General Knowledge
This word and “Rocks” comprise the name of a candy whose motto is “Taste the Explosion” and explodes in your mouth. What Midwestern word for carbonated beverages shares its name with a genre of music?
pop
Starting in November 2024, Amtrak announced a new 40-hour route between this city and Miami. What city's 2023 mayoral election was won by Brandon Johnson and is the most populous city in Illinois?
Chicago
These shapes name a coordinate system which uses two different angles and a radius to specify points. “Four-thirds pi r squared” is the volume of what shapes, the 3D analogue of circles?
spheres
This state's Fairfield County is home to Stamford, which forms a statistical area with Danbury and Bridgeport. Name this state whose city of New Haven is home to Yale University.
Connecticut [or CA]
What novel, in which the cheerful, red-headed protagonist marries her former enemy Gilbert Blythe and befriends Diana Barry, was written by L.. Montgomery?
Anne of Green Gables
A character from this series titles a collection featuring “The Transfer” and “The Initiate.” Four is a key character in what series about Tris’ rebellion against a society that divides humans into factions, by Veronica Roth?
ANSWER: the Divergent series[accept The Divergent Series: Insurgent or The Divergent Series: Allegiant] <Pop Culture>
In a meme, one of these animals asks “I can has cheezburger?” An earlier meme shows a video of one of these animals playing a keyboard. What animal sits at a table in a meme where a woman yells at him, and has been “lol,” “nyan,” and “grumpy” in other memes?
Cats
In this organ, the loop of Henle can be found in the nephron. This organ, which is connected to the bladder by the ureter, is where urine is produced. Humans typically have a pair of what bean-shaped organs?
Kidneys
This resource was brought to the Ming Dynasty by Spanish galleons arriving from Acapulco to Manila. What precious metal was mined at Potosi, and was often used in coinage alongside gold?
Silver
This nursery rhyme has unproven origins in the Black Death. “A pocket full of posies” are featured in what nursery rhyme featuring children dancing around in a circle?
“Ring a Ring o’ Roses” [or “Ring a Ring o’ Rosie” or “Ring Around the Rosie"]
This figure was claimed to have appeared at Fátima and Guadalupe. This figure hears good news from the angel Gabriel during the Annunciation. Name this wife of Joseph and mother of Jesus.
Mary [or Maryam or Mariam]
This man, who founded a settlement called Darien, was beheaded due to a rivalry with Pedro Arias Dávila. Panama’s currency is named after what Spanish explorer who saw the Pacific Ocean in 1513?
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
The Sally-Anne test was created to verify the “mindblindness theory” of this disorder, and the “extreme male brain theory” of this disorder holds that it is caused by over-systematization. A form of what disorder was formerly known as “Asperger’s”?
Autism Spectrum Disorder [or being on the autism spectrum]
The boy Elián González was seized in this city, which was the destination of the Mariel Boatlift. Little Havana was created by Cuban immigrants in what city in Dade County, Florida?
Miami
Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to go down this feature in a barrel. The Maid of the Mist gives boat tours of what feature, a complex that includes Horseshoe and American Falls in Western New York?
Niagara Falls
Which art museum created under King Philip II contains the Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa?
Louvre [or Louvre Museum or Musee du Louvre]
The victor of this battle was crowned on Christmas Day in Westminster Abbey after the death of Harold Godwinson. The Bayeux Tapestry depicts what battle that gave the crown of England to William the Conqueror?
Battle of Hastings (History)
This man confirmed Georges Lemaître’s theory that the universe is expanding. The age of the universe can be approximated as the inverse of this man’s namesake constant. What astronomer names an optical space telescope launched by NASA in 1990?
Edwin Hubble
In this country, the sniper Simo Hayha gained the nickname “White Death” while fighting against the Soviets during its Winter War. Name this Nordic country on the Baltic Sea with its capital at Helsinki.
Finland
In what this man mistakes as a dream, an angel leads him out of King Herod’s prison. This man is called the “rock” on which the church will be built. A square in the Vatican is named for what first pope, an apostle who holds the keys to heaven?
St. Peter [or Simon]
Objects known as “stick charts” were used by natives in this ocean to navigate through regions like Micronesia and Polynesia. Name this ocean whose natives include the Maori and Hawaiians.
Pacific Ocean
A full understanding of the consciousness of these beings was argued to be impossible in a Thomas Nagel essay. Peter Singer popularized the term “speciesism” in a book titled for the “liberation” of what beings?
Animals [accept Animal Liberation; accept bats; accept “What is it Like to Be a Bat?"] <Philosophy>
If January 1st is a Monday, what day of the week is February 18th?
Sunday (Computational Math)
Holders of this position wore a white-and-red double crown representing the two parts of their kingdom. Name this position that might have passed to Nefertiti after the death of her husband, Akhenaten, the ruler of a certain Nile-based civilization.
Pharaoh [accept king of Egypt, ruler of Egypt, and equivalents]
In a 2024 movie, this actor plays a character who declares himself the Lisan al Gaib and kills Feyd-Rautha. What actor played Paul Atreides in the recent Dune movies and the titular chocolatier in the movie Wonka?
Timothée (Hal) Chalamet