Alan Rock's Trivia

Questions:

1)  What airline was the first to have regularly scheduled commercial transatlantic service from New York to Europe?

2)  Which U.S. president declared Labor Day a federal holiday to be celebrated on the first Monday in September?

3)  What was the number on Ty Cobb's baseball uniform?

4)  On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. What did it do?


Answers:

1)  Pan American, which began on June 28, 1939.

2)  Grover Cleveland, on June 28, 1894.

3)  Major League baseball clubs didn't start putting numbers on uniforms until the 1930s.  As a result, Ty Cobb, who broke many batting and base-stealing records while playing with the Detroit Tigers (1905-1926), didn't have his uniform number retired.  This was, simply, because Cobb never was issued a number.

4)  The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I.