HEAR ME ROARING TWENTIES
One of the most famous and well known dances of the 1920's is called:
What is The Charleston?
During the 1920's many American authors moved to this famous city in Europe because they were dissatisfied with the destruction of traditional American values?
What is Paris?
Fitzgerald was a Midwesterner from Minnesota and was born in this American city?
What is Saint Paul?
The Great Gatsby include this number of chapters?
What is 9?
The undisputed king of silent motion pictures, whose filmography includes 80 films over the course of his life.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
The term given to young women with bobbed hair, short skirts, who drank too much, smoked, and challenged the more conservative roles that women held.
What are Flappers?
Term used to define people who are living outside their home country:
What is expatriates?
Fitzgerald's first novel, _________________, was an immediate best seller.
What is This Side of Paradise?
The state where our narrator is from.
What is Minnesota?
Refers to this popular 1920's design style characterized by geometric shapes and lavish curves.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Art Deco?
Between 1923 and 1930, 60% of Americans had purchased this popular product/v
What is a radio?
The famous woman writer coined the phrase; "The Lost Generation."
Who is Gertrude Stein?
Fitzgerald did not adapt very well to this famous California district.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Hollywood?
This character is positioned as a somewhat detached observer, allowing him to provide insights into the lives of the wealthy characters while also being somewhat disillusioned by their moral failings.
Who is Nick Carraway?
This popular work week schedule was designed by the Ford Motor Company during the 1920's.
What is the 40-hour work week?
During the 20's this industry underwent a major boom with more than 800 of these released.
What are films or movies?
Which lost generation writer authored "The Great Gatsby," depicting the flamboyance of the Jazz Age?
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Who is Zelda?
This shines at the end of Daisy's dock, and symbolizes a deep hope for the future.
What is the green light?
The government believed that this "noble experiment”—would work so well that crime would all but disappear.
What is Prohibition?
The number of years that Prohibition stayed in place?
What is 13 years?
Which war ushered in the disillusionment that writers of the Lost Generation felt?
What is WWI?
The number of children F. Scott and Zelda had?
What is 1?
The setting of the story is Long Island, and the territories where the characters live are described as _________ because of their shape.
What are eggs?
This state had the first one of these stations in the US in the 1920's.
What is Pennsylvania?