What African American poet read “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s first presidential inauguration?
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster.” This famous quote is from what Shakespeare play?
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?
A substance with pH 4 is how many times more acidic than a substance with pH 5?
In trigonometry, what function is the reciprocal of the cosine?
The Mississippi River begins in Minnesota and ends in what Southern state?
In 1991 who became the first democratically elected president of Russia?
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 physicist established the nuclear theory of the atom when he shot a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil?
The Game of Thrones TV series is based on the bestselling fantasy books of what American author?
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 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 Canadian province is located on the north shore of Lake Erie?
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?
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?
Abbreviated ff on a music score, what Italian word is an indication to play very loudly?
Ben Platt plays a teen crippled with anxiety in what breakout show that won six Tony Awards in 2017, including Best Musical?
Located 11,800 feet above sea level, what city is the administrative capital of Bolivia?
What positive number is the geometric mean of 16 and 4?
Who is best known for writing Alexander Hamilton, a biography that inspired the hit Broadway musical Hamilton?