Pop Culture
This contemporary artist referenced a 1920's "It Girl" in her 2024 album.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This president strongly supported the League of Nations.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The Eighteenth Amendment was enforced by the passing of this bill, which occured at the stroke of midnight on January 17, 1920.
What is the "Volstead Act"?
Many American authors, artists, and activists left New York for Paris. This is the term for this drove of expatriates.
What is the "Lost Generation"?
This man is known as the "Father of Psychoanalysis".
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This actress was known as "America's Sweetheart". You may remember her from such films as "Coquette", and, "My Best Girl."
Who is Mary Pickford?
This amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation (but not necessarily the consumption) of liquor.
What is the 18th amendment?
These slang terms refer to anti and pro prohibitionists, respectively.
What are "wets" and "drys"?
This is the title of FSF's 1925 collection of short stories.
What is Flappers and Philosophers?
Freud's theory relating to mothers and unconscious desires was named after this Greek hero.
Who is "Oedipus"?
This film marked the end of silent films in America.
What is "The Jazz Singer?"
bonus points: what're the first spoken words?
Prior to the ratification of the 19th amendment, this many states *completely* prohibited women from voting.
What is nine?
This avid proponent of prohibition was made up of hundreds of thousands of middle class women.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?
This author defied traditional forms of writing by typing nonsensical stanzas.
This philosopher is known for his idea of an "Übermensch" or "Superman", as well as the quote "God is dead."
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
hey guys its just like epic rap battles of history
This strange fad took teens by storm in 1929, causing the mayor of Baltimore to make a statement.
What is 'Flagpole Sitting?'
This was designed to help Germany pay its World War I reparations and stabilize its economy.
What is the Dawes Plan?
This German-American man is known as the most prolific bootlegger.
Who is George Remus?
If you said Al Capone, I'm disappointed.
What is "The Passing of the Great Race"?
What is an entomologist?
In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across this arm of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is "the English Channel"?
This was a nickname given to Herbert Hoover.
two acceptable answers, you only have to give one.
What is "The Great Engineer" / "The Great Humanitarian"?
This was the derogatory name given to low quality speakeasies.
What are "blind pigs"?
This poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay was a part of her collection "Figs from Thistles", and it "captured the Bohemian ethos."
What is "First Fig"?
This author wrote "Modern Temper" and compared the United States to an adolescent having an identity crisis.
Who is Joseph Wood Krutch?