This violent, organized crime figure was finally convicted of
tax evasion, even thought he was a murderer, bootlegger, mob boss.
Who is Al Capone?
100
This legislation outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquor.
What is the 18th Amendment?
100
John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of this.
What is Evolution?
100
Pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
100
He coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age' which described the 1920's?
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
200
In charge of Prohibition enforcement.
Who is the Bureau within the Treasury Department of the IRS?
200
Defined intoxicating liquor and set up agency of enforcement for prohibition.
What is the Volstead Act?
200
It highlighted the struggle between science and religion in American schools.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
200
Film widely credited with heralding in the age of "talkies" and the end of the silent film era.
What is 'The Jazz Singer'?
200
An indigenous musical form developed by African Americans in the 1920's.
What is Jazz?
300
Person who transports illegal liquor during Prohibition.
What is a bootlegger?
300
A popular nickname for homemade liquor?
What is Bathtub Gin?
300
The American Civil Liberties Union hired him to represent John T. Scopes in the Monkey Trail.
Who is Clarence Darrow?
300
Arrested for teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee law.
Who is John T. Scopes?
300
Jazz pianist and composer. Wrote "Mood Indigo" and "Sophisticated Lady."
Who is Duke Ellington?
400
An underground saloon or nightclub where liquor was sold illegally.
What is a speakeasy?
400
Prohibition was ended in 1933 by this legislation.
What is the 21st Amendment?
400
He was called as a witness in the Scopes trial as an expert on the Bible.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
400
1st woman to swim the English Channel, setting a new world record.
What is Gertrude Ederle?
400
Trumpet player considered the single most important and influential musician in the history of jazz.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
500
Incident in which Al Capone's Gang entered a garage and machine-gunned members of the Moran Gang.
What is St. Valentine's Day Massacre?
500
Which of the following was illegal under prohibition?
Choose one answer.
a. using wine in religious services
b. selling alcoholic beverages in international waters
c. selling equipment used to make alcoholic beverages
d. bringing alcoholic beverages into the U.S. from Canada
What is D?
500
This movie is the dramatic depiction of the Scopes Monkey Trial from the 1920's.
What is 'Inherit the Wind'?
500
First American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, he took aim at the shallow, stifling existence of middle-class America in such novels as Main Street and Babbitt.