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1910s Decade Quiz

Do you have what it takes to answer these questions about the 1910s?
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What ship famously sank after hitting an iceberg?
RMS Titanic
What canal was completed in 1914?
Panama Canal
What epidemic killed more than 3% of the world's population?
Spanish Flu
What group of people were the victims of genocide in the Ottoman Empire?
Armenians
What illegal practice was advocated by Margaret Sanger?
Birth Control
Who was assassinated in Sarajevo?
Franz Ferdinand
What communist faction came to power in Russia?
Bolshevik
Who was President of the United States for most of the decade?
Woodrow Wilson
What "lost" city of the Incas was rediscovered?
Machu Picchu
What playwright wrote "Pygmalion"?
George Bernard Shaw
What ballet by Igor Stravinsky shocked audiences when it premiered in 1913?
The Rite of Spring
What Native American athlete won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon?
Jim Thorpe
What movie by D.W. Griffith glorified the Ku Klux Klan?
The Birth of a Nation
What yellow-brown chemical weapon was used, first by the Germans,
but later by the Allies?
Mustard Gas
What oil baron became the first dollar billionaire?
John D. Rockefeller
What treaty officially ended WWI between Germany and the Allies?
Treaty of Versailles
What song featured the lyrics "from glen to glen, and down the mountain side"?
Danny Boy
What Polish/French woman won a Nobel Prize for chemistry?
Marie Curie
What was the nickname of pilot Manfred von Richthofen?
The Red Baron
What British adventurer fought in the Arab Revolt?
T. E. Lawrence
ander217
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Level 78
Jul 24, 2015
For the song lyrics I was trying to think of every war song from that era I could - The Caisson Song, Over There, etc. Never would have thought of the beautiful "Danny Boy".
britinaus
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Level 65
Aug 19, 2015
I was about to get on my high horse about Danny Boy actually being called the Londonderry Air, but when I looked up Londonderry Air on Wikipedia I discovered that the melody is called Londonderry Air. Danny Boy was a separate song originally written with a different melody in 1910, and only put to the music it is so well known by today, in 1913. I learn something new every day!
DonTheLamplighter
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Level 77
Oct 2, 2016
Same thing here. That's why I enjoy these quizzes so much. Adding to my wealth of completely useless information. Except when on this site. Then it's invaluable.
NoahShai
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Level 41
Aug 19, 2015
Please accept abortion/abortions for Margaret Sanger.
Isulv
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Level 79
Aug 19, 2015
Actually, she didn't favour abortions but much preferred the use of contraceptives, athough she wanted abortions to be safe. Her enemies linked her to abortions because they wanted to discredit her and her work.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Mar 6, 2017
Contraception would have worked
Cooldrive
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Level 52
Sep 12, 2017
should accept infanticide.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Sep 14, 2017
Contraceptives will work now
Danno
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Level 61
Aug 12, 2017
I agree that abortion should be there. She started planned parenthood and targeted abortion and birth control toward undesirables ( according to her). She was also very racist. So I tried abortion and racism.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Sep 14, 2017
I was curious so I looked this up. Here's what Wikipedia says:
Consequently, she rejected race and ethnicity as determining factors.[115] Instead she stressed limiting the number of births to live within one’s economic ability to raise and support healthy children. This would lead to a betterment of society and the human race.[116] Sanger’s view put her at odds with leading American eugenicists, such as Charles Davenport who took a racist view of inherited traits. She continually rejected their approach.[117]
Cleverer
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Level 56
Sep 12, 2017
"Who was President of the United States for most of the decade?" what?
triviaolivia
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Level 58
Sep 12, 2017
Um...what "what"?
Jacktheguy
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Level 82
Sep 12, 2017
The question's very straightforward. Who was the President of the United States during most of the 1910s? Why is that confusing?
Xenon
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Level 56
Sep 12, 2017
Just to mention, when Maria Skłodowska was born, there was no Poland at the time - it was divided by Russia, Germany and Austria. But she was Polish and claimed it all the life
bl00dy
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Level 61
Sep 12, 2017
please, accept Iprit and Yprite for mustard gas, since these forms are also valid in English and more common than "mustard gas" in some languages
DonTheLamplighter
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Level 77
Sep 12, 2017
It was many years after I finished school that I learned of the Armenian genocide of this era. Once you learn about it, it's staggering that it is so largely unknown. From what I understand, Turkey refuses to call it genocide, which would go some way to explaining why it doesn't seem to get the attention you would assume it would. Especially since it seems to have laid the blueprint for how Nazi Germany conducted its genocide years later.
kalbahamut
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Level 79
Sep 13, 2017
"Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" -Hitler, August 1939
Android1632
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Level 52
Apr 19, 2018
Excuse me, but mustard gas was both colorless and odorless: it was chlorine gas that was yellow-brown.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Jan 3, 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas
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