2. Mainstream Egyptology says the Sphinx was carved during the reign of Khafre. Approximately which time period would that be?
7000-5000 B.C.
2520-2494 B.C.
200-40 B.C.
1981-1995

3. Who was the first person to doubt that Homer was the single author of the The Iliad and The Odyssey?
Aristotle
F.A. Wolf
Herodotus
Giambattista Vico

4. Where was the Shroud of Turin found?
England
Jordan
Israel
France

5. How much did Ryoei Saito pay for Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet?
$30 million
$55.3 million
$82.5 million
$90 million

6. Which ancient people were obsessed with unicorns?
the Egyptians
the Indus
the Anasazi
the Mesopotamians

7. How many Immortal Beloved letters written by Beethoven were found?
three
four
five
six

8. Which Indian people probably descended from the Anasazi?
Navajo
Comanche
Pueblo
Cherokee

9. The Amber Room was originally built in which palace?
Alexander Palace
Winter Palace
Gatchina Palace
Great Catherine Palace

10. The controversial Dahlgren papers were from which war?
the Revolutionary War
the War of 1812
the Civil War
the Spanish-American War

11. How did archaeologists trace the movements of soldiers on the Little Bighorn battlefield?
distribution of artifacts
dramatic re-enactments
footprints
eyewitness accounts

12. During World War II, Japanese soldiers allegedly buried gold on which Pacific island(s)?
the Philippines
Okinawa
Indonesia
Hawaii

13. Whom did German physicist Werner Heisenberg visit in Copenhagen in September 1941?
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
Albert Speer
Max Born

14. Which high-ranking Nazi official flew to and crashed in Scotland in 1941?
Hermann Goering
Adolf Hitler
Rudolf Hess
Heinrich Himmler

15. Although the CIA has long been blamed for the assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, new evidence suggests operatives from which nation were primarily responsible?
the Soviet Union
England
Belgium
Ghana

16. To which of the following did Marco Polo not refer in his account of his alleged travels to China?
the Silk Road
the Great Wall of China
paper money
coal

17. All of the following places have been associated with King Arthur except:
Buckingham Palace
Brittany, France
Glastonbury Abbey
Tintagel Castle

18. While serving as pontiff, the supposed female pope was known as:
Pope James Anglicus
Pope Joseph Anglicus
Pope John Anglicus
Pope John Paul

19. Some people claim that Christopher Columbus knowingly followed whose footsteps to the New World?
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
Henry the Navigator
Leif Ericson

20. One of the people most often cited as being the real author of William Shakespeare's work is:
Elizabeth I
Edward de Vere
Walter Raleigh
Thomas More

21. How much money did D.B. Cooper get away with when he skyjacked a plane?
$30,000
$200,000
$875,000
$2,200,000