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Category: History
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |USA|
Which President of the United States remains the only one never to have married, and is widely remembered for presiding over the deepening national crisis immediately before the Civil War?
James Buchanan
Category: History
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |USA|
What was the name of the enslaved man who, after the death of his owner and after having lived in free territories where he married and had children, brought a lawsuit seeking recognition as a free person — a case that led to what is often regarded as the worst decision in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that the Constitution did not extend citizenship to people of Black African descent?
Dred Scott
Category: Literature
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Florida| |Key West| |USA|
In whose house in Key West, Florida — today a museum — does a large population of cats still live, about half of them polydactyl, meaning that they have more toes on their paws than usual, like their ancestor Snow White?
Ernest Hemingway
Category: Music
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Grammy| |Motown Records| |Paul Justman|
What was the name of the Motown Records studio group that played on almost every one of the label’s hits between 1959 and 1972? Although the exact number of musicians involved is not known, Paul Justman’s 2002 documentary identified thirteen of them, and those musicians were later honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Funk Brothers
Category: Sport
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Basketball| |John Stockton| |NBA|
John Stockton remains the NBA’s all-time leader in both assists and steals. Which player holds that same distinction in the history of the EuroLeague?
Nick Calathes
Category: History
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |CBS| |World War II|
Edward R. Murrow, the celebrated CBS correspondent reporting from Europe during the Second World War, regularly ended his broadcasts with which now-iconic phrase?
Good night, and good luck
Category: History
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |France| |Germany| |Normandy| |World War II|
Perhaps the most famous tank commander of the Second World War was a German officer highly decorated for destroying more than 100 tanks on the Eastern Front. He became especially famous in Normandy, where, according to German accounts, he destroyed 14 British tanks and 15 transport vehicles in a single action with his Tiger. What was his name?
Category: History
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Russia| |Soviet Union| |Stalingrad| |World War II|
What was the codename of the late-1942 Soviet operation that encircled the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, a name it shared with a planet of the Solar System?
Operation Uranus
Category: History
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Spitfire| |World War II|
Which British aircraft manufacturer produced the Spitfire, the celebrated single-seat fighter that became one of the defining combat aircraft of the Second World War?
Supermarine
Category: Film
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Clint Eastwood|
Walt Kowalski and Frankie Dunn are two acclaimed Clint Eastwood characters from the 21st century. Name the film in which he plays Walt, and the film in which he plays Frankie.
Gran Torino and Million Dollar Baby
Category: Science
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Medicine|
What is the medical term for the tiny blood components, lacking a nucleus, that are essential to the process of coagulation?
Platelets
Category: Film
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |The Wizard of Oz|
In the classic film The Wizard of Oz, the first people Dorothy encounters in that fantastical land are a nation of little folk. She saves them from the Wicked Witch when her house falls on her. What are these people called?
The Munchkins
Category: Music
Published: 30. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Classical music|
Franz Liszt remains one of the towering figures of 19th-century European music and is still regarded as a national cultural icon in which country?
Hungary
Category: Art
Published: 30. 3. 2026.
For centuries, artists and later censors used a particular leaf to conceal the genitalia of nude figures in paintings and sculpture. From which tree did this traditional leaf come?
Fig tree
Category: Geography
Published: 30. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Calvi| |France| |French Foreign Legion|
Camp Raffalli, home to one of the French Foreign Legion’s parachute regiments, lies near the town of Calvi. Calvi is situated on which French Mediterranean island, also locally associated with the birth of Christopher Columbus?
Corsica
Category: Sport
Published: 30. 3. 2026.
Terms: |France| |Martin Fourcade| |Winter Olympic Games|
Martin Fourcade is regarded as one of the greatest French Winter Olympians of all time. He won multiple Olympic gold medals between 2010 and the Pyeongchang Games of 2018. In which sport did Martin Fourcade compete?
Biathlon
Category: Trivia
Published: 30. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Coco Chanel| |Eva Longoria| |Fashion| |France|
The French fashion icon known to the world as Coco Chanel was in fact born under a different first name, one also borne by Eva Longoria’s character Gabrielle Solis in Desperate Housewives. What was Coco Chanel’s real first name?
Gabrielle
Category: Science
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Biology|
Which Greek-based scientific term describes an ecological community made up of plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms existing together in a defined living space?
Biocenosis
Category: History
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Ferdinand Marcos| |Philippines| |Politics|
Which Filipino political leader succeeded Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and became the eleventh president of the Philippines?
Corazon Aquino
Category: Sport
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Boxing| |George Foreman| |Mhammad Ali|
The legendary “Rumble in the Jungle,” in which Muhammad Ali overcame George Foreman to reclaim the heavyweight crown, was staged in which African city?
Kinshasa
Category: Trivia
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
The famous conservation organization WWF has long been identified by the image of which animal in its logo?
Giant panda
Category: Science
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
What term is used to describe a cybernetic organism consisting of both biological and artificial components, especially one whose physical capabilities have been enhanced by technology?
Cyborg
Category: Film
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Wales|
Which Welsh actor, born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr., became one of the most distinctive screen voices of his generation and is especially remembered for films such as Becket, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold?
Richard Burton
Category: Sport
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Ice Hockey| |NHL|
Which early Montreal Canadiens goaltender, nicknamed the “Chicoutimi Cucumber” for his calm manner in goal, gave his surname to the NHL trophy awarded to outstanding netminders?
Georges Vézina
Category: Geography
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Croatia| |Italy| |River Po|
What is the name of the sea into which the Po River ultimately drains, and which washes the eastern coast of Italy and the western coast of Croatia?
Adriatic Sea