Famous Murders
Which Massachusetts woman was famously tried and acquitted for killing her father and stepmother with an axe?
Lizzie Borden
What form of dance did Louis XIV famously perform and help develop into a major art form?
Ballet
Which president popularized the seventh-inning stretch at baseball games?
William Howard Taft
Which tsar founded a new capital in 1703 as part of his effort to Westernize Russia?
Peter the Great
Which country has won the most World Cups?
Brazil
Which Archbishop of Canterbury was killed inside his own cathedral in 1170 by four knights, after King Henry II reportedly complained about a “turbulent priest”?
How old was Louis XIV when he became king?
4
Which president threw up in the lap of Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa during a state dinner?
George H. W. Bush
Which jeweler created the elaborate jeweled eggs used by the Russian imperial family as Easter gifts?
House of Fabergé / Peter Carl Fabergé
How old was Lionel Messi when he won the 2022 World Cup?
35
Which famous serial killer reportedly created a “murder hotel” in Chicago, near the site of the 1893 World Fair?
H. H. Holmes
Which French playwright and actor, famous for his satire and author of The Misanthrope, regularly performed for Louis XIV and his court?
Molière
Which president had a pet raccoon named Rebecca?
Calvin Coolidge
How did Catherine the Great come to power?
A coup against her husband, Peter III
Which Uruguayan striker bit Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup?
Luis Suárez
Which Roman emperor was strangled by his wrestling partner in the bath?
Commodus
In 1668, Louis XIV bought a large diamond from the traveler Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. After being stolen and recut, it resurfaced as which famous gem?
The Hope Diamond
Which president reportedly drank up to a gallon of coffee per day?
How many assassination attempts did Alexander II survive?
5
In the 1986 quarterfinals, Diego Maradona scored the infamous “Hand of God” goal against which team?
England
Which Congolese independence leader and prime minister was executed by firing squad in 1961 during the Congo Crisis?
Patrice Lumumba
Part of Louis XIV’s heart was taken from his tomb and kept in a silver locket by Lord Harcourt, Archbishop of York. When Harcourt showed it to Dean of Westminster William Buckland in 1848, what did Buckland do?
He ate it.
Which president was given a 1,400-pound block of cheese, displayed it in the White House foyer for two years, and then threw a public party where guests ate it in two hours?
Andrew Jackson
In which Siberian city were Nicholas II and his immediate family executed by Bolsheviks in July 1918?
Yekaterinburg
Which U.S. midfielder scored a hattrick in the first 16 minutes of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final against Japan, finishing it with a shot from the midfield line?