100+ Best Hard Trivia Questions with Answers

Hard Trivia Questions : Your general knowledge trivia round can be made up of questions about more generalist subjects such as news and current affairs, which can be followed by themed sections on specific topics, such as geography, music and movies.

Hard Trivia Questions

Which country has won the most medals in Olympic snowboarding history?
Answer: United States

What NHL player is the only player in league history to score a goal in his first game, last game, and 1,000th game?
Answer: Gordie Howe

In what year did women’s boxing become an Olympic sport?
Answer: 2004

In what year was the first World Cup of Softball held?
Answer: 1993

Who was the first player to win the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award without making the playoffs?
Answer: Wes Unseld

What MLB team holds the record for the most consecutive games won in a single season?
Answer: Cleveland Indians

What former NBA player holds the record for the most steals in a single game?
Answer: Scottie Pippen

Who is the only athlete to have won a gold medal at both the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games?
Answer: Lauren Woolstencroft

What country has won the most Women’s Volleyball World Cup championships?
Answer: China

Who is the only player to have won the NBA Finals MVP award while playing for the losing team?
Answer: Jerry West

What is someone who shoes horses called?
Answer: A farrier.

Name the actor who starred in 142 films including The Quiet Man, The Shootist, The Searchers and Stagecoach.
Answer: John Wayne.

Name the world’s largest island.
Answer: Greenland.

Which kind of bulbs were once exchanged as a form of currency?
Answer: Tulips.

Which chess piece can only move diagonally?
Answer: The bishop.

When did Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister?
Answer: 1979.

Who wrote the novel Death in Venice, which was later made into a film of the same name?
Answer: Thomas Mann.

May Queen, Wisley Crab, Foxwhelps and Lane\’s Prince Albert are all species of what?
Answer: Apple.

Australia has the world\’s largest sand island. What is its name?
Answer: Fraser Island.

In what year was Advance Australia Fair proclaimed as the national anthem by the Governor-General?
Answer: 1984.

What civilization is known for creating the first known democracy?
Answer: The Ancient Greeks

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Marie Curie

What was the deadliest battle in human history?
Answer: The Battle of Stalingrad

Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
Answer: France

What was the original name of New York City?
Answer: New Amsterdam

Who was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth?
Answer: John Glenn

What is the name of the first known civilization?
Answer: The Sumerians

Who was the first female ruler of Egypt?
Answer: Sobekneferu

What year did the United States declare independence from Britain?
Answer: 1776

Which ancient empire was ruled by Cyrus the Great?
Answer: The Persian Empire

Name the three bones found in the inner ear.
Answer: Hammer, anvil, stirrup

How many total chromosomes does a human cell have?
Answer: 46 – 23 pairs, but 26 total

What is the second-biggest organ in the human body?
Answer: Liver

Name four types of bone found below your pelvis?
Answer: Femur, patella, tibia, fibula, tarsals, metatarsals, phalanges

Does an average head of full hair have about 1,000, 7,500, 10,000 or 15,000 hairs?
Answer: 10,000

Which sport is older, basketball or American football?
Answer: Football

In which decade was baseball’s first perfect game thrown?
Answer: 1880s

Name five positions on a soccer/football team?
Answer: Goalkeeper, sweeper, center back, full back, defensive midfielder, central midfielder, attacking midfielder, wing back, winger, striker, forward

In which year was the first football World Cup held?
Answer: 1930

This Major League Baseball team (currently) has the second-most World Series wins?
Answer: Cardinals, 11

Who (currently) holds the all-time point record in the National Basketball Association?
Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabar, 38,387

Who was the first to suggest that Daylight Savings Time be implemented?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Larry \”Doc\” Sportello is the pot-smoking private investigator protagonist of what 2009 Thomas Pynchon novel that was adapted into a film by director Paul Thomas Anderson?
Answer: Inherent Vice

A demonstration sport at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics was which form of skiing very similar to figure skating, combining spins, jumps, and flips in a two-minute routine choreographed to music?
Answer: Ski ballet

Informally known as \”The God of Cricket,\” what former Indian cricketer is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the sport and is the highest run-scorer of all time in international competition?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar

CERN hosts the Large Hadron Collider, the world\’s highest energy particle collider which opened underneath the Swiss-French border in 2008. The LHC surpassed the prior record-holding particle accelerator in what U.S. state?
Answer: Illinois

Calvinism is a branch of Protestantism that is most closely associated with what European country? The association arises from the fact that most early ministers were taught in this country.
Answer: Switzerland

The term \”magic bullet\” was coined by German scientist Paul Ehrlich to describe a compound that would kill only a specifically targeted organism. Ehrlich even invented the \”first magic bullet\” with Salvarsan, which was used to treat which disease?
Answer: Syphillis

What Hapsburg monarch declared Martin Luther to be an outlaw at the Diet of Worms and also divided Hapsburg territory into two parts prior to his abdication just after the Peace of Augsburg?
Answer: Charles V

Which geological time period that began 358.9 million years ago, during which large coal deposits formed, has a name derived from the Latin for \”coal-bearing?\”
Answer: Carboniferous

Around 200 B.C. in Asia there was a technological breakthrough that suddenly made horses much more valuable to the military because of the increased riding stability. What was this invention?
Answer: Stirrups

The highest volcano outside of South America also doubles as its home continent\’s highest mountain. In what country is this 19,000-foot peak found?
Answer: Tanzania

Craigslist is named after its founder. What is Craig\’s seven-letter two-syllable \”N\” last name?
Answer: Newmark

Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe?
Answer: Ferdinand Magellan

What were Ancient Egyptian tombs mainly used for?
Answer: To bury the Pharaohs and their families

What is the national animal of Scotland?
Answer: The unicorn

What is the driest place on the planet?
Answer: The Atacama Desert in Chile

What is the oldest country in the world?
Answer: Iran

What type of animal is on the Uganda flag?
Answer: A Crested Crane

What was the ship’s name that transported the Pilgrims to New England in 1620?
Answer: The Mayflower

How many time zones are there in the world?
Answer: 24

The Cajun holy trinity of cooking consists of what three vegetables?
Answer: Onions, bell peppers, and celery

What is the name of the now-extinct flightless bird that was last observed off the coast of Iceland?
Answer: The Great Auk

What was major league baseball’s Yogi Berra’s real name?
Answer: Lawrence Peter Berra

What was the first console video game that allowed the video game to be saved?
Answer: The Legend of Zelda

What is the fungi Hydnellum peckii, also known as?
Answer: The bleeding tooth fungus

What is Glenn Close allergic to? (hint: In the movie 101 Dalmatians, they had to get creative due to her allergy)
Answer: Tobacco

In regards to data storage, what does the acronym SSD stand for?
Answer: Solid State Drive

What is the name for the monetary unit used in Thailand?
Answer: Thai Bhat

Where are dolphin’s nipples located?
Answer: Anus

What island state was formerly known by the name Formosa?
Answer: Taiwan

Bobby Fischer is considered to be the greatest player of all time in which game?
Answer: Chess

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