History
The deadliest war in human history.
WW2
In this 1997 film, Matt Damon’s character plays a Harvard janitor who is also a natural genius in mathematics.
Good Will Hunting
The Olympics are held every how many years?
What animal represents America?
The bald eagle
What startup, acquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012, became the fourth most downloaded app in the 2010s and is known for the posting of pictures?
Instagram
Who are the four faces of Mount Rushmore?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
What is the ten-letter term for the longest side on a right triangle?
Hypotenuse
Which boxer was the first to defeat Muhammad Ali?
Joe Frazier
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison (or Nikola Tesla)
In 1999 Shigetaka Kurita invented what keyboard additions for cell phones that would eventually replace emoticons and even get their own movie?
Emojis
The assassination of this prince sparked World War I in 1914
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What is the next number in this sequence of triangular numbers: 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, …?
45
What NFL team was originally called the “New York Titans”?
New York Jets
In 1848, thousands went to this state searching for gold. What state?
California
Known in the U.S. as the Intolerable Acts and in the U.K. as the Coercive Acts, this series of restrictive laws was passed in response to what iconic, rebellious American event that occurred on December 16, 1773?
Boston Tea Party
This queen ruled Britain for 63 years in the 19th century
Queen Victoria
If someone’s mass is 100kg on Earth, what would the same person’s mass be on Mercury? Answer to the nearest 10kg.
100kg
What are the Minnesota Twins named after?
The Twin Cities
Which language almost became America's official language instead of English?
German
Since 2013, what technology company focused on payments has owned the popular smartphone cash transfer app Venmo?
PayPal
The Roman Empire fell in this year
476 AD
Also known as Leonardo of Pisa, this famous Italian mathematician is best known for discovering a sequence where each number is the sum of the two previous numbers.
Fibonacci
Who was the first baseball player to appear on a Wheaties box?
Lou Gehrig
Who is Kathryn Sullivan?
The first American woman to walk in space
In 1998. Jeff Bezos made a deal with British film fan Col Needham to purchase what movie database site for $55 million?
IMDb