The Ultimate Year Quiz - 1920
See what you know about the year 1920
Quiz created by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye
1. What team won the 1920 World Series?
(#) Brooklyn Dodgers
(#) Cincinnati Reds
(#) Chicago White Sox
(#) Cleveland Indians
2. What was the top grossing film of 1920?
(#) Way Down East
(#) The Mark of Zorro
(#) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(#) Pollyanna
3. Who did the Netherlands refuse to extradite on January 23, 1920?
(#) Adolf Hitler
(#) the former Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
(#) Mata Hari
(#) the former Czar Nicholas II of Russia
4. What Mexican leader was assassinated on May 21, 1920?
(#) Pancho Villa
(#) Venustiano Carranza
(#) Alvaro Obregon
(#) Francisco I. Madero
5. Who was canonized on May 16, 1920 by Pope Benedict XV?
(#) Thomas More
(#) Joan of Arc
(#) Thomas Becket
(#) Pope Pius X
6. What did the United States Postal Service forbid the sending of via parcel post in a ruling on June 13, 1920?
(#) drugs
(#) pornography
(#) alcohol
(#) children
7. In front of what building did the bomb go off on Wall Street in New York City on September 16, 1920 killing 38 people and injuring 400?
(#) New York Stock Exchange building
(#) Woolworth Building
(#) Rockefeller Center
(#) J.P. Morgan Inc. Bank headquarters
8. Who was the Democratic nominee for President in 1920?
(#) James M. Cox
(#) John W. Davis
(#) Thomas R. Marshall
(#) Franklin D. Roosevelt
9. Where did the League of Nations move its headquarters to on October 27, 1920?
(#) Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(#) Geneva, Switzerland
(#) Paris, France
(#) Washington D.C.
10. What amendment to the United States Constitution, which passed on August 26, 1920, gave women the right to vote?
(#) 20th Amendment
(#) 19th Amendment
(#) 18th Amendment
(#) 17th Amendment
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