Geography
What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
Sicily
What U.S. state is known as The Gem State?
Idaho
Which civilization built Machu Picchu?
The Inca Empire
Which film won the Best Picture Oscar for 1975 and starred Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
What is the term for a tax that takes a larger percentage of income as income rises?
A progressive tax
Which country has the most natural lakes in the world?
Canada
What U.S. state is known as The Magnolia State?
Mississippi
What was the name of the trade network that connected East Asia with Europe for centuries?
The Silk Road
Which 1972 film featured the Corleone crime family?
The Godfather
What is the term for a market structure dominated by a small number of large firms?
An oligopoly
Which U.S. state has the longest coastline?
Alaska
What U.S. state is known as The Beehive State?
Utah
Which treaty officially ended World War I?
The Treaty of Versailles
In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, who played Sundance?
Robert Redford
What is the term for the percentage of the labor force that is unemployed and actively seeking work?
The unemployment rate
Which country is home to the ancient city of Petra?
Jordan
What U.S. state is known as The Evergreen State?
Washington
Who was the Mongol ruler whose empire became the largest contiguous land empire in history?
Genghis Khan
Which actor portrayed Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird?
Gregory Peck
In economics, what term describes a period of declining economic activity, typically marked by falling GDP?
A recession
Which mountain range forms a natural border between France and Spain?
The Pyrenees
What U.S. state is known as The Granite State?
New Hampshire
Which explorer completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth, although he did not survive the entire voyage?
Ferdinand Magellan
What newspaper was at the center of the story in All the President's Men?
The Washington Post
What economic concept describes the value of the next-best alternative that is given up when making a choice?
Opportunity cost