Used BR113

Question 1

1. What is the capital of Bosnia?

A. Sarajevo (Sara-YAY-vo)
B. Zagreb
C. Belgrade

Answer 1

A. Sarajevo

Question 2

2. According to pest control.com, which of these is NOT one of the top 10 minor league sports teams named after bugs?

A. Mad Ants
B. Wasps
C. Grasshoppers

Answer 2

B. There are no Wasps. There are, however, the Fort Wayne Mad Ants and the Greensboro grasshoppers.

Question 3

3. What college is in college station Texas?

A. University of Texas
B. Southern Methodist University
C. Texas A&M University

Answer 3

C. Texas A&M

Question 4

4. What river separates Maryland and Virginia?

A. Delaware River
B. Potomac River
C. Shenandoah River

Answer 4

B. Potomac

Question 5

5. Shortly after the start of the Spanish-American war, do U.S. Navy blockaded what Island?

A. Majorca (MAY-York-uh)
B. Puerto Rico
C. Cuba

Answer 5

C. Cuba

Question 6

6. What bands hits include”Babylon sisters” and “Reeling in the Years”?

A. Steely Dan
B. Jefferson airplane
C. Fleetwood Mac

Answer 6

A. Steely Dan

Question 7

7. What was Elvis Pressley’s first film, in 1956?

A. Tickle me
B. King Creole
C. Love me tender

Answer 7

C. Love me tender

Question 8

8. What did a shepherd boy discover in Jordan in 1947?

A. The Dead sea scrolls
B. The Rosetta Stone
C. The cloth that later became known as the shroud of Turin

Answer 8

A. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the second oldest known surviving manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible.

Question 9

9. How many ghosts appear to Scrooge in Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”?

A. Two
B. Three
C. Four

Answer 9

C. Four – the ghosts of Christmases past, present and future, as well as the ghost of Scrooge’s partner Marley.

Question 10

10. What astronomer demonstrated in 1512 that the sun is the center of the solar system?

A. Galileo
B. Copernicus
C. Erasmus

Answer 10

B. Nicolas Copernicus

Question 11

11. What name did Pablo Picasso sign to his paintings?

A. Pablo Picasso
B. Picasso
C. The initials PP

Answer 11

B. Picasso

Question 12

12. Who’s likeness is depicted on the Purple Heart?

A. George Washington
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Andrew Jackson

Answer 12

A. Washington

Question 13

13. Who’s assassination is probe in a book by Mark Lane and Dick Gregory called “Code Name Zorro”?

A. John F. Kennedy
B. Robert Kennedy
C. Martin Luther King Junior

Answer 13

C. King

Question 14

14. How often are brain cells replaced?

A. Every year or so once a person is an adult
B. 5 to 10 years
C. Never

Answer 14

C. Never

Question 15

15, Who directed, “Raiders of the lost Ark”?

A. Steven Spielberg
B. George Lucas
C. James Cameron

Answer 15

A. Spielberg

Question 16

16. What state has the lowest highest elevation, at 60 feet?

A. Louisiana
B. Delaware
C. Florida

Answer 16

B. Delaware