| Category | Question | Answer |
| History | What Spanish explorer is credited with discovering the Mississippi River? | Hernando De Soto |
| History | Harry Truman became president at the end of what war? | World War II |
| History | In what century did the Dodo become extinct? | 17th |
| History | In which country was Robert Maxwell born? | Czechoslovakia |
| History | In what city is the Schloss Cecilienhof, site of a historic 1945 conference? | Potsdam |