50 General Knowledge Trivia Questions
General Knowledge Trivia Quiz
Questions and Answers on Various Topics
Where in your body is your patella?
Answer: Knee (it’s the kneecap)
Who was the first man in space?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin
Which animal (not a bird) lays eggs?
Answer: Duck-billed platypus
What does a funambulist do?
Answer: Tightrope walker
Who starred as Rocky Balboa?
Answer: Sylvester Stallone
Who invented the television?
Answer: John Logie Baird
What do deciduous trees do?
Answer: Lose their leaves in winter
What was Erich Weiss better known as?
Answer: Harry Houdini
Who sailed in the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
Answer: Christopher Columbus
Which leader died in St. Helena?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
Whose nose grew when he told a lie?
Answer: Pinocchio
If you had pogonophobia, what would you be afraid of?
Answer: Beards
What, in business terms, is the IMF?
Answer: International Monetary Fund
Which company is owned by Bill Gates?
Answer: Microsoft
What is the Islamic equivalent of the Red Cross?
Answer: Red Crescent
How did Alfred Nobel make his money?
Answer: He invented dynamite.
Who discovered radium?
Answer: The Curies
Triskadecą“ aphobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Number 13
What is a baby rabbit called?
Answer: Kit or Kitten
Which country had The Dauphin as a ruler?
Answer: France
Who won the Eurovision Song Contest with “Save All Your Kisses For Me”?
Answer: Brotherhood of Man
Ictheologists study what?
Answer: Fish
Who or what lives in a formicarium?
Answer: Ants
Which part of the human body contains the most gold?
Answer: Toenails
Mohs scale: The hardest substance is diamond – what’s the softest?
Answer: Talc
La Gioconda is better known as what?
Answer: Mona Lisa
Who wrote *The Man in the Iron Mask*?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas
What was the first James Bond film?
Answer: *Dr. No*
What 1991 film won Best Film, Actor, Actress, and Director Oscars?
Answer: *The Silence of the Lambs*
What is the capital of Ethiopia?
Answer: Addis Ababa
What is the largest state in the USA?
Answer: Alaska
Which human rights organization, founded in 1961, received the Nobel Prize in 1977?
Answer: Amnesty International
Whose autobiography was *The Long Walk to Freedom*?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
What was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter?
Answer: Tutankhamun’s tomb
Who ran through the streets naked crying “Eureka”?
Answer: Archimedes
What is the correct term of address to the Pope?
Answer: Your Holiness
In which city was Alexander Graham Bell born in 1847?
Answer: Edinburgh
Who composed the ballets *Sleeping Beauty* and *The Nutcracker*?
Answer: Tchaikovsky
Robin Williams dressed in drag for which 1993 film?
Answer: *Mrs. Doubtfire*
Which chess piece could be a member of the church?
Answer: Bishop
What is the national flower of Japan?
Answer: Chrysanthemum
What did mathematician John Napier invent in 1614?
Answer: Logarithms
What are the Sirocco, Mistral, and Chinook?
Answer: Winds
Who wrote about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
Answer: Roald Dahl
What was the name of the plantation in *Gone with the Wind*?
Answer: Tara
Which group believes in The Great Architect of the Universe?
Answer: Freemasons
If someone said they were from Hellas, which country would they be from?
Answer: Greece
What martial arts name means “gentle way”?
Answer: Judo
Who directed *A Clockwork Orange* and *The Shining*?
Answer: Stanley Kubrick
Which character has been played by the most actors?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes