Advanced History
Who wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
What particle carries a negative electric charge?
A: Electron
Who wrote The Odyssey?
A: Homer
Who directed the movie Inception?
A: Christopher Nolan
What number comes next: 2, 4, 8, 16, …?
A: 32
What empire was ruled by Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest men in history?
A: The Mali Empire
What is the second law of thermodynamics about?
A: Entropy always increases / energy disperses
Which philosopher is famous for the quote, “I think, therefore I am
A: René Descartes
What was Netflix’s first original series
A: House of Cards
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 run away. How many are left?
A: 9
Which U.S. Supreme Court case established judicial review in 1803?
A: Marbury v. Madison
Who proposed the three laws of planetary motion?
A: Johannes Kepler
Who is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude?
A: Gabriel García Márquez
Who performed at the 2022 Super Bowl Halftime Show alongside Eminem and Dr. Dre?
A: Kendrick Lamar
What 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and still form a word each time until only one letter remains?
A: Starting → staring → string → sting → sing → sin → in → I
: In what year did the Russian Revolution begin?
A: 1917
What does “CRISPR” technology allow scientists to do?
Edit genes / modify DNA
What literary device is used when an object represents an abstract idea?
A: Symbolism
Which video game franchise holds the record as the best-selling of all time?
A: Minecraft
Q: If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don’t have me. What am I?
A: A secret
The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 ended which major conflict in Europe?
The Thirty Years’ War
: In computer science, what is Big O notation used to describe?
The efficiency or complexity of an algorithm
In existentialist philosophy, which French thinker wrote Being and Nothingness?
A: Jean-Paul Sartre
In 2019, which film became the highest-grossing movie in history (before inflation)?
A: Avengers: Endgame
: A man looks at a painting and says, “Brothers and sisters, I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is the man in the picture?
A: His son