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General Quiz

This document contains trivia questions across several categories including sports, technology, food & drink, health, comics, geography, and music. The questions test knowledge in various domains through multiple choice or short answer questions. There are 10 questions in each section covering topics such as sports championships, computer terms, international cuisine, human anatomy, superheroes, countries and continents, and famous music groups.
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SPORT different types of what?
1. How many soccer players should each team have on Answer: Web browsers
the field at the start of each match? 10. What was Twitter’s original name?
Answer: 11 Answer: twitter
2. When Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls,
how many NBA Championships did he win?
Answer: Six
3. Which Williams sister has won more Grand Slam Science Trivia Questions
titles? This part focuses on the weather, planets, and elements.
Answer: Serena Think you can answer all the trivia questions correctly?
4. What country won the very first FIFA World Cup in Try these questions!
1930?
Answer: Uruguay 1. Who discovered penicillin?
5. In what year was the first-ever Wimbledon Answer: Alexander Fleming
Championship held? 2. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in
Answer: 1877 1903)?
6. Which racer holds the record for the most Grand Prix Answer: Marie Curie
wins? 3. What part of the atom has no electric charge?
Answer: Michael Schumacher Answer: Neutron
7. Which Jamaican runner is an 11-time world champion 4. What is the symbol for potassium?
and holds the record in the 100 and 200-meter race? Answer: K
Answer: Usain Bolt 5. What is meteorology the study of?
8. Which boxer was known as “The Greatest” and “The Answer: The weather
People’s Champion”? 6. Which planet is the hottest in the solar system?
Answer: Muhammad Ali Answer: Venus
9. What sport was Jesse Owens involved in? 7. Which natural disaster is measured with a Richter
Answer: Track and field scale?
10. Which hockey team did Wayne Gretzky play for in Answer: Earthquakes
the ‘80s? 8. What animals are pearls found in?
Answer: Edmonton Oilers Answer: Oysters
9. Which planet has the most gravity?
Technology Trivia Questions Answer: Jupiter
These trivia questions focus on cellular phones, 10. How many molecules of oxygen does ozone have?
operating systems, the history of the computer and social Answer: 3
media.  
1. What year was the very first model of the iPhone Auto Trivia Questions
released? These trivia questions are all about the automotive world
 Answer: 2007 including its history and modern advancements.
2. What’s the shortcut for the “copy” function on most 1. Who is often credited with creating the world’s first
computers? car?
Answer: ctrl c Answer: Karl Benz
3. What is often seen as the smallest unit of memory? 2. Which animal can be seen on the Porsche logo?
Answer: kilobyte Answer: Horse
4. Is Java a type of OS? 3. Which companies are part of the Big Three?
Answer: No Answer: General Motors, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles,
5. Who is often called the father of the computer? and Ford Motor Company
Answer: Charles Babbage 4. Which company owns Bugatti, Lamborghini. Audi,
6. What does “HTTP” stand for? Porsche, and Ducati?
Answer: HyperText Transfer Protocol Answer: Volkswagen
7. What is the name of the man who launched eBay back 5. Which auto brand was the first to offer seat belts?
in 1995? Answer: Nash Motors
Answer: Pierre Omidyar 6. What does BMW stand for (in English)?
8. Which email service is owned by Microsoft? Answer: Bavarian Motor Works
Answer: Hotmail 7. What or who is the Ford Mustang named after?
Answer: A fighter plane from WWII
8. How many parts (screws and bolts included) does the
average car have? Health
Answer: 30, 000 1. About how many taste buds does the average human
9. Which car is often called the first muscle car? tongue have?
Answer: The Pontiac GTO Answer: 10, 000
10. In what year was the Corvette introduced? 2. What percentage of our bodies is made up of water?
Answer: 1953 Answer: 60-65%
3. Which element is said to keep bones strong?
Answer: Calcium
4. What does the acronym AIDS stand for?
Food & Drink Trivia Answer: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
5. How many times does the heartbeat per day?
Questions Answer: More than 100 000
This trivia quiz question and answers section are about
different names for food and dishes from around the
world.
Comics Trivia Questions
Dishes These questions cover questions about the two biggest
1. What is the common name for dried plums? superhero comic houses in the world.
Answer: Prunes
2. What name does deer meat go by?
Answer: Venison Marvel
3. What other name does “corn” go by? 1. What is Hawkeye’s real name?
Answer: Maize Answer: Clint Barton
4. What’s the primary ingredient in hummus? 2. Which Avenger is the only one who could calm the
Answer: Chickpeas Hulk down?
Answer: Black Widow
Around the World 3. Night Crawler, member of the X-Men, has what kind
1. Which country produces the most coffee in the world? of powers?
Answer: Brazil Answer: Can teleport
2. Which country invented tea? 4. Which infinity stone was located on Vormir?
Answer: China Answer: Soul Stone
3. Which kind of alcohol is Russia is notoriously known 5. Which original Avenger was not in the first few
for? movies?
Answer: Vodka Answer: The Wasp
4. What is the national dish of Spain?
Answer: Paella DC
5. Which European nation was said to invent hot dogs? 1. What was Superman’s birth name?
Answer: Germany Answer: Kal-El
6. Which country is responsible for giving us pizza and 2. What is the name of Batman’s butler?
pasta? Answer: Alfred
Answer: Italy 3. Aquaman is from which city under the sea?
Health Trivia Questions Answer: Atlantis
These trivia questions focus on the body’s systems, 4. Who is Green Lantern’s nemesis?
organs, and diseases. Answer: Sinestro
5. What does DC stand for?
Anatomy Detective Comics
1. Which organ has four chambers? Geography Trivia Questions
Answer: The heart These trivia questions will take you on a tour around the
2. In which body part can you find the femur? world? Just how much do you know about each country?
Answer: Leg
3. What is your body’s largest organ?
Europe and the Americas
Answer: The skin 1. What is the name of the thin, but a long country that
4. What kind of cells are found in the brain? spans more than half of the western coast of South
Answer: Neurons America?
5. Which bone are babies born without? Answer: Chile
Answer: Knee cap 2. Which American state is the largest (by area)?
Answer: Alaska The music trivia questions will test your knowledge
3. Which two countries share the longest (or largest) about songs and artists across many genres.
international border? 1. What was the name of the group Justin Timberlake
Answer: Canada and the USA used to be part of?
4. What is the smallest country in the world? Answer: N’ SYNC
Answer: Vatican City 2. What was the name of the rock band formed by
Asia, Africa, and Australia Jimmy Page?
1. Which continent is the largest? Answer: Led Zeppelin
Answer: Asia 3. Which country did AC/DC originate in?
2. Which of the Seven Wonders is located in Egypt? Answer: Australia
Answer: The Pyramids of Giza 4. What genre of music did Taylor Swift start in?
3. What is the capital of New Zealand? Answer: Country
Answer: Wellington 5. Who was the lead singer of the iconic ‘80s band,
4. Which desert is the largest in the world? Culture Club?
Answer: The Sahara Desert (although Antarctica which Answer: Boy George
is larger might qualify as a desert as well) 6. Which name is rapper Sean Combs better known by?
5. What is the name of the world’s longest river? Answer: P. Diddy
Answer: The Nile 7. Which musical legend is Jay-Z married to?
6. Which city in India would you find the Taj Mahal in? Answer: Beyonce
Answer: Agra 8. How many Grammys does John Legend have?
Answer: Ten
9. Which British girl group had a member by the name
Holidays and Celebrations Trivia Questions of Mel B?
This section of questions covers events celebrated all Answer: Spice Girls
over the world. 10. Which song by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee has
the most views (of all time) on YouTube?
Americas Answer: Despacito
1. What holiday is called “turkey day”?
Answer: Thanksgiving Day
2. In the US, what month is Labor Day in? Fashion Trivia Questions
Answer: September This groups of questions explore everything from the
3. When is Canada Day? history of fashion to popular fashion brands.
Answer: July 1st
4. Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos, means what in English? History of Fashion
Answer: Day of the Dead 1. Who is seen as the most famous female American
Europe fashion icon of the 1960’s?
1. Oktoberfest in Germany is celebrated with what Answer: Jacqueline Kennedy
drink? 2. The American designer born in 1939 as Ralph Lifshitz
Answer: Beer is better known as what?
2. What is celebrated on the 2nd Saturday in June in the Answer: Ralph Lauren
United Kingdom? 3. According to the commercial, “what is the fabric of
Answer: The Queen’s Official Birthday our lives”?
3. Which country celebrates the Storming of the Answer: Cotton
Bastille? Fashion Trends
Answer: France 1. Who invented the LBD?
Asia Answer: Coco Chanel
1. Mahatma Gandi’s birthday is a national holiday in 2. Parkers, trenches, bombers and peas are types of what
which country? winter outerwear?
Answer: India Answer: Coats
2. The Chinese New Year is celebrated on what day and 3. What fashion fad did the 1983 film “Flashdance”
month? make popular?
Answer: 25th January Answer: Legwarmers
3. Independence Day in Cambodia is when? Fashion Brands
Answer: 9th November 1. The fashion designer, Gianni Versace, came from
Music Trivia Game which country?
Answer: Italy
2. When was the company Nike founded? Answer: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Answer: 1971 4. How many Lord of the Rings films are there?
3. What animal is on Levi’s logo? Answer: 3
Answer: Horse 5. What was the name of the actor who played Jack
4. Which fashion brand made the “Genius Jeans” that Dawson in Titanic?
became part of the Guinness World Records? Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio
Answer: Gucci Television
Literature Trivia Questions 1. Which popular TV show featured house Targaryen
This section of questions deal with famous authors and and Stark?
their books. Answer: Game of Thrones
Authors 2. What was the name of the family who starred in
1. What author became famous for his six-volume 7th Heaven?
biography of Lincoln? Answer: The Camdens
Answer: Carl Sandburg 3. Which iconic TV featured the main characters,
2. Who wrote “Old Man and The Sea” and is considered Samantha, Carrie, Cynthia and Charlotte?
one of the greatest writers of the 20thcentury? Answer: Sex and the City
Answer: Ernest Hemingway 4. Which cartoon character lives in a pineapple under the
3. What Danish author is considered by many to be the sea?
most prolific fairy tale writer? Answer: Spongebob Squarepants
Answer: Hans Christian Andersen 5. In what year was the first episode of South Park aired?
4. Who is the writer of “Merchant of Venice”? Answer: 1997
Answer: William Shakespeare Create Your Own Movies & TV Trivia Questions
5. “Adventure of Sherlock Holmes” was written by Celebrities and Influencers Trivia Questions
which writer? These questions ask about the hottest names in
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle Hollywood and on the internet.
Books
1. What is the name of the fourth book in the Harry Actors and Actresses
Potter series? 1. Which actor appeared in films “Face Off” and “Ghost
Answer: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rider”?
2. The Hunger Games series was written by which Answer: Nicholas Cage
author? 2. Who played Wolverine?
Answer: Suzanne Collins Answer: Hugh Jackman
3. Which country is Aesop’s Fables believed to originate 3. Which actress won the Oscar for Best Actress in
in? 2003?
Answer: Greece Answer: Nicole Kidman
4. In Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick,” who was 4. The Young Victoria was played by which British
the loyal, reasonable first mate? actress?
Answer: Starbuck Answer: Emily Blunt
5. The book “Da Vinci Code,” was written by who? Sports Stars
Answer: Dan Brown 1. Coco Gauff made headlines at Wimbledon last year
when she beat Venus Williams. How old was Gauff?
Answer: 15
Movies & TV Questions 2. Usain Bolt is still the fastest man in the world,
The trivia game questions are all entertainment-based? running 100m in 9.58 seconds. In which year did he set
Are you a big enough movie and TV fan to answer them that record?
all? Answer: 2009
3. How many times has Rafael Nadal won the French
Movies Open as of March 2020?
1. What is the name of the song that Queen Elsa sings as Answer: 12
she builds her ice castle in the movie Frozen? 4. When Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls,
Answer: Let It Go how many NBA Championships did he win?
2. How many films did Sean Connery play James Bond Answer: 6
in? Social Media Stars
Answer: 7 1. Who did Forbes name the youngest self-made
3. Which Indiana Jones movie was released back in billionaire in 2019?
1984? Answer: Kylie Jenner
2. Which Dutch makeup artist came out as being 7. Which animal symbolizes good luck in Europe?
transgender in 2020? Answer: Ladybug
Answer: De Jager 8. What name is used to refer to a group of frogs?
Answer: An army
9. How many hearts does an octopus have?
Politics Trivia Questions Answer: Three
The Americas 10. Do sponges have hearts?
1. Which American president was involved in the Answer: No
Watergate scandal?
Answer: Nixon
2. What are the surnames of the father-son duos who The Law
both served as US presidents? This portion of questions goes through legal terms, as
Answer: Adams and Bush well as some of the most popular court cases in history.
3. How many presidents have been impeached? Legal Terms
Answer: Three 1. What is the legal term for a voluntary written
Europe statement made under oath?
1. Before the laws were changed in 2000, how long was Answer: Affidavit
a French president’s term? 2. What is the name of the classification of crime which
Answer: Seven years is less serious than a felony?
2. Who has been the longest-serving monarch of the Answer: Misdemeanor
United Kingdom? 3. A verdict is a…
Answer: Queen Elizabeth II Answer: Decision or judgment
3. World War I began with the death of Archduke Franz 4. What is evidence in court, where a person tells
Ferdinand, of which country? everything they saw or know?
Answer: Austria Answer: Testimony
Asia 5. Who is the group of people sworn to make a
1. Donald Trump and which North Korean leader are decision/deliver a verdict in court?
known to trade threats over the internet? Answer: Jury
Answer: Kim Jong Un Famous Court Cases/Criminals
2. What was Mao Zedong famous for? 1. What was the verdict in the O.J. Simpson murder
Answer: Leading the Communist Party of China to trial?
victory during a Civil War Answer: Not guilty
Africa 2. How many homicides did Ted Bundy admit to?
1. Leader and political icon Nelson Mandela was from Answer: 30
which African country? 3. Ted Kaczynski was a former graduate of which
Answer: South Africa university?
2. The largest political party in South Africa, the ANC, Answer: Harvard
stands for what? 4. Gregory Lee Johnson was convicted in Texas for what
Answer: African National Congress in 1989?
Animal Trivia Questions Answer: Burning the flag
These trivia questions deal with all things animals 5. Butch Cassidy was famous for doing what?
including anatomy, their scientific names and more. Answer: Stealing

1. How long is the gestation period of an African


elephant? Business and Economy Trivia Questions
Answer: 22 months In this section, popular figures and brands in business
2. What’s the scientific name of a wolf?  and the economy are explored.
Answer: Canis lupus
3. What is a female donkey called? Entrepreneurs
Answer: A Jenny 1. Who is the richest person in the world as of 2020?
4. Which mammal has no vocal cords? Answer: Jeff Bezos
Answer: Giraffe 2. Bill Gates is the founder of which company?
5. What’s the fastest land animal in the world? Answer: Microsoft
Answer: The cheetah 3. In what year did Steve Jobs die?
6. How many eyes does a bee have? Answer: 2011
Answer: Five 4. Larry Page is the CEO of which company?
Answer: Google 3. Who was the messenger of the gods?
5. Richard Branson is the owner of which airline? Answer: Hermes
Answer: Virgin Atlantic Norse
Brands 1. What’s the name of the paradise warriors go to after
1. What vehicle Volkswagen best known for in the death?
world? Answer: Valhalla
Answer: Beetle 2. Thor was the son of which God?
2. Which watch company has a pointed crown as its Answer: Odin
logo? Roman
Answer: Rolex 1. Romulus and Remus were raised by what animal?
3. What is the slogan of Apple Inc.? Answer: A she-wolf
Answer: Think different 2. The Roman God of War inspired the name of which
4. What is Hewlett Packard (HP) originally known for? planet?
Answer: Printers Answer: Mars
5. How many stripes does Adidas have? Egyptian
Answer: 1949 1. What was the name of the Egyptian God of the Sun?
History Trivia Questions Answer: Ra
This section of trivia questions deals with three different 2. Anubis, the God of Death, had the head of a …
periods in human history. Answer: Jackal
3. Set throws Osiris into which river, after tricking him
Ancient History into a coffin?
1. By what name were the Egyptian kings/rulers known Answer: The Nile
as? Games Trivia Questions
Answer: Pharaohs This particular question section covers old school board
2. How many Pyramids of Giza were made? games and modern video games.
Answer: Three
3. Who which queen was Julius Caesar involved with? Board Games
Answer: Cleopatra 1. Where did backgammon originate?
The Middle Ages Answer: In Persia
1. Where did the Franks settle after defeating the 2. How many cards are there in a deck of Uno?
Romans? Answer: 108
Answer: Gaul 3. In which board game do you try to solve a murder?
2. How long did the Middle Ages last? Answer: Clue
Answer: About 1000 years 4. In chess, the queen has the combined movement of
3. Which religion dominated the Middle Ages? which two pieces?
Answer: Catholicism Answer: bishop and rook
Modern History 5. Which of these games includes the phrase “Do not
1. In which year World War I begin? pass go, do not collect $200”?
Answer: 1914 Answer: Monopoly
2. In which country Adolph Hitler was born? Video Games
Answer: Austria 1. The video game “Happy Feet” features what animals?
3. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in which city? Answer: Penguins
Answer: Dallas 2. What classic video game requires you to eat all the
4. On Sunday 18th June 1815, which famous battle took dots throughout a maze?
place? Answer: Pac-Man
Answer: The Battle of Waterloo 3. Which Street Fighter character wears a white outfit
and a red headband?
Answer: Ryu
Mythology Trivia Questions 4.“Astro Boy” is what genre of a video game?
This section about mythology covers the Greek, Norse, Answer: Action
Roman, and Egyptian pantheons. 5. What sport is featured in the video game “FIFA”?
Greek Answer: Football
1. What is the name of the home of the Greek Gods?
Answer: Olympus
2. Which warrior’s weakness was their heel? Riddles and Rhymes Trivia Questions
Answer: Achilles
This portion deals with the nursery rhymes kids learned 2. Where does Buddhism fall in a ranking of the world’s
in school and the riddles some still can’t solve today. largest religion?
Nursery Rhymes Answer: Fifth
1. In “The Farmer in the Dell,” what did the cat take? Interior and Exterior Design Trivia Questions
Answer: The rat This section of questions will quiz you on everything
2. What did the “Itsy Bitsy Spider” climb up? from famous buildings to furniture in your home.
Answer: The waterspout
3. What did the “Three Little Kittens” lose? Architecture
Answer: Their mittens 1. What is the tallest building in the world?
4. How many bags of wool did “Baa Baa Black Sheep” Answer: Burj Khalifa
have? 2. When did construction on the Empire State building
Answer: Three started?
5. Why did Jack and Jill go up the hill? Answer: 1929
Answer: To fetch a pail of water 3. Who designed the Sydney Opera House?
Riddles Answer: Jorn Utzon
1. How can a man go eight days without sleep? 4. Between 1933 to 1947, the Hoover Dam was called
Answer: By sleeping during the night what?
2. How can you drop a raw egg on the concrete floor Answer: Boulder Dam
without cracking it? 5. Where can you find the Petronas Towers?
Answer: The egg won’t crack the concrete floor Answer: Kuala Lumpur
3. If there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many Design and Furniture
do you have? 1. Who invented the bidet?
Answer: Four Answer: Christophe Des Rosiers
4. What goes up and down, but still remains in the same 2. What is the smallest size bed available in the United
place? States?
Answer: Stairs Answer: Twin
5. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? 3. Stripes, chevron, floral, and plaid are examples of
Answer: A towel what?
Religion Trivia Questions Answer: Patterns
This section contains questions about the most followed 4. What design style uses lots of sea/ocean themed
faiths in the world. items?
Christianity Answer: Nautical
1. How many books are in the Catholic Bible? 5. What’s another name for a footrest?
Answer: Seventy-three Answer: Ottoman
2. How many fish were used to feed the 5,000 along Performing Arts Trivia Questions
with the loaves? These questions ask of performing arts in the acting and
Answer: Two dancing industries.
Hinduism Broadway
1. Which god is considered the “destroyer” and is part of 1. Who played Anita in the first Broadway production of
the Hindu Trinity? West Side Story?
Answer: Shiva Answer: Chita Rivera
2. The mother of the youngest Pandavas is? 2. In which US city is Broadway located?
Answer: Madri Answer: New York City
Islam 3. What is the longest-running Broadway show?
1. The Islamic calendar is based on which cycle? Answer: The Phantom of the Opera
Answer: Lunar 4. Which show is the highest-grossing production on
2. Who was the last prophet in Islam? Broadway ever?
Answer: Muhammad Answer: The Lion King
Judaism 5. Broadway was established in what year in New York?
1. “Cohen” is Hebrew for what? Answer: 1750
Answer: Priest Ballet
2. What is the Hebrew term for “commandment”? 1. In which period did ballet originate?
Answer: Mitzvah Answer: Italian Renaissance
Buddhism 2. What is the name of the most memorable/popular
1. In which country was Buddha born? ballet of all time?
Answer: Nepal Answer: The Nutcracker
3. What French ballet term means ‘in front’?
Answer: Devant
4. Who was the greatest male ballet dancer of the early
20th century?
Answer: Vaslav Nijinsky
5. What is a plié in ballet?
Answer: Bending at the knees

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