1920's Trivia
On August 18, 1920, women won the right to do this
What is vote?
When referring to dessert dishes like pie, this is the term used to mean that it is served with ice cream
What is "à la mode"?
These scientists collect, preserve, and analyze scientific/ physical evidence during the course of an investigation for law enforcement
What is a forensic scientist?
This is the state of Alabama's largest city
What is Birmingham?
This planet boasts the "Great Red Spot"-- a giant storm bigger than the Earth that has raged for hundreds of years
What is Jupiter?
On January 6, 1920, the Boston Red Sox sold this player to the New York Yankees, changing baseball history forever
Who is Babe Ruth?
This is a type of ice cream composed of three separate flavors: vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry
What is Neapolitan ice cream?
This term refers to workers who perform manual labor, including: manufacturing, farming, landscaping, construction, and other types of physical work-- as opposed to office workers
What is a "blue-collar" worker?
This is easily the smallest U.S. state
What is Rhode Island?
The annual World Series of Poker is held in this city
What is Las Vegas?
This was the nationwide constitutional ban on the production, transport, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933
What is the Prohibition?
These are the best-selling Girl Scout cookies, comprising around 25% of their total sales
What are Thin Mints?
This is a person who welcomes and shows people where to sit, especially at a church, theater, or wedding
What is an usher?
Death Valley is located in the northern Mojave Desert of this U.S. state
What is California?
This man was the first American to go into space
Who is Alan Shepard?
This parade is one of the largest parades in the world and first started in the fall of 1924
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
This is an Italian dessert, made from tube-shaped shells of dough, lightly fried and filled with a sweet, creamy filling
What is a Cannoli?
This strange entertainer changes his or her voice so that it appears that it's coming from a puppeteer-ed prop, or "dummy"
What is a ventriloquist?
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This is the only one of the Great Lakes which is located entirely within the U.S. border
What is Lake Michigan?
This is the largest bone in the human body
What is the femur/ thigh bone?
This novel, written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is still considered by many to be one of the greatest books of all time
What is The Great Gatsby?
This traditionally Spanish custard dessert is topped with caramel sauce
What is Flan?
This is the term for people hired to write speeches, novels, or other texts that are officially credited to another person as the author
What are ghostwriters?
At 20,320 ft, this mountain in Alaska is the tallest mountain in the United States
What is Mount McKinley?
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This man became the world's first billionaire in 1916, and is now known as the wealthiest American of all time
Who is John D. Rockefeller?