Can You Ace This Quiz on the Roaring '20s?

Plus fours were short, baggy trousers that hung 4 inches below the knee. They were popularized by Edward, Prince of Wales, who sported them on a trip to the U.S. in 1924. The look originated among gamekeepers and golfers who believed that the style gave greater freedom of movement than standard pants.

The Ottoman Empire held power over large areas of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and North Africa for more than 600 years. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Empire lost most of its European territories and began to weaken. It was formally dissolved in 1923 when the position of Ottoman sultan was abolished.

Clara Bow was one of the biggest silent movie stars of the 1920s. Her fashionable flapper style and captivating screen presence saw her star in numerous movies, including “It” (1927), after which she was dubbed the original “It Girl.” However, her unconventional life and the class snobbery of Hollywood saw her struggle to maintain her career, and in 1933, she retired from acting.

On December 6, 1923, Calvin Coolidge became the first U.S. President to give his State of the Union address on broadcast radio. The 1920s saw a huge boom in radio ownership as people rushed to tune in to the many new radio stations. As radio technology improved, broadcasters began producing more interesting shows with live sporting events, music concerts, and dramas filling the airwaves.

Agatha Christie’s first novel, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” was published in 1920, and readers immediately gravitated toward the main character, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Christie wrote the novel after a friend bet that she couldn’t write a book that allowed the reader to work out who the murderer was before the detective did. The 1920s soon became a golden age of detective fiction.

Electric appliances took off during the 1920s, and many new inventions transformed housework. The Electrolux vacuum cleaner came out in 1921 — consigning carpet beaters to the trash can — followed by the launch of the electric shaver and the spin dryer. These new products saw a boom in consumer spending as families rushed to modernize.

The 1920s saw a dance boom in the United States as newly independent young adults blew off steam at nightclubs. Many of the dance crazes, such as the Charleston and the black bottom, originated in African American communities but became mainstream. The jitterbug was a popular dance in the 1930s and ’40s.

Archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter was excavating Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in 1922 when he uncovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun, an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled in the 14th century BCE. While multiple robberies had cleared the site of its finest treasures, the tomb was still revered for its preserved state and historical significance.

Band-Aids were an invention borne out of love, after a Johnson & Johnson employee witnessed his young wife with cuts and burns after preparing dinner. Given how cumbersome gauze and tape were to apply, the employee eventually pitched the idea of a ready-made adhesive bandage — saving his wife’s fingers and millions more over the decades to come.

The 1920s kicked off the rise of the automobile, and with it, many new routes criss-crossing the country. Route 66 was commissioned in 1926 and became fully paved within a decade. Running from Chicago to Los Angeles, the “Mother Road,” as it was sometimes called, helped connect dozens of small towns and opened up a new trucking route, boosting business along the way.

Boxing was one of the most popular sports in the 1920s, and American Jack Dempsey was one of the most popular boxers. Known as the “Manassa Mauler” after his hometown of Manassa, Colorado, Dempsey went on to become the World Heavyweight Champion from 1919 to 1926.

The Oscars, or Academy Awards, have been around for nearly 100 years, after being conceived in 1927 as the brainchild of MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer. As for the first Best Picture winner? The film “Wings,” which was the most expensive movie of the time with a budget of around $2 million (more than $30 million today).

It was 1924 when a former sailor-turned-stuntman named Alvin Kelly was hired to sit on top of a flagpole for as long as possible to drum up attention for a local theater. The schtick worked, and was soon copycatted across the nation.

There are some fashion trends that will endure forever, and the little black dress — or LBD — is one of them. The simple staple first made its debut in the pages of “Vogue” in 1926, where it was dubbed as “Chanel’s Ford” after designer Coco Chanel, suggesting it was every bit as essential to fashion as the Model T was to transportation.

In 1924, the International Olympic Committee decided that a “Winter Sports Week” would be held in Chamonix, France. It was such a success that it was later named the First Olympic Winter Games, and the tradition would continue. There were only 16 events at the games in 1924 (compared to 102 events at the 2018 Winter Olympics). American Charles Jewtraw won the first event, the 500-meter speed skating.

Known to some as “the Great Lover” of the 1920s, Rudolph Valentino was one of the earliest movie stars of the silent era. His breakout role was the character Julio in 1921's “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” Valentino was at his peak popularity in 1925 when he died suddenly from a medical condition at age 31 — a shocking loss felt worldwide.

On a sunny Thanksgiving Day in 1924, Macy’s held its first parade, a modest event the length of two city blocks. The parade celebrated the opening of "The World’s Largest Store," Macy’s new 1-million-square-foot store in New York City’s Herald Square. The event caught on quickly, evolving into the star-studded show that it is today.

Manufacturing, selling, and transporting "intoxicating liquors" was made illegal during the Prohibition era, from 1920 to 1933. Yet it was legal to drink alcohol, if you could somehow find it. Pharmacies got creative by selling alcoholic drinks under the guise of a "medicinal treatment" for things like toothaches. Walgreens saw explosive growth, expanding from 20 locations to more than 500 during the 1920s.

In 1922, Manhattan gangster Owney Madden took over Club Deluxe at the corner of 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem, renaming it “The Cotton Club.” The nightspot was open only to white customers, but most of its successful acts were Black artists. Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway played regularly at the club, sealing the spot’s reputation as a Jazz Age icon.

On an autumn day in London in 1928, Dr. Alexander Fleming made one of the most important discoveries in medical history: penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic. He happened on it by chance when he returned to a messy lab after a vacation and noticed that the mold penicillium inhibited bacterial growth on his samples.

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor behind Mount Rushmore, was also the person to choose which Presidents would appear in his masterpiece — and founding father James Madison didn’t make the cut. According to Borglum, he chose Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln because he felt they represented the most important events in U.S. history.

Few gangsters were better known than Al Capone in the 1920s, who was also known by the nickname “Scarface.” The name originated after Capone made a rude comment to a woman at a bar, and her brother attacked him in response, leaving Capone with three scars on his face. The press invented the nickname — Capone himself was apparently not a fan.

“The Jazz Singer” was the first feature-length movie to have synchronized dialogue. Al Jolson starred in the film, and one of his first lines was, “You ain’t heard nothin’ yet,” which came to represent the dawning of a new “talkie” era in film. In recognition of the innovation, the movie received an honorary Academy Award in 1929.

On May 1, 1926, Ford Motor Company adopted the five-day, 40-hour work week, making it one of the first manufacturers to do so, and certainly the first of its size. The decision to reduce the work week from six days to five was adopted by Henry Ford in 1922, citing the need for "more than one day of rest." Manufacturers all over the world followed Ford’s lead, making the standard work week Monday through Friday.

In 1920, the New York Yankees purchased George Herman "Babe" Ruth from the Boston Red Sox for the sum of $125,000, even though Ruth had led the Red Sox to three World Series victories. Thanks to the Great Bambino’s outstanding success, the Yankees were able to leave the field they shared with the New York Giants, and Yankee Stadium was nicknamed "The House that Ruth Built."

The official debut of Disney’s famous mouse was in 1928, in the animated short "Steamboat Willie." It was one of the first cartoons to successfully use synchronized sound, making it an instant hit. After its success, a cartoon star was born, and Walt Disney set out to create more characters that we still watch today.

The new decade was off to a good start for women in the United States. After 100 years of campaigning for women’s suffrage, the 19th Amendment was ratified on August 19, 1920, granting women the right to vote. This would pave the way for further legislation, such as the Equal Pay Act in 1963.

We have the 1920s to thank for some of the most memorable novels in history, such as Ernest Hemingway’s "The Sun Also Rises," and James Joyce's "Ulysses," but perhaps no writer exemplifies the Jazz Age more than F. Scott Fitzgerald. He was inspired by to write "The Great Gatsby" (published in 1924) by the glamorous parties he attended on Long Island’s North Shore.

Flappers were modern young women at the forefront of 1920s fashion whose signature look of short hair and drop-waist dresses scandalized the older generations. The end of World War I, the new right to vote, and the birth of the Jazz Age all encouraged young women to explore their freedom.

A harsh end to a prosperous decade for America, the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929 — a date known as "Black Tuesday." Billions of dollars were lost that day, wiping out investors and leading to the Great Depression, the largest economic crisis in U.S. history.