| Category | Question | Answer |
| History | New York's Wall Street was named when a wall was built there for what purpose? | Defense from attack |
| History | Who read the poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's first inauguration? | Maya Angelou |
| History | What word describes "a series of rulers from the same family"? | Dynasty |
| History | Socrates was sentenced to death by the forced ingestion of what type of deadly plant? | Hemlock |
| History | What disease killed 20,000 Parisians in 1832? | Cholera |