Jane took a 7-hour bike trip. In all, she traveled 112 miles. What was her average rate of speed in miles per hour?
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?
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?
Located 11,800 feet above sea level, what city is the administrative capital of Bolivia?
Who has won three NBA championships, four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, and is the Cleveland Cavaliers’ all-time leading scorer?
What positive number is the geometric mean of 16 and 4?
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?
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?
Who is best known for writing Alexander Hamilton, a biography that inspired the hit Broadway musical Hamilton?
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?
The Game of Thrones TV series is based on the bestselling fantasy books of what American author?
What African American poet read “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s first presidential inauguration?
In 1991 who became the first democratically elected president of Russia?
What country will host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games?
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?
Abbreviated ff on a music score, what Italian word is an indication to play very loudly?
The Mississippi River begins in Minnesota and ends in what Southern state?
During World War II, what American general was the supreme commander of Allied forces on D-Day?
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?