves of Sac Actun in southern Mexico, there are some 400 miles (640 km) of surveyed passageways at Mammoth Cave National Park.

Other significant events in 1926 include Francisco Franco becoming a general in Spain; the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre is destroyed by fire in Stratford-upon-Avon; workers come out in a general strike in support of locked out coal miners in Britain; Roald Amundsen flies over the North Pole in an airship; Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel; the first "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories are published in London; and Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 10 days.

Answer: Volvo

The Volvo trademark was first registered in 1915, but it was not until 1927 that the company went into production as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swedish bearing and seals manufacturing company SFK ('Svenska Kullagerfabriken AB'). Today, with almost 50,000 employees, SFK is the world's largest manufacturers of bearings and one of the largest Swedish companies. In 1999, Volvo Group sold its car manufacturing operation to Ford and now concentrates solely on commercial vehicles.

Other significant events in 1927 include the world's first armoured car robbery takes place, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Fritz Lang's controversial film "Metropolis" premieres in Germany; the Australian Parliament meets for the first time in Canberra after its move from Melbourne; Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight; more than 200,000 die in an earthquake near Xining in central China; the first talking movie, "The Jazz Singer" opens in the U.S.; and The Holland Tunnel opens under the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York City.

Answer: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith

Charles Edward Kingsford Smith MC, AFC, nicknamed 'Smithy', was born in 1897 in the north Brisbane suburb of Hamilton. A member of the Australian Army who served at Gallipoli, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917. He lost much of his left foot when he was shot down during an action that earned him the Military Cross for gallantry.

On May 31, 1928 Smith and his crew of three, a fellow Australian as co-pilot and two Americans, navigator and radio operator, departed from Oakland, California in "Southern Cross". A refuelling stop in Hawaii was followed by a 34.5-hour flight to Suva, Fiji. The final leg of the 7,250-mile journey to Brisbane, Queensland was completed on June 9, where a crowd of 25,000 greeted the aircraft's arrival. The crew flew on to Sydney the following day, and the city's major airport (located in the southern suburb of Mascot) is now named 'Kingsford Smith International Airport' in his honour.

Other significant events in 1928 include Amelia Earhart becoming the first woman to make a trans-Atlantic flight; John Logie Baird makes the first colour television transmission; The first Olympic women's athletics and gymnastics events are held at the 1928 games in Amsterdam; Mickey Mouse appears in "Steamboat Willie" (his third film, but the first with sound); and the Boston Garden opens in Boston MA.

Answer: Tintin

The series was created and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Prosper Rémi under the pseudonym Hergé. The 15-year old journalist/detective Tintin, his dog Snowy, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus and the rest of the regular crew first appeared in January 1929 in "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets".

Tintin's TV debut would not occur until 1957, when a series of 102 5-minute animated shorts appeared under the title "Hergé's Adventures of Tintin". On the big screen, Tintin and company first appeared in animated form in 1947 in "The Crab with the Golden Claws". The characters reappeared after a 40-year absence in 2011 in "The Adventures of Tintin", directed by Stephen Spielberg. The sequel, "The Adventures of Tintin: Temple of the Sun" is being directed by Peter Jackson. There have also been two Tintin feature films, "Tintin and the Golden Fleece" in 1961 and "Tintin and the Blue Oranges" in 1964.

Other significant events in 1929 include the debut of Popeye in the cartoon "Thimble Theatre"; five rivals of Al Capone are gunned down in the Saint Velentine's Day Massacre in Chicago; a Bugatti wins the first Monaco Grand Prix; the first Oscars are presented in a ceremony lasting just 15 minutes; the Geneva Convention (on conditions for prisoners-of-war) is signed; the Pope (Pius XI) appears outside the Vatican for the first time in 60 years; and the Wall Street Crash wipes more than $30 billion off the NY Stock Exchange.