1.

In the play Oedipus Rex, Oedipus kills his father due to jealousy in loving his
mother.
a. !False
b. True

2. Who wrote the award winning musical quot;In The Heightsquot;?

a. !LinManuel Miranda
b. Steven Sondheim
c. John Phillips Sousa
d. Francis Scott Key

3. In Les Miseacute;rables, who is Prison Code 24601?

a. Jean Claude Van Damme
b. Javert
c. !Jean Valjean
d. Marius Pontmercy

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

5. In Macbeth, the eyes of what animals were used in the Witches039; cauldron?
a. Sharks
b. Humans
c. !Newts
d. Squids

6. Which of the following is not a piece from the 1950039;s musical West Side
Story?
a. Tonight
b. Mambo
c. !The Back Alley
d. Maria

7. quot;Doctor Whoquot; star David Tennant performed in a rendition of which

Shakespearean play?
a. The Tempest
b. The Taming of the Shrew
c. Othello
d. !Hamlet

8. After England, more Shakespeare plays are set in this present day country than
in any other.
a. France
b. Greece
c. United States
d. !Italy
9. The musical quot;Dirty Rotten Scoundrelsquot; is set in what country?
a. Germany
b. Sweden
c. USA
d. !France

10. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical quot;Catsquot; is based off a book of poems
written by which author?
a. Emily Dickenson
b. Andrew Lloyd Webber
c. !T.S. Elliot
d. Robert Frost

1. What is the capital of the American state of Arizona?

a. Raleigh
b. Tallahassee
c. Montgomery
d. !Phoenix

2. Seoul is the capital of North Korea.

a. True
b. !False

3. Greenland is covered with grass and Iceland covered with ice.

a. True
b. !False

4. The derisive acronym quot;PIIGSquot; refers to which of the following European

countries and their economic statuses?
a. !Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain
b. Portugal, Iceland, Ireland, Greece, Serbia
c. Poland, Iceland, Italy, Greenland, Spain
d. Poland, Iceland, Italy, Greece, Serbia

5. What name was historically used for the Turkish city currently known as
Istanbul?
a. Adrianople
b. Huuml;davendigar
c. Souml;uuml;t
d. !Constantinople

6. What is the official language of Costa Rica?

a. !Spanish
b. English
c. Portuguese
d. Creole

7. Which of these African countries list quot;Spanishquot; as an official language?

a. Cameroon
 b. Angola
c. !Equatorial Guinea
d. Guinea

8. You could walk from Norway to North Korea while only passing through Russia.
a. False
b. !True

9. Where is the world039;s oldest still operational space launch facility located?
a. Iran
b. !Kazakhstan
c. United States
d. Russia

10. Which country is the home of the largest Japanese population outside of Japan?
a. The United States
b. China
c. !Brazil
d. Russia

11. What is the name of New Zealand039;s indigenous people?

a. !Maori
b. Polynesians
c. Samoans
d. Vikings

12. Bridgetown is the capital of which island country in the Carribean?

a. !Barbados
b. Dominica
c. Cuba
d. Jamaicalrm;

13. Only one country in the world starts with the letter Q.
a. False
b. !True

1. What was William Frederick Cody better known as?

a. Pawnee Bill
b. !Buffalo Bill
c. Wild Bill Hickok
d. Billy the Kid

2. The first televised presidential debate was between Jimmy Carter and Gerald
Ford.
a. !False
b. True

3. The Spitfire originated from a racing plane.

 a. False
b. !True

4. quot;I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to
say itquot; is a quote from French philosopher Voltaire.
a. !False
b. True

5. On which day did construction start on quot;The Pentagonquot;, the headquarters

for the United States Department of Defense?
a. !September 11, 1941
b. September 2, 1962
c. June 15, 1947
d. January 15, 1943

6. Former United States Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within
hours of each other.
a. False
b. !True

7. The Battle of Trafalgar took place on October 23rd, 1805

a. True
b. !False

8. Which of the following countries was the first to send an object into space?
a. China
b. USA
c. Russia
d. !Germany

9. Which day did World War I begin?

a. !July 28
b. April 28
c. June 28
d. January 28

10. Which modern country is known as quot;The Graveyard of Empiresquot;?

a. !Afghanistan
b. China
c. Iraq
d. Russia

11. Before the American colonies switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1752, on
what date did their new year start?
a. !March 25th
b. June 1st
c. December 1st
d. September 25th

12. Which of the following is not in the IndoEuropean language family?

a. Hindi
b. !Finnish
c. English
d. Russian