In the song “Auld Lang Syne,” which Scottish poet is credited with the words?
Answer
Robert Burns
79846 Intermediate Trivia Questions
79846 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which concert is traditionally broadcast from Vienna on New Year's Day after New Year's Eve?
Answer
Vienna New Year's Concert
What is the name of the New Year's Eve celebration in Edinburgh?
Answer
Hogmanay
House M.D. is primarily based on which famous fictional detective?
Answer
Sherlock Holmes
In House M.D., what medical department does Dr. House lead?
Answer
Diagnostic Medicine
In House M.D., who created the TV series and served as its main showrunner?
Answer
David Shore
Who is the main detective in J.K. Rowling’s Cormoran Strike novels?
Answer
Cormoran Strike
Which C.S. Lewis book explores four kinds of human love?
Answer
The Four Loves
Which C.S. Lewis work is a collection of letters to a fictional young demon?
Answer
The Screwtape Letters
Which C.S. Lewis novel introduces the character Digory Kirke as a child?
Answer
The Magician’s Nephew
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1942 epistolary satire narrated by a senior demon?
Answer
The Screwtape Letters
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s science-fiction trilogy set partly on Mars?
Answer
The Space Trilogy
Which meridian is internationally recognized as 0° longitude?
Answer
Prime Meridian
At what time did General MacArthur open Japan’s 1945 surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay?
Answer
9:02 a.m. Tokyo time
Which B-29 bomber dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945?
Answer
Bockscar
What was the common English nickname for Hirohito's 1945 surrender broadcast?
Answer
Jewel Voice Broadcast
What lyric phrase from Taylor Swift’s “august” inspired the annual late-summer social-media trend?
Answer
August slipped away
What is the first expansion area added to Pokémon Pokopia?
Answer
Bubbly Basin
Which 1777 campaign helped bring France openly into the Revolutionary War remembered by America250?
Answer
Saratoga campaign
What Boston landmark became a symbol of colonial resistance to the Stamp Act?
Answer
Liberty Tree
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote nationwide?
Answer
Nineteenth Amendment
On what date was Thomas Paine’s Common Sense first published in Philadelphia?
Answer
January 10, 1776
Which 1976 milestone preceded America’s 250th anniversary by 50 years?
Answer
United States Bicentennial
What phrase is inscribed on the Liberty Bell?
Answer
Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof
Which McDonald’s advertising slogan used the words “Food, Folks and Fun”?
Answer
Food, Folks and Fun
Which 1980 McDonald’s character promoted the restaurant’s breakfast menu?
Answer
Birdie the Early Bird