General Knowledge #1

What animal can roll into a protective ball within hours of being born, though its leathery shell takes a few days to harden?

Sales of chess sets in the U.S. went up by 87 percent in the weeks after the 2020 release of what TV series?

What inventor was partially deaf, relying on an associate to be his “ears” while working on the phonograph?

Author Suzanne Collins was inspired to create what series while flipping channels between reality TV and Iraq War footage? The _____ ______.

Founded in 1943, Chicago’s Uno Pizzeria & Grill claims to be the birthplace of which culinary innovation? _____ _____ Pizza.

A U.S. military veteran, who held a 1961 benefit concert at Pearl Harbor to raise money for a battleship memorial?

Following the January 2026 US operation to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Trump claimed that a new weapon only in the hands of the Americans was used to incapacitate guards, he called this weapon the ___________.

German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt wrote “description is useless, must be seen” after discovering a colorful bust of what historical figure in 1912?

NASA’s first Mars rover that reached Mars in July 1997 was given what name in honor of a 19th-century abolitionist?

When no candidate gets a majority of Electoral College votes, a situation that has happened only twice in U.S. history, what body chooses the president? The _______ __ ________.

Before starring in movies such as Fargo, which actor was a New York City firefighter in the 1980s and returned to work alongside firefighters in the days after 9/11?

Polaroid Corporation issued a statement asking people not to shake their pictures following the success of Hey Ya! by _______

The equator passes through 13 countries across South America, Africa, and Asia/Oceania: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Maldives, Indonesia, and _______

The current banknotes of Scotland feature Scottish wildlife. The animals include mackerel on the £5 note, otters on the £10 note, red squirrels on the £20 note, and an ______ on the £50 note.

Rajani Palme Dutt was a British political figure, journalist and theoretician who served as the fourth general secretary of the _______ Party of Great Britain during World War II from October 1939 to June 1941.