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100

This is the scandal that Albert Bacon Fall caused.

What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?

100

Babe Ruth hit this many home runs in one season.

What is 60?

100

This was the most common unnatural cause of death.

What are motor vehicle accidents?

100

This was the most common job in Mercer in the 1920s.

What is farming?

100

This popular invention was invented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in 1927.

What is the television?

200

This 1920 amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States.

What is the 19th Amendment?

200

This type of "new woman" was also known as?

What are Flappers?

200

This Dutch physician won the Nobel Prize in 1929 for the discovery of various vitamins.

Who is Christiaan Eijkman?

200

This natural resource was mined extensively in the western part of the county.

What is coal?

200

This is the American aviator and military officer who flew non stop from New York to Paris in 1927?

Charles A. Lindbergh "Lucky Lindy"

300

This president's cabinet was known as the "poker cabinet."

Who is President Harding?

300

This league was founded in 1920.

What is the NFL?

300

This Canadian pharmacologist won the Nobel Prize in 1923 for the discovery of Insulin.

Who is Frederick G Banting?

300

This annual gathering featured music, contests, and displays of local produce and livestock.

What is the Mercer County Fair?

300

This inventor created the Band-Aid in 1920.

Who is Earle Dickson?

400

This president was known for his idea for the league of nations.

Who is President Wilson?

400

This iconic author wrote “The Great Gatsby,” capturing the glitz and heartbreak of the decade.

Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?

400

This was the most deadly disease.

What is measles?

400

This town was home to one of the area's larger high schools during the 1920s.

What is Greenville and Sharon?

400

He revolutionized car manufacturing with the assembly line.

Who is Henry Ford?

500

This law, enacted in 1920, banned the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the U.S.

What is Prohibition?

500

This hate group hit its peak at 3 million members in 1924.

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

500

This Austrian physician won the Nobel Prize in 1927 for healing general paralysis by infection with malaria. 

Who is Julius Wagner-Jauregg?

500

This Mercer County town was known for steel production and was a key industrial player in the 1920s.

What is Sharon?

500

This many Ford cars came off the production line every day in 1925.

What is 9,000 cars?

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