General Knowledge
Who wrote “Pride and Prejudice”?
Jane Austen
A genre of music and a common naturally occurring element in the Earth
Rock
What does the NBA name mean?
National Basketball Association
The concept of gravity was discovered by which famous physicist?
Isaac Newton
A deliberate exaggeration that adds emphasis, urgency, or excitement to a statement.
Ex. "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
Hyperbole
Where was the first Olympic Games held?
Athens, Greece in 1896
Something that is used to hit a ball and a nocturnal flying mammal
Bat
Who invented the sport of basketball?
James Naismith
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
When two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or a sentence.
Ex. "Harry hurried home to watch football on TV."
Alliteration
In mathematics, what is the name for a number that is not a prime number and has more than two factors?
Composite numbers
Mean
What are the names of the teams in LA?
LA Lakers and LA Clippers
Which oath of ethics taken by doctors is named after an Ancient Greek physician?
The Hippocratic Oath
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa,
Ex. “Nice wheels!” for describing a car
Synecdoche
Before founding Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg created a website that allowed users to compare the attractiveness of two people side by side. What was the name of this website?
Facemash
A metal container that is also knows how to do something
Can
Lebron James Sr. is the top points scored in the NBA with 41,000+ points, who is the second highest?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
How many bones do sharks have in their bodies?
Zero
A figure of speech that uses understatement to indirectly express an affirmation by denying its opposite, or a double negative
Ex. “You’re not wrong.”
Litotes
What parts of the body does an otolaryngologist specialize in?
Ear, nose and throat
A type of large bird with long legs and necks and a large machine used for construction
Crane
Aside from Lebron James, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant name a player from the Olympics USA basketball team
Bam Adebayo, Devin Booker, Anthony Davis, Anthony Edwards, Joel Embiid, Tyrese Haliburton, Jrue Holiday, Jayson Tatum, and Derrick White
What is the largest desert in the world?
The Antartica
A form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun, ending in -ing.
Ex. "Cooking is my favorite hobby" A verb normally but used as a noun
Gerund