Question 1: Where did the Mardi Gras festival originate?
Question 2: Where was the superhero Batman born?
Gotham City is a fictional city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the home of Batman. Writer Bill Finger named the city after the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire in England.
Question 3: How many tasks did Hercules have to complete as penance?
The Twelve Labors of Hercules are a series of episodes concerning a penance carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes. They were accomplished over 12 years at the service of King Eurystheus.
Question 4: What is the collective noun for a group of flamingos?
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance, likely due to their flamboyant pink color and showy behavior. Flamingos are highly social birds that live in large colonies that can number in the thousands.
Question 5: Who is known as the "father of the Green Revolution" for developing high-yielding varieties of wheat?
Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in developing disease-resistant wheat varieties. His agricultural innovations are credited with saving over a billion people from starvation.
Question 6: If you wanted to see the Eiffel Tower, which city would you visit?
The Eiffel Tower is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world. It was constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair. The tower is 324 meters (1,063 ft) tall and was the tallest structure in the world until the Chrysler Building was built in New York City in 1930.
Question 7: If a plant's flowers grow at the end of the stem, what is the inflorescence called?
A raceme is an unbranched inflorescence with pedicellate flowers (flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels) arranged along the main stem. Examples of plants with racemes include snapdragons, lupines and golden wattle.
Question 8: In what part of the body would you find the pisiform bone?
The pisiform bone is a small, pea-shaped bone located in the wrist. It sits on the ulnar side of the wrist, just above the triquetrum bone. The pisiform is the last bone to ossify in the body, typically between ages 9-12.
Question 9: Which of these is NOT one of the Five Pillars of Islam?
The Five Pillars of Islam are declaration of faith (Shahada), prayer (Salah), charity (Zakat), fasting during Ramadan (Sawm), and pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj). Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday, not part of the Five Pillars of Islam.
Question 10: Who was the primary target of the FBI's COINTELPRO program in the 1960s?
COINTELPRO (COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert and illegal FBI projects aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations. The FBI's main target was Martin Luther King Jr., who they attempted to blackmail and publicly discredit.
The first Mardi Gras celebration in the United States took place in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. New Orleans began celebrating Mardi Gras in the 1730s after French-Canadian explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville brought the tradition to Louisiana.