Q 01/05

Under federal law, what stayed legal throughout Prohibition?

A) Selling beer

B) Drinking liquor

C) Shipping spirits

D) Distilling gin

Answer · why

B) Drinking liquor

Drinking liquor was never a federal crime: the ban covered making, selling and transporting alcohol, so many people stockpiled wine and spirits in 191...

Q 02/05

Which amendment to the US Constitution established Prohibition?

A) Sixteenth

B) Seventeenth

C) Eighteenth

D) Nineteenth

Answer · why

C) Eighteenth

Eighteenth, and the only amendment ever repealed: the Twenty-first struck it out in December 1933, less than fourteen years after the country went dry...

Q 03/05

Which salad was first tossed in 1924 at a Tijuana restaurant that drew Americans dodging Prohibition?

A) Cobb salad

B) Waldorf salad

C) Caesar salad

D) Niçoise salad

Answer · why

C) Caesar salad

Caesar salad comes from Caesar's, the Tijuana restaurant that Italian-born Caesar Cardini ran just across the border so that he could serve alcohol to...

Q 04/05

Which president's veto of the Volstead Act did Congress override in October 1919?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) William Howard Taft

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) Warren Harding

Answer · why

C) Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson's veto lasted barely a day: Congress had overridden it by 28 October 1919, and Prohibition began on schedule the following January.

Q 05/05

Which pressure group, led by lobbyist Wayne Wheeler, did the most to push Prohibition through?

A) The Prohibition Party

B) The Sons of Temperance

C) The Washingtonian Society

D) The Anti-Saloon League

Answer · why

D) The Anti-Saloon League

The Anti-Saloon League cared about a single issue: under Wheeler it turned alcohol into a wedge in elections and got one dry candidate after another i...