1920s Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers From the Year 1926
Flooding of the Rhine River struck Cologne, and how many
people were forced to evacuate their homes?
A: 50,000.
Who declared himself dictator in Greece?
A: Theodoros Pangalos.
What airline was founded in Berlin?
A: Deutsche Luft Hansa.
Who was crowned King of Hejaz.
A: Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud.
A BBC comic radio play broadcast by Ronald Knox about a
workers' revolution caused what?
A: A panic in London.
The Belgian Parliament accepted the what?
A: Locarno Treaties.
What did Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrate for
members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times at his London
laboratory?
A: A mechanical television system.
Eugene O'Neill's "what" opened at the Greenwich Theatre?
A: The Great God Brown.
Land on Broadway and Wall Street in New York City was sold
at a record how much money per square inch?
A: $7 per sq inch.
Where did Seán O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars open?
A: At the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
The Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appointed
the Committee on what?
A: Evil Literature.
The Berlin "what" debuted in Berlin?
A: International Green Week.
Francisco Franco became what?
A: General of Spain.
What happened to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in
Stratford-upon-Avon?
A: It was destroyed by fire.
What did Robert Goddard do in March?
A: He launched the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn,
Massachusetts.
Who won the presidential election with 93.3% of the vote?
A: Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos.
An assassination attempt against who fails?
A: Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
By a vote of 45–41, the United States Senate unseats who?
A: Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart .
Zhang Zuolin's army captured what city in China?
A: Beijing.
In the Treaty of Berlin, what did Germany and the Soviet
Union each pledge?
A: Neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the
next five years.
Who was crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi"?
A: Rezā Khan.
African-American pilot Bessie Coleman was killed after
what?
A: Falling 500 feet from an airplane.
Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claimed
to be the first to do what?
A: Fly over the North Pole.
An entry in Byrd's diary discovered in 1996 suggested what?
A: That the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole due to
an oil leak.
Roald Amundsen and his crew flew over what?
A: The North Pole in the airship Norge.
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared while
visiting what?
A: A Venice, California beach.
The United States Congress passed the Air Commerce Act,
licensing what?
A: Pilots and planes.
The first Lebanese "what" was established?
A: constitution.
Who became president of Poland?
A: Ignacy Mościcki.
DeFord Bailey was the first "what" to perform on
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry?
A: African-American.
Who took power in a military coup in Portugal?
A: General Óscar Carmona.
A bolt of lightning struck what in New Jersey?
A: Picatinny Arsenal, causing several million pounds of explosives to blow up in
the next two to three days.
Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to do what?
A: Swim the English Channel from France to England.
The Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premiered with what
movie?
A: Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
The sudden death of what popular
Hollywood actor and sex
symbol at the age of 31 years old caused grief around the world?
A: Rudolph Valentino.
Who announced that dictatorship had ended in Greece and he
was now the president?
A: Pavlos Kountouriotis.
Lebanon under the French Mandate got its first
constitution, thereby becoming a what?
A: A republic.
Who was elected president of Lebanon?
A: Charles Debbas
What Philip Dunning and George Abbott play premieres in
New
York City?
A: Broadway.
Gene Tunney defeated whom and became heavyweight
boxing
champion of the world?
A: Jack Dempsey.
The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolished what?
A: All types of slavery.
What A. A. Milne children's book was published in London,
featuring the eponymous bear?
A: Winnie-the-Pooh.
A decree in Italy banned women from doing what?
A: Holding public office.
Magician Harry Houdini died of gangrene and peritonitis
that has developed after what?
A: His appendix ruptured.
The NBC radio network opened with how many stations?
A: 24 stations.
Where was the death penalty re-established?
A: In Italy.
Turkey converted to the what?
A: Gregorian calendar.
