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1930s (Mostly American) #1

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : 20th & 21st Centuries : 1930s (Mostly American) #1

Introduction:
"This is my second quiz covering the decade 1930-1939. This one requires general knowledge of US and some European history."


1. Nazi Germany's September 1, 1939 invasion of which country is generally regarded as the beginning of WWII in Europe?
    France
    Poland
    Holland
    Norway


2. Who was Pope during the 1930s?
    Benedict XVI
    Pius XI
    John XXIII
    John Paul I


3. In 1934 American gangster John Dillinger was shot by the FBI as he emerged from a Chicago theater after seeing which movie?
    Manhattan Melodrama
    Gone With the Wind
    Grand Hotel
    Casablanca


4. When the Dionne quintuplets were born in 1934 they were the first set of quints known to survive their infancy. Where were they born?
    Ontario, Canada
    Maine, USA
    Reims, France
    Bern, Switzerland


5. What were the most popular names for girls and boys born in the US in the early 1930s?
    Shirley and James
    Mary and Robert
    Barbara and John
    Wilma and Fred


6. The decade from 1929 to 1939 found Winston Churchill out of power and out of favor, as he tried to rouse the British people to the growing German threat. What is this period of Churchill's life often called?
    The Wilderness Years
    The Era of Disenchantment
    The Trying Time
    The Lost Weekend


7. In 1939 American inventor Philo Farnsworth sold his patents for which invention to RCA Victor for $1 million?
    FM radio
    Television
    Stereophonic recording
    33 1/3 rpm "LP" records


8. Which Broadway show won the Tony Award for Best Musical of 1936?
    None - the Tonys weren't awarded until 1948
    Babes In Arms
    On Your Toes
    Shake A Leg


9. This performer is often credited with saving Twentieth Century-Fox movie studio from near bankruptcy in 1934.
    Clark Gable
    Rin-Tin-Tin
    Bette Davis
    Shirley Temple


10. During the 1932-1937 US Supreme Court terms a group of justices were called "The Three Musketeers" because they were thought to be the most liberal and supportive of President Roosevelt's New Deal programs. These three judges were Harlan Fiske Stone, Benjamin Cardozo and which other man?
    Warren Cheese Burger
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Louis Brandeis
    Oliver Wendall Holmes


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