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?
Ben Platt plays a teen crippled with anxiety in what breakout show that won six Tony Awards in 2017, including Best Musical?
Revelations is a famous ballet by what African American choreographer whose multiracial dance company popularized modern dance with extensive world tours?
What leader of “the Final Five,” the nickname of the 2016 U.S. women’s gymnastics team, is the most decorated American gymnast in history?
The Boston Red Sox were the last major league baseball team to integrate their roster. In 1959 who became the first African American to play for the Sox?
Who is best known for writing Alexander Hamilton, a biography that inspired the hit Broadway musical Hamilton?
Who has won three NBA championships, four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, and is the Cleveland Cavaliers’ all-time leading scorer?
The Savoy Theatre in London was built in 1881 as a showcase for what songwriting team famous for comic operas such as The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance?
What country will host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games?
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?
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?
A box contains 8 oranges, 8 apples, and 8 pears. You randomly select two fruits. What is the probability, in lowest terms, of selecting two different kinds of fruit?
What positive number is the geometric mean of 16 and 4?
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?
What physicist established the nuclear theory of the atom when he shot a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil?
What Silicon Valley carmaker that has never turned a profit made headlines in April 2017, when it surpassed GM in stock value?
Located 11,800 feet above sea level, what city is the administrative capital of Bolivia?
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?
Played by Taraji P. Henson in the film Hidden Figures, what former NASA mathematician received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 for her vital role in the space race?
In the epic poem the Iliad, what Greek leader is persuaded to attack Troy after being sent a false dream by Zeus?