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1920s Decade Quiz

Do you have what it takes to guess these facts about the 1920s?
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First submittedFebruary 17, 2015
Times taken47,387
Average score70.0%
Rating4.32
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The first leader of the Soviet Union
V. I. Lenin
Ancient Egyptian pharaoh whose tomb was uncovered in 1922
Tutankhamun
Miracle drug discovered by Alexander Fleming
Penicillin
Intelligence-lowering device which John Logie Baird is credited with inventing
Television
Chicago's most notorious gangster during the decade
Al Capone
Pilot who flew the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris
Charles Lindbergh
Art movement which Salvador Dalí and René Magritte belonged to
Surrealism
The first name of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife (later, a video game princess)
Zelda
Group of women who wore short skirts, had bobbed hair, drank booze,
and listened to jazz
Flappers
Escape artist who died after being punched in the stomach
Harry Houdini
Jazz trumpeter known as "Satchmo"
Louis Armstrong
Invention of 1928 which was the greatest thing since ... ever
Sliced Bread
Actor who wore a bowler hat, had a mustache, and often carried a cane
Charlie Chaplin
The nickname of the 1920s
The Roaring Twenties
Author who wrote "Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises"
Ernest Hemingway
Fascist leader who rose to power in Italy
Benito Mussolini
Type of movie which declined after the release of "The Jazz Singer"
starring Al Jolson
Silent Movie
Composer who wrote "Rhapsody in Blue"
George Gershwin
The name of the German government during this period
The Weimar Republic
Leader who became the first President of Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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40 Comments
snix
+10
Level 54
Feb 18, 2015
The Philo T. Farnsworth fans will be showing up any minute now.
mikeb
+2
Level 65
Jun 26, 2015
Yup!
kalbahamut
+6
Level 81
Jun 26, 2015
It's not only Farnsworth or Baird that could be credited with "inventing television." There are several people that could arguably hold the title depending on how exactly you define television. It would be more accurate to ask something like "what technology did John Logie Baird make valuable contributions toward developing"
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Jan 3, 2020
Changed from "invented" to "credited with inventing".
triviawayne
+2
Level 66
Jun 26, 2015
electronic television vs. mechanical television; the Farnsworth camp that comes to this site should know the difference.
Clarisse451
+2
Level 65
Jun 26, 2015
Maybe you should also accept "flapper girls" or even just "flapper"? I almost missed it.
DE60
+1
Level 67
Oct 28, 2016
I agree, I only tried flapper girls
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Mar 3, 2017
Flapper will work now
howard38
+1
Level 61
Oct 11, 2017
Dunce.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 73
Mar 11, 2020
I checked to see what the quiz had as and answer if it wasnt flapper girls, cause thought huh is there another (totally different) term?. I dont think I have ever hear it used as flappers (somehow that sounds a bot derogatory) always as flapper girls.
ander217
+5
Level 75
Jun 22, 2020
I've only ever heard them called flappers. Maybe it's a location thing?
Ian1979
+3
Level 72
Jun 26, 2015
I really enjoyed this quiz, thank you for writing it. Picking a decade some time past made it a bit different from the regular types that often appear on this site and you calibrated the questions to be varied, interesting, tricky enough to be a bit of a challenge but not off-puttingly difficult
MasterKenobi
+2
Level 62
Jun 27, 2015
Ok so I just took the 90's quiz before taking this one, and I missed somewhere around six or seven questions from the 90's one and only two from this one. So I know more about the 20's than I do about the 90's, even though I was born in the 90's. Wow.
DonTheLamplighter
+2
Level 86
Oct 2, 2016
My grandmother was a flapper.
Malbaby
+2
Level 70
Oct 11, 2017
I feel slightly sad that I can get 20/20 for a quiz about the 1920s and yet quizzes about more recent decades I struggle with. Maybe I'm living in the wrong era?
Djilas
+9
Level 85
Dec 18, 2017
The more recent quizzes can be much more specific, or include pop-culture trivia that won't survive.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 73
Mar 11, 2020
Exactly, current quizzes can have questions that arent exactly noteworthy in the long run, but are rather omnipresent currently. I doubt in 100 years people will remember angrybirds, or gaga's meatdress. Then again... tetris and monroe's blowing dress have become iconic.
Hectorselector
+1
Level 59
Dec 12, 2022
I think your memory works in a different way for things that happen during your lifetime. I can tell you the year of the Peace of Westphalia without hesitation but I'd have to guess at the year of 9/11.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
Mar 11, 2019
Me toooo!
Maladroit
+5
Level 51
Oct 11, 2017
So whenever someone says anything before 1928 is the greatest thing since sliced bread, I get to correct them?
ander217
+11
Level 75
Oct 12, 2017
They can say, "It was the greatest thing before sliced bread."
Sifhraven
+1
Level 73
Mar 11, 2020
Great point aestus :)
Sifhraven
+1
Level 73
Mar 11, 2020
Man, I was thinking ok, what is the term for silent movies... couldnt think of it... apparently there isnt one and it is just "silent movies"
Victoulapin
+2
Level 68
Jun 22, 2020
I don't get the reference to the sliced bread question? I it an US thing to present it as the greatest invention ?
jmellor13
+4
Level 67
Jun 22, 2020
Not sure if it's limited to the US, but a very common saying here is to suggest that "[Insert object] is the greatest thing since sliced bread." It's just an expression. People don't really tout it as the greatest invention ever.
5teveB
+3
Level 60
Jun 23, 2020
yeah we say it in the uk too
Chris19
+2
Level 51
Sep 13, 2020
I know the expression, but I don't understand the answer given in the quiz. Bread was invented many millenia ago. So were knives. Using knives to cut bread into slices does not seem that far-fetched... Should have happened millenia ago as well.

Besides, I can find a reference to slices of bread in the Household Encyclopedia from 1858. So surely sliced bread cannot have been invented in 1928?

brandybuck96
+10
Level 83
Jan 31, 2022
Chris19 the invention of sliced bread is more accurately *pre-sliced* bread. Of course people cut up bread into slices before that. But you didn't buy it sliced
RC1
+1
Level 71
Jun 22, 2020
Could you rephrase the question about Fleming? Penicillin was technically not a drug when Fleming discovered it.
HighFidelity
+4
Level 58
Jun 22, 2020
While it's true that Fleming discovered a mould that seemed to have an effect on bacteria in a petri dish, and it was largely developed by others such as Howard Florey, it still fits the definition of a drug: "a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body".
JackintheBox
+2
Level 80
Jun 23, 2020
Can you accept 'Lindburgh' for Lindbergh?
Sean1573
+2
Level 46
Jun 26, 2020
Spelling his last name correctly would be a much better idea :)
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 31, 2022
Lindburgh would have worked though.
Malbaby
+3
Level 70
Feb 3, 2022
I think Lindberg should suffice without the 'h'.
HyddenRizz
+1
Level 67
Jul 6, 2022
Oh dear, I did well and only missed two answers, but one of them was Al Capone at 91% and now I feel bad
boltos
+1
Level 75
Jul 16, 2022
Very fun quiz. The 1920s is my favourite decade so I really enjoyed this one!
EmeraldOracle
+1
Level 71
Jul 21, 2022
Great quiz on a iconic decade!

Thought the question on Mrs. Fitzgerald was oddly worded however. Did she morph into a video game princess, or was always of royal blood? ;)

Love these "Decade" quizzes.

SpartanLlama
+1
Level 74
Feb 20, 2023
Haha at first for video game princess I tried Peach
guiztar73
+2
Level 72
Oct 13, 2023
Man this one's strict... didn't take Lindberg
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Sep 5, 2024
People hate it when the clue completes before they type the final letter.

For example, if we accept Lindberg, people who type it correctly will have an extra "h" dangling in the text box that they have to go back and erase.

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