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A to Z by Decade: 1900s

For each letter of the alphabet, guess the associated clue relating to major events and pop culture in the 1900s.
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Letter
Clue
Answer
A
Hallmark of rapid production during the Industrial Revolution
Assembly line
B
Empire which spanned the globe, containing roughly a quarter of the world’s population
British Empire
C
Country which gained independence from Spain on May 20, 1902
Cuba
D
Main character of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dorothy
E
According to Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, this equals mass times the squared speed of light, or mc^2
Energy
F
First affordable, mass-produced car introduced in 1908
Ford Model T
G
The largest immigrant group in the US according to the 1900 censes
Germans
H
Natural disaster which hit Galveston, Texas in 1900, which killed roughly 8,000 people
Hurricane
I
Practice which drove empires across Europe to take foreign colonies
Imperialism
J
Date which the Philippine-American War was declared over by Theodore Roosevelt
July 4th
K
Site where the Wright Brothers tested their first flight in 1903
Kill Devil Hills
L
City founded in 1905 with land from the deserts of Nevada
Las Vegas
M
Scientist who first isolated radium in 1902 alongside her husband, Pierre
Marie Curie
N
Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first two men to set foot here in 1909
North Pole
O
Major resource which was found in Texas, sparking an economic boom
Oil field
P
Era in the US spearheaded by Theodore Roosevelt, defined by environmental conservation and sweeping political reform
Progressive Era
Q
Dynasty which ruled China throughout the 1900s until its 1912 collapse
Qing Dynasty
R
War which solidified Japan as a major world power
Russo-Japanese War
S
Site of a 1906 earthquake which killed 3,000 people
San Francisco
T
Invented after Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub tied to a tree
Teddy Bear
U
Author of The Jungle, which prompted the Meat Inspection Act and the Food and Drug Administration in the US
Upton Sinclair
V
Era which ended with the 1901 death of the monarch for which it was named
Victorian Era
W
US president who was assassinated in 1901 while visiting Buffalo, New York
William McKinley
X
William Conrad Röntgen received one of the first ever Nobel Prizes for his discovery of these
X-ray
Y
Territory which turned from a Gold Rush frontier to a rapidly industrializing mining hub
Yukon
Z
Rigid airship out of Germany invented in 1900
Zeppelin
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1 Comments
FurSeal
+1
Level 78
May 29, 2026
There is a typo in the clue for C: it should be May, not Maty.
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