Though it has almost no native mammals, what island nation is home to an unusually large number of flightless birds including the kiwi, its national bird?
In 1991 who became the first democratically elected president of Russia?
The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted U.S. primetime television series in history. It’s set in what fictional city?
Ben Platt plays a teen crippled with anxiety in what breakout show that won six Tony Awards in 2017, including Best Musical?
What Canadian province is located on the north shore of Lake Erie?
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?
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 hockey or soccer, a hat trick occurs when a player scores how many goals in a single game?
Jane took a 7-hour bike trip. In all, she traveled 112 miles. What was her average rate of speed in miles per hour?
In May 2017, who won the French presidential election in a landslide victory against his far-right rival Marine Le Pen?
Named for the Flemish cartographer who developed it, what type of map projection keeps true compass positions intact but distorts geographic areas?
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 positive number is the geometric mean of 16 and 4?
What physicist established the nuclear theory of the atom when he shot a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil?
In square units, what is the area of a trapezoid with a height of 3 units and bases of 4 units and 2 units?
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?
During World War II, what American general was the supreme commander of Allied forces on D-Day?
The Game of Thrones TV series is based on the bestselling fantasy books of what American author?
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?
Abbreviated ff on a music score, what Italian word is an indication to play very loudly?