World Cultures
If someone said 'te amo' to you in Spanish, what would they mean?
I love you.
Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
JFK
Which country is home to the world's largest pyramid?
Mexico (The Great Pyramid of Cholula, aka Tlachihualtepetl)
The stage play Everybody Comes to Rick’s was adapted for the screen to become what Best Picture winner?
Casablanca
Who is Theodore Geisel, author of children's books, better known as?
Dr. Seuss
Which of these languages is the most commonly spoken first language in Europe?
German (90-95 million speakers)
What was the first launched space shuttle named?
Columbia
What are The Netherlands also called?
Holland
What TV show was Jack Nicholson referencing when he ad-libbed “Here’s Johnny!” in The Shining?
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Who was the best-selling fiction writer of 20th century?
Agatha Christie
The unicorn is the official national animal of which country?
Scotland
In 1947, the National Security Act created the Defense Department and the ____________?
CIA
Which European country has the longest total coastline?
Norway
Which Oscar-winning blonde bombshell played James Stewart’s love interest Lisa Carol Fremont in Rear Window?
Grace Kelly
Charles Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities is sometimes cited as the best-selling novel of all time. What are the two cities?
London and Paris
Guitar is originated from which country in the 16th century?
Spain
What political party formed in 1834 from anti-Andrew Jackson forces?
Whig
Which country is often called Land of Rising Sun?
Japan
For what movie did Steven Spielberg win his first Oscar for Best Director?
Schindler’s List
In which book by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first line ‘In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.’?
Thew Great Gatsby
Dirham is the official currency of which country?
Who declared war on the U.S. in 1801?
Tripoli
Where is the largest volcano on Earth located?
Hawaii
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, what chases Indy out of the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors?
A giant rolling boulder
Author Zora Neale Hurston was part of which literary movement?
Harlem Renaissance