In May 2017, who won the French presidential election in a landslide victory against his far-right rival Marine Le Pen?
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?
The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted U.S. primetime television series in history. It’s set in what fictional city?
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 physics, what is by far the weakest of the four fundamental forces?
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?
In 1991 who became the first democratically elected president of Russia?
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster.” This famous quote is from what Shakespeare play?
What leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance painted The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa?
Ben Platt plays a teen crippled with anxiety in what breakout show that won six Tony Awards in 2017, including Best Musical?
The Game of Thrones TV series is based on the bestselling fantasy books of what American author?
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 hockey or soccer, a hat trick occurs when a player scores how many goals in a single game?
The Mississippi River begins in Minnesota and ends in what Southern state?
In trigonometry, what function is the reciprocal of the cosine?
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?
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 physicist established the nuclear theory of the atom when he shot a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil?
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?
Named for the Flemish cartographer who developed it, what type of map projection keeps true compass positions intact but distorts geographic areas?