SCIENCE
What is the liquid component of blood called?
Plasma
Also known as Leonardo of Pisa, this famous Italian mathematician is best known for discovering a sequence where each number is the sum of the two previous numbers.
Fibonacci
Who was the very first American Idol winner?
Kelly Clarkson
What is the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet?
Delta
One of the ancient world wonders, the “Hanging Gardens,” was found in which city?
Babylon
What is the name of the first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth?
Sputnik 1
This statistical measure of central tendency represents the middle value in a data set when the numbers are arranged from smallest to largest.
Median
Who sang the Spongebob Squarepants theme song for the movie?
Avril Lavigne
How many dots appear on a pair of dice?
42
Which Greek historian is known as the “Father of History”?
Herodotus
Who is known as the father of genetics?
Gregor Mendel
This famous Greek mathematician, and author of The Elements, is known as the “Father of Geometry.”
Euclid
Which famous acoustic artist tragically died in a plane crash while piloting his own plane in 1997?
John Denver
What is the world’s largest retailer?
Walmart
How many U.S. presidents have been assassinated?
Four
What is the name of the closest star to Earth?
The Sun
This field of mathematics is concerned with the sines, cosines, and tangents of angles.
Trigonometry
Before Miley Cyrus recorded "Wrecking Ball," it was offered to which singer?
Beyonce
What is the name of the Chinese philosophical system that emphasizes harmony with nature?
Taoism
Where were the first modern Olympics held?
Athens, Greece
What is the name of the largest land carnivore?
Polar Bear
In this famous fiction novel by author Dan Brown, the main character solves puzzles and other historical mysteries by using the Fibonacci sequence and other math-related clues.
The Da Vinci Code
Which singer has had a Billboard No. 1 hit in each of the last four decades?
Mariah Carey
Which country has the highest life expectancy?
Hong Kong
The Ptolemy dynasty ruled which ancient kingdom?
Egypt