Fashion and Society - HC

This event is largely recognized as the birth of the Nationalistic movement

• Corsican Republic (1755-68)

• American Revolution (1775-83)

• French Revolution (1789-99)

• South American Wars of Independence (1810-26)

The last European monarch that maintains male-preference primogeniture is

• Belgium

• Spain

• Norway

• Luxemburg

In the mid 18th-century, a "macaroni" was a

• mocking term for Americans in the Revolution

• prominently-crested penguin

• man that exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion

• well-to-do consumer capitalist

The first sovereign nation in the Western Hemisphere to unconditionally abolish slavery in the modern era was

• Columiba

• Mexico

• Chile

• Hati (Saint-Domingue)

The Olympic Games were revived in

• England - 1830

• Russia - 1870

• France - 1853

• Greece - 1896

The longest 'pole sitting' record was

• 51 days - Bill Penfield (1930)

• 493 days - H. David Werder (1984)

• 125 days - Richard Blandy (1933)

• 217 days - Peggy Clark (1964)

"Pre-Code" refers to an era in US produced cinema when

• films were not limited by sedition laws put in place during World War II

• there were unestablished animal rights guidelines in regards to film production

• there was scarce enforcement of the Motion Picture Production's self censorship laws

• before the organization of the Motion Picture Association of America

Cabaret was a form of underground entertainment popular in the early 20th-century, it is thought to have originated in

• Paris

• Amsterdam

• Berlin

• Warsaw

The massive horizontal hoop skirts, popular among the gentry in the 17th-18th centuries, were called the

• Staffordshire figure

• Pannier dress

• Triptych form

• Ducane expansion

The Odd Fellows organization, founded in 1819, is classified as a

• charity

• secular order

• international guild

• fraternal benefit society