Great Depression
What year did the Great Depression begin?
1929
Famous Ohioan who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics
Jesse Owens
By 1891, breweries in this Southern Ohio city produced over four barrels of beer per resident annually.
Cincinatti
What Toledo based company created the General Purpose vehicle for the US Army during WWII?
Willys-Overland
Of the seven colors of the rainbow which is the middle one?
Green
What major Ohio city was known for having the highest rate of unemployment during the Great Depression?
Toledo
What city in Mercer County was home to a German POW Camp during WWII?
Celina
What were places were alcohol was illegally sold that sprang up around Ohio during Prohibition called?
Speakeasy
During WWII, Goodyear Aircraft Corporation manufactured 104 zepplins, at its facility is this Ohio city.
Akron
McDonald’s restaurant periodically runs a themed promotion based on what board game?
Monopoly
New Deal Program which Authorized the federal government to pay subsidies to farmers for growing fewer crops and raising fewer animals.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
In what county did an onion picker strike take place in 1934?
Hardin
What do you call a strike in which workers quit working but still occupied their places within the factory?
Sit-Down
What was the code name given to the efforts of the United States, Great Britain and Canada to develop the first atomic bomb during World War II?
Manhattan Project
In what state is the NFL's Pro Bowl played in annually?
Hawaii
One of the two New Deal programs in Ohio that hired unemployed men between eighteen and twenty-five years of age to work on various government projects.
CCC or WPA
What famous gangster escaped from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of a gang, who killed the sheriff, Jess Sarber?
John Dillinger
Ohio city considered to be the “Dry Capital of the World”
Westerville
Ohioans Curtis LeMay and Paul Tibbets were both instrumental in this part of WWII
Atomic Bombings
What is the opposite of an utopia?
Dystopia
The Ohio legislature implemented this for the first time in 1934.
Sales Tax
Inventor of Teflon
Roy Plunkett
Union Leader who was jailed, kidnapped, and beaten during the Hardin County Onion Picker Strike
Okey Odell
About what percentage of the Ohio population served in the armed forces during WWII?
12%
What decade gave us the first ATM?
1970's