How much do you know about 1913?
QUESTIONS.
1. In the U.S the banking system is strengthened by the establishment of what?
2. Which Danish physicist uses the quantum theory to extend the model of the
atom?
3. Which country does Serbia invade at the beginning of the second Balkan War?
4. Civil War breaks out again in which Central American country?
5. Which army officer seizes control of Mexico City, deposing the President, who
is afterwards murdered?
6. In Turkey, the Young Turks stage a coup and establish a military junta.Who is
their leader?
7. In the U.S. what type of tax is levied for the first time?
8. Which classical guitarist makes his public debut?
9. Recovery of which great work of art, stolen from the Louvre in 1911?
10. Publication of Death in Venice by which German author?
11. Who becomes the new British Poet Laureate?
12. Which French statesman is elected President?
13. Suffragettes demonstrate in Britain, and which other country?
14. In the U.S., President Woodrow Wilson establishes the precedent for a political
tradition. What does he do?
15. Construction of which feat of engineering is completed?
ANSWERS.
1.The Federal Reserve. 2. Niels Bohr. 3.Albania. 4. Mexico. 5.Victoriana Huerta. 6.
Enver Pasha. 7. Federal Income Tax. 8.Andres Segovia. 9. Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. 10.
Thomas Mann. 11. Robert Bridges. 12. Raymond Poincarè. 13.The U.S.A. 14. Gives
the first State of the Union address to Congress. 15.The Panama Canal.
