Trivia Showdown

Question 1

What sports organization did Senator George Mitchell investigate after rumors of athletes using steroids and other drugs

Accepted Answer

Major League Baseball

Question 2

What’s the call sign of the president’s helicopter?

Accepted Answer

Marine One

Question 3

The U.S. experienced its biggest one-year increase in____ 2020, according to figures released on Sept. 27 by the F.B.I.

Accepted Answer

Homicides

Question 4

Which Avenger other than Captain America was able to pick up Thor’s Mjolnir in the Marvel movies?

Accepted Answer

Vision

Question 5

True or False, The geographical center of the U.S. population is Joplin, Missouri

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

True or False: President John F. Kennedy served on The United States Air Force before becoming President.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Who was the first woman to hold federal executive office in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Kamala Harris

Question 8

Which state was the first state to ratify The United States Constitution?

Accepted Answer

Delaware

Question 9

The infamous Area 51 is located in which state?

Accepted Answer

Nevada

Question 10

What city is the Capitol of France?

Accepted Answer

Paris

Question 11

Who has served 16 years as chancellor of Germany and recently reelected.

Accepted Answer

Angela Merkel

Question 12

What is the capitol of Canada?

Accepted Answer

Ottawa

Question 13

Which team is the oldest Franchise in the National Football League?

Accepted Answer

Arizona Cardinals

Question 14

The U.S. government issue a formal apology to the surviving members of the Tuskegee Experiments conducted from 1932-72?

Accepted Answer

1997

Question 15

Who was the first black man to earn a doctorate in history from Harvard?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B.DuBois

Question 16

What was the very first state in the union?

Accepted Answer

Delaware

Question 17

Which Ivy League college was the first to employ an African American as president?

Accepted Answer

Brown

Question 18

Passed in 1919, which amendment prevented the sale of alcoholic beverages?

Accepted Answer

The 18th Amendment

Question 19

What was Malcolm X's birth name?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm Little

Question 20

Angela Davis was a "card carrying" member of the following organizations:

Accepted Answer

TheCommunist Party of the United States

Question 21

True or false, In public places in the state of Florida, it's illegal to sing while wearing a swimsuit?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

Accepted Answer

Dec. 7, 1941

Question 23

Which famous actress went to jail for 13 days this summer for the Varsity Blues Indictment?

Accepted Answer

Felicity Huffman

Question 24

Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to run for U.S. Presidency representing the Democratic Party

Accepted Answer

1972

Question 25

Which person was born a slave in Virginia, attended Hampton University, founded the Tuskegee Institute?

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 26

Who sings the song “Say So” that’s behind the popular TikTok dance?

Accepted Answer

Doja Cat

Question 27

What country has the most natural Lakes?

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 28

What was the name of the space shuttle that exploded on re-entry over Texas, killing all seven astronauts aboard?

Accepted Answer

Columbia

Question 29

What was the bloodiest single-day battle of American history?

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Question 30

Which actor voiced both Darth Vader and The Lion King‘s Mufasa?

Accepted Answer

James Earl Jones

Question 31

What are the names of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West‘s kids?

Accepted Answer

North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm

Question 32

John Lewis, Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown were leaders for which of the following civil rights organization

Accepted Answer

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question 33

Which player holds the Record for the most points scored in the NBA with 38,387?

Accepted Answer

KareemAbdul-Jabbar

Question 34

What does each letter in NASA stands for?

Accepted Answer

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Question 35

Which of these Female Rappers attended college near a Historically Black College or University in North Carolina ?

Accepted Answer

Rapsody

Question 36

On Oct. 3, King Abdullah II of Jordan came under scrutiny for hiding money in offshore bank, where is Jordan on the map?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 37

In what type of matter are atoms most tightly packed?

Accepted Answer

Solids

Question 38

Which of Newton’s Laws states that ‘for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction?

Accepted Answer

The third law of motion

Question 39

What country touches the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 40

Who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany?

Accepted Answer

Jesse Owens

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