The Madness of the King
A blood disease may have caused the madness of this king, and in 1811 his son assumed his duties.
a) Edward VIII
b) Charles II
c) George III
c) George III
Washington Irving's tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale.
a) The Deerslayer
b) The Courtship of Miles Standish
c) Rip Van Winkle
c) Rip Van Winkle
Put a stopper in this second city of Ireland, found on an island in the River Lee.
a) Galway
b) Cork
c) Limerick
b) Cork
The pronghorn, also called the American or pronghorned one of these, can cover about one mile per minute.
a) antelope
b) deer
c) ram
a) antelope
Florida's Streamline Hotel is the birthplace of this auto racing organization.
a) NASCAR
b) Formula 1
c) IndyCar
a) NASCAR
Battle of Agincourt loser Charles VI of this country had a delusion that he was made of glass and that he could shatter.
a) France
b) England
c) Scotland
a) France
Willa Cather's novel about this title girl is set around the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska.
a) O Pioneers!
b) My Antonia
c) The Song of the Lark
b) My Antonia
Italy's financial capital, this second city of the nation is also the center of its fashion and publishing industries.
a) Milan
b) Turin
c) Naples
a) Milan
In the 1950s Idaho relocated these amphibious rodents by dropping them (with parachutes) out of airplanes.
a) beavers
b) flying squirrels
c) otters
a) beavers
On April 22, 1954 the NBA changed forever with the adoption of a shot clock with a time limit of this many seconds.
a) 18
b) 24
c) 32
b) 24
Obsessed with ringing church bells, Fyodor I had issues; his child's death & being the son of this "rough" 1580s czar.
a) Vlad the Impaler
b) Ivan the Terrible
c) Peter the Cruel
b) Ivan the Terrible
The title of this first Philip Marlowe novel is a euphemism for death.
a) The Maltese Falcon
b) The Big Sleep
c) The Long Goodbye
b) The Big Sleep
Its second city of Pusan is located at the southeast tip of this nation's peninsula.
a) Vietnam
b) Thailand
c) South Korea
c) South Korea
Those aren't racing stripes; a mutation in the king type of this African cat blends the spots around its spine to look like stripes.
a) tigers
b) cheetahs
c) lions
b) cheetahs
This tournament was first contested in 1930 and won by host nation Uruguay, 4-2 over Argentina.
a) Rugby World Cup
b) FIFA World Cup
c) Cricket World Cup
b) FIFA World Cup
Erik XIV took over for Gustav I Vasa in this country, but fears of treason caused a breakdown in 1567 and he had a lot of rivals killed.
a) Germany
b) Denmark
c) Sweden
c) Sweden
Four Chinese women meet regularly to play Mahjong and to talk about life and their children in this 1989 Amy Tan novel.
a) The Good Earth
b) The Joy Luck Club
c) The Bonesetter's Daughter
b) The Joy Luck Club
Barcelona is Spain's second-largest city and has about a fifth of the population of this region it's in.
a) Andalucía
b) Galicia
c) Catalonia
c) Catalonia
When these camel relatives give birth, it's been colloquially called "unpacking".
a) kangaroos
b) giraffes
c) alpacas
c) alpacas
It took 11 hours and 5 minutes over 3 days at this grand slam tennis match in 2010 for John Isner to defeat Nicolas Mahut.
a) Wimbledon
b) US Open
c) Australian Open
a) Wimbledon
Ludwig of this German state got the official "Mad" designation in 1886 after a panel of doctors declared him insane.
a) Bavaria
b) Brandenburg
c) Hesse
a) Bavaria
In 1997 this famously reclusive author published a fictionalized tale of surveyors "Mason and Dixon."
a) Thomas Pynchon
b) David Foster Wallace
c) Cormac McCarthy
a) Thomas Pynchon
At one time a major Byzantine city, Split is today the second-largest city in this country that split from Yugoslavia in 1991.
a) Croatia
b) Slovenia
c) Herzegovina
a) Croatia
This late gorilla once broke a sink and used sign language to blame someone else.
a) Alfred
b) Ranko
c) Koko
c) Koko
Leading his team to a come-from-behind victory, this 24-year-old Kansas City QB became the youngest Super Bowl MVP winner in 2020.
a) Josh Allen
b) Patrick Mahomes
c) Lamar Jackson
b) Patrick Mahomes