Geography
In what mountain range is Mount Everest located?
a. Andes
b. Caucasus
c. Himalayas
d. Ural
c. Himalayas
She bravely refused to surrender her seat on a bus in Alabama in 1955.
Who was Rosa Parks?
What is yours, yet others use it more than you?
Your name
A comparison that does not use "like" or "as"
What is a Metaphor?
Impressionist painter famous for his paintings of the gardens, pond, and bridge near his home in Giverny.
Who was Claude Monet?
French is the official language in which country:
a. Kenya
b. Haiti
c. St. Maarten
d. Tunisia
b. Haiti
This abolitionist and political activist was born into slavery and is famous for her missions to rescue enslaved people using networks known as the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
How many X's are found on a regular clock face that has Roman numerals?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
d. 4
How many lines of verse are in a sonnet?
a. 10
b. 12
c. 13
d. 14
d. 14
In which city is the Van Gogh Museum?
a. Amsterdam
b. London
c. Vienna
d. Paris
a. Amsterdam
What is the largest country that is an island?
a. Madagascar
b. Papua New Guinea
c. Japan
d. Indonesia
d. Indonesia
In 1968, this NY legislator became the first African American woman elected to the United States Congress, where she championed racial and gender equality.
a. Charlotta Bass
b. Barbara Jordan
c. Shirley Chisholm
d. Carol Moseley Braun
c. Shirley Chisholm
After mosquitoes and snakes, the next deadliest animal for humans is the:
a. Crocodile
b. Dog
c. Freshwater snail
d. Scorpion
b. Dog
Wrote the memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
a. Langston Hughes
b. Maya Angelou
c. Walt Whitman
d. Emily Dickinson
b. Maya Angelou
American painter known for his remarkable transition from graffiti artist to acclaimed neo-expressionist in the 1980's.
a. Jackson Pollock
b. Jean-Michel Basquiat
c. Edward Hopper
d. John Singer Sargent
b. Jean-Michel Basquiat
What is the name of the deepest point on the surface of the Earth, located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
a. The Challenger Deep
b. The Kermadec Ridge
c. The Sirena Trough
d. The Philippine Slope
a. The Challenger Deep
Civil rights leader who led a famed march in Selma, AL in 1965 and served as a Georgia congressman for over 30 years until his death last July.
a. James Farmer
b. John Lewis
c. Bayard Rustin
d. Whitney Young Jr.
b. John Lewis
The Scoville scale is used to measure...
a. Pungency of chili peppers
b. Air quality
c. Distance above sea level
d. Condition of relics
a. Pungency of chili peppers
Which Shakespeare play is the following quote from? “How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge.”
a. Hamlet
b. Romeo and Juliet
c. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
d. King Lear
a. Hamlet
This film portrays the true story of a teacher suffering from bipolar disorder who moves back in with his parents and enters a dance contest with a woman whose support becomes important to his recovery.
What is "Silver Linings Playbook"?
With over 35 million residents, this is the most populous city in the world.
What is Tokyo?
Where did civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have A Dream Speech”?
He delivered the speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington on September 9, 1965.
(Will accept Washington, D.C.; extra 100 points for additional details.)
The study of the origin of proper names...
а. heraldry
b. histology
c. onomastics
d. ornithology
c. onomastics
What title did Don Quixote have?
a. Baron
b. Marquiz
c. Hidalgo
d. Chief
c. Hidalgo, meaning "member of nobility"
Roberto Benigni wrote, directed, and starred in this Italian film about the Holocaust, for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor.
What is "Life is Beautiful"?