American History
What was the first permanent English settlement? (Founded in 1607)
Jamestown
What is the capital of the United States?
Washington D.C.
Which artist created the "Campbell's Soup Cans" series?
Andy Warhol
What is the name of the book about a friendship between a pig and a spider?
Charlottes Webb
What is the capital city of Canada?
Ottawa
Who was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
Jeannette Rankin
What African country has Portuguese as its official language?
Angola
Salvador Dalí's famous "melting clock" painting is called?
'The Persistence of Memory' or 'Awake From A Dream'
Name a writing by William Shakespeare BESIDES Romeo and Juliet.
Answer can include: All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Cymbeline, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Winter's Tale, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. His tragedies are Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, and Troilus and Cressida. The histories include King John, Richard II, Richard III, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V, Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3, and Henry VIII.
What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?
Diamond
When did the Louisiana Purchase take place?
1803
What is the largest country by land mass?
The largest country in the world is Russia with a total area of 17,098 square kilometers (6,601,665 squared miles) or 11% of the total world's land mass.
Which Spanish painter is referred to as both the last of the old masters and the first of the moderns?
Francisco Goya
Who is the author of the 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Harper Lee
What is the only continent that is on all four hemispheres?
Africa
Four sitting U.S. Presidents have been killed. Name all four.
Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, And John F. Kennedy
There is currently one country whos flag does not include red, white, or blue. What country is it?
Jamaica
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
There are nine english words classified as "question words". Name all nine.
Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, Which, Whose, Whom.
In which city was the first modern Olympic games held.
Athens
What explorer is America named after?
Amerigo Vespucci
What are the names of the five oceans of the world?
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and the Antarctic.
Which artist is considered the father of Cubism?
Pablo Picasso
What is the name of the third book in the “Twilight” series by Stephenie Meyer? Scientifically, this title signifies an occurrence in which an astronomical object is temporarily obscured.
Eclipse
What is an adult female sheep called?
An Ewe