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1 of 15

In 1933, Wiley Post became the first aviator to accomplish what feat, taking about eight days?

  • Cross the Atlantic nonstop
  • Fly solo around the world
  • Break the sound barrier
  • Reach the North Pole by air

 

2 of 15

Two of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution were the mustachioed Pancho Villa and which "Tiger of Morelos"?

  • Benito Juárez
  • Porfirio Díaz
  • Emiliano Zapata
  • Venustiano Carranza

 

3 of 15

Which clotting agents form inside giant bone marrow cells called megakaryocytes?

  • White blood cells
  • Antibodies
  • Red blood cells
  • Platelets

 

4 of 15

The clergy, the nobility, and the people made up France's three what, before the Revolution?

  • Estates
  • Houses
  • Parliaments
  • Assemblies

 

5 of 15

Alexander Pushkin dramatized Russian history in which play about a 17th century czar?

  • Eugene Onegin
  • The Queen of Spades
  • Boris Godunov
  • The Bronze Horseman

 

6 of 15

Spanning the Royal Gorge in Colorado, America's highest bridge stands nearly 1,000 feet above which river?

  • The Colorado
  • The Rio Grande
  • The Arkansas
  • The Platte

 

7 of 15

Which gastrointestinal disease most commonly develops in people in their twenties, despite its witchy-sounding name?

  • Celiac
  • Crohn's
  • Diverticulitis
  • Gastritis

 

8 of 15

Lasting from 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago, which epoch was followed by the similar-sounding Pleistocene?

  • The Miocene
  • The Oligocene
  • The Pliocene
  • The Holocene

 

9 of 15

In the 1930s, which director made upbeat films like "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," starring Gary Cooper?

  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • John Ford
  • Howard Hawks
  • Frank Capra

 

10 of 15

The King Abdulaziz Airport, with its special hajj terminal, is located in which country?

  • The United Arab Emirates
  • Egypt
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Jordan

 

11 of 15

A Caravaggio painting in Rome's Contarelli Chapel shows Jesus pointing at which tax collector turned Apostle?

  • Luke
  • Thomas
  • Peter
  • Matthew

 

12 of 15

Beginning in 264 B.C. in Sicily, which series of wars saw the Romans reverse-engineer a captured warship design?

  • The Punic Wars
  • The Peloponnesian War
  • The Gallic Wars
  • The Social War

 

13 of 15

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was photographed in which scandalous getup of a long skirt worn over trousers?

  • Culottes
  • Knickerbockers
  • Bloomers
  • Pantaloons

 

14 of 15

This capital city lies on the Anatolian Plateau, roughly 3,000 feet above sea level.

  • Tehran
  • Damascus
  • Ankara
  • Baku

 

15 of 15

The shorter of the two forearm bones, on the thumb side, is called what?

  • The ulna
  • The humerus
  • The radius
  • The tibia

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