Music
This singer-songwriter wrote “Piano Man.”
Who is Billy Joel?
This award recognizes excellence in international film.
What is the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film?
This U.S. tennis player won 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
Who is Serena Williams?
This battle in 1066 changed the course of English history.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
This holiday marks the beginning of a new year on January 1.
What is New Year’s Day?
This term refers to a short musical idea that repeats throughout a song.
What is a riff?
This award honors the best new musical artist of the year.
What is the Grammy Award for Best New Artist?
This auto race, held annually in Indiana, is known as “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.”
What is the Indianapolis 500?
This ideology, developed by Karl Marx, inspired communist movements worldwide.
What is Marxism?
This spring holiday is associated with eggs, bunnies, and resurrection in Christianity.
What is Easter?
This electronic device amplifies sound during live performances.
What is an amplifier?
This prize is awarded annually to the best novel written in English.
What is the Booker Prize?
This baseball league is abbreviated as MLB.
What is Major League Baseball?
This U.S. amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This holiday honors mothers and is celebrated on the second Sunday in May in the U.S.
What is Mother’s Day?
This music movement emphasized emotional expression and individualism in the 19th century.
What is Romantic music?
This award honors achievements in daytime television.
What is the Daytime Emmy Award?
This football trophy is awarded to the Super Bowl champion.
What is the Lombardi Trophy?
This empire was ruled by sultans and lasted until World War I.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This holiday honors fathers and is celebrated in June in the United States.
What is Father’s Day?
This opera singer was known as “The Three Tenors” member alongside Domingo and Carreras.
Who is Luciano Pavarotti?
This award honors the best actor or actress in a leading role.
What is an Academy Award?
This Olympic event tests speed over a distance of 100 meters.
What is the 100-meter dash?
This treaty ended the American Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This patriotic holiday honors U.S. military members who served in the armed forces and is observed in November.
What is Veterans Day?