1921

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1. On January 21, the movie “The Kid” premiered in New York. The film starred Charlie Chaplin, but who played the title character? Mickey Rooney Jackie Coogan Jackie Cooper Freddie Bartholomew

2. On January 28, the Unknown Soldier of France was laid to rest at what location in Paris? Eiffel Tower Arc de Triomphe Napoleon’s Tomb Cathedral of Notre Dame

3. On March 17, Marie Stopes made social history in London in what way? She cast the first female vote in a British election She was elected to parliament She appeared in a nude scene in a Soho theater She opened a birth control clinic

4. On June 1, the deadliest race riot in American history took place in what city? Atlanta, Georgia Dallas, Texas Tulsa, Oklahoma Birmingham, Alabama

5. On July 14, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were found guilty by a Massachusetts jury of committing what crime? Killing the mayor of Boston Killing a teenage boy for the thrill of it Killing two men during the robbery of a shoe factory Killing citizens with a bomb in the Boston Public Garden

6. On July 21 and September 27, the ex-German warship Ostfriesland and the decommissioned U.S. battleship Alabama were sunk by aircraft in demonstrations arranged by what U.S. Army officer? Billy Mitchell Curtis LeMay Eddie Rickenbacker Jimmy Doolittle

7. On August 2, one person died; on January 31, another person was born. Both were masters of the same pursuit, and one portrayed the other in a movie. Who were they? Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn Lon Chaney, Sr. and Lon Chaney, Jr. Enrico Caruso and Mario Lanza Jack Johnson and Floyd Patterson

8. On August 10, after a day of swimming near his family’s summer home, Franklin Delano Roosevelt fell ill and was struck by poliomyelitis, permanently paralyzing him from the waist down. On what island was the summer home located? Nantucket Island, Massachusetts Campobello Island, New Brunswick Mount Desert Island, Maine Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

9. On August 23, Faisal ibn Husayn, a member of the Hashemite Dynasty and a leader of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire in World War I, became king of what country? Turkey Iran Iraq Libya

10. On December 6, a treaty was signed in London, effectively creating what new nation? Irish Free State India Union of South Africa Australia