Q 01/05

Which neutral country's uncensored newspapers led the deadly flu pandemic of 1918 to be named after it?

A) Sweden

B) Spain

C) Norway

D) Denmark

Answer · why

B) Spain

Spain was not where the outbreak began: the earliest probable cases were recorded in Kansas. Warring nations censored the bad news, while Spanish pape...

Q 02/05

Which wartime measure did Americans first observe in March 1918, only for Congress to repeal it the following year?

A) Gasless Sundays

B) Meatless Mondays

C) Nationwide Prohibition

D) Daylight saving time

Answer · why

D) Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time began on 31 March 1918 under the Standard Time Act, which also wrote the country's time zones into federal law. Congress scrapped...

Q 03/05

By what nickname was Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace shot down over France in April 1918, better known?

A) The Red Baron

B) The Black Knight

C) The Blue Max

D) The Iron Eagle

Answer · why

A) The Red Baron

The Red Baron was credited with 80 victories, more than any other pilot of the war. The Australian airmen who recovered his body gave him a full milit...

Q 04/05

Which baseball team won the 1918 World Series and then waited 86 years for its next championship?

A) Chicago Cubs

B) Detroit Tigers

C) Boston Red Sox

D) St. Louis Cardinals

Answer · why

C) Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago Cubs four games to two. A wartime order cut the season short, making it the only World Series played entirely in S...

Q 05/05

Which deposed monarch was shot with his wife and five children in a Yekaterinburg cellar in July 1918?

A) Franz Joseph I

B) Alexander III

C) Wilhelm II

D) Nicholas II

Answer · why

D) Nicholas II

Nicholas II had given up the Russian throne more than a year earlier, ending three centuries of Romanov rule. The family was held in the Ipatiev House...