Recent History
What body of water was contaminated when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010?
a. Hudson Bay
b. Gulf of Mexico
c. Gulf of Alaska
d. Persian Gulf
b. Gulf of Mexico
Tom Cruise might be the most widely-recognized member of this church.
a. Methodist Church
b. Church of Latter-Day Saints
c. Eastern Orthodox Church
d. Scientology
d. Scientology
I was reclassified as a "dwarf planet" in 2006.
a. Mercury
b. Mars
c. Pluto
d. Phobos
c. Pluto
The son of Zeus and Hera, god of fire and forge, and the husband of Aphrodite.
a. Hephaestus
b. Poseidon
c. Theseus
d. Odysseus
a. Hephaestus
What is a group of crows called?
a. Murder
b. Flock
c. Conspiracy
d. Committee
a. Murder
This iconic TV salesperson is known for selling Oxiclean
a. Billy Mays
b. Dale Carnegie
c. Joe Girard
d. Tony Little
a. Billy Mays
This "Sherlock" lead also starred in "The Imitation Game."
a. Benedict Cumberbatch
b. Colin Farrell
c. Johnny Depp
d. Richard Grieco
a. Benedict Cumberbatch
This element, which has a "Valley" named after it, makes up 25 percent of the earth's crust.
a. Potassium
b. selenium
c. hydrogen
d. silicon
d. silicon
This god is known for having a lyre
a. Hades
b. Apollo
c. Dionysus
d. Pan
b. Apollo
Koalas have adapted their diet with an extra-long gut to break down poisons in these leaves & sleep 20 hours a day due to a lack of nutrition in the leaves.
a. Eucalyptus
b. Peppermint
c. Bay
d. Nettles
a. Eucalyptus
What year did scientists complete a map of the human genome?
a. 1990
b. 2000
c. 1970
d. 1980
b. 2000
Though Steve Jobs captured public imagination, this man created the Apple II.
a. Alan Turing
b. Bill Gates
c. Linus Torvalds
d. Steve Wozniak
d. Steve Wozniak
I'm still a star in Hollywood, although I was wiped out about 66 million years ago.
a. Dodo bird
b. Dinosaur
c. Neanderthal
d. Thetan
b. Dinosaur
The three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld.
a. Cerberus
b. Chimera
c. Hydra
d. Icarus
a. Cerberus
The 2-toed one of these can live up to 20 years, most of it upside down in the canopy of the rainforest.
a. Gorilla
b. Capybara
c. Sloth
d. Poison Dart Frog
c. Sloth
What toy sold 200 million units between 1980 and 1983?
a. Etch A Sketch
b. Slinky
c. Cabbage Patch Kids
d. Rubik’s Cube
d. Rubik’s Cube
This larger-than-life author lived in both Key West and Cuba.
a. Willa Cather
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. Henry James
d. JRR Tolkien
b. Ernest Hemingway
The concept of gravity was discovered by which famous physicist?
a. Sir Isaac Newton
b. Nikola Tesla
c. Albert Einstein
d. Galileo
a. Sir Isaac Newton
When in Rome ... you'd call me Jupiter!
a. Hades
b. Hermes
c. Zeus
d. Apollo
c. Zeus
It’s the world’s largest burrowing animal & can make a destructive tunnel complex 650 feet long, so farmers don’t find it as cute as zoo-goers might.
a. Prairie dog
b. Wombat
c. Meerkat
d. Groundhog
b. Wombat
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger landed a plane in this unorthodox but necessary location.
a. Central Park
b. Hudson River
c. Interstate 80
d. New Hampshire Motor Speedway
b. Hudson River
Jeremy Clarkson's run on this show ended after an altercation with a producer.
a. Coronation Street
b. The Chase
c. Hollyoaks
d. Top Gear
d. Top Gear
This Swedish man was a giant in the field of taxonomy (the naming of species).
a. Carl Linnaeus
b. Bjorn Borg
c. Alfred Nobel
d. August Strindberg
a. Carl Linnaeus
A very wealthy king who loved gold more than anything.
a. Butters
b. Prometheus
c. Midas
d. Eros
c. Midas
When faced with danger, certain ducks, snakes & mammals do this, also called thanatosis.
a. Use threatening appearance
b. Play dead
c. Use Camouflage
d. Release chemicals
b. Play dead