
{"id":3234,"date":"2008-08-14T08:35:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2008-08-14T08:35:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:35:19","slug":"trivia-from-hell-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/08\/14\/trivia-from-hell-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivia From Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Mark Dorosin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s category: The \u00e2\u20ac\u212220s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. In 1927, the first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153talkie\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was released. What was it?<br \/>\n2. In 1926, Hemingway published his first novel, which began with this line: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion at Princeton. Do not think I am much impressed by this boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d What is the book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s title?<br \/>\n3. In 1920, the Constitution was amended to give women the right to vote. Which amendment granted women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s suffrage?<br \/>\n4. In 1929, what American astronomer provided the research basis for the now widely accepted concept of the expanding universe?<br \/>\n5. In 1922, British archeologist Howard Carter made what landmark discovery?<br \/>\n6. Name the three presidents who were elected during the 1920s.<br \/>\n7. In 1923, under presidential pressure, what major American corporation instituted the 8-hour day, setting a precedent for the economy?<br \/>\n8. The Society for Human Rights is founded in 1924 in Chicago, becoming the first U.S. organization to promote what cause?<br \/>\n9. The first volume of Hitler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mein Kampf is published in 1925. The book was written while Hitler was in prison. Why had he been imprisoned?<br \/>\n10. According to Dorothy Parker, grand dame of the Algonquin Round Table, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153brevity is the soul of\u00e2\u20ac\u009d what?<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCarrboro resident Mark Dorosin is the quizmaster each Wednesday at Trivia Night at The Station.<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTRIVIA ANSWERS: 1. The Jazz Singer; 2. The Sun Also Rises;  3. 19th; 4. Edwin Hubble; 5. King Tut\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tomb; 6. Harding, Coolidge, Hoover; 7. U..S Steel; 8. gay rights; 9. attempted putsch to overthrow government 10. lingerie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Dorosin This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s category: The \u00e2\u20ac\u212220s 1. In 1927, the first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153talkie\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was released. What was it? 2. In 1926, Hemingway published his first novel, which began with this line: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion at Princeton. Do not think I am much impressed by this boxing title, but it meant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}