Trivia: Which of these daredevil stunts became a fad in the 1920s?
Swallowing goldfish
Sitting on flagpoles
Sprinting across train tracks
Bungee jumping
The correct answer is Sitting on flagpoles
So why is this answer correct? : 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.