Today's Trivia Questions

19

Which deaf person won the Oscar as Best Actress in 1986 and for which film?

12

In 1926, Gertrude Ederly was the first woman to accomplish what athletic feat?

8

This 1983 documentary film staggered the senses because of its slow-motion and time-lapse photography of nature and man-made vistas. The title was Hopi Indian for "life out of balance." What was it?

6

What common English phrase originated from Shakespeare's play Hamlet and means something is suspicious?

8

What 2012 dance craze was inspired by a South Korean pop song by PSY?

6

When the Ottoman Turks besieged this European city in 1529, one item they brought along was coffee. Ever since then, this city has been famous for its cafés and the type of coffee served there. Which city is it?

13

What is the only country of Eastern Europe whose language developed from Latin?

10

The first Nobel Prize for physics was awarded in 1901 to the German physicist who discovered a short-wave ray called the x-ray. In Europe, they refer to x-rays by his name. Who was he?

12

What 1950s fad involved cramming as many people as possible into a telephone booth?

12

John Lennon's parents gave him a middle name which was the same as a politician's name. What was it?

6

What word do these all have in common? Ballet dancers, lawyers, and the Mayflower?

10

Inventor Thomas Edison improved the major infrastructure of New York City in 1881 when he installed the world's first what?

8

What is the Afrikaans word which means "separateness"?

43

Which US warship initially held Maduro and his wife after the January 2026 capture before they were flown to New York?

12

In 1930's Hollywood, this film director overwhelmed Depression-era audiences with his lavish, gaudy, kaleidoscopic patterns of female dancers and inventive camera angles. Who was he?