What leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance painted The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa?
In February 2017, after only 24 days in office, who resigned as national security adviser amid a growing scandal over his contacts with Russian officials?
What country will host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games?
What country provides North Korea with most of its food and energy supplies, and accounts for upwards of 90% of North Korea’s total trade volume?
In 2016 President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a deal to end 52 years of civil war with FARC, a rebel group in what country?
A substance with pH 4 is how many times more acidic than a substance with pH 5?
The first battles of the American Revolution—Lexington and Concord—took place on April 19th of what year?
In hockey or soccer, a hat trick occurs when a player scores how many goals in a single game?
What Silicon Valley carmaker that has never turned a profit made headlines in April 2017, when it surpassed GM in stock value?
Who is best known for writing Alexander Hamilton, a biography that inspired the hit Broadway musical Hamilton?
What Mexican artist and feminist icon painted Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair shortly after divorcing her unfaithful husband, the artist Diego Rivera?
The Mississippi River begins in Minnesota and ends in what Southern state?
Ben Platt plays a teen crippled with anxiety in what breakout show that won six Tony Awards in 2017, including Best Musical?
Who is the first woman to win Album of the Year twice at the Grammys for her own albums, first for Fearless and later for 1989?
I Am Malala is a memoir of a young girl who stood up for her right to an education and was shot by the Taliban in 2012 in what country?
In 1953 Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for what viral infectious disease of the nervous system that was greatly feared in the first half of the 20th century?
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster.” This famous quote is from what Shakespeare play?
The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted U.S. primetime television series in history. It’s set in what fictional city?
In the epic poem the Iliad, what Greek leader is persuaded to attack Troy after being sent a false dream by Zeus?
In 1991 who became the first democratically elected president of Russia?