The Ultimate Year Quiz - 1916
See what you know about the year 1916
Quiz created by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye
1. Who became the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice on June 5, 1916?
(#) Felix Frankfurter
(#) Willis Van Devanter
(#) Louis Brandeis
(#) Benjamin Cardozo
2. Where did President Woodrow Wilson send 12,000 U.S. troops on March 15, 1916?
(#) Cuba
(#) Mexico
(#) Nicaragua
(#) Germany
3. Weeghman Park in Chicago, where the home team played their first game at on April 20, 1916, is now known as what?
(#) Yankee Stadium
(#) Wrigley Field
(#) U.S. Cellular Field
(#) Fenway Park
4. What country did U.S. Marines invade on May 5, 1916?
(#) Cuba
(#) Panama
(#) the Dominican Republic
(#) Haiti
5. Who was the Republican nominee for President in the 1916 election?
(#) Henry Cabot Lodge
(#) Theodore Roosevelt
(#) Hiram Johnson
(#) Charles Evans Hughes
6. Where were the 1916 Summer Olympics originally slated for before they were cancelled?
(#) Paris, France
(#) Rome, Italy
(#) London, United Kingdom
(#) Berlin, Germany
7. In the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, which was made on January 24, 1916, what was upheld?
(#) the 8 hour work day
(#) the federal income tax
(#) Social Security
(#) ban on child labor
8. In what American city did a bomb go off on July 22, 1916 during a Preparedness Day parade, in which 10 people were killed and 40 were wounded?
(#) St. Louis, Missouri
(#) San Francisco, California
(#) Boston, Massachusetts
(#) New York, New York
9. What team won the 1916 World Series?
(#) Brooklyn Dodgers
(#) New York Giants
(#) Chicago White Sox
(#) Boston Red Sox
10. What was the top grossing film of 1916?
(#) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(#) Intolerance
(#) One A.M.
(#) Oliver Twist
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