Question 1

Group of writers, critics, and actors who met every day for
lunch from 1919 to 1929 at the Algonquin hotel.
Alexander Woolcott, Dorothy Parker, George S.
Kaufman, Robert Benchley, Tallulah Bankhead, Harold
Ross, Harpo Marx, Deems Taylor, Edna Ferber,

Accepted Answer

Algonquin Round Table

Question 2

Mayor of New York City 1934-1946

Accepted Answer

Fiorello La Guardia

Question 3

Although most of his criminal career took place in
Chicago, Al Capone started in New York City at Five
Points, where the earlier gangster Monk Eastman had once
reigned, working as a bar bouncer and racketeer. His
nickname, “Scarface” was due to knife

Accepted Answer

Al Capone

Question 4

In 1922

Accepted Answer

The Straw Hat Riot

Question 5

In 1919 The Boston Red Sox sold pitcher George Herman
Ruth’s contract to the Yankees, the worst trade in Red Sox
history. Considered by many the greatest baseball player
of them all, “Babe” Ruth led the Yankees to win seven
American League pennants an

Accepted Answer

Babe Ruth

Question 6

Known in his day as the “King of Jazz,”  led the
Palais Royal Orchestra

Accepted Answer

Paul Whiteman

Question 7

Composer and orchestrator, he created the orchestration
for Rhapsody in Blue, both the originl band and later
orchestral versions. He wrote a number of popular orchestral suites based on American life, most notably the
Grand Canyon Suite.

Accepted Answer

Ferde Grofé

Question 8

Concert given on February 12, 1924

Accepted Answer

“An Experiment in Modern
Music

Question 9

On April 7, 1927, a public demonstration of long-distance
television transmission orchestrated by AT&T's Bell
Labs, featured the transmission of an image and voice of
Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover from
Washington, D.C., to New York City.

Accepted Answer

The first television
transmission

Question 10

From 1910 onward millions of African Americans migrated out of the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West, caused by poor economic and social conditions and prevalent racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern states. In New York

Accepted Answer

The Great Migration

Question 11

The new decade got off to a poor start as race riots convulsed the country in 1919. In New York the unrest was exacerbated after a white police officer was killed by an African American man. The subsequent riots further concentrated the black population o

Accepted Answer

The Race Riots of 1919

Question 12

In the same year that race riots plagued the city, an anti-anarchist and anti-communist reaction occurred in several U.S. cities. In New York, this followed bombings and bomb scares targeting the mayor and other officials, as well as a bombing assassinati

Accepted Answer

The Red Scare of 1919

Question 13

1919-1933; the sale and consumption of alcohol is made illegal in the U. S., but without sufficient means to enforce the law. In New York, “Speakeasies,” both elegant or squalid, were bars that sold illegal liquor. During the 1920’s they proliferated in n

Accepted Answer

Prohibition

Question 14

Women’s Suffrage organizations had been active in New York City since the 19th century, but tactics became more forceful and radical in the 1910’s, leading to women gaining the vote in New York State in 1917. As the 1920’s commenced the suffragettes achie

Accepted Answer

The Womens Sufferage Movement

Question 15

Jamaican activist who, from his headquarters in Harlem, began a popular Back-to-Africa movement to repatriate American blacks to Africa.

Accepted Answer

Marcus Garvey

Question 16

As the Harlem enclave of African Americans grew in number and
importance, a new and intensely self-conscious group of black artists, writers, playwrights, and musicians began to forge a new cultural identity that combined aspects of black and white Ameri

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 17

Built in 1931, first cross-Hudson access to New York City from New Jersey. It opened the upper part of Manhattan to traffic travel from the mainland.

Accepted Answer

George Washington Bridge

Question 18

was an actresses in silent films who popularized the “bobbed” hair cut that became one of the iconic looks of the 1920’s. She had a second career in finance, eventually becoming a partner of Merrill Lynch.

Accepted Answer

Colleen Moore

Question 19

mpresario who invented the grand Broadway revue, featuring elaborate staged numbers with large groups of chorus girls. Produced Show Girl for the Gershwins, but financials arguments led to a breach

Accepted Answer

Florenz Ziegfeld

Question 20

Famed aviator who flew solo from New York across the Atlantic to Paris. Later tragedy of a kidnapped and murdered child, and his activities as an isolationist before America entered World War II.

Accepted Answer

Charles Lindbergh

Question 21

Star of the stage in London and New York, Lawrence was a close friend of Gershwin’s who starred in two of his shows: Oh, Kay! and Treasure Girl.

Accepted Answer

Gertrude Lawrence

Question 22

Famed singer who made Gershwin a millionaire with his promotion of the song “Swanee,” “Liza,” and other songs.

Accepted Answer

Al Jolson

Question 23

Dancer, star of Gershwin’s Show Girl, wife of Al Jolson

Accepted Answer

Ruby Keeler

Question 24

The Wall Street Crash of October, 1929 set in motion a general collapse in confidence in the banking system in a tide of frenzied selling. By 1932 the stock market had lost some 90% of its value. The economic collapse led to a worldwide Great Depression,

Accepted Answer

The Great Depression

Question 25

In the new decade of the 30’s opulent, Beaux Arts sky-scrapers were on the wane. Advances in building materials, influences from Europe, geometric design, primary colors, Egyptian motifs and machine-age sleekness replaced classical decoration; clean lines

Accepted Answer

The New Skyscrapers

Question 26

Broadway composer who had a decade long affair with George Gershwin, and became an important source of information on his music after his death. Her biggest hit was the show was Fine and Dandy from 1930, the first musical score written completely by a wom

Accepted Answer

Kay Swift

Question 27

Hollywood actress and wife (at the time) of Charlie Chaplin, who had a relationship with Gershwin during his last years in Hollywood

Accepted Answer

Paulette Goddard

Question 28

Composer and songwriter whose music was influenced by Gershwin, who encouraged and supported her work. Known (somewhat condescendingly) as the “Girl Gershwin” Suess wrote for the concert hall and Broadway, including her Concerto in Three Rhythms for piano

Accepted Answer

Dana Suesse

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