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

The Dirty Thirties: drought from 1930 and years of ploughing the southern Plains without cover crops let wind strip topsoil from an estimated 100 mill...

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt, inaugurated on 4 March 1933, pushed 15 major bills through Congress in his first hundred days, a sharp break from Hoover's limi...

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

The Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth, the first time an amendment had been undone; it was ratified by state conventions rather than legi...

Q 04/05

Which film was Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature?

A) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

B) Pinocchio

C) Fantasia

D) Dumbo

Answer · why

A) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered on 21 December 1937 after being derided in production as 'Disney's Folly'; it earned about $8 million on fir...

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

Superman and Batman: Superman debuted in Action Comics #1, cover-dated June 1938, and Batman in Detective Comics #27, cover-dated May 1939, both from ...