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12th Grade Trivia

From Schrödinger's cat to Gatsby's green light, prove you didn't just spend senior year scrolling in the back of the classroom.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

After serving 27 years in prison for fighting against apartheid, who was inaugurated as South Africa’s first Black president in 1994?

Nelson Mandela

What scientific theory describes the large-scale motion of Earth’s lithosphere and explains how the supercontinent Pangaea broke apart?

Plate tectonics

Which High Renaissance artist spent four years on scaffolding between 1508 and 1512 to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for Pope Julius II?

Michelangelo

Which Paris fortress-prison was stormed on July 14, 1789, eventually becoming a permanent symbol of the French Revolution?

The Bastille

Which American author reached the top of the bestseller lists with her dystopian trilogy set in the nation of Panem?

Suzanne Collins