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1939 Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

What company is founded as an electronics company in Palo Alto, California?
A: Hewlett-Packard.

Amelia Earhart is officially declared what?
A: Dead after her disappearance.

Who forms the new government of Turkey?
A: Refik Saydam. (11th government)

Adolf Hit*ler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion program intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of what?
A: Crushing the Royal Navy by 1944.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain states what in the House of Commons?
A: That any German attack on France will be automatically considered an attack on Britain.

The Golden Gate International Exposition opens where?
A: In San Francisco.

Sit-down strikes are outlawed by what?
A: The Supreme Court of the United States.

 

Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds whom as the 260th pope?
A: Pope Pius XI.

In Bombay, begins a fast protesting against British rule in India?
A: Mohandas Gandhi.

Students at Harvard University demonstrate the new tradition of what to reporters?
A: Swallowing goldfish.

The Slovak provincial assembly proclaims independence, and who becomes the president of the independent Slovak government?
A: Priest Jozef Tiso.

Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt marries whom?
A: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.

After an ultimatum of March 20, Germany takes what from Lithuania?
A: Memelland.

What war begins?
A: The Slovak–Hungarian War.

 

The University of Oregon defeats what school 46–33 in Evanston, Illinois, to win the championship of the first NCAA men's basketball tournament?
A: Ohio State University.

What dictator assumes power in Madrid?
A: Francisco Franco, and remains in power until 1975.

American adventurer Richard Halliburton delivers a last message from a Chinese junk, before he what?
A: Disappears on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

Faisal II becomes King of what country?
A:  Iraq.

The Slovak–Hungarian War ends with Slovakia doing what?
A: Ceding eastern territories to Hungary.

Hungary leaves what?
A: The League of Nations.

What Steinbeck novel is first published?
A: The Grapes of Wrath.

 

Billie Holiday records "Strange Fruit", the first what?
A: Anti-lynching song.

The Federal Security Agency (FSA) is founded in the USA, along with what?
A: The Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Health Service.

The 1939 New York World's what opens.
A: Fair.

Major League Baseball's Lou Gehrig, the legendary Yankee first baseman known as "The Iron Horse", ends his 2,130 consecutive games played streak after contracting what?
A: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Spain leaves what?
A: The League of Nations.

Lina Medina, a 5-year-old Peruvian girl, gives birth to a baby boy, becoming what?
A: The youngest confirmed mother in medical history.

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrive in Quebec City to begin what?
A: The first-ever tour of Canada by Canada's monarch.

 

Sweden, Norway, and Finland refuse what?
A: Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts.

Pan-American Airways begins trans-Atlantic what?
A: Mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York.

Siam is renamed what?
A: "Thailand".

The St. Louis, a ship carrying a cargo of 907 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land where?
A: Florida after already having been turned away from Cuba.

Where is the first Little League Baseball game played?
A: In Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

What is officially dedicated in Cooperstown, New York?
A: National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

In the last public guillotining in France, murderer Eugen Weidmann is what?
A: Decapitated by the guillotine.

 

Ford tractor with Ferguson hydraulic three-point hitch first demonstrated where?
A: At Dearborn, Michigan.

The 1st World “what” opens in New York City?
A: Science Fiction Convention.

Whose head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore?
A: Theodore Roosevelt's.

The Einstein–Szilárd letter is signed, advising President Roosevelt of the potential use of what?
A: Uranium to construct an atomic bomb.

MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, premieres where?
A: At Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

The first televised Major League Baseball games were shown on what experimental station?
A: W2XBS.

Norway, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland declare their what?
A: Neutrality.

 

The United Kingdom, France, New Zealand, Australia and India (by its Viceroy) declare what?
A: War on Germany.

President Roosevelt advocates what?
A: Neutrality in a nationwide radio address.

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