History
This U.S. holiday celebrates independence from Great Britain.
What is 4th of July
What board game involves buying properties like Boardwalk and Park Place?
Monopoly
What sport is played in the Super Bowl?
American football
What instrument is commonly used to set the tuning pitch A=440 Hz in an orchestra?
Tuning fork
What is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any chemical element on the periodic table?
J
What European invention in the 15th century helped spread new ideas and books quickly?
The printing press
What card game uses colors and numbers and requires players to shout “___”?
Uno
How many players are on the field for one soccer team at a time?
11
What musical term means a piece is played smoothly and connected?
Legato
What ancient Greek mathematician is known as the “father of geometry,” yet wrote nothing that survives today?
Thales of Miletus
What war between Athens and Sparta weakened ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE?
The Peloponnesian War
What video game franchise features the Triforce and the land of Hyrule?
The Legend of Zelda
What country has won the most FIFA World Cups?
Brazil
Which composer wrote The Four Seasons?
Antonio Vivaldi
What is the shortest war in recorded history, lasting between 38 and 45 minutes?
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896)
What 1648 treaty ended the Thirty Years’ War and reshaped the political order of Europe?
The Peace of Westphalia
What strategy board game, originally from India, includes pieces like the ____, _____, and ______?
Chess
What tennis tournament is played on grass courts and is the oldest in the sport?
Wimbledon
What jazz musician was nicknamed “Satchmo”?
Louis Armstrong
What word describes the fear of long words?
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
What West African empire, ruled by Mansa Musa, was famous for its wealth and control of the gold trade?
The Mali Empire
What 1972 video game is considered the first commercially successful arcade game?
Pong
What boxer defeated George Foreman in the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” using the rope-a-dope strategy?
Muhammad Ali
What term describes a scale that uses five notes per octave?
Pentatonic
What obscure 18th-century mathematician is credited with inventing a calculating machine that could perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—but whose machine was never fully built in his lifetime?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz