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People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was the Father of the Blues? | W.C. Handy |
| Who was the leading singer of the 1920s? | Bessie Smith |
| Who was the world's most famous dancer? | Isadora Duncan |
| Who made the first cartoon with sound? | Walt Disney (Steamboat Willy) |
| Who was the greatest silent film star? | Charlie Chaplin |
| Who was the most important poet of the Harlem Renaissance? | Langston Hughes |
| Baseball Player | Babe Ruth |
| Boxer | Jack Dempsey |
| Football Player | Red Grange |
| Football Coach at Notre Dame | Knute Rockne |
| Black basketball coach and Harlem Globetrotter | Abe Saperstein |
| Men's Tennis | Big Bill Tilden |
| Women's Tennis | Helen Wills |
| Men's Swimming | Johnny Weismuller |
| Women's Swimming | Gertrude Ederle |
| Lone Eagle, Symbol of the Air Age, first person to fly non-stop across the Atlantic, Spirit of St. Louis | Charles Lindbergh |
| Famous architect | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| First commercial radio station | KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA |
| Place to film motion pictures | Hollywood, CA |
| 5 cent movies | Nickelodeon |
| Generation of men and women who went to WW1 | Lost Generation |
| Extreme Art Form | Dadaism |