Silver Screen Classics
This 1939 film, based on a novel by Margaret Mitchell, won 10 Academy Awards and is set during the American Civil War.
A) Gone with the Wind
B) The Wizard of Oz
C) Rebecca
D) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
A) Gone with the Wind
This is the largest ocean on Earth, covering more area than all the land combined.
A) Atlantic Ocean
B) Indian Ocean
C) Pacific Ocean
D) Arctic Ocean
C) Pacific Ocean
This English author wrote Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813.
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Mary Shelley
D) Emily Brontë
B) Jane Austen
This crooner, nicknamed “Ol’ Blue Eyes,” was one of the most popular singers of the 20th century.
A) Bing Crosby
B) Frank Sinatra
C) Dean Martin
D) Tony Bennett
B) Frank Sinatra
This everyday writing tool, patented in 1888, replaced fountain pens.
A) Pencil
B) Ballpoint pen
C) Quill
D) Marker
B) Ballpoint pen
This 1941 film, directed by Orson Welles, is often cited as one of the greatest films ever made and introduced the concept of “Rosebud.”
A) Citizen Kane
B) The Maltese Falcon
C) Double Indemnity
D) The Big Sleep
A) Citizen Kane
This African waterfall, known locally as “The Smoke That Thunders,” is one of the largest in the world.
A) Victoria Falls
B) Angel Falls
C) Iguazu Falls
D) Niagara Falls
A) Victoria Falls
This American author is known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
A) Mark Twain
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Herman Melville
D) Walt Whitman
A) Mark Twain
This jazz trumpeter, known for his gravelly voice, recorded “What a Wonderful World” in 1967.
A) Miles Davis
B) Louis Armstrong
C) Dizzy Gillespie
D) Nat King Cole
B) Louis Armstrong
This invention by Tim Berners‑Lee in 1989 transformed global communication and information sharing.
A) The Internet
B) The World Wide Web
C) Email
D) Social Media
B) The World Wide Web
This 1954 Alfred Hitchcock thriller starred James Stewart as a man who suspects his neighbor of murder while confined to his apartment.
A) Vertigo
B) Rear Window
C) North by Northwest
D) Dial M for Murder
B) Rear Window
This desert, stretching across northern China and southern Mongolia, is known for its harsh climate and shifting sand dunes.
A) Sahara
B) Gobi
C) Kalahari
D) Atacama
B) Gobi
This Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Alexander Pushkin
B) Leo Tolstoy
This Broadway songwriting duo created classics like Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music.
A) Lerner and Loewe
B) Rodgers and Hammerstein
C) Gilbert and Sullivan
D) Kander and Ebb
B) Rodgers and Hammerstein
This Swedish engineer invented dynamite in 1867, later establishing a famous set of international prizes.
A) Alfred Nobel
B) Anders Celsius
C) Gustaf de Laval
D) Carl Linnaeus
A) Alfred Nobel
This Italian film, directed by Vittorio De Sica in 1948, is considered a landmark of neorealism.
A) La Dolce Vita
B) Bicycle Thieves
C) Rome, Open City
D) Umberto D.
B) Bicycle Thieves
This South American river carries more water than any other river in the world.
A) Nile
B) Amazon
C) Yangtze
D) Congo
B) Amazon
This poet, who died in 1821 at age 25, is remembered for works like “Ode to a Nightingale.”
A) Percy Bysshe Shelley
B) John Keats
C) Lord Byron
D) William Wordsworth
B) John Keats
This singer, dubbed “The First Lady of Song,” was famous for her scat singing and interpretations of the Great American Songbook.
A) Billie Holiday
B) Ella Fitzgerald
C) Sarah Vaughan
D) Lena Horne
B) Ella Fitzgerald
This British mathematician and inventor designed the “Analytical Engine,” considered a precursor to modern computers.
A) Alan Turing
B) Charles Babbage
C) Ada Lovelace
D) George Boole
B) Charles Babbage
This 1927 film was the first feature-length “talkie,” revolutionizing cinema with synchronized sound.
A) The Jazz Singer
B) Metropolis
C) Wings
D) The General
A) The Jazz Singer
This rare natural phenomenon occurs when frozen methane bubbles are trapped beneath the ice of a Canadian lake.
A) Lake Louise bubbles
B) Abraham Lake bubbles
C) Moraine Lake bubbles
D) Maligne Lake bubbles
B) Abraham Lake bubbles
This Nigerian author’s 1958 novel Things Fall Apart is considered a cornerstone of modern African literature.
A) Wole Soyinka
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
D) Ben Okri
B) Chinua Achebe
This 1938 Benny Goodman concert at Carnegie Hall is often called “the most important jazz concert in history.”
A) Swing Jubilee
B) Goodman Gala
C) Carnegie Swing
D) 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
D) 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
This German engineer pioneered movable type printing in Europe around 1450, revolutionizing the spread of knowledge.
A) Johannes Gutenberg
B) Martin Luther
C) Albrecht Dürer
D) Johann Fust
A) Johannes Gutenberg