Q 01/05

Which everyday food first went on sale in Chillicothe, Missouri, in July 1928?

A) Sliced bread

B) Canned soup

C) Instant coffee

D) Potato chips

Answer · why

A) Sliced bread

Sliced bread caught on so fast that by 1933 around 80% of the bread sold in the US came pre-sliced. An earlier prototype of Otto Rohwedder's slicing m...

Q 02/05

Which Chicago gang boss, nicknamed Scarface, was convicted of tax evasion in 1931?

A) Bugs Moran

B) Al Capone

C) Lucky Luciano

D) Dutch Schultz

Answer · why

B) Al Capone

Al Capone was convicted on five counts and sentenced to eleven years in federal prison. He loathed his nickname, which came from a knife attack that s...

Q 03/05

Which cartoon character made his official debut in the 1928 sound short Steamboat Willie?

A) Felix the Cat

B) Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

C) Mickey Mouse

D) Krazy Kat

Answer · why

C) Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse had in fact been seen months earlier, in a test screening of Plane Crazy. Steamboat Willie was the first of his cartoons to be officially...

Q 04/05

Which pharaoh's tomb did Howard Carter's team discover in 1922, backed by the Earl of Carnarvon?

A) Ramesses II

B) Akhenaten

C) Thutmose III

D) Tutankhamun

Answer · why

D) Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun was buried with over 5,000 artifacts, and the worldwide press coverage renewed public interest in ancient Egypt. He had died at about the ...

Q 05/05

Which antibiotic did physician Alexander Fleming discover in 1928, in an extract of a mould?

A) Streptomycin

B) Penicillin

C) Tetracycline

D) Amoxicillin

Answer · why

B) Penicillin

Penicillin was not purified until 1940, by an Oxford team led by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain. The two shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine with F...