72921 Intermediate Trivia Questions
72921 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which 1998 hedge fund collapse threatened the global financial system and led to a major Federal Reserve-arranged rescue?
Answer
Long-Term Capital Management
Which U.S. stock-market crash followed the 1907 run on Knickerbocker Trust?
Answer
Panic of 1907
Which 1720 British company collapsed in the financial scandal known as the South Sea Bubble?
Answer
South Sea Company
Which teacher at Columbia University influenced Georgia O'Keeffe's move toward abstraction?
Answer
Arthur Wesley Dow
What was the name of Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico home with a famous black door?
Answer
Abiquiu house
Which museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is devoted to Georgia O'Keeffe's life and art?
Answer
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Which song was Metallica's first composition for The Black Album?
Answer
Enter Sandman
Which character is the dragon-slayer in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
Answer
Bard the Bowman
In Genesis, what was the stated breadth of Noah’s Ark?
Answer
50 cubits
What footwear change is traditionally performed during a quinceañera?
Answer
Flats to high heels
What Spanish phrase describes the quinceañera’s ceremonial last doll?
Answer
Última muñeca
What is Gregory House’s primary medical specialty in House M.D.?
Answer
Diagnostic medicine
Which 1943 C.S. Lewis book argues that moral education must protect objective values?
Answer
The Abolition of Man
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s Cambridge college?
Answer
Magdalene College
What 1938 novel began C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy?
Answer
Out of the Silent Planet
Which Christian denomination did C.S. Lewis belong to?
Answer
Anglicanism
What breakfast-focused McDonald’s character was introduced in 1980?
Answer
Birdie the Early Bird
What restaurant system did the McDonald brothers introduce in 1948?
Answer
Speedee Service System
Which McDonald’s slogan became famous in the 1970s through the line “You deserve a break today”?
Answer
You Deserve a Break Today
Which desert is the largest hot desert on Earth, spanning much of North Africa?
Answer
Sahara Desert
Which sea separates Saudi Arabia from northeastern Africa?
Answer
Red Sea
Which mountain is the highest in Africa, rising 5,895 metres above sea level?
Answer
Mount Kilimanjaro