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100

Which musical instrument has 88 keys?

  • a) Guitar
  • b) Violin
  • c) Piano
  • d) Flute

c) Piano

100

What was the name of the last queen of France before the French Revolution?

  • a) Catherine de' Medici
  • b) Marie Antoinette
  • c) Joan of Arc
  • d) Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • b) Marie Antoinette
100

What country is known as the "Land Down Under"?

  • a) New Zealand
  • b) South Africa
  • c) Australia
  • d) Argentina
  • c) Australia
100

Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?

  • a) Charles Dickens
  • b) William Shakespeare
  • c) Mark Twain
  • d) Jane Austen
  • b) William Shakespeare
100

What is the closest planet to the Sun?

  • a) Venus
  • b) Mars
  • c) Mercury
  • d) Earth
  • c) Mercury
200

What is the term for a group of three musicians performing together?

  • a) Trio
  • b) Quartet
  • c) Duo
  • d) Ensemble

a) Tria

200

  1. What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in America?

  • a) Plymouth
  • b) Roanoke
  • c) Jamestown
  • d) Salem
  • c) Jamestown
200

Which U.S. state is the largest by land area?

  • a) Texas
  • b) Alaska
  • c) California
  • d) Montana
  • b) Alaska
200
  1. Who wrote the dystopian novel Brave New World?
  • a) George Orwell
  • b) Aldous Huxley
  • c) Ray Bradbury
  • d) Margaret Atwood
  • b) Aldous Huxley
200

How many legs do insects have?

  • a) Four
  • b) Six
  • c) Eight
  • d) Ten
  • b) Six
300

Which famous composer wrote "The Nutcracker Suite"?

  • a) Ludwig van Beethoven
  • b) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • c) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • d) Johann Sebastian Bach

c) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

300

 

The Great Fire of London occurred in which year?

  • a) 1666
  • b) 1566
  • c) 1766
  • d) 1866
  • a) 1666
300

  1. What river runs through the Grand Canyon?

  • a) Colorado River
  • b) Mississippi River
  • c) Rio Grande
  • d) Columbia River
  • a) Colorado River
300

Which Shakespearean play features the line “Out, out, brief candle”?

  • a) Macbeth
  • b) Hamlet
  • c) Othello
  • d) King Lear
  • a) Macbeth
300

 

  1. What is the term for animals that maintain a constant body temperature?
  • a) Ectothermic
  • b) Endothermic
  • c) Exothermic
  • d) Isothermal
  • b) Endothermic
400

Which jazz musician was nicknamed "Satchmo"?

  • a) Duke Ellington
  • b) Louis Armstrong
  • c) Charlie Parker
  • d) Miles Davis

B) Luis Armstrong

400
  1. Which ruler was known as the "Sun King"?
  • a) Louis XIV
  • b) Philip II
  • c) Frederick the Great
  • d) Charles V

a) Louis XIV

400
  1. What is the highest capital city in the world by elevation?
  • a) Quito, Ecuador
  • b) La Paz, Bolivia
  • c) Kathmandu, Nepal
  • d) Bogota, Colombia
  • b) La Paz, Bolivia
400

  1. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?

  • a) William Faulkner
  • b) John Steinbeck
  • c) Ernest Hemingway
  • d) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • b) John Steinbeck
400
  1. What is the most abundant element in the universe?
  • a) Helium
  • b) Oxygen
  • c) Carbon
  • d) Hydrogen
  • d) Hydrogen
500

Which opera features the "Queen of the Night" aria?

  • a) The Marriage of Figaro
  • b) The Magic Flute
  • c) Carmen
  • d) La Bohème
  • b) The Magic Flute
500
  1. What is the name of the first codified legal text, created in ancient Babylon?
  • a) The Code of Justinian
  • b) The Magna Carta
  • c) The Code of Hammurabi
  • d) Twelve Tables
  • b) The Magna Carta
500
  1. Which European country is divided into regions called cantons?
  • a) Austria
  • b) Switzerland
  • c) Germany
  • d) Belgium
  • b) Switzerland
500

Who is the author of Jane Eyre?

  • a) Charlotte Brontë
  • b) Emily Brontë
  • c) Anne Brontë
  • d) Jane Austen
  • a) Charlotte Brontë
500
  1. What type of rock is formed by volcanic activity?
  • a) Sedimentary
  • b) Igneous
  • c) Metamorphic
  • d) Fossilized
  • b) Igneous