1920s History
Name of the period where Black Excellence in the arts was recognized.
Catch phrase that Gatsby ends most of his statements with.
What is "old sport"?
Myrtle's Husband.
Who is George Wilson?
The "less fashionable" community in the book.
What is "West Egg"?
Jordan Baker's "job".
What is a professional golfer?
Nickname for young women in the 1920s who were intent on rebelling against conventional feminine norms.
What are "flappers"?
The British university where Gatsby is rumored to have attended.
What is Oxford University?
Fixed the 1919 World Series.
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
What is Manhattan?
Gatsby knocks this off the mantle in Nick's house.
What is a clock?
Wildly popular dance named after a city in South Carolina.
What is "the Charleston"?
Jay Gatsby's legal/birth name.
What is James Gatz?
Accidentally "lives" at Gatsby's mansion.
Who is the "boarder," Klipspringer?
The city in which Gatsby and Daisy originally met.
What is Louisville, KY?
College where Nick and Tom were both educated.
What is Yale?
The amendment that banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of "intoxicating liquors"
What is the 18th?
The "captain" who made Gatsby great after the war.
Who is Dan Cody?
Myrtle Wilson's sister who flirts with Nick at the apartment party in the second chapter.
Who is Catherine?
What Queens is known as in the book.
What is "The Valley of Ashes"?
Amount of money Gatsby was supposed to inherit from his mentor but never received.
What is $25,000?
DAILY DOUBLE
Expatriates such as Fitzgerald who moved to Paris in the 1920s were known as this.
The Lutheran university in Minnesota where Gatsby attended for a mere two weeks.
What is St. Olaf's?
DAILY DOUBLE
Tom and Daisy's daughter.
"The city seen from the ____ is always the city seen for the first time" (74).
What is the Queensboro Bridge?
Name of Fitzgerald's real life wife who Daisy is loosely based on.
Who is Zelda Fitzgerald?