The Ultimate Year Quiz - 1931
See what you know about the year 1931
Quiz created by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye
1. What was the top grossing film of 1931?
(#) Dracula
(#) The Champ
(#) Frankenstein
(#) City Lights
2. What team won the 1931 World Series?
(#) Philadelphia Athletics
(#) St. Louis Cardinals
(#) New York Giants
(#) New York Yankees
3. What did the state of Nevada legalize on March 17, 1931?
(#) prostitution
(#) gambling
(#) marijuana usage
(#) alcohol consumption
4. Construction of what building was completed on May 1, 1931?
(#) Palmolive Building in Chicago
(#) The Empire State Building
(#) Chrysler Building in New York City
(#) the Pentagon
5. What famous inventor passed away on October 18, 1931?
(#) Guglielmo Marconi
(#) Thomas Edison
(#) George Washington Carver
(#) Alexander Graham Bell
6. What naval ship was placed back in full commission after a refit on March 1, 1931?
(#) USS Oklahoma
(#) USS California
(#) USS Missouri
(#) USS Arizona
7. What event happened on March 3, 1931?
(#) The original film version of Dracula is released
(#) An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua killing 2000 people
(#) California gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to start building the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
(#) The Star Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States national anthem
8. Geli Raubal, who was found dead on September 18, 1931, was rumoured to have been the lover of what individual?
(#) the future King Edward VIII
(#) Joseph Stalin
(#) Adolf Hitler
(#) Benito Mussolini
9. The Labour government in what country resigned on August 24, 1931?
(#) France
(#) Germany
(#) United Kingdom
(#) Spain
10. Kemal Ataturk was re-elected President of what country on May 4, 1931?
(#) Poland
(#) Turkey
(#) Czechosolvakia
(#) Greece
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