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6. Supporters of Prohibition said what?

  • Alcohol consumption per person per year has fallen from 2.6 to 1 by 1930
  • Prohibition is working extremely well
  • Drunk driving has reduced by 42%

7. During Prohibition, how many crates of Coca-cola were shipped?

  • 170 million
  • 182 million
  • 192 million
  • 20 million

8. What did prohibitionist Billy Sunday say?

  • "The reign of tears is over"
  • "A child or wife shall no longer feel the hot alcohol fulled hand anymore"
  • "The beast known as alcohol has been quelled"

9. What amendment was Prohibition to the constitution?

  • 18th
  • 20th
  • 19th
  • 17th

10. How many states would have to agree to it before it was ratified?

  • 40
  • 36
  • 12
  • 20

11. What did prohibition administer Ned Green do?

  • He held cocktail parties
  • He made prohibition laws tougher on immigrants
  • He fined Harding when he found out about his alcohol intake

12. How many states had already banned alcohol by 1917?

  • 26
  • 23
  • 3
  • 19

13. What did the Volstead Act of 1919 declare?

  • It defined alcoholic beverages - 0.5% or above
  • Any alcoholic beverage 0.5% or above is legal for production
  • It defined alcoholic beverages - 5% or above

14. What was it illegal to do when making alcohol?

  • Make and consume
  • Make and sell it
  • Sell and consume
  • Buy and consume

15. How many gangsters did Al Capone have at his disposal?

  • 700
  • 666
  • 1,000
  • 200

16. How many speakeasies were there in NY?

  • 32,000
  • 20,000
  • 120
  • 100,000

17. How much alcohol was actually intercepted before getting into the USA?

  • 5%
  • 18%
  • 60%
  • 25%

18. In a percentage, how much did the production of moonshine rise by?

  • 80%
  • 50%
  • 99%
  • 43%

19. How was Harding corrupt in terms of prohibition?

  • He had alcohol delivered to the white house
  • He had a personal brewery set up for himself
  • He was not corrupt

20. When was the Saint Valentines Day Massacre?

  • 14th February 1930
  • 14th February 1928
  • 14th February 1929
  • 14th February 1927