1915 in Review by BarkerC

Champion(s):

KelsoT
I have to have a motto? NO ONE TOLD ME I HAD TO HAVE A MOTTO!

Vicun-YAH


Runner(s)-Up:


Quiz Description

For each month of 1915, we'll ask you a question about something that happened that month. You answer it. Pretty straight forward.

Full Results:

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1 Vicun-YAH 415 98 15
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1 KelsoT 415 98 15
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3 RobinJRichards 361 95 15
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4 ESB 344 94 15
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5 KonkelT 328 92 15
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6 IngramB 327 90 15
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7 GoodmanDL 325 89 15
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8 LaLondeM 318 87 15
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9 FryedBetaKappa 312 84 15
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9 PenningtonJ 312 84 15
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9 JordanG 312 84 15
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12 RichmondJ 302 80 15
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13 SheahanJ 293 79 15
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14 ConnorA 287 77 15
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15 HightB 286 75 15
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16 EmilyT 274 74 15
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17 PerryS 271 72 15
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18 LuskT 269 70 15
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19 KaufmanK 267 69 15
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20 DaviesML 260 67 15
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21 UllspergerA 259 65 15
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22 BanksL 257 63 00
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22 HealyT 257 63 15
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24 MatthewsP 248 60 15
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25 GrahamJ 246 59 15
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26 ChrisRosenberg 238 57 15
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27 HessJa 230 55 15
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28 JWright 226 54 15
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29 BurgerM 224 52 15
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30 AdelmanM 223 50 00
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31 GrossB 221 49 15
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32 BeningoS 217 47 15
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33 WolfsbergE 215 45 00
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33 RossS 215 45 15
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35 elfm 214 42 15
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36 WangS 210 40 15
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37 randalleng 200 38 15
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37 WeikleB 200 38 15
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39 HulkaE 199 35 15
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40 BoyleJ 192 34 15
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41 CoenM 190 32 15
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42 StahlhutJ 188 30 15
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43 SchroederS 187 28 15
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43 usuiw 187 28 15
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45 PolinskyL 185 25 15
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46 SorensonG 181 23 15
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51 wrightk 165 15 15
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52 BoyerA 160 14 15
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53 VaccaD 157 12 15
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56 ParkerJ 142 7 15
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Questions:

January: TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: The first long distance telephone call (between New York and San Francisco) is made by these two men, who made the inaugural phone call 39 years earlier.

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Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson

February: Mary Mallon, while working as a cook at Sloane Hospital for Women, infects 25 people with this disease, earning her permanent quarantine and a lasting nickname.

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Typhoid

March: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the forerunner of this government agency, is founded.

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NASA

April: In this 32 minute film, Charlie Chaplin plays this title character, one which will go on to become his signature role.

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The Tramp

May: Canadian soldier John McCrae writes this well-known poem of World War I, featuring the lines: "To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high."

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In Flanders Fields

June: This Secretary of State resigns his post in the Wilson Administration in disagreement with the President's policy in the wake of the Lusitania attack.

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William Jennings Bryan

July: A contingent of 330 U.S. Marines begins a 19-year long occupation of this Caribbean island.

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Haiti

August: Hurricane #2 of the Atlantic Hurricane Season hits New Orleans and this Texas port city just fifteen years after it had been nearly destroyed by another hurricane.

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Galveston

September: This instrument gains wide spread popularity in the continental United States thanks to its availability at the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

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ukulele

October: This Prague-born author's novella ~Die Verwandlung~ debuts in Germany.

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Franz Kafka

November: This civil rights leaders, author of "The Atlanta Compromise" speech and first leader of the Tuskegee Institute dies at the age of 59.

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Booker T. Washington

December: This 1954 Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor is born in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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Frank Sinatra