1. When was the play quot;Macbethquot; written?

a. 1628
b. !1606
c. 1605
d. 1723

2. Which of these musicals won the Tony Award for Best Musical?
a. The Color Purple
b. !Rent
c. American Idiot
d. Newsies

3. In which Shakespearean play will you find the suicide of Ophelia?

a. Macbeth
b. King Lear
c. !Hamlet
d. Othello

4. What is the name of Broadway039;s first quot;longrunquot; musical?

a. Wicked
b. Hamilton
c. The Book of Mormon
d. !The Elves

5. What was George Bizet039;s last opera?

a. !Carmen
b. Don Rodrigue
c. Les pecirc;cheurs de perles
d. Griseacute;lidis

6. In Jeff Wayne039;s Musical Version of War of the Worlds, the chances of anything
coming from Mars are...
a. A hundred to one
b. A billion to one
c. !A million to one
d. A trillion to one

7. How many plays is Shakespeare generally considered to have written?

a. !37
b. 18
c. 54
d. 25

8. Who serves as the speaker of the prologue in Shakespeare039;s Romeo and Juliet?
a. Montague
b. Capulet
c. Refrain
d. !Chorus

9. Who played quot;Charlie Pricequot; in the musical quot;Kinky Bootsquot; on

Broadway in New York from May 26th Aug 6th 2017?
 a. Dallon Weekes
b. Tom Cruise
c. Ed Sheeren
d. !Brendon Urie

10. Which Shakespeare play features the stage direction quot;Enter a messenger,
with two heads and a handquot;?
a. King Lear
b. Macbeth
c. !Titus Andronicus
d. Othello

11. Which of these plays was famously first performed posthumously after the
playwright committed suicide?
a. Hamilton
b. !4.48 Psychosis
c. The Birthday Party
d. Much Ado About Nothing

12. Who wrote the play 039;Angels in America039;?

a. Tom Stoppard
b. !Tony Kusher
c. Matthew Lopez
d. Anthony Neilson

1. What Russian automatic gasoperated assault rifle was developed in the Soviet
Union in 1947, and is still popularly used today?
a. MG 42
b. M16
c. !AK47
d. RPK

2. Spain was formed in 1469 with the marriage of Isabella I of Castile and
Ferdinand II of what other Iberian kingdom?
a. Navarre
b. !Aragon
c. Galicia
d. Leoacute;n

3. What was the name of the spy ring that helped the United States win the
Revolutionary War?
a. !Culper Ring
b. New York Spy Ring
c. Washington039;s Spies
d. Unnamed

4. The crown of the Empire State Building was originally built for what purpose?
a. !Airship Dock
b. Flag Pole
c. Antennae
 d. Lightning Rod

5. When was quot;The Gadgetquot;, the first nuclear device to be detonated, tested?
a. August 6, 1945
b. June 22, 1945
c. !July 16, 1945
d. April 5, 1945

6. What year did the Battle of Agincourt take place?

a. !1415
b. 1401
c. 1463
d. 1422

7. In what year did the North American Video Game Crash occur?
a. 1970
b. !1983
c. 1993
d. 1982

8. Where and when was the first cardboard box made for industrial use?
a. United States, 1917
b. England, 1917
c. !England, 1817
d. United States, 1817

9. The Hagia Sophia was commissioned by which emperor of the Byzantine Empire?
a. Constantine IV
b. Theodosius the Great
c. !Justinian I
d. Arcadius

10. How long did World War II last?

a. 5 years
b. 7 years
c. 4 years
d. !6 years

11. What was the name of one of the surviving palaces of Henry VIII located near
Richmond, London?
a. St James039;s Palace
b. !Hampton Court
c. Buckingham Palace
d. Coughton Court

12. Which U.S. President was in office when the Gulf War began?
a. George W. Bush
b. !George H. W. Bush
c. Ronald Regan
d. Richard Nixon
13. Which of the following is not in the IndoEuropean language family?
a. English
b. !Finnish
c. Hindi
d. Russian

1. The S in Harry S. Truman stands for quot;Samuelquot;.

a. True
b. !False

2. What is centralism?
a. The grey area in the spectrum of political left and right.
b. Remaining politically neutral.
c. Conforming to one single common political agenda.
d. ! Concentration of power and authority in a central organization.

3. Which of these is NOT one of Donald Trump039;s children?

a. !Julius
b. Ivanka
c. Eric
d. Donald Jr.

4. Who succeeded Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union?
a. Leonid Brezhnev
b. Boris Yeltsin
c. !Nikita Khrushchev
d. Mikhail Gorbachev

5. In June 2017, Saudi Arabia and Egypt broke off ties with which country over its
supposed support for terrorism?
a. !Qatar
b. Russia
c. Bahrain
d. United States of America

6. Former president Theodore Roosevelt 19001908 ran for another term under the
Progressive Party in 1912.
a. False
b. !True

7. What year did the effort to deploy the Common Core State Standards CCSS in the
US begin?
a. 2006
b. 1997
c. 2012
d. !2009
8. Between 1973 to 1990, what country was ruled by dictator Augusto Pinochet?
a. Indonesia
b. Ethiopia
c. !Chile
d. Nicaragua