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Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
What year was the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) founded?
1992
1996
2000
2004
As its chemical symbol of Hg indicates, what liquid-at-room-temperature metallic element was once known as "hydrargyrum"?
Lithium
Nickel
Magnesium
Mercury
A large portion of what 2001 Yann Martel novel features the title character stranded on a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker?
Trancing the Tiger
Life of Pi
Dream Tiger
Beasts of Prey
How long was the Hundred Years' War?
98 years
100 years
116 years
125 years
Where was the 1st Disneyland outside of the United States?
Tokyo
Paris
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Located at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are an administrative division of which country?
Myanmar
Indonesia
Bangladesh
India
Rome's Cloaca Maxima was an early example of what infrastructure project that makes cities a whole lot more livable?
Public Library System
Public Transportation System
Sewer System
Road System
In which state was Spiro Agnew investigated for corruption?
Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Who led the USSR from 1917-1922?
Leon Trotsky
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Which classic novel deals with two West Yorkshire families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and in particular the adopted Earnshaw, Heathcliff?
Wuthering Heights
Anna Karenina
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Which subfield of biology involves studying the structures of cells, tissues, and organs by looking at them with a microscope?
Genetics
Virology
Histology
Mycology
Because it's "nature's engineer," a beaver named Tim serves as the mascot for the sports teams at what East Coast private research university?
Princeton University
Cornell University
New York University
MIT
Which country was the first to legalize same-sex marriage?
Chile
Greece
Netherlands
Thailand
What video game was the first ever to be played in space?
Tetris
Street Fighter II
Super Mario Kart
Mortal Kombat
What vase-shaped lake in Venezuela, the largest in South America, is thought to be one of the oldest lakes on earth?
Lake Nahuel Huapí
Lake Poopó
Lake Titicaca
Lake Maracaibo
What Nigerian novelist and playwright of “Death and the King's Horseman” was the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to be granted the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Nadine Gordimer
Naguib Mahfouz
Wole Soyinka
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Which of these is not one of the 7 base units in the International System of Units (SI)?
hertz
ampere
second
mole
What stadium located in London is known as “the cathedral of football?”
Stamford Bridge
Loftus Road
Craven Cottage
Wembley Stadium
Which American poet and short-story writer is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for collections such as "The Bell Jar?"
Emily Dickinson
Maya Angelou
Sylvia Plath
Marge Piercy
Which planet in our solar system has the most moons?
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
How far did Jesse Owens jump in his gold medal-winning long jump in the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
7.64 meters
7.73 meters
7.87 meters
8.06 meters
What is the name of the treaty that ceded much of Northern Mexico to the United States in 1848?
Treaty of Cahuenga
Adams–Onís Treaty
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mallarino–Bidlack Treaty
What 2001 film from Japan's Studio Ghibli (which was distributed in North America by Disney in 2002) won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003?
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
My Neighbor Totoro
The Nile River Delta is located just north of which African capital city?
Cairo
Rabat
Khartoum
Tunis
Which music video was the first to reach 1 billion views on YouTube?
See You Again
Gangnam Style
Despacito
Friday
Agatha Christie's "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" are two novels who take their titles from lines in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth
Who is the only player to average more than 100 rushing yards per game during a career in the NFL?
O.J. Simpson
Jim Brown
Derrick Henry
Walter Payton
In which nation can you find the Coober Pedy, an opal mining town where summers are so hot, most of the town is built underground?
China
Australia
Tunisia
Kuwait
Which U.S. President had a home called The Hermitage?
Zachary Taylor
James K. Polk
Andrew Jackson
William Henry Harrison
Which tree do acorns come from?
elm trees
oak trees
sycamore trees
maple trees
Which sea is actually the world's largest lake, since it’s an inland body of water surrounded by Kazakhstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Turkmenistan?
Arabian Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Red Sea
Who played the title character in Moesha (1996-2001)?
Lisa Bonet
Brandy
Tracee Ellis Ross
Queen Latifah
Which country did the United Kingdom fight against in the Falklands War?
Spain
Denmark
Russia
Argentina
First appearing in the children's book "Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys", what is the most famous character created by H. A. and Margaret Rey?
Curious George
Kerchak
Francine Frensky
Shift
What are animals that are active during dawn and dusk called?
nocturnal
crepuscular
diurnal
vespertinal
Founded in 2017, which NHL expansion team is the first major professional sports team to represent Las Vegas?
Thrashers
Golden Knights
Predators
Wild
Where is the world's most active volcano located?
Hawaiʻi, United States
Los Lagos Region of Chile
Sicily, Italy
Democratic Republic of the Congo
In Scrabble, how many points is the letter J worth?
3 points
5 points
10 points
8 points
What is the name of the talking pig on "Dragon Ball Z"?
Gregory
Oolong
Bubbles
Puar
With 128 million people, a majority of whom belong to either the Oromo or Amhara ethnic groups, which nation is the highest populated landlocked country in the world?
Uzbekistan
Ethiopia
Nepal
Uganda
Who invented the vaccine for polio?
Louis Pasteur
Waldemar Haffkine
Jonas Salk
Edward Jenner
Which nation was the first to formally allow women to vote in national elections in 1893?
Afghanistan
Sweden
Ecuador
New Zealand
The renowned artists Rousseau and Matisse share which first name?
Edgar
Pierre
Henri
Claude
Who overthrew Salvador Allende in Chile in a coup d’etat?
Fulgencio Batista
Rafael Trujillo
Nicolas Maduro
Augusto Pinochet
Measuring about 63 million square miles, which of the world’s oceans is the biggest and deepest?
Atlantic
Indian
Pacific
Arctic
Which Baltimore woman's cells were taken without her consent when she sought cancer treatment at Johns Hopkins and have contributed to many medical breakthroughs?
Helena Hicks
Nina R. Harper
Henrietta Lacks
Victorine Q. Adams
"Temperature," "We Be Burnin'," and "Gimme the Light" are three 2000s hit singles by which Jamaican rapper?
Sean Kingston
The Notorious B.I.G
Sean Paul
Busta Rhymes
Where were the Winter Olympics held in 2018?
Sochi
Salt Lake City
Vancouver
Pyeongchang
When was YouTube founded?
2004
2005
2003
2002
Milorad Cavic is a Serbian swimmer that lost to Michael Phelps by mere fingertips at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In what event was this photo finish?
200m freestyle
200m backstroke
100m butterfly
400m IM
Played by Frank Sinatra in a film version, Nathan Detroit is a gambling boss in what classic 1950s Broadway musical?
Oklahoma!
The King and I
Guys and Dolls
Damn Yankees
When did Libya gain independence from Italy?
1951
1956
1960
1961
Which pop icon portrayed Eva Peron in the musical sensation “Evita”?
Cher
Whitney Houston
Tina Turner
Madonna
Which geographical term is a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon?
coombe
fjord
estuary
atoll
What is the name of the highest mountain in Antarctica?
Mount Aconcagua
Mount Kosciuszko
Vinson Massif
Jaya Peak
Which legendary country songstress had us swooning with hits like “I Fall to Pieces,” “Crazy,” and “She's Got You,” leaving a musical legacy?
Dolly Parton
Loretta Lynn
Tammy Wynette
Patsy Cline
On average, how long is an adult human's small intestine?
7 feet
12 feet
17 feet
22 feet
What company has sponsored the championship trophy for the Professional Golfers' Association Tour since 2007?
Sprint
Xfinity
FedEx
Coca-Cola
What is African American inventor Frederick McKinley Jones best known for inventing?
super soaker
potato chips
refrigerated trucks
gas mask
Who became the first non classical or jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018?
Kendrick Lamar
Jennifer Higdon
Tania León
Bob Dylan
