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?
Ben Platt plays a teen crippled with anxiety in what breakout show that won six Tony Awards in 2017, including Best Musical?
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?
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?
Abbreviated ff on a music score, what Italian word is an indication to play very loudly?
The Game of Thrones TV series is based on the bestselling fantasy books of what American author?
What leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance painted The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa?
What African American poet read “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s first presidential inauguration?
In the epic poem the Iliad, what Greek leader is persuaded to attack Troy after being sent a false dream by Zeus?
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 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 has won three NBA championships, four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, and is the Cleveland Cavaliers’ all-time leading scorer?
Located 11,800 feet above sea level, what city is the administrative capital of Bolivia?
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?
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 trigonometry, what function is the reciprocal of the cosine?
“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 Simpsons is the longest-running scripted U.S. primetime television series in history. It’s set in what fictional city?
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?
In 1991 who became the first democratically elected president of Russia?