Vocabulary
People
Sports
Music
Fads and Entertainment
100
The reduction or limitation of military armamaents
What is Disarmament?
100
President who got assasinated while in office.
Who is Warren Harding?
100
A famous baseball player
Who is Babe Ruth?
100
Combined rhythms from West Africa and the Caribbean, work chants and spirituals from the rural South, and harmonies from Europe into an original new style of music.
What is jazz?
100
A novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, calling attention to the excesses of the Roaring Twenties.
What is The Great Gatsby?
200
A total ban on alcoholic drinks.
What is Prohibition?
200
President Hardings Vice President who took office after he was assasinated.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
200
A popular game in the 1920's that was played by Babe Ruth and many other famous people.
What is baseball?
200
A famous trumpet player.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
200
A woman who studied anthropology. She became swept up in cultural excitement
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
300
People who oppose all organized government.
Who are anarchists?
300
A man nicknamed Lucky Lindy who flew nonstop across the Atlantic in 1927.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
300
A woman who swam across across the English Channel.
Who is Gertrude Ederle?
300
This man was a famous musician. He conducted his own band.
Who is Duke Ellington?
300
This is the vibrant growth of African American culture in Harlem. It attracted many citizens from the South.
What is Harlem Renaissance?
400
Borrowing money in order to buy stocks
What is Buying On Margin?
400
This man reacted against what he saw as the hypocrisies of middle-class culture.
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
400
By nearly 2 hours.
How many hours did Gertrude Ederle beat the men's old record by?
400
A blues artist and singer. She is a woman.
Who is Bessie Smith?
400
A popular hairstyle back in the 1920's
What is a bob?
500
Liquor smugglers
What is Bootlegger?
500
A famous poet in the 1920's. He wrote his poems to sound like jazz music
Who is Langston Hughes?
500
Heavyweight champion in boxing.
Who is Jack Dempsey?
500
Performers who performed in many countries.
What is a goodwill ambassador?
500
This was and still is a popular game. This Chinese game became extremely popular. They even had clubs in colleges where they played this
What is Mah-jongg?
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