History Trivia
Leader of the Spanish forces that conquered the Aztecs
A) Hernán Cortés
B) Francisco Pizarro
C) Diego Velázquez
D) Juan de Salcedo
A) Hernán Cortés
A valise is:
A) A small suitcase
B) A type of musical instrument
C) A piece of jewelry
D) A type of fabric
A) A small suitcase
Featured this week on CNN 10, a company is working to capture and recycle what material orbiting the Earth at high speeds?
A) Satellites
B) Spaceships
C) Space Junk
D) None of the Above
C) Space Junk
In music theory, what is a tone up from C?
A) D
B) C#
C) E
D) B
A) D
Who painted The Hibiscus Tree?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Paul Gauguin
C) Claude Monet
D) Wu Guanzhong
B) Paul Gauguin
Name of the capital for the Aztec empire
A) Tenochtitlán
B) Cuzco
C) Teotihuacan
D) Machu Picchu
A) Tenochtitlán
Quaint means:
A) Charming and old-fashioned
B) Loud and boisterous
C) Modern and innovative
D) Large and spacious
A) Charming and old-fashioned
Seismologists in California are monitoring what natural cracks in the Earth’s crust after two recent earthquakes rattled the state?
A) Fault lines
B) Trenches
C) Volcanoes
D) Sinkholes
A) Fault lines
What note is a perfect fifth interval above C?
A) G
B) E
C) F
D) A
A) G
What is a nocturnal, giraffe-like animal from the African rainforests called?
A) Okapi
B) Aardvark
C) Lemur
D) Pangolin
A) Okapi
When did WWI officially end?
A) November 11, 1918
B) September 1, 1919
C) June 28, 1914
D) December 7, 1941
A) November 11, 1918
Negotiations means:
A) Discussions aimed at reaching an agreement
B) Arguments with no resolution
C) Plans to avoid conflict
D) Delays in decision-making
A) Discussions aimed at reaching an agreement
Resulting in nationwide blackouts, what island experienced a collapse of its power grid this week?
A) Cuba
B) Jamaica
C) Iceland
D) Fiji
A) Cuba
What does the lower number in the time signature indicate?
A) The number of beats per measure
B) The type of note that gets one beat
C) The key of the piece
D) The tempo of the music
B) The type of note that gets one beat
Who directed the 1999 film American Beauty?
A) Sam Mendes
B) Steven Spielberg
C) David Fincher
D) Quentin Tarantino
A) Sam Mendes
What year was the Battle of Yorktown?
A) 1776
B) 1781
C) 1783
D) 1778
B) 1781
Deserted means:
A) Abandoned or empty
B) Full of activity
C) Covered in sand
D) Newly discovered
A) Abandoned or empty
What plant that is the main ingredient in chocolate has experienced difficult growing conditions around the world over the past year?
A) Cacao
B) Coffee
C) Vanilla
D) Sugarcane
A) Cacao
What is the relative minor scale to G major?
A) A minor
B) E minor
C) D minor
D) B minor
B) E minor
Who founded the world's first secular nursing school?
A) Clara Barton
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Elizabeth Blackwell
D) Mary Seacole
B) Florence Nightingale
Who were the main combatants in the Peloponnesian War?
A) Athens and Sparta
B) Rome and Carthage
C) Macedonia and Persia
D) Thebes and Corinth
A) Athens and Sparta
Pruned means:
A) Trimmed or cut back (as in plants)
B) Decorated or enhanced
C) Watered and fertilized
D) Planted or sowed
A) Trimmed or cut back (as in plants)
What country held military drills and a mock blockade to intimidate the island of Taiwan?
A) China
B) Japan
C) North Korea
D) Russia
A) China
Which of the following markings would affect the length of a note?
A) Sharp
B) Double-sharp
C) Flat
D) Dot
D) Dot
Which country won the first ever FIFA World Cup?
A) Brazil
B) Argentina
C) Uruguay
D) Italy
C) Uruguay