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1920's Test
Random people that I don't give a crap about what they did
Question | Answer |
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Richard Byrd | commander of U.S. Navy Aviator Force |
18th Amendment | banned manufacture, transport and sale of alcohol |
Volstead Act | enforced the 18th amendment |
21st Amendment | ended prohibition |
Izzy Einstein & Moe Smith | cops that worked to arrest those violating prohibition; disguised themselves as drinkers to catch violaters |
19th Amendment | gave women the right to vote |
Alice Paul | put the Equal Rights Amendment into motion |
Coco Chanel | famous designer invented cardigan and little black dress |
Margaret Sanger | informed women about sex and opened birth control clinic |
Satchel Paige | baseball pitcher; inducted into hall of fame |
Gertrude Ederle | swam across English Channel and beat the men's record |
Helen Wills | international tennis player |
Red Grange | football player "The Galloping Ghost" |
Jack Dempsey | bowing Hall of Fame 1990 |
George Gipp | Notre Dame defense |
Johnny Weissmuller | 440 races only lost one in his career |
W.C. Handy | "Father of Jazz" first to write/publish blues songs |
Al Johnson | jazz singer |
Rudolph Valentino | "sheik" many believed he had no acting talent |
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. | acting by age 11, became so famous he started his own production company |
Mary Pickford | "America's Sweetheart" starred in silent and talkies |
Greta Garbo | talented actress |
Sinclair Lewis | "Arrowhead" won Pulitzer Prize and Nobel for writing |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | wrote "The Great Gatsby" |
Armory Show | art exhibition in NY; people laughed at the art but became a huge success in downtown NY |
Alfred Stieglitz | first to take pictures moving at night |
William J. Simmons | founder of the KKK |