History
Which year did the demolition of the Berlin Wall begin?
1989
What is the elemental symbol for silver?
Ag
What form of Japanese poetry must contain 17 syllables?
Haiku
Judy Garland starred as Dorothy Gale in which classic movie?
The Wizard of Oz
What is the rhetorical device that consists of repeating a word or sequence of words at the beginning of successive sentences?
Anaphora
What Eastern European city was the last city to be liberated in World War II?
Prague
What survives impacting Earth's surface; a meteor, a meteorite, or an asteroid?
Meteorite
What poet wrote the following lines: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ... I took the one less traveled by"?
Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, or Emily Dickinson?
Robert Frost
Sandy from Spongebob Squarepants is not native to Bikini Bottom. Where is she from?
Texas
What is the rhetorical device that consists of omitting words when something is implied or is able to be understood from contextual clues?
Ellipsis (...)
Which Greek historian is known as the "Father of History"?
Herodotus
Name the law: The energy of the Universe is constant; it can neither be created or destroyed but only transferred and transformed. (5 words)
Law of Conservation of Energy
Which magic land did C S Lewis write of?
Narnia
Which American actress and model once said, "I have had a talent for irritating women since I was 14"?
Marilyn Monroe
Which rhetorical device and mode of persuasion answers the questions of "Why should you believe their message?" "Where do they stand?" and "What's their end goal?"
Ethos
Four US Presidents have been assassinated. The first three were Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and William McKinley. Who was the fourth and final president to be killed?
John F. Kennedy
How many bones does an adult human body contain?
206 bones
Which Dickens novel was left unfinished at the time of his death?
Edwin Drood
Who was the first female monster to appear on film?
Bride of Frankenstein (released 1935)
This type of sentence urges, exhorts, entreats, implores, or calls to action. (ex. Just try it at least once!)
Hortative sentence
Which war took place between 1950 and 1953?
The Korean War
What is the largest living structure on Earth?
The Great Barrier Reef, Australia
What happened to the original manuscript of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men?
His dog ate it
In the Wizard of Oz, what was the name of the Good Witch of the North?
Glinda
What literary term are these examples demonstrating:
"She broke his car and his heart."
"You are free to execute your laws and your citizens."
"He fished for trout and for compliments."
Zeugma