Elections
Liberal Arts
Fun Facts
Women
Games
100
Who got the right to vote in the 1920?
Who are Women? Women got the right to vote at the age of 21. Changing the election game forever.
100
What social change, depicted in the painting, occurred during the decade?
What is the women's movement?
100
What magazine was founded on March, 3rd 1923?
a) Time Magazine
b) The Crisis
c) Current Opinion
What was Time Magazine?
100
What were the “new type of women” called?
Who were Flappers?
100
Found in magazines, America fell in love with this game in the 20s...
What is Crossword Puzzles?
200
The effects on the stock market crash on politics and views on the candidates?
What is it lead to the end of the democratic government.
200
What genre of music took center stage during the decade?
What is Jazz?
200
True or False?
In August of 1922, the first ever radio ad was aired live
What was True?
200
What year was the first Miss America contest held?
When was September 8th,1921?
200
Invented in the mid-1920s, a variant of Tic-Tac-Toe...
What is Pegity?
300
How did the pictures on the ballot affect the elections?
What is, it allowed people that were illiterate to still know who they were voting for.
300
Who wrote the poem, Cabaret?
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
Who was the first American author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
or
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis
300
What was the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act (1921)?
What was maternity (and childcare) protection? This act was the first attempt to protect pregnant women and new mothers ( federal funding and education were provided as well).
300
Popular game in the 1920s that originated in China and involved with gambling...
What is Mahjong?
400
Who were the elected presidents in the 1920's?
Who was Warren Hardening, Herbert Hoover, and Calvin Coolidge.
400
Who were the most deceitful folk in the 1920s?
Who were salesmen? or (What were advertisements)?
400
Which contest was held to idolize girls in the 1920s?
A. Here She Comes, America
B. Miss America
C. American Idol
D. None of the above
B. Miss America
400
True or False:
Women were provided with free lunches and free medical care as a compensation for their low wages
True!
400
Invented in the late 1920s, people would get angry at each other when playing this board game...
What is Sorry?
500
Reenactment time!!
What is the election of 1920, which was the first election held after the ratification of the 19th amendment.
500
A Swanky Reenactment!
What is Anna Christie, written by Eugene O'Neill?
500
Crossword!
ACROSS
2. The game we are playing right now
5. an alcoholic drink
6. to arrest
9. Tough; without sentimental
10. An object that people would try to balance on
12. a person or things easily overcome
13. Boisterous, convivial fun
15. having an elegantly fashionable appearance
16. Popular music genre from this decade
DOWN
1. Nonsense; same as applesauce
3. An important person
4. the nose
7. A saloon or bar selling bootleg whiskey
8. A typical young girl of the '20s, usually with bobbed hair, short skirts and rolled stockings
11. Bootleg liquor (from "Hoochinoo," a tribe of Alaskan Indians who made distilled liquor.)
14. elegant (From "ritz," the Paris hotel)
500
What was the most popular haircut a woman could get?
What was a bob?
500
Which party game was popular in the Roaring 20s?
A. Treasure Hunt
B. Ice Breaker
C. Duck Duck Goose
D. Murder Mystery
D. Murder Mystery