Show Notes
This week, we go back in time, because Hallie has written six trivia questions all about the Roaring 1920s! We also chat about boxing, organized crime, and a pioneering (though problematic) film!
2:16: Q1 (Times & Places): What is the name of the 1929 event in which seven members of Chicago’s North Side Gang were murdered due to the struggle to control organized crime in the city during the Prohibition?
6:59: Q2 (Arts & Literature): What American poet, writer, critic, and satirist born in New Jersey rose to acclaim for New Yorker articles and then won two Academy Award nominations for screenwriting before getting placed on the Hollywood blacklist for being involved in left-wing politics?
15:40: Q3 (Music): What orchestra piece which was originally composed as a ballet and which is the most famous musical piece by its composer, premiered in 1928 to huge popularity and was credited with having a “musico-sexual” nature to it?
24:24: Q4 (Movies & TV): What 1927 film about a young man who defies the traditions of his religious Jewish family was the first feature-length motion picture with a synchronized recorded music score as well as lip-synchronized speech and singing?
31:03: Q5 (Sports & Games): What boxer, nicknamed Kid Blackie and the Manassa Mauler, reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926 and was a cultural icon of the 1920s?
36:29: Q6 (Everything Else): What company was founded in 1927 by Air Corps Majors Henry H. Arnold, Carl A. Spaatz, and John H. Jouett as an air mail and passenger service operating between Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba and was well known for its logo known by some as “The Blue Meatball”?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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