Famous Firsts
What was the first artificial satellite?
A) Apollo 11
B) Sputnik 1
C) Voyager 1
D) Hubble Space Telescope
Sputnik 1
What is the maximum number of players per team on court in basketball?
A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
D) 7
5
Which artist cut off part of his ear?
A) Van Gogh
B) Picasso
C) Dalí
D) Monet
Van Gogh
Which film won Best Picture at the first Academy Awards (1929)?
A) Wings
B) Metropolis
C) The Jazz Singer
D) Sunrise
Wings
What is a boxing ring actually shaped like?
A) Circle
B) Square
C) Oval
D) Rectangle
Square
What was the first vaccine developed?
A) Polio
B) Rabies
C) Smallpox
D) Measles
Smallpox
Which country won the first Cricket World Cup (1975)?
A) Australia
B) India
C) England
D) West Indies
West Indies
Which artist is known for the “Blue Period”?
A) Claude Monet
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Henri Matisse
D) Paul Cézanne
Pablo Picasso
Which award is given for the best English-language novel published in the UK?
A) Pulitzer
B) Booker Prize
C) Nobel Prize
D) Hugo Award
Booker Prize
What is the Olympic motto?
A) Faster, Higher, Stronger
B) Play Fair
C) Go for Gold
D) Win Together
Faster, Higher, Stronger
What was the first space shuttle?
A) Challenger
B) Columbia
C) Discovery
D) Atlantis
Columbia
What color flag signals the winner in racing?
A) Red
B) Yellow
C) Checkered
D) Blue
Checkered
Which painting features a melting clock?
A) The Scream
B) The Persistence of Memory
C) Guernica
D) Water Lilies
The Persistence of Memory
Which award is given for Canadian music?
A) BRIT Awards
B) American Music Awards
C) Juno Awards
D) Grammy Awards
Juno Awards
What does RAM stand for?
A) Random Access Memory
B) Rapid Access Module
C) Read Access Memory
D) Run Active Memory
Random Access Memory
What was the first fast-food chain?
A) McDonald’s
B) Burger King
C) White Castle
D) KFC
White Castle
What sport is known as “the sweet science”?
A) Wrestling
B) Boxing
C) Karate
D) Fencing
Boxing
Who wrote The Sound and the Fury?
A) William Faulkner
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Fitzgerald
D) Steinbeck
William Faulkner
Which award is NOT a Nobel Prize category?
A) Physics
B) Medicine
C) Mathematics
D) Literature
Mathematics
I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?
Popcorn
What was the first newspaper ever printed?
A) USA Today
B) Relation (Germany)
C) The Times
D) The Guardian
Relation (Germany)
In curling, what is the center of the target called?
A) Button
B) Tee
C) House
D) Hack
Button
Which poet wrote “Do not go gentle into that good night”?
A) T. S. Eliot
B) Dylan Thomas
C) W. B. Yeats
D) Robert Frost
Dylan Thomas
Which film won Oscars without any dialogue?
A) The Artist
B) Gravity
C) Roma
D) Parasite
The Artist
Why does a pressure cooker cook food faster?
A) It uses more water
B) Heat escapes faster
C) Increased pressure raises the boiling point of water
D) Food absorbs pressure
Increased pressure raises the boiling point of water