Rapidly Fired-Up Jeopardy!

1. Rapidly Fired-UpJeopardy! Welcome to:

2. Flu Union Isolation Nation Booze Shmooze Prestige Worldwide And The Rest Is History 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

3. This killed MORE people worldwide than the Great War.

4. Influenza Virus: It killed approximately 50 million people worldwide – 50,000 Canadians in the first year alone.

5. Why were there labour problems (leading to the birth of unions) in Canada after WWI?

6. -Factories were closing after the war. -Soldiers returning from war wanted their jobs back. -Increased competition for employment meant employers could keep wages low

7. Working class people all over the world wanted all workers to organize in order to protect the rights of workers and form this in 1919:

8. One Big Union

9. This event in Russia over threw Russian leaders. Governments all over the world feared the same thing could happen in their country.

10. Bolshevik Revolution

11. Metal workers wanted 85 cents per hour and walked off the job, which was the start of this event in Canadian history:

12. ‘The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 35,000 workers joined in ‘sympathetic strikes across Canada that lasted six weeks. This led to ‘Bloody Saturday’, where police attacked a strikers’ parade – killing 2, injuring 20.

13. Name the three areas of Canada experiencing political unrest in the 1920’s.

14. The West, Quebec and the Maritimes.

15. Regarding isolation in peace time, what does ‘Non-Intervention’ mean?

16. Avoid affairs and wars that don’t directly deal with your territory or the self defence of the territory.

17. Regarding isolation in peace time, what does ‘Protectionism’ mean?.

18. Create legal barriers to prevent trade/cultural exchange with people in other countries/states.

19. This event began in 1916 as a means to save money for the war effort.

20. Prohibition

21. After the Winnipeg General Strike, the Immigration Act was ammended, which permitted this:

22. The deportation of radical aliens However, investigations proved that the strike wasn’t a criminal conspiracy by foreigners.

23. What province was the last to abolish prohibition?

24. PEI What’s up wit dat?

25. This women’s group was at the front lines in persuading governments to ban the sale of alchohol.

26. WCTU: Women’s Christian Temperence Union

27. Private clubs with peepholes at the entrance.

28. Speak-Easies

29. The smoked, drank, danced and voted!

30. Flappers

31. Why was prohibition abolished?

32. -impossible to enforce-gave gangsters too much power-governments losing valuable tax revenue-unpopular with majority of citizens-government agreed to start liquor control policies

33. 1921 was the first year for this sporting event:

34. The Grey Cup

35. In 1922, this doctor discovered insulin as a treatment for Diabetes.

36. Dr. Frederick Banting

37. ‘Little Tramp’ was a box office boom starring this actor:

38. Charlie Chaplin

39. Although she was Canadian, she was known as ‘America’s Sweetheart’:

40. Mary Pickford Rumor has it, her and Charlie Chaplin were engaging in “transgressions”

41. This sports program began airing on the radio in 1923, and on television in 1952:

42. Hockey Night in Canada

43. A gangster from the United States who thrived by selling illegal liquor and by ‘taking care’ of his competition.

44. Al Capone

45. He was the Canadian version of Al Capone

46. Rocco Perri

47. First broadcast in Canada occurred in 1920 by XWA radio in Montreal. It was owned by this company:

48. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company

49. Who knows the name of the infamous rum-running schooner that was often spotted in Tracadie Bay?

50. The Nelly J. Banks