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Trivia quiz questions about the year 1916 with answers.

 

Trivia Questions From the Year 1916

The British Royal Army Medical Corps first successful blood transfusion using what?
A: Blood that had been stored and cooled.

Last British troops evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a what?
A: A joint British and French operation to capture Istanbul.

In Browning, Montana, the temperature drops from +6.7°C to -48.8°C (44°F to -56°F) in one day, and is thus the what?
A: The greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period.

The Supreme Court of the United States upholds what?
A: The national income tax.

Paris is bombed by German "what" for the first time?
A: zeppelins.

Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on what?
A: birth control.

What orchestra presents its first concert?
A: The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

 

Where does the Battle of Verdun begin?
A: In France.

In Munich, what German automobile company is founded?
A: BMW (Die Bayerischen Motoren Werke).

Pancho Villa leads about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against  where?
A: Columbus, New Mexico, killing 12 U.S. soldiers.

President Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue who?
A: Pancho Villa.

The U.S. 7th and 10th Cavalry regiments under whom, cross the border to join the hunt for Villa?
A: John J. Pershing.

The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, does what?
A: Abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.

What is invented by William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg?
A: The light switch.

 

Where do the Chicago Cubs play their first game?
A: At Weeghman Park (modern-day Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.

What Chinese steamer ship capsizes off the Chinese coast, killing at least 1,000?
A: Hsin-Yu.

Where does the Easter Rising occur?
A: In Ireland.

The 47th Brigade, 16th (Irish) Division is decimated in one of the most heavily concentrated  what?
A: German gas attacks of the war.

Jesse Washington, a black farmhand, is what?
A: He is brutally lynched in Robinson, Texas by a crowd of white people, for murdering his employers' wife.

In May, where do the United States Marines invade?
A: The Dominican Republic.

The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a what?
A: A Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).

 

Britain initiates what?
A: Daylight saving time.

In June, who is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court?
A: Louis Brandeis.

President Wilson signs a bill incorporating what?
A: The Boy Scouts of America.

At the Battle of Erzincan, Russian forces defeat troops of the what?
A: Ottoman Empire in Armenia.

In July, in San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during what?
A: A Preparedness Day parade, killing 10 injuring 40.

In Ontario, Canada, a lightning strike ignites a forest fire that destroys what two towns?
A: Cochrane and Matheson, killing 233.

German agents cause the Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey, an act of sabotage destroying what?
A: An ammunition depot and killing at least 7 people.

 

What National Park is established in California?
A: Lassen Volcanic National Park.

President Wilson signs legislation creating the what?
A: The National Park Service.

The Kingdom of Romania declares war on whom?
A: The Central Powers, entering the war on the side of the Allies.

British pilot Leefe Robinson becomes the first to shoot down what?
A: A German airship over Britain.

Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for what?
A: Killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge.

Who is elected President of Argentina?
A: Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Margaret Sanger opens the first what?
A: U.S. birth control clinic - a forerunner of Planned Parenthood.

 

Friedrich Adler shoots whom?
A: Count Karl von Stürgkh, Minister-President of Austria.

In the U.S. presidential election, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeats who?
A:  Republican Charles E. Hughes.

Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to what?
A: The United States House of Representatives.

In November , Writer Jack London dies of what?
A: Kidney failure.

 
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