What is the name of Sydney’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration centered on Sydney Harbour?
Answer
Sydney New Year’s Eve
72921 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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What television sketch has been broadcast in Germany every New Year's Eve since 1972?
Answer
Dinner for One
What Japanese New Year's Eve meal of buckwheat noodles symbolizes longevity and resilience?
Answer
Toshikoshi soba
According to Genesis, how many animals of each clean kind enter Noah’s Ark?
Answer
Seven pairs
What length does Genesis give Noah’s Ark in cubits?
Answer
300 cubits
What is the traditional English name of the wood used to build Noah’s Ark?
Answer
Gopher wood
Who was the first person to travel into outer space?
Answer
Yuri Gagarin
Which sea receives the Nile River at its northern end?
Answer
Mediterranean Sea
Which U.S. president issued the first presidential National Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789?
Answer
George Washington
What was the name of Abraham Lincoln’s January 1, 1863, order concerning enslaved people in the Confederacy?
Answer
Emancipation Proclamation
On what date did the Wright Flyer make its first successful powered flight?
Answer
December 17, 1903
Who designed the Statue of Liberty, the French monument dedicated in New York Harbor in 1886?
Answer
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Which Assassin's Creed game introduced the Brotherhood's recruit-and-command system in Renaissance Rome?
Answer
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
What is the name of the racing academy featured in Pixar's Cars 3?
Answer
Rust-eze Racing Center
Which song by Sheryl Crow plays over the end credits of Pixar’s Cars?
Answer
“Real Gone”
In Pixar’s Cars 3, which racer becomes Lightning McQueen’s main challenger?
Answer
Jackson Storm
In Greek mythology, what punishment did Zeus impose on Prometheus before Pandora’s creation?
Answer
Chaining him to a mountain
What is the common modern meaning of the phrase “open Pandora’s box”?
Answer
Create unforeseen troubles
In Greek mythology, who shaped Pandora from earth at Zeus’s command?
Answer
Hephaestus
What is the usual English translation of fiesta de quince años, a name for a quinceañera?
Answer
Fifteenth-birthday party
In a quinceañera, what do the 15 candles traditionally represent?
Answer
Important people
What Spanish term names the “last doll” sometimes presented during a quinceañera?
Answer
Última muñeca
What is the name of J.K. Rowling's stage play set in the Harry Potter universe?
Answer
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child