1900s Decade Quiz

Consider accepting just plane?

This was fun. Thank for accepting 'plane' as recommended above, as that was my first answer, and it avoided me having to trial and error guess synonyms.

Only got Belle Epoque because I was trying for the tire question.

I was going for Belle Tire - a few years late for an answer, but the same thing just happened again : )

A dreadnought is also a type of guitar, which was developed in the early 1900s.

consider accepting "vaudville" as an almost correct spelling?

Great quiz! The last clue is an interesting one. Google Translate does list Proust's title (A la recherche du temps perdu) as "In Search of Lost Time." I have also seen it rendered as "A Remembrance of Things Past." Since this is the least correctly answered question at this point (only 20%), do you think more of us would get it right with the latter English title?

I can safely say I wouldn't have gotten it either way

And considering that Proust based his French title on a translation of Shakespeare's phrase "Remembrance of Things Past," from Sonnet No. 30, calling it "In Search of Lost Time" is not only awkward but wrong. It's as if we let the Pentagon come up with appropriate titles for works written in other languages: "A State of Active Combat and the Cessation of Same" or "A Century of Isolated Existence." Bah!

Proust didn't base the title on Shakespeare's phrase, you must be misremembering.

guitar type should also be accepted, fits the time period as well.

I thought the plane was first tested out in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Must be wrong.

According to the National Park Service, at the time of the first flight the Kill Devil Hills were a group of sand dunes near Kitty Hawk where the Wrights conducted their flight experiments. Kitty Hawk was the name of the nearest town. The town of Kill Devil Hills did not exist until 1953, but it now includes the area of the first flight. The clue is not incorrect as written, but seems a bit tricksy to me.

How 'bout "Imma jest sayingz, bro"

Typo is still there

The dot point should be 1900-1999 :) But I'm being pedantic.

That's just called being wrong. It's okay though.

accept T Model?

or just T .. the model is Ford T

It's still there. I visited it a couple years ago. But it's part of the metro area of Naples, now, and it was most famously destroyed, as you said, long before the 1900s. I couldn't find information in my cursory search as to whether or not Pompeii was again devastated by the 1906 eruption; all I found was an article that stated Torre del Greco was threatened which would suggest that the path of destruction was further north than Pompeii.

The modern Pompei was founded in 1891. The modern Pompei and ancient Pompeii are spelt differently, because they are not a continuation of the same thing.

^... but they're in the same place. I visited the ruins of the ancient city. Had to drive through the modern one to get there. Of course the city had to be repopulated since it was completely destroyed by Vesuvius before. That's kind of a given isn't it?

Actually in that decade (from its introduction in 1908) the Model T was available in more than one colour. The limit to black applied from 1914 to 1925, and was then lifted again.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20030616/SUB/306160713/model-t-had-many-shades%3B-black-dried-fastest

He did make it to the Arctic.

Man, that assassin's name threw me off. I was trying to think of an assassination in Eastern Europe.

I tried T-Ford. Is it same?

And Premier Leauge quizzes are challenging for US users. Classic movie questions are tough for those who only watch modern movies. A South Korea country quiz will be easier for East Asian than for pepole from other regions of the world. So what.