Music
This Motown label, founded by Berry Gordy, launched artists like The Supremes and Marvin Gaye
Motown Records
This river forms much of Kentucky’s northern border with Ohio and Indiana.
What is the Ohio River?
This animal order includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
What is Cetacea?
This director is known for films like Inception, Dunkirk, and The Dark Knight.
Who is Christopher Nolan?
This 1941 agreement between the U.S. and Britain outlined Allied goals before U.S. entry into the war.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
This band’s 1977 album Rumours became one of the best-selling albums of all time.
Who is Fleetwood Mac
This Kentucky city is home to Fort Knox, where U.S. gold reserves are stored nearby.
What is Elizabethtown?
This Australian marsupial is known for its square-shaped droppings.
What is a wombat?
This film franchise features archaeologist, played by Harrison Ford.
What is Indiana Jones?
This German military strategy emphasized rapid attacks using tanks, aircraft, and infantry.
What is Blitzkrieg?
This composer, deaf later in life, wrote the Moonlight Sonata.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This agricultural product, historically important to Kentucky’s economy, is used to make bourbon.
What is corn?
This largest species of shark feeds primarily on plankton.
What is a whale shark?
This actress won Best Actress for portraying Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.
Who is Meryl Streep?
This Soviet city endured a brutal siege lasting about 900 days.
What is Leningrad?
This jazz musician, nicknamed “Bird,” was a pioneer of bebop.
Who is Charlie Parker?
Kentucky is one of only four U.S. states officially designated as a “commonwealth”; name one other.
What are Virginia, Pennsylvania, or Massachusetts?
This term refers to animals active primarily during twilight periods.
What does crepuscular mean?
This 2019 South Korean film became the first non-English film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
What is Parasite?
This conference in 1945 established postwar plans for Germany and Europe among Allied leaders.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This progressive rock band released the concept album The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973.
Who is Pink Floyd?
This 19th-century frontiersman and folk hero, associated with Kentucky, died at the Battle of the Alamo.
Who is Davy Crockett?
This color-changing reptile uses specialized cells called chromatophores.
What is a chameleon?
This 2014 film follows a drummer and his intense music instructor, played by J.K. Simmons.
What is Whiplash?
This codebreaking site in England was crucial to deciphering the German Enigma code.
What is Bletchley Park?