Swing Through Music of the 1920s & 1930s Trivia
1.
Which game from the 1930's was later made into a special edition with 9K gold houses?
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Monopoly
2.
The streets of what city are used in the 1930's board game "Monopoly"?
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Atlantic City, NJ
3.
Which game was first introduced in book form by Simon and Schuster in 1924?
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Crossword Puzzle
4.
Which game where one player hides and others find him/her was popular with children in the 1930's?
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Hide And Seek
5.
What 1935 board game sold 20,000 units the week it was released?
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Monopoly
6.
What game played in the 1920's requires "it" to catch other players, who help until all are caught?
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Pom Pom Pull-Away
7.
The game "Criss Cross Words", invented in the 1930's, was trademarked under what name in 1948?
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Scrabble
8.
Which board game, licensed to Parker Brothers in 1934, apologetically bears a one-word name?
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Sorry!
9.
Which outdoor game, played in teams of two people working together, was popular in the 1920's?
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Three Legged Race
10.
Which game from the 1930's is so popular that its tokens are legally protected?
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Monopoly
11.
Which company rejected the "Monopoly" game when it was first presented to them in 1933?
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Parker Brothers
12.
How many design errors did Parker Brothers claim "Monopoly" had when they rejected the game in 1934?
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52
13.
What was the original name of the game released in 1930 as "Lowe's Bingo"?
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Beano
14.
What 1930 game came in two versions, a 12-card set for a dollar and a 24-card set for two dollars?
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Bingo
15.
What board game, created in the 1930's, had to do with piracy?
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Buccaneer
16.
Who copywrited the popular game "Monopoly" in 1933?
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Charles B. Darrow
17.
What popular 1930's game was originally called "Star-Halma"?
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Chinese Checkers
18.
In the 1920's, what game showed up on the backs of menus in Pennsylvania Railroad dining cars?
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Crossword Puzzle
19.
What was the name of Milton Bradley's less-successful copy of "Monopoly"?
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Easy Money
20.
What was the name of the game introduced in the 1930's that made the classroom into a game?
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Go To The Head Of The Class
21.
What question and answer game, featuring different levels of questions, was first issued in 1938?
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Go To The Head Of The Class
22.
Who first imported Mahjong into the United States?
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Joseph P. Babcock
23.
What game spurred the sale of silk kimonos in the 1920's?
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Mahjong
24.
What game was popular in the 1920's, similar to "Gin Rummy" but played with tiles instead of cards?
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Mahjong
25.
Which Chinese game introduced to the U.S. in 1922 quickly caught on, especially with women?
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Mahjong
26.
What game, played with a small ball, was extremely popular with celebrities in the 1930's?
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Miniature Golf
27.
Which board game did not include the now well-known die-cast playing pieces until 1937?
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Monopoly
28.
What outdoors 1920's children's game using round pieces and a pole was produced by Parker Brothers?
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Ring Toss
29.
Which publisher released the first compilation book of crossword puzzles in 1924?
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Simon And Schuster
30.
What was a popular outdoor game in the 1930's, played by throwing a ball up a stoop or staircase?
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Stoop Ball
31.
What 1904 game was the inspiration for the popular 1930's game "Monopoly"?
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The Landlord Game
32.
How many copies of "Monopoly" sold the first week it was released in 1935?
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20,000
33.
Which game with a scoring system created by Harold Vanderbilt might have been added to the Olympics?
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Contract Bridge
34.
What 1930's board game involved delivering mail all around the world in the shortest time possible?
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Air Race
35.
Who invented the 1930's game "Scrabble"?
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Alfred Mosher Butts
36.
Which 1930's board game had cast lead race car playing pieces?
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Auto-Go
37.
What popular game was introduced in the 1920's by a new firm called J. Pressman Company?
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Chinese Checkers
38.
What was the original name of the game released in 1938 as "Scrabble"?
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Criss Cross Words
39.
Which company produced the 1920's game entitled "Andy Gump-His Game"?
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Milton Bradley
40.
Which game of pool was developed around 1920?
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Nine-Ball
41.
What company copyrighted the card game "Americana" in 1937?
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Parker Brothers
42.
What 1930's game included the characters Jack, Punch, Joey, Algy, Bertie and Colonel Bogey?
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Rolo-Boko
43.
How long did the longest reported game of the 1934 Hasbro classic "Monopoly" last?
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Seventy Days
44.
What 1920's parlor golf game, manufactured in Seattle, Washington, used marbles?
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The Game Of Traps
45.
What was the name of the first miniature golf franchise, started in 1929?
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Tom Thumb Golf
46.
What 1926 Parker Brothers card game had pretty mountain scenery on the backs of the cards?
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Touring
47.
What card game picked up by Parker Brothers in 1925 eventually became "Mille Bornes"?
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Touring
48.
What strategy game was purchased by Cadco-Ellis from Stanley Hopkins in 1937?
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Tripoley
49.
In the 1920s, was music genre was called "the devil's music" by its critics?
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Jazz
50.
Ragtime music evolved into 2 new forms, one being blues and the other called what?
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Jazz
51.
Who is known as "father of gospel music"?
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Thomas A. Dorsey
52.
Which superstar recorded her first song, "Love and Kisses", in 1935 with Chick Webb?
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Ella Fitzgerald
53.
In the 1920s, music from what area of New York was the start of modern Blues music?
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Harlem
54.
What dance was popular amongst "Flappers" in the 1920's?
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The Charleston
55.
Which singer who got her start in 1930's Harlem was named Eleanora Fagan at birth?
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Billie Holiday
56.
What form of music and dance has its roots in the mid-1930s, and remains popular today?
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Swing
57.
"Rhapsody in Blue", symphonic jazz composition was composed in 1924 by?
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George Gershwin
58.
In 1921, songs that emphasized keeping a stiff upper lip reflected what important national event?
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Recovery From WWI
59.
What popular song from the 1920's was featured in the movie, "Young Frankenstein"?
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Puttin' On The Ritz
60.
What song became Kate Smith's signature song, beginning in 1938?
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God Bless America
61.
Lemon Jefferson, famous blues musician of 1920's due to birth defect was referred to as?
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Blind Lemon Jefferson
62.
Whose 1931 "That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine" sold 30,000 copies in its first month?
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Gene Autry
63.
Which bandleader and singer known for his innovative vocals sang "Minnie The Moocher"?
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Cab Calloway
64.
Which nightclub did Owney Madden take over from boxing champ Jack Johnson in 1922?
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The Cotton Club
65.
What was the music publishing center of the world, from around 1885 to the 1920's, called?
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Tin Pan Alley
66.
In the 1920s, the most popular home entertainment devices in America were the Graphanola and?
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Victrola
67.
In 1938 Chick Webb recorded his biggest hit record, "A Tisket-A-Tasket", with what singer?
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Ella Fitzgerald
68.
What was the original name of the "Grand Ole Opry" radio show?
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WSM Barn Dance
69.
How many years did Congress debate before "The Star Spangled Banner" became our national anthem?
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Jan/00
70.
Which popular 30s singer did the Marx Brothers try to impersonate in their film, "Monkey Business"?
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Maurice Chevalier
71.
What did Perry Como do for a living before starting his music career in the 1930s?
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Barber
72.
What 1920's Vaudeville pianist is credited with first recording to include "Boogie-Woogie" in song title?
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Clarence "Pinetop" Smith
73.
Which American composer wrote the first musical play in 1926, as opposed to the first musical comedy?
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Jerome Kern
74.
What New York City street was popularly known as "Swing Street" in the late 1930's?
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52nd Street
75.
Which American singer was also known as "The Idol Of The Airlanes" during the 1930's?
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Jan Garber
76.
Which of talent scout John Hammond's finds made her first record in 1933 at age 18?
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Billie Holiday
77.
There were 3 members in the Rhythm Boys singing group; Al Rinker, Harry Barris, and the 3rd was?
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Bing Crosby
78.
What musical artist from the 1920s is considered the "Empress of the Blues"?
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Bessie Smith
79.
"All of Me" was sung by which artist in 1932?
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Louis Armstrong
80.
Who was the singer of the song "Goodnight Irene" in 1935?
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Lead Belly
81.
In 1937 the song "Sweet Leilani" was released by which artist?
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Bing Crosby
82.
What is the name of the 1935 jazz-blues "folk opera" by George Gershwin?
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Porgy and Bess
83.
Who is the singer sung this song "Good Mornin' Blues" in the year 1939?
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Lester Young
84.
What was the first southern radio station to begin broadcasting in Atlanta in 1922?
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The Atlanta Journal's WSB
85.
"The Last Round-Up" was sung by whom?
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George Olsen
86.
Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" was first performed in what year?
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1935
87.
Who has sung and given music to the song "Moonlight Serenade" in 1939?
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Glen Miller and His Orchestra
88.
Which Cole Porter song of 1930 is sung by a prostitute in the play "The New Yorkers"?
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Love for Sale
89.
What was Kern's and Hammerstein's big hit in 1927?
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Show Boat
90.
What Ziegfeld Follies star recorded more than 200 songs including such hits as "Ten Cents A Dance"?
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Ruth Etting
91.
When was Juilliard School for performing arts opened in New York?
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1924
92.
Which co-working couple became known as "Mr. And Mrs. Swing" after marrying in 1933?
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Mildred Bailey And Red Norvo
93.
"Happy Days Are Here Again" was sung by whom?
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Bennie Meroff And His Orchestra
94.
By which artist was "Mulatica" released in 1936?
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Johnny Rodriguez Y Su Orquesta
95.
On which Jazz musician's life was the Oscar winning film "The King Of Jazz" based?
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Paul Whiteman
96.
Which composer-lyricist referred to a broken love affair as "just one of those things"?
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Cole Porter
97.
What 1920's jazz musician and singer was nicknamed "Ukulele Ike"?
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Cliff Edwards
98.
Which blues singer was known as "The Mother of the Blues"?
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Ma Rainey
99.
Who recorded "Come on in My Kitchen" in the year 1937?
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Robert Johnson
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Who sang "Am I Blue" then appeared in the Broadway show "Mamba's Daughter" in 1939?
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Ethel Waters
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