How much do you know about 1929?
QUESTIONS.
1. Which American astronomer propounds the theory which states that the
apparent velocities of receding universes are proportional to their distance
from us?
2. In Britain a woman becomes a Member of the Cabinet as Minister of Labour, for
the first time.What is her name?
3. In Germany, author Erich Maria Remarque publishes which classic anti-war
novel?
4. The Lateran Treaty establishes the independence of which part of Rome?
5. An R.A.F. plane makes the first non-stop flight from Britain to…?
6. Hollywood institutes a tradition with the first Academy Awards ceremony. How
do the awards later come to be known?
7. Which American boot-legger and gangster lost seven members of his gang to Al
Capone’s killers, in the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre?
8. Violent clashes in Palestine between Arabs and Jews about the right of Jewish
access to which sacred site?
9. Which French ‘Generalissimo’ of allied forces, who drove back the Germans on
the Western Front in 1918, dies this year?
10. Death which Austrian poet and librettist for Richard Strauss and co-founder of
the Salzburg Festival?
11. Death of Russian born impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes.What is his
name?
12. What happens on what is called ‘Black Thursday’?
13. This event leads to an era, known internationally as?
14. Which province of China is invaded by Japan?
15. Death of which French statesman, known as ‘The Tiger’, whose intransigence
towards Germany in 1919 may have contributed towards the outbreak of the
2nd World War.
ANSWERS
1. Edwin Hubble. 2. Margaret Bondfield. 3.All Quiet On The Western Front (Im
Westen Nichts Neues). 4.Vatican City. 5. India. 6.The Oscars. 7. George ‘Bugs’ Moran.
8.The Wailing Wall. 9. Ferdinand Foch. 10. Hugo von Hofmannsthal. 11. Sergei
Diaghilev. 12.The Wall Street Crash. 13.The Depression. 14. Manchuria. 15. Georges
Clemenceau.
