Geography
Name the 4 largest cities in California that begin with the letter "S".
San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Sacramento
Which recently married female singer is the only artist to win Album of the Year twice since 2020?
Taylor Swift-Kelce
This city has a big blue bear staring into its conference center.
Denver
Receiving a green gold medal, plated with 24 karat gold, a diploma, and a monetary award--each receipt of a Nobel Prize is known as a what?
Nobel Laureate
Hot Cross Buns is a song that many 4th graders learn on this simple, woodwind instrument.
Recorder
What country has the most miles in coastline, which is over twice as much as the next longest coastline country?
Canada
Kayleigh Rose Amstutz rose to fame in 2024 with hits like "Hot to Go! and "Good Luck, Babe!," winning her the Best New Artist award at the 67th Grammys. What is she more commonly known as?
Chappell Roan
What city most recently received an NFL team?
Las Vegas
In 2014, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person to win a Nobel Prize at age 17. Where is she from?
Pakistan
What are the 3 basic types of rocks?
Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary
The Pan-American Highway is a vast network of roads that stretched from the top of Alaska to the bottom of Argentina, covering over 19,000 miles. However, there is no road that goes through the Darien Gap, a dense, inhospitable rainforest on the border of what two countries?
Panama and Columbia
What artist swept the 'big four' categories at the 2020 Grammys (Album, Record, Song of the Year, Best New Artist) and has since also won the 2021 Record of the Year and 2024 and 2026 Song of the Year?
Billie Eilish
This city's airport is the main hub for Delta.
Atlanta
Alfred Nobel--out of whose will the prizes are awarded--was a chemist who is known for inventing what powerful, violent, and volatile product?
Dynamite (or Nitroglycerin)
Kansas entered the Union on January 29 of this year, only a few months prior to the beginning of the American Civil War.
1861
What landlocked South American country has a llama in the center of its national flag?
Bolivia
Which artist won Album of the Year in 2022 and led the house band of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for 7 years?
Jon Batiste
This city sits on Lake Erie.
Clevland
This 2016 Nobel winner in Literature won the award "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," who also had a biopic released about his life in 2024 starring Timothée Chalamet.
Bob Dylan
Solve this long division problem:
27,068 divided by 4
6767
Which US state's capital has the smallest population?
Vermont (Montpelier)
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
Northwestern University is located in a northern suburb of what city?
Chicago
What are the 6 categories in which the Nobel Prize is given?
Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Economics, Literature, and Peace
There are many types of figurative language like metaphors, similes, idioms, and this type that gives human traits to nonhuman things.
Personification