History
Aug. 2nd 1776
What is the name of the tallest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest
Oakland, California features a neighborhood named after what author of "The Call of the Wild," who often frequented the area?
Answer: Jack London
What’s the diameter of a basketball hoop in inches?
Answer: 18 inches.
What flavor of Pop-Tarts does Buddy the Elf use in his spaghetti in Elf?
Answer: Chocolate
Question: The United States bought Alaska from which country?
Answer: Russia
Which country has the largest population in the world?
Answer: China
At the conclusion of an 1835 literary fairy tale, a small object is placed in a museum because of its critical role in finding a suitable princess to marry a prince. What is this object that was placed under dozens of mattresses earlier in the tale?
Answer: Pea
The Olympics are held every how many years?
Answer: 4 years.
Question: What Hollywood movie star plays himself in Zombieland?
Answer: Bill Murray
Question: Which era marked a switch from agricultural practices to industrial practices?
Answer: The Industrial Revolution
What are the names of the seven continents of the world?
Answer: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia
Thestrals and Floo Powder are both forms of transportation invented by what internationally-renowned author?
Answer: JK Rowling
What do you call it when a bowler makes three strikes in a row?
Answer: Turkey.
Question: Joaquin Phoenix received his first Oscar nomination for playing Roman emperor Commodus in what 2000 Oscar-winning epic?
Answer: Gladiator
Question: What was the name of the series of programs and projects President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted during the Great Depression?
Answer: The New Deal
What is the name of the largest country in the world?
Answer: Russia
What 1847 Emily Bronte classic deals with two West Yorkshire families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and in particular the adopted Earnshaw, Heathcliff? It was also a 1939 William Wyler film with Oscar-winning cinematography, starring Laurence Olivier and David Niven.
Answer: Wuthering Heights
Who has won more tennis grand slam titles, Venus Williams or Serena Williams?
Answer: Serena Williams.
Question: Who wrote the screenplay for Rocky?
Answer: Sylvester Stallone
Question: What year was the Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, D.C.?
Answer: 1982
What is the capital of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa
What "phony" and "lousy" book by J.D. Salinger was Mark David Chapman holding when he killed John Lennon?
Answer: Catcher in the Rye
How many sports were included in the 2008 Summer Olympics?
28.
Question: What national monument does Cary Grant climb in the heart-pounding final moments of North by Northwest?
Answer: Mount Rushmore