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In 1877, which Nez Perce leader led his people on a 1,000-mile retreat toward Canada before surrendering with the words "I will fight no more forever"?

  • Chief Joseph
  • Sitting Bull
  • Crazy Horse
  • Geronimo

 

2 of 15

Measured from the center of the Earth rather than sea level, which Ecuadorian volcano is the highest point on the planet, beating even Everest?

  • Aconcagua
  • Chimborazo
  • Denali
  • Kilimanjaro

 

3 of 15

In which 1986 cult action film does Kurt Russell play loudmouth trucker Jack Burton, dragged into a supernatural war under San Francisco's Chinatown?

  • Escape from New York
  • Road House
  • Big Trouble in Little China
  • Tango & Cash

 

4 of 15

Which novel is narrated by a teenage delinquent named Alex, who speaks an invented Russian-flavored slang called Nadsat?

  • Trainspotting
  • Fight Club
  • Naked Lunch
  • A Clockwork Orange

 

5 of 15

Which artist, working with his wife Jeanne-Claude, became famous for wrapping entire landmarks like Berlin's Reichstag and Paris's Pont Neuf in fabric?

  • Christo
  • Banksy
  • Richard Serra
  • Damien Hirst

 

6 of 15

Which Seattle band titled its 1991 debut album "Ten" after the jersey number of basketball player Mookie Blaylock?

  • Soundgarden
  • Pearl Jam
  • Alice in Chains
  • Mudhoney

 

7 of 15

Sometimes called a Greek version of lasagna, which baked dish layers eggplant, spiced meat, and a creamy béchamel on top?

  • pastitsio
  • dolmades
  • moussaka
  • avgolemono

 

8 of 15

First run in 1867 at Jerome Park, which race is the oldest and longest of American horse racing's Triple Crown?

  • the Preakness
  • the Travers
  • the Breeders' Cup
  • Belmont Stakes

 

9 of 15

Baseball pitchers constantly worry about tearing which group of four shoulder muscles and tendons?

  • the rotator cuff
  • the Achilles tendon
  • the meniscus
  • the labrum

 

10 of 15

In which 1896 Supreme Court case did Justice John Marshall Harlan write a lone dissent against the "separate but equal" doctrine?

  • Dred Scott
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Brown v. Board
  • Korematsu

 

11 of 15

Pluto is the most famous resident of which ring of icy bodies orbiting beyond Neptune?

  • the Oort Cloud
  • the asteroid belt
  • the Kuiper Belt
  • the heliosphere

 

12 of 15

Musicians can thank John Shore, who in 1711 invented which simple two-pronged device for producing a pure reference pitch?

  • the metronome
  • the pitch pipe
  • the diapason
  • a tuning fork

 

13 of 15

Which posh London department store, founded as a small grocer, grew into a sprawling Knightsbridge institution famous for its food halls?

  • Selfridges
  • Liberty
  • Harrods
  • Fortnum & Mason

 

14 of 15

Which baking soda brand took its name and logo from the symbol of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking?

  • Morton
  • Arm & Hammer
  • Borax
  • Brillo

 

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The name of which soft-furred South American rodent, prized for its coat, comes from a native Andean people?

  • the capybara
  • the agouti
  • the chinchilla
  • the viscacha

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