In May 2017, who won the French presidential election in a landslide victory against his far-right rival Marine Le Pen?
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster.” This famous quote is from what Shakespeare play?
Jane took a 7-hour bike trip. In all, she traveled 112 miles. What was her average rate of speed in miles per hour?
Ben Platt plays a teen crippled with anxiety in what breakout show that won six Tony Awards in 2017, including Best Musical?
What physicist established the nuclear theory of the atom when he shot a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil?
Named for the Flemish cartographer who developed it, what type of map projection keeps true compass positions intact but distorts geographic areas?
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?
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 physics, what is by far the weakest of the four fundamental forces?
During World War II, what American general was the supreme commander of Allied forces on D-Day?
What country will host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games?
A substance with pH 4 is how many times more acidic than a substance with pH 5?
What Mexican artist and feminist icon painted Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair shortly after divorcing her unfaithful husband, the artist Diego Rivera?
The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted U.S. primetime television series in history. It’s set in what fictional city?
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?
What Silicon Valley carmaker that has never turned a profit made headlines in April 2017, when it surpassed GM in stock value?
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 African American poet read “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s first presidential inauguration?
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 trigonometry, what function is the reciprocal of the cosine?