Which country was the first...
to put a man in space?
a) Russia
b) United States
c) Japan
a) Russia
Iago
a) Hamlet
b) Othello
c) A Midsummer Night's Dream
b) Othello
This trumpeting titan, sometimes called "Pops," lit up New Orleans, Chicago, and Harlem in the 1920s and beyond.
a) Dizzy Gillespie
b) Louis Armstrong
c) Doc Cheatham
b) Louis Armstrong
Who invented basketball?
a) James Naismith
b) Bill Sharman
c) George Mikan
a) James Naismith
What is the nucleus of a comet made of?
a) Helium and water
b) Fire
c) Ice, dust, and organic materials
c) Ice, dust, and organic materials
to have someone reach the North and South poles?
a) Great Britain
b) Portugal
c) Norway
c) Norway
Horatio
a) Romeo and Juliet
b) Hamlet
c) Othello
b) Hamlet
Of the following, which jazz great did not play the same instrument as the other three?
a) Duke Ellington
b) Thelonious Monk
c) John Coltrane
c) John Coltrane
In basketball, what is it called when the referee puts the ball into play by tossing it up between two opponents who try to tap it to a teammate?
a) Scrum
b) Turnover
c) Jump ball
c) Jump ball
Which of these planets does NOT have a natural satellite?
a) Saturn
b) Mercury
c) Neptune
b) Mercury
to give women the right to vote?
a) New Zealand
b) United States
c) South Africa
a) New Zealand
Gertrude
a) Hamlet
b) King Lear
c) Macbeth
a) Hamlet
This musician traveled from India to play the sitar to a mesmerized crowd at the original Woodstock.
a) Rajeev Janardan
b) George Harrison
c) Ravi Shankar
c) Ravi Shankar
Which of these basketball players retired from the NBA with the highest points per game scoring average?
a) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
b) Michael Jordan
c) Wilt Chamberlain
b) Michael Jordan
What is the acceleration of gravity at Earth’s surface?
a) 5 feet per second
b) 18 feet per second
c) 32 feet per second
c) 32 feet per second
European country to establish a law to end slavery?
a) Germany
b) Great Britain
c) Spain
c) Spain
Goneril
a) Macbeth
b) King Lear
c) Hamlet
b) King Lear
People have been playing music for at least 35,000 years, as we know from the discovery of prehistoric version of these instruments, often made from swan bone or mammoth ivory.
a) xylophones
b) castanets
c) flutes
c) flutes
The Lakers are tied with which other NBA team with 17 Championships?
a) Chicago Bulls
b) Boston Celtics
c) New York Knicks
b) Boston Celtics
Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
a) Galileo
b) Kepler
c) Copernicus
b) Kepler
to offer free mass transit for all?
a) Luxembourg
b) the Netherlands
c) Spain
a) Luxembourg
Helena
a) Hamlet
b) A Midsummer Night's Dream
c) The Tempest
b) A Midsummer Night's Dream
Which pairing of a US president with his instrument is not accurate?
a) Jimmy Carter/guitar
b) Richard Nixon/piano
c) Chester A. Arthur/banjo
a) Jimmy Carter/guitar
Who is the only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game?
a) Lebron James
b) Wilt Chamberlain
c) Magic Johnson
b) Wilt Chamberlain
The atmosphere of Mars is mostly composed of
a) Carbon dioxide
b) Helium
c) Oxygen
a) Carbon dioxide