1920s Decade Quiz

The Philo T. Farnsworth fans will be showing up any minute now.

It's not only Farnsworth or Baird that could be credited with "inventing television." There are several people that could arguably hold the title depending on how exactly you define television. It would be more accurate to ask something like "what technology did John Logie Baird make valuable contributions toward developing"

I agree, I only tried flapper girls

I checked to see what the quiz had as and answer if it wasnt flapper girls, cause thought huh is there another (totally different) term?. I dont think I have ever hear it used as flappers (somehow that sounds a bot derogatory) always as flapper girls.

I've only ever heard them called flappers. Maybe it's a location thing?

I really enjoyed this quiz, thank you for writing it. Picking a decade some time past made it a bit different from the regular types that often appear on this site and you calibrated the questions to be varied, interesting, tricky enough to be a bit of a challenge but not off-puttingly difficult

The OP doesn't say anything about the plot of the 1960 movie (based on the 1955 anti-McCarthyism play that explicitly says that it isn't a historical account of the 1925 trial at the beginning, but somehow became seen as the historical record of the trial that happened 30 years beforehand).

Who wore a bowler hat, had a mustache, and often carried a cane?

Mr Peanut?

James Joyce?

Mr. Peanut doesn't have a mustache and his hat is a top hat.

I guessed Mr. Monopoly

Still, a top hat.

My grandmother was a flapper.

Can you change it to "mah-jongg?" The current way just looks wrong to me as a person of Chinese heritage.

What's the extra g for? Never seen it spelled that way before but if you type it in you still get the answer

http://www.mahjongg.com/

Hes got you there

Huh? That website doesn’t exist.

I feel slightly sad that I can get 20/20 for a quiz about the 1920s and yet quizzes about more recent decades I struggle with. Maybe I'm living in the wrong era?

The more recent quizzes can be much more specific, or include pop-culture trivia that won't survive.

Exactly, current quizzes can have questions that arent exactly noteworthy in the long run, but are rather omnipresent currently. I doubt in 100 years people will remember angrybirds, or gaga's meatdress. Then again... tetris and monroe's blowing dress have become iconic.

Me toooo!

So whenever someone says anything before 1928 is the greatest thing since sliced bread, I get to correct them?

They can say, "It was the greatest thing before sliced bread."

Great point aestus :)

Man, I was thinking ok, what is the term for silent movies... couldnt think of it... apparently there isnt one and it is just "silent movies"

I don't get the reference to the sliced bread question? I it an US thing to present it as the greatest invention ?

Not sure if it's limited to the US, but a very common saying here is to suggest that "[Insert object] is the greatest thing since sliced bread." It's just an expression. People don't really tout it as the greatest invention ever.

While it's true that Fleming discovered a mould that seemed to have an effect on bacteria in a petri dish, and it was largely developed by others such as Howard Florey, it still fits the definition of a drug: "a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body".

Can you accept 'Lindburgh' for Lindbergh?