World Leaders
This Nobel Peace Prize winner, who shared the award with F.W. de Klerk in 1993, led the African National Congress and negotiated the peaceful dismantling of South Africa's apartheid system.
Who is Nelson Mandela
This Japanese fermented soybean paste, used as a base for soups and marinades, comes in varieties ranging from white to red, with darker varieties indicating longer fermentation and stronger flavor.
What is Miso?
To play in a higher octave without changing fingerings, the player must press this key, typically operated by the left thumb. This instrument is played by T Higgs.
What is a saxophone?
This 1781 battle, in which French naval forces blocked British reinforcements while Washington's army trapped Cornwallis on a Virginia peninsula, effectively ended the American Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown/Battle of the Chesapeake?
This annual award, presented since 1935, is given to the most outstanding player in college football and is named after a Downtown Athletic Club administrator from New York.
What is the Heisman Trophy?
This monarch was the first British sovereign to visit the Republic of Ireland in 100 years when she made a historic state visit in 2011, delivering a speech that began with a greeting in the Irish language in a profound gesture of reconciliation.
Who is Queen Elizabeth (Windsor) II?
This dry-cured Italian cold cut, known by its Neapolitan dialect name in American mob culture, is made from a blend of pork shoulder and neck seasoned with red pepper and paprika before being aged for several months.
What is Gabagool?
This British singer-songwriter known for her contralto vocals led a band who was recently inducted into the Rock n Roll hall of Fame.
Who is Sade Adu?
This 1950–1953 conflict fought on a peninsula in East Asia ended in an armistice, leaving the country divided at the 38th parallel to this day.
What is the Korean War
This 2021 Supreme Court ruling unanimously sided against the NCAA, determining that its restrictions on education-related benefits for student athletes violated federal antitrust law.
What is NCAA v. Alston?
This North Korean leader made history in 2018 by becoming the first sitting leader of his country to cross the demilitarized zone and meet with a South Korean president, shaking hands with Moon Jae-in at the border.
Who is Jim Jong-Un
This indulgent dish, popularized in Louisiana, consists of a deboned chicken stuffed inside a deboned duck, which is then stuffed inside a whole turkey.
What is a Turducken?
This final Beatles album recorded together features two distinct sides, with the second half consisting of a medley of unfinished song fragments stitched together by Paul McCartney into one of rock music's most ambitious studio compositions.
What is Abbey Road?
Launched in January 1991, this U.S.-led coalition military campaign drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in just 100 hours of ground combat."
What is "Operation Desert Storm"?
This grueling Olympic event, contested over two days and ten disciplines, crowns its winner with the title of World's Greatest Athlete.
What is the Decathlon?
This Israeli leader, who studied architecture and business at MIT, served as his country's ambassador to the United Nations before rising to become prime minister and the dominant figure in Israeli politics for three decades.
Who is Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu?
This soul food staple, long associated with Southern cuisine and hog butchering traditions, consists of slow-cooked pig intestines often seasoned with onions, pepper, and vinegar.
What are Chitlins?
This Baroque era composer, largely forgotten after his death in 1750, was single handedly revived by Felix Mendelssohn's 1829 performance of the St. Matthew Passion, sparking a revival that cemented his place as one of history's greatest composers.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This brutal 1994 conflict in a small African nation saw an estimated 800,000 Tutsi civilians slaughtered in roughly 100 days while the world watched.
What is the Rwandan Genocide (Civil War)?
This American decathlete was declared the 'World's Greatest Athlete' after winning gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and later became a prominent celebrity and media figure.
Who is Bruce Jenner?
This world leader had an "excellent hiding spot".
Who is Saddam Hussein?
They have the meats.
What is Arbys?
This 1982 album is the most sold album in the world, often cited as selling 70 million copies worldwide.
What is Thriller?
This little-known 1969 conflict between El Salvador and Honduras, triggered in part by a World Cup qualifying match, lasted only 100 hours and displaced over 100,000 people.
What is the Football War?
This Czech-American marathon runner won three consecutive Boston Marathons from 1897 to 1899 and is largely credited with popularizing distance running in America at the turn of the 20th century.
Who is Ronald MacDonald?