Soulfly vs. World History Trivia Quiz

Answer: Conquer

"Conquer" was released on July 29, 2008, over three months before Barack Obama was elected president and nearly six months before he sworn in as the 44th president. This album was released when George W. Bush was still the president.

Answer: 3

"3", released June 25, 2002, was the first Soulfly album after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The album includes the track "9/11/01", which is a one-minute silent track.

On 9/11, four airplanes were hijacked and deliberately crashed into buildings on the ground, including both buildings of the World Trade Center.

Answer: true

That was in 1998 when both the debut album was released by Soulfly (April 21) and first component of the ISS was put into space (November). The purpose of the ISS is to perform astronomy, meteorology, physics, biology (including human biology), and other experiments, and to test spacecraft systems and equipment.

Answer: Boston Red Sox

"Prophecy" was released on March 30, 2004, seven months before the Red Sox ended their 86-year World Series championship drought in late October. "Dark Ages" was the first Soulfly album released since the Red Sox won their first championship in the digital era.

Imagine if there are baseball prophets, they would have correctly predicted that Red Sox will win the World Series in 2004 before the 2004 baseball season even began!

St. Louis Cardinals were the team the Red Sox beat in the World Series. Chicago White Sox would win their first World Series Champions the following year for the first time since the year before the Red Sox won previously. Chicago Cubs still haven't won the World Series since 1908, but they could've won the last World Series until "Prophecy" was released.

There is another Soulfly album released in the same year the Red Sox won the World Series: "Savages" in 2013.

Answer: Enslaved

"Enslaved" was released on March 13, 2012, over nine months before the date some believed the world would end, December 21, 2012. Of course, the world didn't end as it was just a wild theory, and more than nine months after, "Savages" was released. Rather, it was the end of the particular 5,126-year cycle of the Mayan Long Count Calendar.

Answer: Hurricane Katrina

In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States, including New Orleans, Louisiana. Five weeks later in early October, the fifth Soulfly album, "Dark Ages", was released.

Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the U.S. as of release date of "Dark Ages". The hurricane cost $108 billion in damage and claimed at least 1,833 lives.

Answer: No

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from the ninth planet on August 24, 2006. No Soulfly album was released in 2006 after releasing albums for four consecutive even-numbered years. Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet because it is too small to be a planet, thus it is part of the Kuiper Belt.

Answer: 4

Soulfly released four albums before YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005. "Dark Ages" was the first Soulfly album released after the launch.

You can even listen to Soulfly songs on YouTube, including those released when YouTube was nonexistent!

Answer: 2010

The disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, 2010 with the explosion, fire, and sinking of the rig. The spill was capped on July 15, 2010. The 87-day spill dumped an estimated 4.9 million barrels, making this the largest marine oil spill in world history. "Omen" was released on May 25 while oil was leaking into the Gulf.

Answer: 2nd

The second Soulfly album was "Primitive", released in the same year the Summer Olympics took place in Sydney, Australia. The fourth album was released in the same year when the Summer Olympics were held in Athens, Greece; the sixth album was released in the same year Beijing, China hosted the Summer Olympics; the eighth was released in the year when London, England hosted the Olympics.