Sports
How many points is a touchdown worth?
6
Name the singer who sings "Hurricane" and visited SAR earlier this year.
Eden Golan
This ancient civilization built pyramids and sphinxes along the Nile River.
The Egyptians
True or False: The word Alphabet comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. Extra points if you can name those letters.
True
How often is a Leap year?
Every four years
Which NBA player holds the record for the most fouls?
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
This famous singer was known as the "King of Rock and Roll" and had hit songs like "Jailhouse Rock"
Elvis Presley
These people are the largest group of Native Americans in the U.S., were on the Trail of Tears and are famous for their longhouses.
The Cherokee
What is an anagram?
When you use the same letters to spell something else like stressed=equals desserts
What day is the Leap Day?
February 29th
Who was the first person to score 100 points in a regulation NBA game?
Wilt Chamberlain
This type of musical group is made up of singers who harmonize together without any instrumental accompaniment
An acapella group
They invented Democracy and were a bunch of city states before they were united by Alexander the Great. They worshiped gods they thought lived on Olympus.
The Ancient Greeks
A word, phrase or sequence that reads the same forward and backward is called what? A) A Homophone B) A Homonym. C) A Palindrome D) A Phoneme
A Palindrome
The words leapers or leaplings refer to who?
Babies born on a leap day!
A turkey
This famous composer is known for his 9th Symphony and iconic piece called the "Ode to Joy"
Ludwig Von Beethoven
These people have been in the Australian Outback for more than 60,000 years. They call their stories "The Dreaming" and use boomerangs to hunt. Are they
A) The Indigenous B) The Indies C) The Maori D) The Aboriginal
D) The Aboroginal
What is unique about this sentence that makes it famous?
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
It uses every letter in the alphabet and is used to test typewriters and keyboards
The calendar we use is called the gregorian calendar but before we used the Julian calendar, introduced by which famous roman (there's a famous shakespeare play named after him) that also started the leap year?
Julius Cesear
How many NBA teams do not end with the letter S?
4( Jazz, Heat, Thunder, Magic)
Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison
They built Machu Picchu in Peru, had a capital city called Cusco and mummified people.
A) The Incas B) The Mayans C) The Aztecs D) The Manchus
A) The Incas
What is a word that means to throw someone out a window? (These are all real words)
a) Cancatervate b) defenestration c) festooned d) tyrotoxism
b) defenestration
(all the rest are real words too!)
Some people don't get paid on Leap Days because it's not legally recognized as a day. This means it can't be put as your birthday for some places too. True or False?
True