General
History
Science
Geography
Food
"Trick" or "Treat"
100
Country credited with invention of pasta, porcelain, & paper
China
100
Primary care doctors are also referred to as GPs, or ____
General Practitioners
200
The 1940-41 bombing campaign of London & other cities during World War II came to be called this
The Blitz
200
A Celtic tradition of using hollowed-out turnips with candles inside led to these distinctive & larger Halloween gourds
Jack-O-Lanterns
300
They "rush in where angels fear to tread"
Fools
300
Taking office in 1534, Paul III was the first pope of this movement that pushed back on Protestantism
The Counter-Reformation
300
What is the largest country located entirely in Europe?
A) Germany
B) Spain
C) France
D) Ukraine
D) Ukraine
400
Which classic film was originally planned to star Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan instead of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman?
Casablanca
400
A charismatic figure in Canadian history, Louis Riel was a leader of the Métis people who negotiated to create this province
Manitoba
400
Bird named after bright red robes of a Roman Catholic clergyman
A Cardinal
400
A member of the mint family, it's the key ingredient in Italian green pesto sauce
Basil
400
Halloween goes back to Samhain, a word from this Irish language; in a Celtic festival, people wore masks so ghosts wouldn't recognize them
Gaelic
500
Hamlet found "something rotten" in this country...
Denmark
500
With the best of intentions, Czar Nicholas II left healthcare of his only son Alexei to this "Mad Monk"
Rasputin
500
What vegetable was once called “sparrow grass” in Old English?
A) Celery
B) Artichoke
C) Asparagus
D) Rhubarb
C) Asparagus
600
French designer who lent her name to a famous No. 5
Coco Chanel
600
The so-called Winter War with the USSR ended badly for which country in 1940, despite its clever use of skiing to move troops?
A) Norway
B) Finland
C) Poland
D) Sweden
B) Finland
600
When its coffee crop was destroyed around 1870, Ceylon switched to growing this
Tea
700
Early Indian word for a slow-burning stick, today a green-haired rocker
Punk
700
Launched Oct. 4th, 1957, it was Earth's 1st artificial satellite
Sputnik
700
"Real men" don't eat this French custard cheese pie
Quiche
800
First colony since 1776 to break from Britain without consent, it is now Zimbabwe
Rhodesia
900
Note the broken shackles in A.A. Lamb's painting titled _____, a key document of the Lincoln administration
Emancipation Proclamation