Global Extremes
What is the world's highest mountain above sea level?
a) Mount Everest
b) Mount Kilimanjaro
c) Mount McKinley
a) Mount Everest
In 1922, explorers found the tomb of which famous Ancient Egyptian ruler?
a) Cleopatra
b) Tutankhamen
c) Ramses II
b) Tutankhamen
Which German composer wrote the Brandenburg Concerti?
a) Johann Sebastian Bach
b) George Handel
c) Johann Pachelbel
a) Johann Sebastian Bach
Which NFL team is actually a public-owned, nonprofit corporation?
a) Los Angeles Chargers
b) Pittsburgh Steelers
c) Green Bay Packers
c) Green Bay Packers
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--/ I took the one less traveled by," are opening lines written by which poet?
a) E.E. Cummings
b) Edna St. Vincent Millay
c) Robert Frost
c) Robert Frost
The world's tallest tree is which species?
a) Spruce
b) Redwood
c) Cypress
b) Redwood
The Han Dynasty ruled which civilization for more than 400 years?
a) China
b) Japan
c) Korea
a) China
Sergei Prokofiev composed a ballet based on which Shakespearean plan?
a) King Lear
b) Othello
c) Romeo and Juliet
c) Romeo and Juliet
Which record-setting running back also became a member of the Lacrosse Hall of Fame and a star of numerous action films?
a) Jim Brown
b) Walter Peyton
c) Marion Motley
a) Jim Brown
In Joyce Kilmer's poem, the speaker laments, "I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a" what?
a) tree
b) family
c) valley
a) tree
In which city would you find the world's tallest building?
a) Shanghai
b) New York City
c) Dubai
c) Dubai
The Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed by which volcano?
a) Mount Etna
b) Mount Fuji
c) Mount Vesuvius
c) Mount Vesuvius
Which of these was NOT one of the Three Tenors?
a) Placido Domingo
b) Andrea Bocelli
c) Jose Carreras
b) Andrea Bocelli
What team did the Green Bay Packers defeat in 1967 to become the champions of the first Super Bowl (when it was still called the AFL-NFL World Championship)?
a) Cincinnati Bengals
b) Kansas City Chiefs
c) Oakland Raiders
b) Kansas City Chiefs
"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is a familiar line from a less familiar poem, "Sacred Emily," which was written by this female contemporary of F. Scott Fitzgerald?
a) Dorothy Parker
b) Elizabeth Bishop
c) Gertrude Stein
c) Gertrude Stein
Which country is home to the coldest city in the world?
a) United States
b) Russia
c) Canada
b) Russia
Who was Alexander the Great's teacher?
a) Archimedes
b) Ptolemy
c) Aristotle
c) Aristotle
Which English composer is best known for "The Planets" suite?
a) Gustav Holst
b) Edward Elgar
c) Ralph Vaughan Williams
a) Gustav Holst
Which team holds the record for the most consecutive Super Bowl appearances?
a) Minnesota Vikings
b) Buffalo Bills
c) Miami Dolphins
b) Buffalo Bills
"Do not go gentle into that good night" is both the first line and title of which author's most famous work?
a) T.S. Eliot
b) Dylan Thomas
c) E.M. Forster
b) Dylan Thomas
Located near Lake Titicaca, what is the world's highest national capital?
a) Kathmandu, Nepal
b) Bern, Switzerland
c) La Paz, Bolivia
c) La Paz, Bolivia
Which ancient civilization invented the wheel?
a) Mesopotamia
b) Greece
c) Sumer
a) Mesopotamia
Which composer was buried in an unmarked paupers' grave?
a) Chopin
b) Mozart
c) Beethoven
b) Mozart
Which player has won the most NFL MVP awards?
a) Peyton Manning
b) Tom Brady
c) Joe Montana
a) Peyton Manning
Samuel Coleridge's lines, "Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink" get co-opted for drought coverage, but which poem are these lines from?
a) Frost at Midnight
b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
c) Christabel
b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner