The Mississippi River begins in Minnesota and ends in what Southern state?
The first battles of the American Revolution—Lexington and Concord—took place on April 19th of what year?
Named for the Flemish cartographer who developed it, what type of map projection keeps true compass positions intact but distorts geographic areas?
The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted U.S. primetime television series in history. It’s set in what fictional city?
Abbreviated ff on a music score, what Italian word is an indication to play very loudly?
What Silicon Valley carmaker that has never turned a profit made headlines in April 2017, when it surpassed GM in stock value?
What Mexican artist and feminist icon painted Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair shortly after divorcing her unfaithful husband, the artist Diego Rivera?
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?
What African American poet read “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s first presidential inauguration?
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?
In physics, what is by far the weakest of the four fundamental forces?
What leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance painted The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa?
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?
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 square units, what is the area of a trapezoid with a height of 3 units and bases of 4 units and 2 units?
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?
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?
In the 1440s, what German blacksmith invented a method of printing from movable type that remained largely unchanged until the 20th century?