Basketball
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(March Madness)
Founded on June 6, 1946, in New York City, this is the official name the most significant professional basketball league in the world.
What is the National Basketball Association (NBA)?
This Pakistani human rights activist is known for championing girls’ education. In 2014, she became the youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
This religion is the fifth (fourth if you don't believe atheism is a religion) most popular religion, predominately followed in Mauritius and India.
What is Hinduism?
This national holiday is celebrated out of commemoration when Ioannis Metaxas, Greek Prime Minister at the time, rejected Benito Mussolini's ultimatum to occupy the territory.
What is Oxi Day? (Ohi Day)
Also known as the Great Hunger, this event began in 1845 when a mold known as Phytophthora infestans (or P. infestans) caused a destructive plant disease that spread rapidly throughout Ireland
What was the Irish Potato Famine?
This team was the winner of today's match between UCLA and Gonzaga?
This distinguished primatologist and conservationist from Britain has devoted more than six decades to trailblazing studies of chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Who was Jane Goodall?
What is the Festival of Colors, Love, and Spring? (Single word is acceptable)
This was the ancient Greek Goddess of the harvest who had a daughter who was the wife of Hades.
Who is Demeter?
This is the most recent United States president to be of Irish descent.
Who is Joseph Biden?
This basketball team won March Madness last year (2022) failed to qualify this year in the Men's NCAA bracket.
What are the Kansas Jayhawks (Kansas University)?
This person made history as NASA’s first black female engineer. Her story is featured in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures”, which celebrates her accomplishments as a pioneer and leader.
Who was Mary Jackson?
This was the first prime minister of modern India after the partition of British Raj in 1947.
Who was Jawaharlal Nehru?
This was the Greek philosopher who founded the Academy as a school dedicated to Athena, Goddess of wisdom. During the Renaissance period, his ideas resurfaced and considered greatly.
Who was Plato?
Michael Daniel Higgins, the current president of Ireland, is a part of which Irish political party?
What is the Labour Party?
On March 27, 1939, this was the first team to win March Madness by defeating Ohio State University 46-33.
What are the Oregon Ducks (University of Oregon)?
This 19th century writer and mathematician is often considered the first computer programmer for her work on the Analytical Engine, the world’s first computer.
Who was Ada Lovelace?
This rebellion sparked out of discontent of the British East India Company, which ultimately failed and created a more centralized state out of South Asia known as British Raj.
What was the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Sepoy Mutiny, the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, the Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, or the First War of Independence?
This American policy was created during the Greek Civil War, which stated that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This person is the oldest United States president to be of Irish descent.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This was the person who invented basketball as a less injury-prone sport than football.
Who was Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith?
This person is considered one of the best actresses of the 1940s. She was also a brilliant inventor whose technology paved the way for GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
Who was Hedy Lamarr?
This Sanskrit word for "four divisions" was the name of the first rendition of chess that showed a grieving mother how his son died in combat.
What is Chaturanga?
This person was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Greece during the Greek Debt Crisis of 2015 under the Tsipras Cabinet and the Syriza Party.
Who was Nikos Kotzias?
This Irish singer, also known as "Mr. Eurovision," is the only performer to have won twice in the Eurovision song contest and also wrote the 1992 winning entry.
Who is Johnny Logan? (Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard)