PASSIVE TRIVIA



1. An Academy Award / give to Ingrid Bergman for her role in

a. Murder in the Orient Express.

b. Casablanca.

c. Stromboli.

2. Napoleon / defeat at the Battle of ______________ on June 18, 1815.

a. Trafalgar.

b. Waterloo

c. Austerlitz.

3. Tobacco / cultivate for its _______________.

a. roots.

b. Leaves.

c. Flowers.

4. Australia / discover by _______________.

a. the Portuguese.

b. The English.

c. The Spanish.

5. Aspirin / use for the first time by _______________.

a. the ancient Greeks and Native Americans.

b. The Romans and Turks.

c. The German.

6. Roman baths / discover at _______________:

a. Bath.

b. Oxford.

c. Torrelavega.

7. The Nobel Prize in ________________/ give to Marie Curie in 1911.

a. chemistry.

b. Physics.

c. Economic Sciences.

8. Goya / be born in _______________:

a. Zaragoza.

b. Teruel.

c. Huesca.

9. The name Pacific Ocean / give to it by _______________:

a. Magellan.

b. Balboa.

c. Americo Vespuccio.

10. Temujin / know as ________________:

a. Attila.

b. Genghis Khan.

c. Odysseus.

11.- The Island of _______________ / almost totally submerge by an earthquake.

a. Gran Canaria.

b. Santorini.

c. Sardinia.

12. Santo Domingo / found by _______________:

a. Christopher Columbus.

b. Bartholomew Columbus.

c. Rodrigo de Triana.

d.

13. A vaccine for poliomyelitis / develop in _______________:

a. 1949.

b. 1960.

c. 1975.

14. The Hound of the Baskervilles / write by _______________:

a. Oscar Wilde.

b. Charles Dickens.

c. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

15. American Beauty / make by _______________:

a. Sam Mendes.

b. Guy Richie.

c. Steven Spielberg.

16. The Beatles’ first international concert / hold in _______________:

a. Hamburg.

b. Liverpool.

c. Amsterdam.

17. The International Red Cross / base in _______________:

a. Genoa.

b. Geneva.

c. Lausanne.

18. Mexico / conquer by _______________:

a. Orellana.

b. Pizarro.

c. Cortés.

19. The Code of Hammurabi / find in _______________:

a. Iran.

b. Irak.

c. Syria.

20. The Venus de Milo / keep in _______________:

a. The British Museum.

b. The Louvre.

c. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

21. The lightning rod (pararrayos) / invent by _______________:

a. Benjamin Franklin.

b. Marie Curie.

c. Lavoisier.

22. The Galapagos Islands / first explore by _______________:

a. the Portuguese.

b. The English.

c. The Spanish.

1. The Peace of Utrecht / conclude at the end of _______________:

a. the War of the Spanish Succession.

b. The Spanish Civil War.

c. The Spanish war of Independence

2. The Nuremberg Trials / hold at the end of _______________:

a. WW1

b. WW2

c. The first Gulf War.

3. The First World War / know as _______________:

a. The Great War.

b. The War of the Six Days.

c. The War of Independence.

4. What country / govern by the Habsburg dynasty in the XIX Century?

a. Austria.

b. Germany.

c. France.

5. An Oscar / give to Frank Sinatra for his role in _______________:

a. On the Town.

b. From Here to Eternity.

c. The Manchurian Candidate.

6. The Oscars / first award in _______________:

a. 1927.

b. 1935.

c. 1940.

7. The prison at Alcatraz / close in _______________:

a. 1963

b. 1975

c. 1980

8. Nelson Mandela / elect President of _______________ in 1994.

a. Kenya.

b. New Zealand.

c. South Africa.

9. Tobacco / introduce to France in 1556 by _______________.

a. Jean Nicot.

b. Sir Francis Drake.

c. René Descartes.

10. New Guinea / first see by _______________.

a. a Portuguese.

b. An Englishman.

c. A Spaniard.

11. The Surrender of Breda / paint by _______________:

a. Goya.

b. El Greco.

c. Velázquez.

12. President John F. Kennedy / kill at _______________:

a. Houston.

b. New York.

c. Dallas.

13. _______________ / accuse of burning Rome in the year 64 AD.

a. Emperor Nero.

b. Emperor Claudius.

c. Julius Caesar.

14. The Pillars of the Earth / write by _______________:

a. John Grisham.

b. Ken Follet.

c. Tolkien.

15. The Versailles Treaty / sign at the end of _______________:

a. WW1.

b. WW2.

c. The Vietnam War.

16. Surfin’ around / sing by _______________:

a. The Mamas and the Papas.

b. The Beach Boys.

c. The Rolling Stones.

17. What precious metal/ discover in California in 1848?

a. Silver.

b. Platinum.

c. Gold.

18. The film Rear Window / make by _______________:

a. David O. Selznik.

b. Alfred Hitchcock.

c. Fritz Lang.

19. Swan Lake / compose by _______________:

a. Beethoven.

b. Tchaikovski.

c. Borodin.

20. Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon / paint by _______________:

a. Gauguin.

b. Dalí.

c. Picasso.

21. The Statue of Liberty / build by _______________:

a. a Frenchman

b. an Englishman

c. an American

22. The Eiffel Tower / build for the Paris World’s Fair in _______________:

a. 1889.

b. 1875.

c. 1900.

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