Pop culture & music
What singer is known for the album 1989?
Taylor Swift
What part of the atom contains protons and neutrons?
Nucleus
What do the stripes on the American flag represent?
13 original colonies
What Japanese poetic form traditionally has 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern?
Haiku
What word means a hint or clue about what will happen later in a story?
Foreshadowing
Who played Jack in Titanic?
Leonardo DiCaprio
What is the term for a group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring?
Species
What civilization built Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains?
Inca empire
What is the term for a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning and often different spelling?
Homophone
This Shakespeare play includes three witches who give dangerous prophecies.
Macbeth
What is the name of the British street artist that shredded his artwork “Girl with a Balloon" immediately after it sold at an auction?
Banksy
At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?
-40
What was first country to give women the right to vote?
New Zealand
What does the Spanish word “embarazada” mean in English?
Pregnant
What meter is used in most of William Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets?
Iambic pentameter
This 2016 musical film, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone
La La Land
What’s the name of the protein in blood that carries oxygen?
Hemoglobin
This legal principle, established in 1215 England, limited the power of the monarchy and laid the foundation for constitutional government.
Magna Carta
What Alphabet is used in the Russian Language?
Cyrillic alphabet
What novel by J.D. Salinger follows Holden Caulfield?
The Catcher in the Rye
In the Marvel universe, what is the real name of the Scarlet Witch?
Wanda Maximoff
What is the rarest blood type?
AB-
What Caribbean island/nation was named because it reminded Spanish sailors of a province back home in Spain?
Grenada
What Indigenous language spoken in the Arctic is known for its polysynthetic structure?
Inuktituk
In Lord of the Flies, what object symbolizes order and authority?
The conch shell