Art, Books & Literature
This Dutch artist painted The Starry Night.
Vincent van Gogh
This noble gas has the chemical symbol Ne and is commonly associated with glowing signs.
Neon
Twenty-five Academic Bowl cards are divided equally among students. Each student receives five cards. How many students receive cards?
Five
This New York NBA team won its first championship since 1973.
New York Knicks
Terracotta Army was buried near the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of this country.
China
This Spanish artist co-founded Cubism and painted Guernica.
Pablo Picasso
This element has the symbol Se and was named after Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon.
Selenium
Ava was 10 years old when her brother was 4. If Ava is now 40, how old is her brother?
34
This Wolverines team captured the 2026 NCAA men’s Division I basketball championship.
Michigan Wolverines
Ancient civilizations made weapons from this durable alloy created by combining copper and tin.
Bronze
Aslan, the White Witch, and the land of Narnia were created by this British author.
C. S. Lewis
This German rotor machine was used to encrypt military messages during World War II.
Enigma
A right triangle has legs measuring 6 units and 8 units. Using the Pythagorean theorem, this is the length of its hypotenuse.
10 units
This Los Angeles team became the first champion of the Women’s Professional Baseball League in 2026.
Los Angeles Queens
The Model T and the moving assembly line made this American automobile manufacturer famous.
Henry Ford
This Narnia book explains the creation of Narnia and the origin of the magical wardrobe.
The Magician’s Nephew
This naturally occurring fruit sugar combines with glucose to form sucrose.
Fructose
Three consecutive integers have a sum of 72. This is the middle integer.
24
This Hoosiers program won the 2025–26 College Football Playoff National Championship.
Indiana Hoosiers
This English explorer searched for a Northwest Passage and gave his name to a river in New York and a bay in Canada.
Henry Hudson
Jonathan Swift wrote this novel about a traveler who visits Lilliput and Brobdingnag.
Gulliver’s Travels
This computer memory temporarily stores data being actively used and loses its contents when the power is turned off.
RAM (Random Access Memory)
This equation relates the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle.
a² + b² = c²
This Bruins program won the 2026 NCAA women’s Division I basketball championship.
UCLA Bruins
This British mathematician helped the Allies break Germany’s Enigma code during World War II.
Alan Turing