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Maroon Minds Weekly Quiz Snow Edition - 2023

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Greenland is the World's largest island located between Arctic and Atlantic oceans. What is the currency of Greenland?

a)

Euro

b)

Danish Krone

c)

Dollar

d)

Franc

2.

What is the capital of Argentina?

a)

Buenos Aires

b)

Mendoza

c)

Rosario

d)

Salta

3.

What is the tallest statue of world?

a)

Statue of Liberty

b)

Guan-Yin

c)

Spring Temple Buddha

d)

Statue of Unity

4.

What is the largest iceberg by area ever recorded?

a)

B-15 Iceberg

b)

Iceberg A-68

c)

Iceberg A-38

d)

Iceberg B-17B

6.

Two different actors have won Academy Awards for playing what comic-book character?

a)

Spider-man

b)

Joker

c)

Superman

d)

Batman

7.

Which of these films is one of only three to win all the “big five” categories (best picture, director, screenplay, actor, and actress)?

a)

Forrest Grump

b)

Titanic

c)

The Silence of the Lambs

d)

Gladiator

8.

“All children, except one, grow up.”

Which of the following Literary work holds those first line?

a)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

b)

Peter Pan

c)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

d)

The Call of the Wild

9.

Which of these writers is often considered the inventor of the historical novel?

a)

Sir Walter Scott

b)

H.G. Wells

c)

Jane Austen

d)

Honoré de Balzac

10.

Who composed the ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker?

a)

Frédéric Chopin

b)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

c)

Antonio Vivaldi

d)

Johannes Brahms

11.

Which wave phenomenon results from the interference or superimposition of waves moving in opposite directions?

a)

light

b)

harmonic waves

c)

standing waves

d)

sinusoidal waves

12.

Decibel is the unit used for measuring what?

a)

temperature

b)

amplitude

c)

pitch

d)

loudness

13.

Who first discovered the neutron?

a)

Wolfgang Pauli

b)

Louis de Broglie

c)

Otto Frisch

d)

James Chadwick

14.

Who is credited with the invention of the first hovercraft?

a)

Trevor Baylis

b)

Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell

c)

John Logie Baird

d)

Hans von Ohain

15.

Who discovered the vaccine for smallpox?

a)

Edward Jenner

b)

Alexander Fleming

c)

Louis Pasteur

d)

Joseph Lister

16.

What was the year that Brazil won a World Cup when Pele was playing in the national team for the first time?

a)

1954

b)

1962

c)

1958

d)

1950

17.

Roger Bannister was a British doctor and athlete who was the first to achieve what?

a)

win the Boston marathon

b)

run the mile in less than four minutes

c)

win 10 Olympic gold medals

d)

play both soccer and cricket for England

18.

Romanian athlete Nadia Comăneci stunned the world at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal by being the first to accomplish what feat?

a)

run the 100 meters in less than nine seconds

b)

defect from the Eastern bloc

c)

win gold in more than one sport in the same Games

d)

score a perfect 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event

19.

At which Olympics were electric timing devices used for the first time?

a)

Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games

b)

Stockholm 1912 Olympic Games

c)

Lake Placid 1932 Olympic Games

d)

Montreal 1976 Olympic Games

20.

Years later, claiming it was revenge for the Falklands War, Diego Maradona’s infamous “Hand of God” soccer play helped defeat—and enrage–what nation?

a)

Spain

b)

Brazil

c)

England

d)

France