| Letter | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| C | Aviator who completed the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris in 1927 | Charles Lindbergh | 100%
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| E | Island in New York which was the primary immigration station for European migrants | Ellis Island | 100%
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| G | Country which was known as the Weimar Republic | Germany | 100%
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| J | Expressive music style popular in the 1920s | Jazz | 100%
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| O | Prominent empire which dissolved in 1922 after several centuries | Ottoman Empire | 100%
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| P | Antibiotic drug first discovered by Alexander Flemming in 1928 | Penicillin | 100%
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| V | First leader of the Soviet Union | Vladimir Lenin | 100%
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| Y | New name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, which was adopted in 1929 | Yugoslavia | 100%
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| A | Substance banned in the United States by the 18th amendment | Alcohol | 92%
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| W | Group granted the right to vote in the US from the 19th amendment | Women | 92%
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| L | Precursor to the United Nations founded in 1920 | League of Nations | 83%
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| S | This crashed in October of 1929, leading to the Great Depression | Stock market | 83%
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| M | Form of entertainment which was enhanced by the addition of sound | Movie | 75%
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| Q | Hygenic swab invented by Leo Gerstenzang in 1923 | Q-tip | 75%
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| U | Major world power which refused to join L | United States of America | 75%
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| X | Nationalistic and anti-immigrant rhetoric which led to I, translating to “fear of outsiders” | Xenophobia | 75%
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| N | 1922 silent German horror film which served as an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula | Nosferatu | 67%
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| F | Term for a rebellious, liberated woman in the 20s, many of whom wore short dresses and bobbed hair, and defied traditional social and sexual norms | Flapper | 58%
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| K | Egyptian pharaoh whose tomb was discovered in 1922 | King Tutankhamun | 58%
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| R | Term for 1920s stemming from the economic boom and lifestyle of excess and gaudiness | Roaring Twenties | 58%
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| B | Term for smuggling of the above frequent during the Prohibition | Bootlegging | 50%
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| H | Explosion of black artistic, social, and cultural expression centered in 1920s New York | Harlem Renaissance | 42%
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| Z | Socialite and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was perhaps the most prominent example of F | Zelda Fitzgerald | 42%
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| T | Massive political corruption scandal in the United States involving the Harding administration | Teapot Dome Scandal | 25%
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| I | 1924 US law passed which limited the number of immigrants based on national origin quotas | Immigration Act | 17%
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| D | Pianist and composer who helped revolutionize swing music | Duke Ellington | 8%
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