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100

Who was the first U.S. President to live in the White House?

  • A. George Washington
  • B. John Adams 
  • C. Thomas Jefferson
  • D. James Madison

Answer: Who is John Adams?

100

Which group recorded the hit song "Hey Jude"?

  • A. The Rolling Stones
  • B. The Beatles 
  • C. The Beach Boys
  • D. The Monkees

Answer: Who are The Beatles?

100

The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from which country?

  • A. England
  • B. France 
  • C. Germany
  • D. Italy

Answer: What is France?

100

Who is credited with inventing the light bulb?

  • A. Thomas Edison 
  • B. Alexander Graham Bell
  • C. Nikola Tesla
  • D. Benjamin Franklin

Answer: Who is Thomas Edison?

100

Who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

  • A. Lewis Carroll 
  • B. Charles Dickens
  • C. Robert Louis Stevenson
  • D. J.M. Barrie

Answer: Who is Lewis Carroll?

200

Which president was nicknamed "Honest Abe"?

  • A. Abraham Lincoln 
  • B. Andrew Jackson
  • C. Theodore Roosevelt
  • D. Ulysses S. Grant

nswer: Who is Abraham Lincoln?


200

Who sang "My Way," a song famously associated with him?

  • A. Dean Martin
  • B. Frank Sinatra 
  • C. Tony Bennett
  • D. Perry Como

Answer: Who is Frank Sinatra?

200

In which city would you find the Colosseum?

  • A. Athens
  • B. Rome 
  • C. Paris
  • D. Madrid

Answer: What is Rome?

200

Who invented the printing press in Europe?

  • A. Johannes Gutenberg 
  • B. Leonardo da Vinci
  • C. Galileo
  • D. Isaac Newton

Answer: Who is Johannes Gutenberg?

200

Which novel features the character Huckleberry Finn?

  • A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • B. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 
  • C. The Prince and the Pauper
  • D. Little Women

Answer: What is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

300

Which president signed the Social Security Act into law?

  • A. Herbert Hoover
  • B. Franklin D. Roosevelt 
  • C. Harry Truman
  • D. Woodrow Wilson

Answer: Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

300

Which singer was known as the "Queen of Soul"?

  • A. Diana Ross
  • B. Aretha Franklin 
  • C. Tina Turner
  • D. Whitney Houston

Answer: Who is Aretha Franklin?

300

Which U.S. state is home to the Grand Canyon?

  • A. Nevada
  • B. Utah
  • C. Arizona 
  • D. Colorado

Answer: What is Arizona?

300

Which invention is Alexander Graham Bell most closely associated with?

  • A. Radio
  • B. Telephone 
  • C. Television
  • D. Phonograph

Answer: What is the telephone?

300

Who wrote Dracula?

  • A. Mary Shelley
  • B. Bram Stoker 
  • C. H.G. Wells
  • D. Oscar Wilde

Answer: Who is Bram Stoker?

400

Which president was the only U.S. president who never married?

  • A. James Buchanan 
  • B. Martin Van Buren
  • C. Andrew Johnson
  • D. James Polk

Answer: Who is James Buchanan?


400

Which musician released the albums Purple Rain and 1999?

  • A. Michael Jackson
  • B. Prince 
  • C. David Bowie
  • D. Elton John

Answer: Who is Prince?

400

The Taj Mahal is located in which country?

  • A. India 
  • B. Pakistan
  • C. Nepal
  • D. Bangladesh

Answer: What is India?

400

Who developed the first successful polio vaccine?

  • A. Jonas Salk 
  • B. Louis Pasteur
  • C. Alexander Fleming
  • D. Edward Jenner

Answer: Who is Jonas Salk?

400

Which Shakespeare tragedy features three witches who make prophecies?

  • A. Hamlet
  • B. Macbeth 
  • C. King Lear
  • D. Othello

Answer: What is Macbeth?

500

Which president famously challenged the nation to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s?

  • A. Dwight Eisenhower
  • B. John F. Kennedy 
  • C. Lyndon B. Johnson
  • D. Richard Nixon

Answer: Who is John F. Kennedy?

500

Which legendary singer-songwriter wrote "Blowin' in the Wind"?

  • A. Bob Dylan 
  • B. Neil Young
  • C. Paul Simon
  • D. John Lennon

Answer: Who is Bob Dylan?

500

Which ancient civilization built the city of Petra?

  • A. Romans
  • B. Greeks
  • C. Nabataeans 
  • D. Egyptians

Answer: Who were the Nabataeans?

500

Which invention did Johannes Gutenberg's press make significantly easier to mass-produce?

  • A. Newspapers and books 
  • B. Automobiles
  • C. Telephones
  • D. Light bulbs

Answer: What are newspapers and books?

500

Who wrote Les Misérables?

  • A. Alexandre Dumas
  • B. Victor Hugo 
  • C. Charles Dickens
  • D. Leo Tolstoy

Answer: Who is Victor Hugo?

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