Music
Which Feist song became popular because of an Apple iPod nano advertisement?
What is “1234”?
Long thought to have invented baseball, he fought for the Union at Antietam and Gettysburg.
Who is Abner Doubleday?
This document declared the independence of the 13 American colonies from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This waterway is famous for finally opening a passage for ships to pass from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, thereby avoiding the treacherous trip around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa.
What is the Suez Canal?
This Queen ruled over the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901, the longest reign of any British monarch at the time.
Who was Queen Victoria?
This song was the first to ever be performed in outer space.
What is “Happy Birthday”?
In 2019, this Yankee pitcher became the first unanimous selection to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Who is Mariano Rivera?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This volcano last erupted in 1707, and now over 60,000 people hike to its summit in the island country of Japan.
What is Mt. Everest?
He was the first Emperor of France, crowned in 1804.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
John Lennon and Paul McCartney were in this band.
What is The Beatles?
Brian Urlacher and Walter Payton both played for this NFL team.
What is the Chicago Bears?
The “Gettysburg Address” was delivered by this president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is an ancient Greek temple that sits above the city of Athens and was designed to honor Athena, the Greek goddess.
What is the Parthenon?
Known as the “Father of India,” he led the country to independence through nonviolent protest.
Who was Mahatma Gandhi?
She released "Genie in a Bottle" in 1999.
Who is Christina Aguilera?
This West Coast team is the only one whose city and name are both in Spanish.
Who are the San Diego Padres?
On February 21, 1965, he was killed in the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
Who was Malcolm X?
This is the remaining portion of a temple that once stood in the city of Jerusalem, where those of the Jewish faith still gather to pray.
What is the Wailing Wall?
This leader’s reform policies of Glasnost and Perestroika led to the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
She had a #1 hit in each year of the 90s—the only singer to do so.
Who is Mariah Carey?
A slow, tricky pitch on the baseball diamond.
What is a knuckleball?
The two Civil War generals on the winning Republican presidential ticket of 1880.
Who were James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur?
This landmark is located at 41 degrees North and 74 degrees West.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
She became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.
Who was Margaret Thatcher?