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?
In 1991 who became the first democratically elected president of Russia?
What physicist established the nuclear theory of the atom when he shot a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil?
The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted U.S. primetime television series in history. It’s set in what fictional city?
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?
The Mississippi River begins in Minnesota and ends in what Southern state?
In hockey or soccer, a hat trick occurs when a player scores how many goals in a single game?
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?
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?
Named for the Flemish cartographer who developed it, what type of map projection keeps true compass positions intact but distorts geographic areas?
The Game of Thrones TV series is based on the bestselling fantasy books of what American author?
“I suppose I should say, at long last, Mr. President, here is your Emmy.” What Donald Trump impersonator said this in 2017 upon winning an Emmy for his work on Saturday Night Live?
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?
Ben Platt plays a teen crippled with anxiety in what breakout show that won six Tony Awards in 2017, including Best Musical?
During World War II, what American general was the supreme commander of Allied forces on D-Day?
In May 2017, who won the French presidential election in a landslide victory against his far-right rival Marine Le Pen?
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?
Who is best known for writing Alexander Hamilton, a biography that inspired the hit Broadway musical Hamilton?
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 February 2017, after only 24 days in office, who resigned as national security adviser amid a growing scandal over his contacts with Russian officials?