Q 01/05

What nickname did the Dust Bowl earn the decade in the United States?

A) The Dirty Thirties

B) The Dry Thirties

C) The Dusty Thirties

D) The Hungry Thirties

Answer · why

A) The Dirty Thirties

Drought plus decades of farming without crop rotation stripped an estimated 100 million acres.

Q 02/05

Which US president, taking office in 1933, launched the New Deal?

A) Franklin D. Roosevelt

B) Herbert Hoover

C) Calvin Coolidge

D) Harry S. Truman

Answer · why

A) Franklin D. Roosevelt

The programme was a radical break from the laissez-faire economics that preceded it.

Q 03/05

Which constitutional amendment, ratified on December 5, 1933, ended Prohibition in the United States?

A) The Eighteenth

B) The Nineteenth

C) The Twentieth

D) The Twenty-first

Answer · why

D) The Twenty-first

It is the only amendment ever passed to repeal another one.

Q 04/05

Which 1937 animated film became the highest-grossing movie of the decade in gross rentals?

A) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

B) Pinocchio (1940)

C) Fantasia (1940)

D) Gulliver's Travels (1939)

Answer · why

A) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Gone with the Wind, released two years later, beat it on distributor rentals and still leads when adjusted for inflation.

Q 05/05

Which two comic-book superheroes made their debuts at the end of the decade, in 1938 and 1939?

A) Superman and Batman

B) Captain America and Wonder Woman

C) The Flash and Green Lantern

D) Captain Marvel and Namor

Answer · why

A) Superman and Batman

Both arrived as pulp magazines were at the height of their popularity.