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Roaring 20s quiz

Question 1 of 21

1

What were Flappers?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Young women who enjoyed smoking and dancing

  • People who worked in the stock markets

  • People who smuggle alcohol in to the USA

Explanation

Question 2 of 21

1

Who was a Famous baseball star?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Charlie Chaplin

  • Babe Ruth

  • Woodrow Wilson

Explanation

Question 3 of 21

1

What was the name of the first car Henry Ford created?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Model T

  • The Car 1.0

  • Motor sport

Explanation

Question 4 of 21

1

What was the Fordney-McCumber Tariff used for?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Raised duties on both factory and farm goods

  • Tax on imported and exported goods

  • Immigrants had to pay tax to get into the US

Explanation

Question 5 of 21

1

How did companies advertise new products?

Select one or more of the following:

  • word of mouth

  • Radio and film

  • Flyers

Explanation

Question 6 of 21

1

Where did people by shares?

Select one or more of the following:

  • The stock market

  • The bank of America

  • Post office

Explanation

Question 7 of 21

1

Who was buying the shares?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Rich industrialists

  • Ordinary people

  • Poor people

Explanation

Question 8 of 21

1

What is the assembly line?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Divided manufacturing tasks among a group of workers alongside a moving belt

  • A line of cars outside the car factory

  • A line of workers as they wait to get into the factories

Explanation

Question 9 of 21

1

In what year was the first talking picture released?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 1927

  • 1922

  • 1925

Explanation

Question 10 of 21

1

What were the new dance crazes?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Charleston and Lindy hop

  • YMCA and the jive

  • The twist and the jazz hands

Explanation

Question 11 of 21

1

What does the KKK stand for?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Kill Kill Kill

  • Ku Klux Klan

  • Kick Keep Kill

Explanation

Question 12 of 21

1

Who did the KKK dislike?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Immigrants, Jews and Catholics

  • Poor people and farmers

  • Politicians, Bankers and entrepreneurs

Explanation

Question 13 of 21

1

What does W.A.S.P stand for?

Select one or more of the following:

  • White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

  • What Are Stupid Politian's

  • Who Are Saxon Protestant

Explanation

Question 14 of 21

1

What test did immigrants had to pass?

Select one or more of the following:

  • literacy

  • reading

  • maths

Explanation

Question 15 of 21

1

what did the National Origins Act discriminate against?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia

  • German and Italian people

  • people outside of America

Explanation

Question 16 of 21

1

What is prohibition?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Banning of foreign goods

  • Banning of food made in foreign countries

  • Banning of alcohol

Explanation

Question 17 of 21

1

Who was a famous gangster?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Al Capone

  • Ben Taylor

  • William Penny

Explanation

Question 18 of 21

1

What were speakeasies?

Select one or more of the following:

  • stolen or smuggled alcohol

  • homemade liquor

  • illegal drinking clubs

Explanation

Question 19 of 21

1

what is moonshine?

Select one or more of the following:

  • home made alcohol

  • smuggled alcohol

  • illegal drinking clubs

Explanation

Question 20 of 21

1

what did rum-runners do?

Select one or more of the following:

  • smuggled alcohol

  • make their own liquor

  • stole smuggled alcohol

Explanation

Question 21 of 21

1

why didn't the American people trust German brewers?

Select one or more of the following:

  • untrustworthy after WW1

  • alcohol tasted funny

  • found poison in several pints of beer

Explanation

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