History Trivia
ELA Vocab
CNN 10 10-25-24
International Music Day
Random Trivia
100

Leader of the Spanish forces that conquered the Aztecs

A) Hernán Cortés
B) Francisco Pizarro
C) Diego Velázquez
D) Juan de Salcedo

A) Hernán Cortés

100

A valise is:

A) A small suitcase
B) A type of musical instrument
C) A piece of jewelry
D) A type of fabric

A) A small suitcase

100

Featured this week on CNN 10, a company is working to capture and recycle what material orbiting the Earth at high speeds?

A) Satellites

B) Spaceships

C) Space Junk

D) None of the Above

C) Space Junk

100

In music theory, what is a tone up from C?

A) D
B) C#
C) E
D) B

A) D

100

Who painted The Hibiscus Tree?

A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Paul Gauguin
C) Claude Monet
D) Wu Guanzhong

B) Paul Gauguin

200

Name of the capital for the Aztec empire

A) Tenochtitlán
B) Cuzco
C) Teotihuacan
D) Machu Picchu

A) Tenochtitlán

200

Quaint means:

A) Charming and old-fashioned
B) Loud and boisterous
C) Modern and innovative
D) Large and spacious

A) Charming and old-fashioned

200

Seismologists in California are monitoring what natural cracks in the Earth’s crust after two recent earthquakes rattled the state?

A) Fault lines
B) Trenches
C) Volcanoes
D) Sinkholes

A) Fault lines

200

What note is a perfect fifth interval above C?

A) G
B) E
C) F
D) A

A) G

200

What is a nocturnal, giraffe-like animal from the African rainforests called?

A) Okapi
B) Aardvark
C) Lemur
D) Pangolin

 

A) Okapi

300

When did WWI officially end?

A) November 11, 1918
B) September 1, 1919
C) June 28, 1914
D) December 7, 1941

A) November 11, 1918

300

Negotiations means:

A) Discussions aimed at reaching an agreement
B) Arguments with no resolution
C) Plans to avoid conflict
D) Delays in decision-making

A) Discussions aimed at reaching an agreement

300

Resulting in nationwide blackouts, what island experienced a collapse of its power grid this week?

A) Cuba
B) Jamaica
C) Iceland
D) Fiji

A) Cuba

300

What does the lower number in the time signature indicate?

A) The number of beats per measure
B) The type of note that gets one beat
C) The key of the piece
D) The tempo of the music

B) The type of note that gets one beat

300

Who directed the 1999 film American Beauty?

A) Sam Mendes
B) Steven Spielberg
C) David Fincher
D) Quentin Tarantino

A) Sam Mendes

400

What year was the Battle of Yorktown?

A) 1776
B) 1781
C) 1783
D) 1778

B) 1781

400

Deserted means:

A) Abandoned or empty
B) Full of activity
C) Covered in sand
D) Newly discovered

A) Abandoned or empty

400

What plant that is the main ingredient in chocolate has experienced difficult growing conditions around the world over the past year?

A) Cacao
B) Coffee
C) Vanilla
D) Sugarcane

A) Cacao

400

What is the relative minor scale to G major?

A) A minor
B) E minor
C) D minor
D) B minor

B) E minor

400

Who founded the world's first secular nursing school?

A) Clara Barton
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Elizabeth Blackwell
D) Mary Seacole

B) Florence Nightingale

500

Who were the main combatants in the Peloponnesian War?

A) Athens and Sparta
B) Rome and Carthage
C) Macedonia and Persia
D) Thebes and Corinth

A) Athens and Sparta

500

Pruned means:

A) Trimmed or cut back (as in plants)
B) Decorated or enhanced
C) Watered and fertilized
D) Planted or sowed

A) Trimmed or cut back (as in plants)

500

What country held military drills and a mock blockade to intimidate the island of Taiwan?

A) China
B) Japan
C) North Korea
D) Russia

A) China

500

Which of the following markings would affect the length of a note?

A) Sharp

B) Double-sharp

C) Flat

D) Dot

D) Dot

500

Which country won the first ever FIFA World Cup?

A) Brazil
B) Argentina
C) Uruguay
D) Italy

C) Uruguay