Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz

1. On January 16, 1919, prohibition of the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors" was ratified in which amendment to the Constitution?

14th

16th

18th

19th

21st

2. The National Prohibition Act is more commonly known as what?

Volstead Act

Temperance Act

Progressive Act

Bryant Act

Wilson Act

3. Which president vetoed the National Prohibition Act?

Harding

Wilson

Roosevelt

Coolidge

Hoover

4. How many, if any, amendments were passed between the enactment and repeal of Prohibition?

None

One

Two

Three

Five

5. What amendment ended national but not state prohibition?

19th

20th

21st

22nd

23rd

6. What is the first state to have a prohibition law?

Georgia

Texas

New York

Maine

Massachusetts

7. What is the name of the movement that agitated for prohibition as early as the 1830s?

Anti-alcohol Movement

The Great Awakening

Blue Movement

Prohibition

Temperance Movement

8. Prohibition had many unintended consequences, including what word that means illegal trafficking is liquor?

Bootlegging

Racketeering

Gintubbing

Flapping

Distilling

9. Which famous gangster dominated the illegal liquor trade in Chicago?

Bugsy Malone

Al Capone

Meyer Lansky

Dutch Shultz

Lucky Luciano

10. Which president coined the phrase "noble experiment" for Prohibition?

Woodrow Wilson

Franklin Roosevelt

Herbert Hoover

Jimmy Carter

William Harding

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