Q 01/05

Which comic character debuted in January 1929, nine years into E. C. Segar's strip Thimble Theatre?

A) Blondie

B) Popeye

C) Betty Boop

D) Krazy Kat

Answer · why

B) Popeye

Popeye proved so popular that the strip was eventually renamed after him. His strength was first credited to spinach in 1931.

Q 02/05

Which US president had been in office for under eight months when Wall Street crashed in October 1929?

A) Calvin Coolidge

B) Franklin D. Roosevelt

C) Warren G. Harding

D) Herbert Hoover

Answer · why

D) Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover was sworn in on 4 March 1929 after beating Al Smith in a landslide. In 1932, with the Depression deepening, he lost in a landslide hims...

Q 03/05

Which Chicago crime boss was widely blamed when seven men were shot in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre?

A) Al Capone

B) Bugs Moran

C) John Dillinger

D) Lucky Luciano

Answer · why

A) Al Capone

Al Capone was at his Florida home when the gunmen struck in a Lincoln Park garage. Two of the killers were disguised as police officers.

Q 04/05

Which civil rights leader, born Michael in Atlanta in January 1929, was renamed by his father at the age of five?

A) Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

B) Medgar Evers

C) Martin Luther King Jr.

D) Ralph Abernathy

Answer · why

C) Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. took the name of the German reformer Martin Luther. His father changed both their names in 1934, after a church trip that took ...

Q 05/05

Which diarist, born in Frankfurt in June 1929, got a checkered autograph book for her thirteenth birthday?

A) Sylvia Plath

B) Anaïs Nin

C) Hannah Arendt

D) Anne Frank

Answer · why

D) Anne Frank

Anne Frank began writing in it almost at once. Within a month her family had gone into hiding in a secret annex behind a bookcase in Amsterdam.