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Sunday School - Season 2, Week 1
What is Sunday School?
Sunday School is a free series of quizzes consisting of one extra question for each theme from a past week of School of Trivia. (Essentially, it’s a once-a-week version of the School of Trivia league.) Feel free to forward this along to those who might be interested! You can check your scores on the "Sunday" tab of the leaderboard page. If you enjoy these quizzes, I hope you'll consider joining the league! More info about how it all works (plus some more sample quizzes) can be found at schooloftrivia.com.
Season 1 results!
Congrats to Joe H. for winning Season 1 of Sunday School!
The top ten finishers were as follows:
Joe H.
Alan Carver
Dr. David Stiasny
Brian Nieves
MaryC
LyndaB
Matt Schiffler
Austin Hofeman
Jamie Shum
rowan ward
Invasions theme entries
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: 1979 event that led to a mass boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
British Invasion: mid-1960s musical movement led by The Beatles in which British rock/pop musicians became wildly popular in the U.S.
Norman Invasion: 11th century invasion of England depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry
U.S. invasion of Grenada: 1983 military intervention commemorated in Grenada on a national holiday known as Thanksgiving Day
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): beloved remake of the classic 1956 sci-fi horror film of the same name
Sunday School - Season 2, Week 1
[Q1] Day 16 - “Congratulations, It’s a Boycott!”: THE ARREST OF ROSA PARKS IN 1955 RESULTED IN A BOYCOTT OF THE SEGREGATED BUS SYSTEM IN THIS U.S. STATE CAPITAL, THE NAME OF WHICH CAN OFTEN BE HEARD (IN A DIFFERENT CONTEXT) WHILE WATCHING "THE SIMPSONS"
[Q2] Day 17 - “Five Facts on the Fab Four”: THIS ORIGINAL BEATLES BASSIST LEFT THE BAND TO FOCUS ON HIS CAREER AS A PAINTER BEFORE SUDDENLY DYING OF A BRAIN HEMORRHAGE IN 1962
[Q3] Day 18 - “Down on the Bayeux”: THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY FEATURES THE EARLIEST KNOWN DEPICTION OF THIS PLOW-LIKE FARMING IMPLEMENT WHICH SHARES ITS NAME WITH A BRITISH BOARDING SCHOOL ATTENDED BY CHURCHILL AND NEHRU
[Q4] Day 19 - “Thanksgiving Day”: THIS TERM FOR THE CHIEF SINGER OF LITURGICAL MUSIC IN A SYNAGOGUE IS ALSO THE LAST NAME OF BIG-EYED SINGER EDDIE, THE ONLY LIVING PERSON TO BE THE SUBJECT OF A FULL-SIZED BALLOON AT THE MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE
[Q5] Day 20 - “Let’s Run It Back!”: THIS BOSTON-SET REMAKE OF THE HONG KONG FILM "INFERNAL AFFAIRS" WAS THE ONLY REMAKE TO WIN BEST PICTURE AT THE OSCARS, UNTIL "CODA" WON THIS YEAR
Quiz link: Sunday School - Season 2, Week 1
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