Decades Internet Quiz - QUESTIONS

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American Cultural History Internet Quiz - Questions

We hope that you enjoyed our American Cultural History Decades. Please use the chart of links to each decade below to find the answers to the following questions. This is for fun! Please enjoy.
 
 Decades library display with l-r, Peggy, Becky, Susan, Charles, Bettye.
1900-1909 1910-1919 1920-1929
1930-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959
1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989
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QUESTION:  What did Harpo Marx have to do with a 1920's group of literary people?


QUESTION:  When did women begin to vote? What amendment allowed this?


QUESTION: What was the most popular board game of the 1910s?



QUESTION:  What is the common name for the Serviceman's Readjustment Act passed in 1944?



QUESTION  Name the product advertised on this car. Is it available today?  Do they have an Internet site?


QUESTION:  Contests and marathons were huge in the 1920s.  Who won the first Miss America contest and how old was she?

QUESTION:   During World War II, who produced wartime cartoons for the government?



QUESTION:  Who were the famous couple who made ballroom dancing so popular during the 1910s?


QUESTION: What decade were people singing "Meet Me in St. Louie, Louie" and why?

QUESTION:  Who wrote The Feminine Mystique and why was it an important book? It was written during a turbulent decade.  What decade was it written?


QUESTION: What year were Barbie dolls introduced and what company made them?


QUESTION:  During the jazz age (The Twenties, right?), young people used slang.  What were some names for "girls or women" during this time?



QUESTION:  Name the important Supreme Court decision handed down in 1954 that helped pave the way for integration in America's school.


QUESTION:  During the 1930s, Dust Bowl farmers packed their families into cars, tied their few possessions on the back, and sought work in the agricultural fields or cities of the West.  What famous writer wrote about this?  Title?



QUESTION:  What two phenomena appeared in the 1940's as more and more women went to work?

QUESTION:  What are the names of two sitcoms, popular during the fifties, that used real families for the characters of the shows?



QUESTION:   Name the famous book / film that debuted in Atlanta in the late 1930s, making sales history for the next decades.



QUESTION: Name 2 songs on the lips of everyone during the 1910s.



Saloon in the 20s.  QUESTION:  What act made the sale of drink unlawful?  When?  What were some of the repercussions?


QUESTION:  The Beatniks were an important part of changing literature in the 1950s.  1) Name two of the Beat authors.  2) Who wrote On the Road?



QUESTION:  What chapel in Houston, named for a world famous artist, uses the artist's works to set a create an "overpowering material presence?"



QUESTION: How much money did the average person make in 1900?



QUESTION:  Who painted the  famous "An American Gothic"?  In what decade?



QUESTION:    Name 2-3 baseball stars of the 1930s.  What team did they draw huge crowds for?



This quiz brought to you by the team of Becky Bradley, Susan Goodwin, and Peggy Whitley.
Design and maintenance, Peggy Whitley.

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