Sports History
When were the first Modern Olympic games held?
April 6 to April 15, 1896. In Athens, Greece
Which Shakespearean play features the famous soliloquy beginning with the lines "To be, or not to be, that is the question"?
Hamlet
In Norse Mythology, who is the all powerful god?
Who lead the third crusade?
Richard the Lionheart
Which English king is famous for having six wives.
King Henry the Eight
Which baseball player was famously traded from the Boston Red Sox to their opposing team?
Babe Ruth
What was the actual birth name of the author who wrote under the pen name George Orwell?
Eric Arthur Blair
How did the Trojan War start according to the Greek poem "The Iliad"?
When the Trojan Prince, Paris, took Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, away from her Greek home and her Greek husband Menelaus, to bring her to Troy.
Which brutal 14th-century Mongol-Turkic military leader, who claimed descent from Genghis Khan, killed an estimated 17 million people and built pyramids out of his victims' skulls?
Timur
What was the first family/country to deny Christoper Columbus?
Portugal, under the rule of King John II
Only one country has played in every single FIFA Men's World Cup tournament since its inception in 1930. Which country is it?
Brazil
During which century was Geoffrey Chaucer's masterpiece The Canterbury Tales primarily written?
1300s
Who was the Etruscan supreme sky god?
Tins or Tina.
At the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE), a small Greek force led by Spartan King Leonidas famously delayed a massive Persian army. What geographical feature did the Greeks use to nullify the Persian numerical advantage?
Coastal pass
Who is mostly dubbed the 'Grand-mother' of Europe?
Queen Victoria of the UK
Against which team did Wilt Chamberlain grab his NBA-record 55 rebounds in a single game on November 24, 1960?
Boston Celtics
The Brontë sisters initially published their poetry and novels using masculine pseudonyms (Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell). Which sister used the pen name "Ellis Bell" to write Wuthering Heights?
Emily Brontë
True or False: In Egyptian mythology, the heart of the deceased was weighed on a scale against the feather of Maat. If the heart was heavier than the feather, it would be eaten by a monster, preventing the person from entering the Field of Reeds
True
Which conflict, deeply rooted in the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide and colonial resource exploitation, is frequently referred to by historians and journalists as "the forgotten war" or the deadliest conflict since WWII?
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Who is the first female to rule The Kingdom of Russia?
Sophia Alekseyevna
Who is the only player in NFL history to be drafted in the first round, win a Super Bowl, get elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and also play at least one regular-season game in Major League Baseball?
Ray Guy
Which structural and philosophical choice in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy most clearly signals a departure from strictly medieval scholasticism toward early Renaissance humanist ideals?
To prevent a pagan uprising, early Christian missionaries in Central Europe deliberately merged the identity of the Virgin Mary with a fiercely worshiped native fertility goddess. What is the name of this "Blessed Lady," whose ancient identity was quietly preserved by peasants for centuries?
Boldogasszony (Blessed Woman)
What assaissin's statement to their prisoner governor were, "My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom."? This assaisin sometimes is referred to as a savor of Slav Nationalism?
Gavino Princip
From which kingdom in Italy, and what is her name, was the second of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary?
Women: Beatrice Of Naples or Beatrice of Aragon.
Kingdom: Naples