World trivia questions
4036 multiple-choice World trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Who occupied Alcatraz on November 20, 1969?
- What 1995 film follows a man who spends three years in solitary confinement at Alcatraz?
- What is Wyomings state dinosaur?
- What minor league baseball team moved to Casper, Wyoming in 2001?
- Mikhail Bakunin, an 1800s socialist, was also the father of what other ideology?
- Karl Marx, a teacher of socialism, said that a socialist state was possible because the lower classes were being brought together from distant farms into large cities. What revolution made this possible?
- What government, formed in 1871, was referred to by Marx and Engels as the first ever socialist state?
- In 1918, after a revolution to overthrow an autocratic ruler, this country experienced a small civil war in which socialists defeated communists.
- Which socialist theorist advocated permanent revolution, arguing that a socialist state could only prosper if the capitalist states that influenced it also became socialist.
- What theory proposed socialism in one country?
- What is/are the color/colors of the socialist flag?
- In 1930, this Yale graduate, author of It Cant Happen Here, became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- This painter, telegraph pioneer and inventor graduated from Yale in 1810.
- Juan Trippe was an airline entrepreneur and pioneer who graduated from Yale in 1921. Who portrayed him in Martin Scorseses movie The Aviator?
- Which of these US Presidents did not attend Yale University?
- Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, earning a B.A. in this subject.
- What Yale graduate received Pulitzer Prizes for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and the play Our Town?
- Besides being Yale graduates, what else do the following actors have in common: Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Connelly?
- Which of these notable Yale graduates is not correctly matched with the movie they directed?
- What Yale graduate is credited with creating the first time bomb and first submarine ever used in combat?
- This actor, who earned an MFA from Yale School of Drama, is famous for his long-running roles on Law Order and Sex and the City.
- Who assumed office as President of Mexico on December 2006?
- Which of the following is not considered a Mexican dish?
- Although it was recognized on September 27, 1821, the Independence of Mexico from Spain was declared on September 16, 1810 by this priest.
- Vicente Fernandez, Pedro Infante, Javier Solis, and Lola Beltran are representatives of this traditional, Mexican genre of music.
- What does Cinco de Mayo (May 5th) commemorate in Mexican culture?
- What are the two animals featured on the Mexican flag?
- In 1879, which U.S. Supreme Court case invoked the famous dictum of Jefferson, calling for the erection of a wall of separation between church and state?
- In 1982, justice William J. Brennan delivered the U.S. Supreme Courts opinion on this case that stated undocumented children of alien parents cannot be denied a public education. It stemmed from a case in Texas.
- The case of Epperson v. State of Arkansas in 1968 dealt primarily with what?