Slang of the 1920s
Famous People
Inventions & Technology
Culture & Entertainment
Grammar in the Past
100

If something is the bee s knees, it is...

Excellent

100

Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

100

Henry Ford made which affordable car?

Model T

100

Popular 1920s dance:

Charleston

100

Correct it: Yesterday I go to a jazz club

went

200

What did people call illegal alcohol during Prohibition?

Giggle Water

200

King of Jazz, famous trumpeter:

Louis Armstrong

200

What device brought jazz and news into homes?

radio
200

Prohibition banned the sale of

alcohol

200

She ___ (buy) a flapper dress last week

bought

300

A jalopy is

an old car

300

U.S. president for most of the 1920s:

Calvin Coolidge

300

Talkies were

Talking movies

300

Secret bars during Prohibition were called: 

speakeasies

300

Change to past: They are drinking giggle water

They were...

400

If something is hotsy-totsy, it is

Perfect

400

Famous baseball star of the 1920s:

Jackie Robinson

400

Which became common in homes during the 1920s

Refrigerator

400

Harlem Renaissance city:

New York

400

In 1925, women ___ the right to vote

got

500

A flapper was a young woman known for

Short hair, jazz, independence

500

First solo pilot to fly across the Atlantic (1927):

Charles Lindbergh
500

Messages often delivered by boys on bikes:

Telegrams

500

Nickname for the 1920s decade:

Roaring Twenties

500

By the time the police arrived, the gangsters ___ (leave).

had left