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Do you have what it takes to answer these questions about the 1910s?
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What ship sank after hitting an iceberg?
RMS Titanic
What canal was completed in 1914?
Panama Canal
What epidemic killed more than 1% of the world's population?
Spanish Flu
In what empire was there a genocide against Armenians,
Greeks, and Syriac Christians?
Ottoman Empire
What then-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 wrote the play "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 75
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 84
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 84
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
+3
Level 36
Aug 19, 2015
Please accept abortion/abortions for Margaret Sanger.
Isulv
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Level 71
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
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jul 16, 2020
Cooldrive: Margaret Sanger was a great woman and humanitarian. You've been fed ridiculous lies by whatever anti-abortion websites you frequent.
TheCrusher
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Level 72
Jul 16, 2020
"Family planning" worked on another recently featured quiz. Not on this one...
Danno
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Level 68
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]

kalbahamut
+6
Level 82
Jul 16, 2020
This is completely wrong. More lies.
JackintheBox
+5
Level 79
Jul 16, 2020
More lies and conspiracy theories.
ornei
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Level 62
Dec 22, 2022
I disagree on accepting abortion here. She was generally opposed to abortion and refused to carry them out herself, though she did accept abortion intended to save the mother's life. Her promotion was overwhelmingly focused on contraceptives.
dunkinggandalf2
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Level 68
Oct 27, 2023
I think whether or not we accept abortion here should be an individual choice made freely by each quiztaker. #prochoice
Cleverer
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Level 58
Sep 12, 2017
"Who was President of the United States for most of the decade?" what?
triviaolivia
+8
Level 62
Sep 12, 2017
Um...what "what"?
Jacktheguy
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Level 89
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?
JackintheBox
+3
Level 79
Jul 16, 2020
English mustn't be your first language!
MavsFanForLife25
+3
Level 73
Jul 16, 2020
What's wrong? It's a straightforward question.
Xenon
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Level 53
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 65
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 84
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 82
Sep 13, 2017
"Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" -Hitler, August 1939
Android1632
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Level 50
Apr 19, 2018
Excuse me, but mustard gas was both colorless and odorless: it was chlorine gas that was yellow-brown.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 3, 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas
SaintCity
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Level 61
Jul 16, 2020
"roter Baron" should be a type in for Manfred von Richthofen as he was German and it's his nickname in German too.
Cooldrive
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Level 63
Jul 30, 2022
Then let's do every quiz in its original language.
cycler
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Level 42
Jul 16, 2020
shouldn't Greeks and Assyrians be accepted as answers for groups targeted for genocide in the ottoman empire?
BlackJohn
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Level 75
Jul 18, 2020
The US has only recognised the Armenian Genocide, and that just recently, a couple of years ago. Turkish military strength makes the West really "cautious". The British still refuse to recognise the Genocide.
AndreasP96
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Level 71
Jul 16, 2020
Mustard gas is known as yperite in my country.
Phil
+1
Level 57
Jul 16, 2020
For contraceptives, please accept rubbers.
roleybob
+3
Level 75
Jul 17, 2020
There's more to birth control than condoms
kalbahamut
+5
Level 82
Jul 17, 2020
Sanger advocated for sex education. That was her main thing. It was illegal to give out information on this in the United States (and many other places) at this time, and she and her associates were jailed for this multiple times. She also imported and distributed condoms and other contraceptives. But mostly she wanted to educate women on sexual health and different ways to avoid getting pregnant and to enjoy sex without the fear or burden of pregnancy. She also pushed for and secured funding for research into oral contraceptives for women which led to the invention of the birth control pill. She founded Planned Parenthood and led the organization until her 80s, disseminating sexual education materials all over the world.
selah13
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Level 44
Jul 18, 2020
I had no idea birth control had once been illegal.
Pharley
+1
Level 73
Jul 24, 2020
"What Native American athlete won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon?"

At what competition?

MindWax
+1
Level 83
Jan 5, 2024
Any Native American athlete who won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1910s in any competition would have worked, actually. Did you try?
ouishdvoojaf
+1
Level 28
Apr 18, 2021
Can you accept abortion as an answer for birth control?
Dynniks
+8
Level 65
Mar 27, 2022
"What" wrote the play Pygmalion? Shouldn't that be a "who"...?... Or am I missing something here...?...
Dimby
+9
Level 77
Jul 30, 2022
I think it’s fairly common knowledge that George Bernard Shaw is the name of the typewriter used by James Joyce to write it.
PrincessLeppard
+3
Level 56
Jul 31, 2022
This is the first time I've ever heard this. Interesting! Thank you for letting me know; that question totally threw me off.
RuthlessCosmo
+2
Level 72
Jul 30, 2022
What's on second.
AmyD85
+2
Level 71
Aug 2, 2022
Agreed ... This question needs to be corrected. "Who" wrote the play ...
SamoNG
+1
Level 42
Jul 30, 2022
I would recommend you to add "Yperite" as the possibility as the answer for the Mustard Gas. For example in Slovakia or Czechia, I have never heard of Mustard Gas in the history class, we have always studied it as an Yperite.
K4ZB3RSKY
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Level 53
Jul 30, 2022
Please accept Skłodowska For Marie Curie.
Hectorselector
+1
Level 60
Dec 12, 2022
Vilcabamba should be acceptable for the Inca discovery question. It was rediscovered shortly after Machu Picchu and was at least as important historically.
Hanuszka
+1
Level 46
Feb 20, 2023
Please accept Maria Sklodowska for Marie Curie
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 68
Oct 27, 2023
What do you call a soldier who survived both pepper spray and mustard gas?

A seasoned veteran.

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