1921
The cereal known as "the breakfast of champions."
What are Wheaties?
This four person game played with ivory tiles with Chinese characters became popular.
What is Mah Jong?
Macy's started this annual tradition in New York City.
What is the Thanksgiving Day Parade?
The Hormel Company in Minnesota introduced this canned meat.
What is ham?
A rodent character with big ears made his debut in one of the first animated cartoons with a soundtrack.
What is Mickey Mouse?
A major league baseball team purchased 20 acres of land in the Bronx to build this.
What is Yankee Stadium?
This famous magician removed a straight-jacket while suspended 40 feet above the ground.
Who was Harry Houdini?
Simon and Schuster published the first book of this word game.
What are crossword puzzles?
This tunnel connected lower Manhattan to Jersey City.
What is the Holland Tunnel?
This discovery ushered in the age of antibiotics.
What is penicillin?
This fictional lady became key in Gold Medal Flour's advertisements for food and recipes.
Who was Betty Crocker?
The young women who wore short dresses and bobbed hair and makeup.
Who were flappers?
In the Scopes Monkey Trial, a teacher was charged with violating the law for teaching this.
What is evolution?
The great flood of this US river inundated farmlands and killed hundreds.
What is the Mississippi?
This famous Catholic nun and missionary arrived in India.
Who was Mother Teresa?
The first Miss American beauty pageant was held here.
What is Atlantic City?
He published "The Meaning of Relativity."
Who was Albert Einstein?
The longest running radio broadcast in the US began, coming from Nashville.
What is the Grand Ol' Opry?
This system that transmitted moving images via airwaves was created.
What is television?
This negative pressure ventilator was first used to help polio patients breathe.
What is an iron lung?
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was deicated here.
What is Arlington National Cemetery?
This drug was developed to treat diabetes.
What is insulin?
F. Scott Fitzgerald published this novel highlighting society life in the 1920s.
What is The Great Gatsby?
A Broadway musical telling the story of a theatrical troupe traveling the Mississippi on a riverboat.
What is Showboat?
This famous comic characters--a spinach eating sailor, made his first appearance.
Who is Popeye?