1923 Trivia Questions and Answers
All major British railway companies are grouped into four
larger companies, under terms of the what?
A: Railways Act 1921.
Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to do what?
A: Annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory).
Poland annexes what?
A: The Republic of Central Lithuania
Despite strong British protests, troops from France and
Belgium occupy the what?
A: The Ruhr area to force Germany to make reparation payments.
What does Juan de la Cierva invent?
A: The autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor.
What is destroyed by a fire?
A: Elon College's campus in
North Carolina.
Norman Albert calls the first live broadcast of a what on
the Toronto station CFCA?
A: An ice hockey game.
Who resigns as Prime Minister of Australia, after the
Country Party refuses to govern in coalition with him as the leader of the
Nationalist Party?
A: Billy Hughes.
Hughes is succeeded by whom?
A: His Treasurer, Stanley Bruce.
Albert Einstein visits Barcelona,
Spain, at the invitation
of whom?
A: Scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa.
The USS Connecticut is what?
A: Decommissioned.
Retired U.S. Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon appears
on the first cover of what?
A: The first issue of Time magazine.
Vladimir Lenin suffers his what?
A: His third stroke, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak.
Pete Parker calls the play-by-play of the first ice hockey
game ever what?
A: Broadcast on the radio in its entirety.
The game was between the Regina Capitals and the Edmonton
Eskimos of the what?
A: Western Canada Hockey League.
Warner Bros. film studio is formally incorporated as what?
A: Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.
Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, "Chimes Blues",
with what band?
A: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
Yankee Stadium opens its doors as the home park of the
what?
A: The New York Yankees baseball team in The Bronx.
Egyptian Constitution of 1923 adopted, introducing what?
A: A parliamentary system of democracy in the country.
April 23 – The Gdynia seaport is inaugurated on the Polish Corridor.
Where does Prince Albert, Duke of York marry Lady
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon?
A: In Westminster Abbey.
Wembley Stadium opened its doors for the first time to the
British public staging what?
A: The FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham Utd.
Southeastern Michigan receives a record 6 inches (15 cm) of
snow after temperatures what?
A: Plummeted from 62 to 34 degrees between 1 and 6 pm on the previous day.
The premiere of Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle (Im
Dickicht) at the Residenz theater in Munich is interrupted by whom?
A: Nazi demonstrators.
What war ends?
A: The Irish Civil War.
The first 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race is held, and is
won by whom?
A: André Lagache and René Léonard.
The Ku Klux Klan defies a law requiring what?
A: Publication of its members.
A military coup in Bulgaria ousts what prime minister?
A: Aleksandar Stamboliyski (he is killed June 14).
William Walton's "what" is performed for the first time?
A: Façade.
Why does President Li Yuanhong of China abandon his
residence?
A: A warlord has commanded forces to surround the mansion and cut off its water
and electric supplies.
What volcano erupts in
Italy, making 60,000 homeless?
A: Mount Etna.
Large "what" kill 23 in Rostov, Soviet Union?
A: Hailstones.
Who is assassinated at Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua?
A: Pancho Villa.
Hyperinflation in Germany has seen the number of marks
needed to purchase a single American dollar reach what?
A: 353,000 - more than 200 times the amount needed at the start of the year.
President Harding, dies of a heart attack and is succeeded
by whom?
A: Vice President Calvin Coolidge.
The first major seagoing ship arrives where?
A: At Gdynia, the newly constructed Polish seaport.
Who is named Chancellor of Germany and founds a coalition
government for the Weimar Republic?
A: Gustav Stresemann.
What earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an
estimated 142,807 people?
A: The Great Kantō earthquake
The Italian navy occupies Corfu in retaliation for what?
A: The murder of an Italian officer.
At the International Police Conference in Vienna, the
International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC), better known as "what", is set
up?
A: Interpol.
The Irish Free State joins what?
A: The League of Nations.
Ankara replaces Constantinople as the what?
A: Capital of Turkey.
Roy and Walt Disney found what?
A: The Walt Disney Company.
