American History
Which U.S. president was the first to be born in a hospital?
Answer: Jimmy Carter.
What 1961 hit by Ben E. King was inspired in part by a gospel hymn and later became the title of a 1986 movie?
Answer: "Stand by Me."
Which European country is home to the historic region of Transylvania?
Answer: Romania.
Which actress played opposite Humphrey Bogart in both To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep?
Answer: Lauren Bacall.
Which American author created the fictional detective Philip Marlowe?
Answer: Raymond Chandler.
Which president served two nonconsecutive terms, making him both the 22nd and 24th president?
Answer: Grover Cleveland.
Which singer recorded "Mack the Knife," a hit that earned Record of the Year at the 1960 Grammy Awards?
Answer: Bobby Darin.
What is the only country in the world that borders both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Answer: Iran.
What 1950 film features the famous line "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up"?
Answer: Sunset Boulevard.
What Kentucky city was the birthplace of boxing legend Muhammad Ali?
Answer: Louisville.
What was the name of the scandal involving the leasing of federal oil reserves during Warren G. Harding's administration?
Answer: The Teapot Dome Scandal
Which songwriting duo wrote "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" with Phil Spector?
Answer: Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.
What African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Answer: Ethiopia.
Which actor won an Academy Award for portraying the title character in the 1970 film Patton?
Answer: George C. Scott.
Which board game was originally created by Elizabeth Magie as The Landlord's Game?
Answer: Monopoly.
Which U.S. president signed the legislation establishing the Interstate Highway System in 1956?
Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower.
What 1967 song by Procol Harum is famous for its Bach-inspired organ melody?
Answer: "A Whiter Shade of Pale."
Which European capital was formed from the unification of the cities Buda, Óbuda, and Pest?
Answer: Budapest, Hungary.
What 1962 film starring Gregory Peck was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee?
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird.
What is the term for a word or phrase that reads the same forward and backward, ignoring spaces and punctuation?
Answer: Palindrome.
Which former president later served in the U.S. House of Representatives, earning the nickname "Old Man Eloquent"?
Answer: John Quincy Adams.
Which jazz pianist and composer wrote "Take Five," famously recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet?
Answer: Paul Desmond.
Which country has the world's oldest continuously used national flag, traditionally dated to 1219?
Answer: Denmark.
Which actress was the first to win four Academy Awards for Best Actress?
Answer: Katharine Hepburn.
Which famous architect designed Fallingwater, the Pennsylvania house built over a waterfall?
Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright.