Trivia 1
What style of art is Salvador Dalí known for?
Surrealism
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
The Pacific Ocean
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What is the currency of Japan?
Yen
What is the process by which plants make their food?
Photosynthesis
What element has the atomic number 1?
Hydrogen
What year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
What is the name of the longest river in South America?
Amazon River
Who is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Harper Lee
What are the first names of the four main characters in Golden Girls?
Sophia, Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche
Who was the first female Prime Minister of the UK?
Margaret Thatcher
Who discovered penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
What sport is known as "the beautiful game"?
Soccer
What are the names of the four March sisters in Little Women?
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
The author of the best-selling, four-part book series known as the Neapolitan Novels, now an HBO series, famously publishes their works under what pseudonym?
Elana Ferante
Which African nation was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Ethiopia
Which two states in the U.S. share the most borders with other states?
Tennessee and Missouri
What is the more popular name for the portrait officially titled “La Gioconda,” painted in Florence in 1503?
The Mona Lisa
What is the word for the weather event also called a winter hurricane?
A bomb cyclone
What country was the Marxist revolutionary figure Che Guevara born in?
Argentina
Who developed the first successful polio vaccine?
Jonas Salk
What New York City bar was the location of a 1969 uprising credited as sparking the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement?
The Stonewall Inn
What was the name of the possessed hotel in Steven King’s novel (and movie) The Shining, based on the real-life Stanley Hotel in Colorado?
The Overlook Hotel
What was the first book published by Jane Austen?
Sense and Sensibility
What celebrity was the world’s first cloned animal, a sheep, named after in 1996?
Dolly Parton