History
Name the television game show hosted by the late Alex Trebek for many years.
What is Jeopardy?
In 2021 this vehicle named Perseverance landed on Mercury. Name the vehicle type.
What is rover?
After coaching at Tennessee, Bruce Pearl was hired as head basketball coach at this school where he still coaches today.
What is Auburn?
Name the country whose capital is Cairo.
What is Egypt?
Name the Communist country who launched Sputnik besting the US in the space race (at least temporarily).
What is the USSR (accept Russia)?
Name the sixth President of the United States.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Name the class of six-legged invertebrates that includes bees and ants.
What is insects?
Name this sport which is governed by FIFA and CONCACAF.
What is soccer?
Name this recluse author who wrote Dr. Heidegger's Experiment.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Name the first US probe to study the moon; this program preceded the Voyager program.
What is the Pioneer Program?
Name the number of Supreme Court Justices on the US Supreme Court.
What is 9?
Pearl is the daughter of Hester Prynne in this famous novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
What is The Scarlet Letter?
Name the woman who won back to back Wimbledon titles in singles' tennis in 2000 and 2001.
Who is Venus Williams?
Name the country whose capital is Nairobi.
What is Kenya?
In 2019, this country's lunar probe became the first to land on the far side of the moon.
What is China?
Name the 14th century pandemic which killed 50% of Europe's population.
What is Black Death (I will accept Black Plague)
Name the term for the process under which a tectonic plate moves beneath another plate.
What is subduction?
Henry (Hank) Aaron ended his career with this many home runs.
What is 755?
A student answered 14 out of 23 questions, what percentage score would his grade be?
61% (Accept 60.8%)
The anacronym NASA stands for these words.
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
Name the Roman emperor who allegedly played his fiddle while the city of Rome burned?
Who is Nero?
Name the form of radiation used for bone imaging.
What is x-ray?
Name the man who invented the golf tee.
G. F. Grant
Name the Father of Modern Chemistry.
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
The US made this many lunar landings.
What is 6?