Precipitous Events
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary triggered which event?
a) World War II
b) World War I
c) The French Revolution
b) World War I
Since its 1963 debut, this Milton Bradley favorite has tried to keep up with the times; its latest iteration allows for pets.
a) The Game of Life
b) Candy Land
c) Monopoly
a) The Game of Life
In which city did Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms spend their mature careers?
a) Prague
b) Berlin
c) Vienna
c) Vienna
This man began exporting his best-selling stout from Dublin in 1769.
a) Jonathan Coors
b) Samuel Adams
c) Arthur Guinness
c) Arthur Guinness
Because it contains strong updrafts, which of these cloud types produces the most hail?
a) Cirrus
b) Stratus
c) Cumulonimbus
c) Cumulonimbus
The end of the Middle Ages brought the start of the Renaissance in which Italian city?
a) Rome
b) Venice
c) Florence
c) Florence
This strategic game of territories was inducted into Games’ Board Game Hall of Fame in 1984.
a) Risk
b) Battleship
c) Monopoly
a) Risk
Which 19th-century composer did not write extensively for the piano?
a) Frederic Chopin
b) Franz Liszt
c) Robert Wagner
c) Robert Wagner
Home to Pabst, Schlitz, Miller, and others, this place is nicknamed “Brew City.”
a) Milwaukee
b) St. Louis
c) Pittsburgh
a) Milwaukee
The National Weather Service calculates the heat index by using air temperature and what other data?
a) Relative humidity
b) Barometric pressure
c) Wind speed
a) Relative humidity
What caused the United States to enter the first Gulf War in 1990?
a) Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait
b) Iraq’s refusal to supply the United States with oil
c) Iraq’s invasion of Iran
a) Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait
This board and planchette was considered a harmless parlor game—until people started taking it seriously.
a) Monopoly
b) Clue
c) Ouija
c) Ouija
Which great composer was not the son of a professional musician?
a) Franz Joseph Haydn
b) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
c) Ludwig van Beethoven
a) Franz Joseph Haydn
Malty bock beers hail from which country?
a) Germany
b) Austria
c) Czech Republic
a) Germany
Which of the following directly causes wind?
a) Gravitational pull of the Moon
b) Uneven heating from the Sun
c) Earth’s rotation
b) Uneven heating from the Sun
Which event is largely recognized for launching the LGBT civil rights movement?
a) the U.S. government firing Frank Kameny
b) the first state passage of marriage equality
c) the police raids on the Stonewall Inn in New York
c) the police raids on the Stonewall Inn in New York
In this game—one of the oldest know board games—each player gets 15 pieces that may be called chips, nips, or pips.
a) Mancala
b) Backgammon
c) Checkers
b) Backgammon
Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor, and professor who taught in the United States from 1921 until her death at age 92 in 1979. Which American composer was not one of her students?
a) Leonard Bernstein
b) Aaron Copeland
c) Philip Glass
a) Leonard Bernstein
This term is both the name of a pale golden beer and the glass it might be served in.
a) Saison
b) Pilsner
c) Dubbel
b) Pilsner
What term is frequently used to describe lightning that is so far away observers cannot hear the thunder?
a) Ball lightning
b) Reverse lightning
c) Heat lightning
c) Heat lightning
Which of the following is not a name for our current age, brought about by the advent of computing in the 1970s?
a) Digital Age
b) Screen Age
c) Information Age
b) Screen Age
In Monopoly, which set of properties is landed on most frequently?
a) The pink ones: St. Charles Place, States Avenue, Virginia Avenue
b) The orange ones: St. James Place, Tennessee Avenue, New York Avenue
c) The yellow ones: Atlantic Avenue, Ventnor Avenue, Marvin Gardens
b) The orange ones: St. James Place, Tennessee Avenue, New York Avenue
Which composer made it past his 40th birthday?
a) Felix Mendelssohn
b) Robert Schumann
c) George Gershwin
b) Robert Schumann
Beers that use yeast that ferments at the top are called ales. What are beers that use yeast that ferments at the bottom called?
a) Porters
b) Lagers
c) Stouts
b) Lagers
On average, what is the wettest month of the year in the United States?
a) August
b) June
c) November
b) June