World Geography
What is the largest country in the world by land area?
Russia
In what year did the United States declare its independence?
1776
Which country won the first-ever FIFA Men’s World Cup in 1930?
Uruguay
Which artist released the visual album Lemonade in 2016, exploring themes of infidelity, resilience, and Black womanhood?
Beyoncé
Which 2014 science-fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan follows a group of astronauts searching for a habitable planet through a wormhole?
Interstellar
What is the capital of Australia?
Canberra
What 1803 land deal nearly doubled the size of the United States?
The Louisiana Purchase
Which club won the UEFA Champions League in 2004 under manager José Mourinho, completing a surprising run to the European title?
FC Porto
Which hip-hop artist’s 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly won the Grammy for Best Rap Album and was widely praised for blending jazz, funk, and spoken-word influences?
Kendrick Lamar
In The Hunger Games film series, what is the name of the nation where the annual Hunger Games take place?
Panem
Which African country is completely surrounded by South Africa?
Lesotho
Which 1944 federal law provided education and housing benefits to millions of World War II veterans and helped reshape the American middle class?
The GI Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944)
Who scored the famous “Hand of God” goal against England at the 1986 FIFA Men’s World Cup?
Diego Maradona
Which 1991 Nirvana album, featuring “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” helped bring grunge music into the mainstream?
Nevermind
Which 2019 South Korean film became the first non-English-language movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Parasite
What is the world’s largest inland body of water, bordered by five countries?
The Caspian Sea
What 1781 battle effectively ended major fighting in the American Revolutionary War when British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to American and French forces?
The Battle of Yorktown.
Which African nation became the first from its continent to reach a FIFA Men’s World Cup semifinal, doing so in 2022?
Morocco
Which British band released the landmark 1997 album OK Computer, featuring “Paranoid Android” and “Karma Police”?
Radiohead
Which 2023 film became the highest-grossing worldwide release of the year before Inside Out 2 surpassed it in 2024, and was directed by Greta Gerwig?
Barbie
Which two countries share the world’s longest international land border?
Canada and the United States
What was the name of the secret U.S. government program that developed the first atomic weapons during World War II?
The Manhattan Project.
Which player scored the winning goal for Spain in the 2010 FIFA Men’s World Cup final against the Netherlands?
Andrés Iniesta
Which electronic music duo released the 2013 album Random Access Memories, featuring the hit “Get Lucky” with Pharrell Williams?
Daft Punk.
In Shutter Island (2010), what is the name of the U.S. Marshal played by Leonardo DiCaprio?
Teddy Daniels.