While writing a musing about the early decades of the 20th century, I was doing bit of research.  I realized that there were many significant events that occurred in the first three decades of that century.  Consequently, it seemed appropriate as we live through the early decades of the 21st century that we have a quiz about the early 20th century.

 

So what follows is a series of historical facts listed in alphabetical order.  You task is not to guess the right year but rather just the right decade - 1900s, 1910s or the 1920s.  To see the answers, scroll down below the quiz.

 

Let's start:

 

No.	Event	Decade
1	A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000
2	Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity
3	Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
4	Charles P. Strite invents first pop-up bread toaster
5	Cuba gains independence from the United States.
6	Economic boom ended by "Black Tuesday"
7	Einstein publishes his theory of special relativity
8	First commercial radio station in the U.S. (KDKA 1020 AM) goes on air in Pittsburgh
9	First electric typewriter is invented by George Canfield Blickensderfer of Erie, Pennsylvania
10	Ford Motor Company produces it's first car - the Ford Model A.
11	George Gershwin writes Rhapsody in Blue
12	Gideon Sundback patents the first modern zipper
13	Harry Brearley invents stainless steel
14	Hollywood replaces the East Coast as the center of the movie industry
15	Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild
16	John Logie Baird invents the first working mechanical television system
17	Mary Anderson invented windshield wipers.
18	Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham is published
19	Planck's  publishes the law of black body radiation
20	Practical air conditioner designed by Willis Carrier
21	Prohibition of alcohol occurs in the United States. Prohibition in the United States begins
22	Publication of the first Crossword Puzzle
23	Robert Goddard makes the first flight of a liquid-fueled rocket
24	Scott Fitzgerald publishes some of the most enduring novels characterizing the Jazz Age. This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Great Gatsby
25	Second Boer War ends.
26	Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street, Babbitt, Dodsworth, Arrowsmith, and Elmer Gantry
27	Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs is published
28	The "unsinkable" ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks.
29	The film The Great Train Robbery was released
30	The film  All Quiet on the Western Front is released
31	The first radio receiver was developed by Guglielmo Marconi.
32	The Panama Canal construction was started by the United States in the territory of Panama,
33	The Panama Canal is completed
34	The San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) destroys much of San Francisco,
35	The Scopes Trial takes place
36	The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established (a.k.a. the Soviet Union)
37	World War I starts and ends.

 

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