True/False
English 101 Trivia
Miscellaneous
Music Trivia
Sports Trivia
100

The mascot for Cleveland State is a gladiator

False, it is a Viking

100

this is proper form for an MLA heading

your name, prof. Name, class name and number, date (day month year)

100

True/False: Cleveland is named for Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States

False-Cleveland is named for the Revolutionary War general and surveyor, Moses Cleaveland, who originally mapped Northeastern Ohio in the late 1700s.

100

This Michael Jackson album holds the record for most sales, around 120 million all time

Thriller

100

This was the year the Cleveland Browns went 0-16

2017

200

The Boston Tea Party was not a real tea party

True, it was the dumping of British tea crates into Boston Harbor in protest of taxation

200

the proper MLA in-text citation style is

(Author, Page Number)

200

The three generals who have also served as president are

Washington, Grant, Eisenhower

200

This Canadian artist is the most successful musician in terms of digital sales, selling around 188 million singles

Drake

200

MLB’s second all time home run hitter is

Hank Aaron, with 755

300

The title Frankenstein refers to the monster in Mary Shelley’s classic novel

 False, it refers to the creature’s creator, Dr. Victor Frankenstein

300

this is the collective name for the terms ethos, pathos, and logos

the three rhetorical appeals

300

The Nobel Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of

Dynamite

300

This guitarist is perhaps known for setting his guitar on fire and playing the national anthem at the 1969 Woodstock Festival

JIMI HENDRIX

300

The most decorated gymnast of all time has seven gold medals in the Olympics, and her name is

Simon Biles

400

The formula for the Pythagorean Theorem is A2 + B2 = C2

True

400

to what is to read a variety of sources and then write an essay about your findings and your stance

to synthesize 

400

The four rights protected by the First Amendment to the United States constitution are

Freedom of press, religion, speech and assembly

400

This female singer, known for her incredibly unique voice set a record for seven straight consecutive #1 hits in the 1980s

Whitney Houston 
400

The nickname for the era dominated by the Los Angeles Lakers under Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabbar was

the Showtime Era

500

The United States currently has five territories globally

True, they are Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, North Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands

500

Hallmarks of a quality source for a research paper include

.edu, peer-reviewed, the author of the source

500

Ohio is in second place for the most presidents, as it has

7 (bonus points if you can name them!)

500

 This Russian composer is known for featuring actual cannons in one of his most famous overtures

Tchaikovsky 

500

The “Brown Bomber” was the nickname for this famous boxer, who amassed a 69-3 record over the course of his career and held the heavyweight champion title for eleven years

Joe Louis