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Step into the arena of the world’s most challenging trivia questions and prove your mettle. Beyond the casual pub quizzes, our compilation takes you on a journey through the most intricate, puzzling, and brain-teasing questions ever crafted. Whether you’re challenging family at a weekend gathering or outwitting colleagues on game night, the thrill of extracting those elusive facts from the recesses of your mind is unmatched. However, every trivia champion knows the power of practice. Dive into our curated list of 300+ questions, sharpen your knowledge, and prepare to impress at your next quiz session. Let the trivia games begin!
A List of Best Trivia Questions
- What is the rarest M&M colour?
Answer: Brown - In a website browser address bar, what does “www” stand for?
Answer: World Wide Web - In what year were the first Air Jordan sneakers released?
Answer: 1984 - In a bingo game, which number is represented by the phrase “two little ducks”?
Answer: 22 - According to Greek mythology, who was the first woman on earth?
Answer: Pandora - Samuel Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton share what distinction among U.S. presidential candidates?
Answer: They won the popular vote but lost the electoral college vote - Which African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Answer: Ethiopia - Tennis star Serena Williams won which major tournament while pregnant with her first child?
Answer: The Australian Open - In which European city would you find Orly airport?
Answer: Paris - Which singer’s real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?
Answer: Lady Gaga - The only known monotremes in the animal kingdom are the echidna and which other creature?
Answer: The platypus - Kingston, Zuma, and Apollo are the sons of which American female pop star?
- Answer: Gwen Stefani
- Fissures, vents, and plugs are all associated with which geological feature?
Answer: Volcanos - Which author wrote the ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ books?
Answer: A. A. Milne - Which Dutch artist painted “Girl with a Pearl Earring”?
Answer: Vermeer - Where were the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights stored during World War II?
Answer: Fort Knox - Which country consumes the most chocolate per capita?
Answer: Switzerland - Which two U.S. states don’t observe Daylight Saving Time?
Answer: Arizona and Hawaii - What is the loudest animal on Earth?
Answer: The sperm whale
- What was the first toy to be advertised on television?
Answer: Mr. Potato Head - What is the tiny piece at the end of a shoelace called?
Answer: An aglet - In the United Kingdom, what is the day after Christmas known as?
Answer: Boxing Day - Which of Shakespeare’s plays is the longest?
Answer: Hamlet - Outside which New York building was John Lennon killed?
Answer: The Dakota Building - How many of Snow White’s seven dwarfs have names ending in the letter Y?
Answer: Five: Dopey, Grumpy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Happy - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ is an autobiography about the early years of what inspirational African-American writer and poet?
Answer: Maya Angelou - What is the tallest breed of dog in the world?
Answer: The Great Dane - What is the softest mineral in the world?
Answer: Talc - Lateral Epicondylitis is a condition commonly known by what name?
Answer: Tennis Elbow - Who was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher - How many ribs are in a human body?
Answer: Twenty-four - What is the world’s biggest island?
Answer: Greenland - Which country is known as the Land of White Elephant?
Answer: Thailand - What is the smallest ocean in the world?
Answer: The Arctic - What colour eyes do most humans have?
Answer: Brown - In which city was Anne Frank’s hiding place?
Answer: Amsterdam - What is the largest type of deer?
Answer: The moose - Which Disney film features the song ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’?
Answer: Pinocchio - What is the lowest army rank of a US soldier?
Answer: Private - Before the Beatles were formed, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison were originally members of which group?
Answer: The Quarrymen - What is the name of the Earth’s largest ocean?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean - When Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls, how many NBA Championships did he win?
Answer: Six - What country won the very first FIFA World Cup in 1930?
Answer: Uruguay - In what year was the first-ever Wimbledon Championship held?
Answer: 1877 - What is often seen as the smallest unit of memory?
Answer: kilobyte - Which planet is the hottest in the solar system?
Answer: Venus - Which country produces the most coffee in the world?
Answer: Brazil - What is the common name for dried plums?
Answer: Prunes - What does BMW stand for (in English)?
Answer: Bavarian Motor Works - Which two countries share the longest international border?
Answer: Canada and the USA - What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer: Vatican City - Which bone are babies born without?
Answer: Knee cap - Which name is rapper Sean Combs better known by?
Answer: P. Diddy - Which British girl group had a member by the name of Mel B?
Answer: Spice Girls - How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: Three - How many eyes does a bee have?
Answer: Five - What was the name of the rock band formed by Jimmy Page?
Answer: Led Zeppelin - Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903)?
Answer: Marie Curie - Which mammal has no vocal cords?
Answer: Giraffe - What type of music has been shown to help plants grow better and faster?
Answer: Classical - Power outages in the US are mostly caused by what?
Answer: Squirrels - What celebrity has their dog cloned– twice?
Answer: Barbara Streisand - What was the first state?
Answer: Delaware - What is the painting ‘La Gioconda’ more usually known as?
Answer: Mona Lisa - Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in 1770 in which city?
Answer: Berlin - Water has a pH level of around?
Answer: 7 - What’s the most expensive home in the world?
Answer: Buckingham Palace - What did the Crocodile swallow in Peter Pan?
Answer: An alarm clock - What’s the hardest rock?
Answer: A diamond - What is the national dish of Spain?
Answer: Paella - Which horoscope sign has a crab?
Answer: Cancer - What colour is Absinthe?
Answer: Green - The Statue of Liberty was given to the US by which country?
Answer: France - Which US city is known as the City of Brotherly Love?
Answer: Philadelphia - What substance are nails made out of?
Answer: Keratin - How many children does Oprah Winfrey have?
Answer: Zero - Where is the Sea of Tranquility located?
Answer: The moon - What country has the world’s most ancient forest?
Answer: Australia - Which kind of bulbs were once exchanged as a form of currency?
Answer: Tulips - What colour jersey is worn by the winners of each stage of the Tour De France?
Answer: Yellow - Which chess piece can only move diagonally?
Answer: A bishop - When did the Cold War end?
Answer: 1989 - What is allspice alternatively known as?
Answer: Pimento - Who invented scissors?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci - Which country was the Caesar salad invented in?
Answer: Mexico - On which ship did Charles Darwin make his famous expedition, which led to his evolution theory?
Answer: HMS Beagle - In which film did father and son actors Will and Jaden Smith first appear together?
Answer: The Pursuit of Happiness - Which NFL team holds the record for the most Super Bowl appearances?
Answer: New England Patriots - In which city is Jim Morrison buried?
Answer: Paris - Which actress keeps her Oscar in her bathroom so guests can hold it and make speeches in the mirror shame-free?
Answer: Kate Winslet - In medieval England, what was used as currency, specifically for rental agreements?
Answer: Eels - What famous horse won the Triple Crown in 1973?
Answer: Secretariat - What is the most common letter in the English alphabet?
Answer: E - Chimpanzees and gorillas have human-like fingerprints, and so do what other non-human animals?
Answer: Koalas - A tick bite can make you allergic to what food?
Answer: Red meat - What animal is constitutionally protected in Florida?
Answer: Pigs - What planets literally rain diamonds?
Answer: Saturn and Jupiter - Saudi Arabia imports camels from what country?
Answer: Australia - Who is the youngest person ever to appear on a Billboard chart?
Answer: Blue Ivy Carter - What is the only state that borders just one other state?
Answer: Maine - What is the Twitter bird’s official?
Answer: Larry - What is a community of ants called?
Answer: A colony - Who was said to “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee”?
Answer: Muhammed Ali - Where did Heineken beer originate?
Answer: The Netherlands - “Cirque du Soleil” started in what country?
Answer: Canada - How many signs are there in the Zodiac?
Answer: 12 - What are the two fruit juices in a cosmopolitan?
Answer: Cranberry and lime - What object is said to bring bad luck if it is broken?
Answer: A mirror - Which country did bagels originate from?
Answer: Poland - What is the name of the group of men who elect a Pope?
Answer: College of Cardinals - An Apgar score is given to what?
Answer: Health of newborns - The Candlestick, Lead Pipe, Knife, Revolver, Rope, and what else are the six weapons in a standard game of Clue?
Answer: Wrench - What city did Starbucks open its first store in 1971?
Answer: Seattle - What do you call filo pastry stuffed with chopped nuts and honey or syrup?
Answer: Baklava - What is the Jewish New Year called?
Answer: Rosh Hashanah - What book starts with the line “Call me Ishmael.”?
Answer: Moby Dick - What is the first element on the Periodic Table?
Answer: Hydrogen - What object did Ben Franklin attach to the end of a kite string to prove that lightning is electricity?
Answer: A metal key - What does a Scoville unit measure?
Answer: Spiciness - What US president put a Twinkie in the country’s millennium time capsule?
Answer: Bill Clinton - What is an ice hockey puck made from?
Answer: Rubber - Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs was known for wearing what colour turtleneck?
Answer: Black - How many red stripes are there on the American flag?
Answer: Seven - What 3-word phrase is written on Martin Luther King’s gravestone?
Answer: Free At Last - What is Japanese sake made from?
Answer: Rice - What American beer has been long promoted as the “King of Beers”?
Answer: Budweiser - Which fashion designer was shot dead in the summer of 1997?
Answer: Gianni Versace - As what type of beans are chickpeas, also known as?
Answer: Garbanzo - Galileo was the citizen of which country?
Answer: Italy - Which country is the largest producer of vanilla?
Answer: Madagascar - Who performs the character of Mark Zuckerberg in the movie “The Social Network”?
Answer: Jesse Eisenberg - What is the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside?
Answer: Strawberry - What is the only metal that is a liquid at normal atmospheric pressure and temperature?
Answer: Mercury - Who was the only US President to resign?
Answer: Richard Nixon - In which city did Hitler commit suicide?
Answer: Berlin - In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at someone was a declaration of what?
Answer: Love - Who wrote songs for The Lion King?
Answer: Elton John - What U.S. newspaper is nicknamed “the Gray Lady”?
Answer: The New York Times - What is the real first name of Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: Norma Jeane - What country has the most vending machines per capita?
Answer: Japan - What’s the most populous city in the United States?
Answer: New York City - Which fruit floats because 25% of its volume is air?
Answer: Apple - What’s the brightest star in the sky?
Answer: Sirius - The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for what city?
Answer: Barcelona - In which of Britney’s video does she appear as a stewardess?
Answer: Toxic - Carrots are a good source of which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin A - What is the name of the prehistoric town in which The Flinstones live?
Answer: Bedrock - What is the driest continent?
Answer: Antarctica - Which US state has the longest cave system in the world?
Answer: Kentucky - What blood type qualifies as a universal donor?
Answer: O negative - What is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust?
Answer: Aluminium - What is the most abundant element in the universe?
Answer: Hydrogen - What was Babe Ruth’s first name?
Answer: George - Who was Sports Illustrated’s first female sportsperson of the year?
Answer: Billie Jean King - Robin Williams won a best supporting actor Oscar for what film?
Answer: Good Will Hunting - What was the first Disney animated film based on the life of a real person?
Answer: Pocahontas - What character did Michael J. Fox play in ‘Back to the Future’?
Answer: Marty McFly - What was the predecessor to the United Nations?
Answer: League of Nations - A flamboyance is a group of what animals?
Answer: Flamingos - What color is a polar bear’s skin?
Answer: Black - What is the largest lizard?
Answer: Komodo dragon - The male of what species testicles explode on mating and then dies?
Answer: Honeybee - Europe is separated from Africa by which sea?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea - Canberra is the capital city of which country?
Answer: Australia - New York City comprises how many boroughs?
Answer: 5 - Which nuts are used to make marzipan?
Answer: Almonds - Botany is the scientific study of what?
Answer: Plants - Tanks were used in battle for the first time in which conflict?
Answer: World War 1 - Squab is a name given to the young of which bird?
Answer: Pigeon - Which female singer discovered a ‘Genie in a Bottle’ in 1999?
Answer: Christina Aguilera - Complete the title of a 1979 number one by Blondie – ‘Heart of…’
Answer: Glass - Which Italian fascist leader was known as ‘Il Duce’?
Answer: Mussolini - If a male donkey is a jack, what is the female called?
Answer: Jenny - In what country did carving jack o’ lanterns originate?
Answer: Ireland - In what American state is it illegal to dress up like a priest or a nun?
Answer: Alabama - What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter - What has a gravitational pull so strong that even light cannot escape it?
Answer: Black Hole - Which 1998 Disney film was Lindsay Lohan’s film debut?
Answer: Parent Trap - What type of business did Annie have that failed in “Bridesmaids”?
Answer: Bakery - What were the two sides in World War II known as?
Answer: Allies and Axis - What number did Derek Jeter wear on his New York Yankees jersey?
Answer: 2 - What vitamin does the sun’s ultraviolet rays help the skin produce?
Answer: Vitamin D - What is “jaggery” used in Indian cooking?
Answer: Sugar - What TV show won the most Emmys in 2018?
Answer: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Nepal is located on which continent?
Answer: Asia - What does a seismologist study?
Answer: Earthquakes - Where did Barack Obama teach constitutional law?
Answer: University of Chicago - Which sea is located in Israel and Jordan?
Answer: Dead Sea - What are the bones in the fingers called?
Answer: Phalanges - What company makes the Butterfinger bar?
Answer: Nestle - Which character becomes Brienne’s squire in season 4 of “Game of Thrones”?
Answer: Podrick Payne - What particle in an atom has a positive charge?
Answer: Proton - What is the biggest artery in the human body?
Answer: Aorta - What is the name of Jordan’s capital city?
Answer: Amman - What is Harry Potter’s Patronus?
Answer: A stag - What candy was used to lure E.T. in the 1982 movie “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial”?
Answer: Reese’s Pieces - The tuba is the largest member of which musical family?
Answer: Brass - Which is the main substance used to make a crayon?
Answer: Wax - The video game “Happy Feet” features what animals?
Answer: Penguins - What actress won her first Oscar for “Kramer vs. Kramer”?
Answer: Meryl Streep - What object of Dwight’s did Jim put in Jell-O on the TV show “The Office”?
Answer: Stapler - Who voices Morty in the series “Rick and Morty”?
Answer: Justin Rolland - “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” originated in what movie?
Answer: Jaws - What does the “R” stand for on the rating of a movie?
Answer: Restricted - Who played Cher Horowitz in the movie “Clueless”?
Answer: Alicia Silverstone - Which artist painted “Guernica”?
Answer: Pablo Picasso - What country produced the most strawberries in 2016?
Answer: China - The traditional Wimbledon colors are green, and what?
Answer: Purple - On the television show “How I Met Your Mother,” what is Lily’s occupation?
Answer: Kindergarten Teacher - Which art movement is Salvador Dali associated with?
Answer: Surrealism - Where did rap superstar Eminem grow up?
Answer: Detroit - In what city did Princess Diana suffer her fatal car crash?
Answer: Paris - What grows from an acorn?
Answer: Oak Tree - What prison film starring Tim Robbins was based on a story by Stephen King?
Answer: The Shawshank Redemption - Which U.S. state has “Garden State” as its nickname?
Answer: New Jersey - Which type of fruit juice did Dole sell first?
Answer: Pineapple - What is the main ingredient in a falafel?
Answer: Chickpea - What currency is used in South Africa?
Answer: Rand - Port-au-Prince is the capital of which country?
Answer: Haiti - What major movie actor’s first role was in “A Nightmare On Elm Street”?
Answer: Johnny Depp - What was Toyota’s first popular hybrid car called?
Answer: Prius - What did the first vending machine dispense?
Answer: Holy Water - Who created the animated series “Futurama”?
Answer: Matt Groening - What is the most populous city in Canada?
Answer: Toronto - Taylor Swift grew up on what type of farm?
Answer: Christmas Tree Farm - Which Doors song is about Jim Morrison’s relationship with Pamela Courson?
Answer: Queen Of The Highway - Which President of South Africa ordered Nelson Mandela’s release from prison?
Answer: De Klerk - Which 2008 comedy had the tagline “Put this in your pipe and smoke it”?
Answer: Pineapple Express - Islamabad is the capital of which country?
Answer: Pakistan - American pioneer, John Chapman, was famous for planting which kind of tree?
Answer: Apple Trees - Where is the uvula located?
Answer: In The Throat - What gas makes soda bubbly?
Answer: Carbon Dioxide - Which country has a red flag with a star in the middle?
Answer: Morocco - Who preceded Fidel Castro as the political leader of Cuba?
Answer: Fulgencio Batista - How many sides does the home plate in baseball have?
Answer: 5 - What color dresses do Chinese women traditionally wear on their wedding day?
Answer: Red - Tom Cruise considered pursuing a career in what sport before being injured?
Answer: Wrestling - What country is bordered by Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine?
Answer: Poland - The Da Vinci Code opens with a murder in which famous museum?
Answer: Lourve - Which insect can indicate the air temperature?
Answer: Cricket - What candy ran the promotion for baseball’s one-millionth run?
Answer: Tootsie Rolls - What country is the band “The Cranberries” from?
Answer: Ireland - Blueberries are native to which continent?
Answer: North America - A book by Barack Obama is titled “The Audacity of” what?
Answer: Hope - What type of lens has a thin middle and makes objects appear smaller?
Answer: Concave - What is the Hawaiian name for yellowfin tuna?
Answer: Ahi - Rihanna banned fans from bringing what items to her U.K. concerts in 2008?
Answer: Umbrellas - Who created the alien rock superstar Ziggy Stardust?
Answer: David Bowie - Which young girl helped drive the English from French soil in the 15th century?
Answer: Joan of Arc - What U.S. President coined the phrase “Good to the last drop,” referring to coffee?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt - What is the biggest supermarket chain in the U.S.?
Answer: Kroger Co. - On every continent, there is a city named what?
Answer: Rome - Which name are the Sandwich Islands, better known as?
Answer: Hawaii - In what year was the first-ever Wimbledon Championship held?
Answer: 1877. - Hg is the chemical symbol of which element?
Answer: Mercury. - Which email service is owned by Microsoft?
Answer: Hotmail. - Which country produces the most coffee in the world?
Answer: Brazil. - In which city was Jim Morrison buried?
Answer: Paris. - Which song by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee has the most views (of all time) on YouTube?
Answer: “Despacito.” - What was the first state?
Answer: Delaware. - What is the capital city of Spain?
Answer: Madrid. - What is the painting “La Gioconda” more usually known as?
Answer: The Mona Lisa. - What is Chandler’s last name in the sitcom Friends?
Answer: Bing. - About how many taste buds does the average human tongue have?
Answer: 10,000. - Who did Madonna kiss at the 2003 VMAs?
Answer: Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. - How much does the Chewbacca costume weigh?
Answer: Eight pounds. - What colors are the Norwegian flag?
Answer: Red, white, and blue. - Where would you find the world’s most ancient forest?
Answer: Daintree Forest north of Cairns, Australia. - Globe and Jerusalem are types of what?
Answer: Artichoke. - Which is the highest waterfall in the world?
Answer: Angel Falls, Venezuela. - Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in 1770 in which city?
Answer: Berlin. - What is the third sign of the zodiac?
Answer: Gemini. - What is Ariana Grande’s brother’s name?
Answer: Frankie. - Who discovered penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming. - Name the three primary colors.
Answer: Red, yellow, and blue. - Which name is rapper Sean Combs better known by?
Answer: P. Diddy. - Which country invented tea?
Answer: China. - Pure water has a pH level of around?
Answer: Seven. - Which is the only vowel on a standard keyboard that is not on the top line of letters?
Answer: A. - Who starts first in chess?
Answer: White. - What was Britney Spears’ first song?
Answer: “Baby One More Time.” - What did Queen Anne die of?
Answer: A stroke. - Groups of lions are known as what?
Answer: Prides. - How many pairs of wings does a bee have?
Answer: Two. - What language has the most words?
Answer: English. - What’s the most expensive home in the world?
Answer: Buckingham Palace. - Kodiak Island is in which US state?
Answer: Alaska. - Which castle is on the island of Anglesey?
Answer: Beaumaris. - How long does it take to hard boil an egg?
Answer: Seven minutes. - What nationality was Marco Polo?
Answer: Venetian. - Which scientist was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics?
Answer: Albert Einstein. - Name the world’s largest ocean.
Answer: Pacific. - What did the Crocodile swallow in Peter Pan?
Answer: An alarm clock. - Which actress said, “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night,” in All About Eve?
Answer: Bette Davis (as Margo Channing). - Zurich is the largest city in what country?
Answer: Switzerland. - How many phases of the moon are there?
Answer: Eight. - What’s the hardest rock?
Answer: A diamond. - How many bones do sharks have in their bodies?
Answer: None! - The fear referred to as arachnophobia indicates a fear of what?
Answer: Spiders. - What colour is a Himalayan poppy flower?
Answer: Blue. - Name the world’s biggest island.
Answer: Greenland. - Which boxer was known as “The Greatest” and “The People’s Champion”?
Answer: Muhammad Ali. - What flavour is Cointreau?
Answer: Orange. - Which country is Prague in?
Answer: Czech Republic. - What does the term “piano” mean?
Answer: To be played softly. - Who was the first American to go into space?
Answer: Alan Shephard. - How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: Three. - What is the name of the thin but long country that spans more than half of the western coast of South America?
Answer: Chile. - Which planet has the most gravity?
Answer: Jupiter. - What was Beyoncé’s first solo album?
Answer: Dangerously In Love. - What is your body’s largest organ?
Answer: The skin. - Which country did AC/DC originate in?
Answer: Australia. - In what state did the first official American baseball game take place?
Answer: New Jersey. - What is “Vineyard” in Vineyard Vines named after?
Answer: Martha’s Vineyard. - Which mammal doesn’t have vocal cords?
Answer: Giraffe. - The colored part of the human eye that controls how much light passes through the pupil is called?
Answer: Iris. - What year did the Titanic movie come out?
Answer: 1997. - What is the national dish of Spain?
Answer: Paella. - Who sang the song, “My Way”?
Answer: Frank Sinatra. - Which horoscope sign has a crab?
Answer: Cancer. - How many rides are at Disney World?
Answer: 46. - What is sushi traditionally wrapped in?
Answer: Edible seaweed. - What color is Absynthe?
Answer: Green. - When did the Cold War end?
Answer: 1989. - Which company owns Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Porsche, and Ducati?
Answer: Volkswagen. - The Statue of Liberty was given to the US by which country?
Answer: France. - Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Explorer are different types of what?
Answer: Web browsers. - Which US city is known as the City of Brotherly Love?
Answer: Philadelphia. - Who were the main characters in Wayne’s World?
Answer: Wayne (Mike Meyers) and Garth (Dana Carvey). - What substance are nails made out of?
Answer: Keratin. - Which instrument did John Lennon play in the Beatles?
Answer: Rhythm guitar. - How many years is a law school program?
Answer: Three years. Total schooling is closer to seven years. - How many children does Oprah Winfrey have?
Answer: Zero. - What is the diameter of Earth?
Answer: 8,000 miles. - How many weeks are in a year?
Answer: 52. - Who played Neo in The Matrix?
Answer: Keanu Reeves. - In what year was the first episode of South Park aired?
Answer: 1997. - What is the largest bone in the human body?
Answer: The femur. - How many national parks are in the United States?
Answer: 58. - What is the symbol for potassium?
Answer: K. - What is allspice alternatively known as?
Answer: Pimento. - Which desert is the largest in the world?
Answer: The Sahara Desert. - When was William Shakespeare born?
Answer: April 23, 1564. - What is the only American state that begins with the letter “p”?
Answer: Pennsylvania. - What is the world’s longest river?
Answer: Amazon. - What’s the first letter on a typewriter?
Answer: Q. - Which kind of flower bulbs were once exchanged as a form of currency?
Answer: Tulips. - Name the Spanish artist, sculptor, and draughtsman famous for co-founding the Cubist movement.
Answer: Pablo Picasso. - What year was Walt Disney born?
Answer: 1901. - Which Williams sister has won more Grand Slam titles?
Answer: Serena. - Which planet is known as the red planet?
Answer: Mars. - What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter. - How many times did Ross Geller marry and divorce on Friends?
Answer: Three times (Carol, Emily, Rachel). - Who in Hollywood is known as “The Voice of God”?
Answer: Morgan Freeman. - What is the fastest fish in the ocean?
Answer: Sailfish. - What’s the medical term for bad breath?
Answer: Halitosis. - How many total time zones are there in the world?
Answer: 24. - How long is an eon in geology?
Answer: A billion years. - How much weight can an ant lift?
Answer: 50 times its weight. - How many soccer players should each team have on the field at the start of each match?
Answer: 11. - What year was the very first model of the iPhone released?
Answer: 2007. - What does “HTTP” stand for?
Answer: HyperText Transfer Protocol. - Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903)?
Answer: Marie Curie. - What part of the atom has no electric charge?
Answer: Neutron. - How many Earths could fit inside the sun?
A) 3
B) 1,300
C) 1.3 million
Answer: C) 1.3 million. - Where were the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights stored during World War II?
Answer: Fort Knox. - How many of the speeches in Shakespeare’s plays are recited by women?
A) 33 per cent
B) 17 per cent
C) 52 per cent?
Answer: B) 17 per cent. - Which African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Answer: Ethiopia. - Which singer’s real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?
Answer: Lady Gaga. - What’s the shortcut for the “copy” function on most computers?
Answer: Ctrl C. - Which Jamaican runner is an 11-time world champion and holds the record in the 100 and 200-meter race?
Answer: Usain Bolt.
How Do You Play Trivia?
First thing is first, a good rundown of the rules is always necessary. Most trivia situations will begin will a pre-prepared list of questions encompassing a number of different genres and topics, so getting it right is heavily dependent on the host. Here’s how you play trivia.
- Pick a host
- Choose your team name
- Pick your teammates
- The host/question master will read the question aloud. As a team, write down your answer on a pre-prepared piece of paper.
- At the end of the round, bring your answers to the host who will tally the correct results.
- Winner takes home the prize.
General FAQs
How do you run a trivia night?
Running a trivia night involves a lot of different elements. The most important aspects are well-written questions, clear rules, good prizes and of course, knowing the answers.
What are some good family trivia questions?
If you want good clean, family trivia questions, focus on entertainment, history and sports. Some examples include, How long is an Olympic swimming pool? What does “www” stand for in a website browser? Which animal can be seen on the Porsche logo?
How many people do you need for trivia?
Technically speaking, you could get away with a game of trivia between two, but the fun is always improved with more. The larger the number of participants, the better you are to split into groups, and that's where the real fun begins.
