Math
What is 15% of 360?
54
What organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell”?
Mitochondrion / mitochondria
Which war ended with the Treaty of Versailles?
World War I
What is the capital of Australia?
Canberra
Who directed Jaws, E.T., and Jurassic Park?
Steven Spielberg
Solve: 4x - 9 = 31
10
What is the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere?
Nitrogen
Which civilization was ruled by Montezuma II when the Spanish arrived?
Aztec Empire
Which country contains the region of Transylvania?
Romania
In what sci-fi TV series do kids in Hawkins, Indiana, fight monsters from a dimension called the Upside Down?
Stranger Things
What is the area of a circle with radius 6? Give your answer in terms of π.
36π(pi)
What is the name of the force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun?
Gravity
The Magna Carta was signed in what year?
1215
What mountain range forms much of the border between France and Spain?
Pyrenees
What is the name of the fictional coffee shop where the friends hang out in the TV show Friends?
If 2x² - 8 = 64, what is the positive value of x?
What subatomic particle determines the identity of an element?
Proton
Which European power controlled Indonesia for much of the colonial era?
Netherlands
Which African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Ethiopia
What show has a character named Phillip Goldstein?
Fresh Off the Boat
A right triangle has legs of 9 and 40. What is the length of its hypotenuse?
41
What is the name of the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape?
Event horizon
Which 1648 peace settlement ended the Thirty Years’ War?
Peace of Westphalia
What is the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf?
Iran
This 1994 film follows a banker who spends nearly two decades at Shawshank State Penitentiary after being convicted of murder.
The Shawshank Redemption