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.
Trivia Questions
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Brexit refers to which country leaving the European Union?
Answer: The United Kingdom
Who became the most decorated gymnast in history during the 2010s?
Answer: Simone Biles
What year did the Internet become available to the public?
Answer: 1993
What was the global recession that lasted from 2007 to 2009 called?
Answer: The Great Recession
Which U.S. city hosted the Summer Olympics in 1996?
Answer: Atlanta
What is the name of the whistleblower who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013?
Answer: Edward Snowden
What year was the Paris Agreement signed?
Answer: 2015
What U.S. government department was created in the wake of the September 11 attacks?
Answer: The Department of Homeland Security
What year was Nelson Mandela freed from prison?
Answer: 1990
Who was the first woman to be elected Vice President of the United States in 2020?
Answer: Kamala Harris
The costume designer for Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion also did the costumes for what fellow iconic 90s-fashion movie?
Answer: Clueless
Who is the only Disney princess to have been inspired by a real person?
Answer: Pocahontas — although given Disney’s historical inaccuracies, let’s go ahead and call this one capital-L Loosely inspired.
How many suns does the planet Tatooine, Luke’s home, have in Star Wars?
Answer: Two
What was the first — and still only — horror movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Silence of the Lambs
What movie is the first non-English film to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Parasite
What is the name of the hotel in Psycho?
Answer: The Bates Motel
How many times has the movie A Star is Born been remade?
Answer: Four times
Why is Ally Sheedy’s character in detention in The Breakfast Club?
Answer: She “didn’t have anything better to do.”
Who was the first Black actress to win an Oscar?
Answer: Hattie McDaniel
What three movies share the title for winner of the most Oscars?
Answer: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Ben-Hur, Titanic
Trivia Questions and Answers
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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
What are three consecutive strikes in bowling called?
Answer: A turkey
What is the national sport of Japan?
Answer: Sumo wrestling
Which team scored the most points ever in a single Super Bowl?
Answer: The San Francisco 49ers (55 points in 1990)
Which African country was the first to ever qualify for a World Cup?
Answer: Egypt
What is the only NFL team with a plant for a logo?
Answer: The New Orleans Saints (their logo is a fleur-de-lis, which is a stylized lily)
After how many personal fouls is a player ejected from an NBA game?
Answer: 6
What material was first used to cover baseballs?
Answer: Cowhide
What is the signature food dish served at Wimbledon?
Answer: Strawberries and cream
What was Muhammed Ali\’s birth name?
Answer: Cassius Clay
Who is the leading NBA scorer?
Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (with 38,387 points)
Random Trivia Questions
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In the state of Georgia, it’s illegal to eat what with a fork?
Answer: Fried chicken
What is a duel between three people called?
Answer: A truel
Which Tasmanian marsupial is known for its temper?
Answer: Tasmanian devil
Iceland diverted roads to avoid disturbing communities of what?
Answer: Elves
In public places in the state of Florida, what\’s illegal to do when wearing a swimsuit?
Answer: Sing
What is the original Latin word for \”vomit\”?
Answer: Vomitare
How long is New Zealand’s Ninety Mile Beach? How long is New Zealand’s Ninety Mile Beach?
Answer: 55 miles
What can be broken but is never held?
Answer: A promise
What does come down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain
What is measured in \”Mickeys\”?
Answer: The speed of a computer mouse
What is the name of the character Michael Cera plays in the 2023 Barbie movie?
Answer: Allan
In the The Hunger Games, what is the name of the fictional nation where the story takes place?
Answer: Panem
Following The Joy Luck Club in 1993, what was the next major Hollywood feature film to star a predominantly Asian cast?
Answer: Crazy Rich Asians in 2018 — that’s 25 years after The Joy Luck Club
What 2019 heartfelt teen buddy-comedy movie was directed, in her directorial debut, by Olivia Wilde?
Answer: Booksmart
Where does Lizzie McGuire travel to in the Lizzie McGuire Movie for her junior high graduation class trip?
Answer: Rome, and real talk, what group of 14-year-olds whose parents aren’t in the 1% get to go to Italy for graduating 8th grade?
What is the name of the rock camp that Demi Lovato’s Mitchie Torres and Joe Jonas’ Shane Gray attend in the classic Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock?
Answer: Camp Rock (sorry-not-sorry for the trick trivia question!)
What’s the last name of the three witch sisters in the classic Halloween movie Hocus Pocus?
Answer: Sanderson
What song do Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, and Bette Midler iconically dance to at the end of The First Wives Club?
Answer: “You Don’t Own Me” by Lesley Gore
What does the dad of Robin Williams’ Alan Parrish do for a living in Jumanji?
Answer: He owns a shoe factory
What’s the name of Andie (Molly Ringwald)’s best friend in Pretty in Pink?
Answer: Duckie
Easy Trivia Questions
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What is the best-selling video game franchise?
Answer: Mario
What is the long-standing nickname for IBM?
Answer: Big Blue
What is the meaning of \”fn\” on your computer keyboard?
Answer: Function
Who owns Venmo?
Answer: PayPal
What was Mac\’s first web browser?
Answer: Samba
What year was eBay founded?
Answer: 1995
Who sent the world\’s first text message?
Answer: Neil Papworth
What does Yahoo stand for?
Answer: Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle
What inspired the name for the iPod?
Answer: the EVA Pod (ePod) in “2001: A Space Odyssey
Who owns the Patent to Google’s original search algorithm?
Answer: Stanford University
Which bodily system would be primarily in charge of fighting off the common cold?
Answer: The immune system
Which artist painted \”The Birth of Venus\”?
Answer: Sandro Botticelli
What age was King Tut when he became the ruler of Egypt?
Answer: 9
What term refers to the distance around a circle?
Answer: Circumference
What is the actual number of amendments to the US Constitution?
Answer: 27
Who was the star of Lizzie McGuire?
Answer: Hilary Duff
Which country was the first man in space from?
Answer: Russia
What color are the public transport buses in London?
Answer: Red
How many wives did King Henry VIII of England have?
Answer: Six
Which animal played with the antelope according to the song “Home on the Range”?
Answer: Deer
Machu Picchu belonged to which South American civilization?
Answer: The Incas
Trivia Questions with Answers
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Who wrote the James Bond series of books?
Answer: Ian Fleming.
A British girl group with a member named Posh is?
Answer: Spice Girls
The TV show \”Big Little Lies\” is based on a book by which author?
Answer: Liane Moriarty.
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown opens with a murder in what French location?
Answer: The Louvre museum of Paris.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens is more famously known by what pen-name?
Answer: Mark Twain.
Who wrote the book \”To Kill a Mockingbird?\”
Answer: Harper Lee.
What mystery writer holds the Guinness World Record for the most translated works?
Answer: Dame Agatha Christie, who has sold around two billion copies worldwide in at least 103 different languages.
What is Dr. Seuss\’ real name?
Answer: Theodor Seuss Geisel.
How many Grammy awards Beyonce has?
Answer: 23
In \”A Christmas Carol,\” how many ghosts visit Scrooge?
Answer: Four: The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and the ghost of his friend Marley.
What is the name of the theater where many of Shakespeare\’s plays were brought to life?
Answer: The Globe Theatre, located in London.
What is the name of Stephen King\’s first published novel?
Answer: Carrie, published in 1974.
What was the name of the group Nick Carter used to be a part of?
Answer: Backstreet Boys
Which song did Nicole Kidman sing with Robbie Williams in a duo?
Answer: Something Stupid
Who’s holding the title of Rock\’s Roll king ever since?
Answer: Elvis Prestley
How many albums Adele has released?
Answer: 3
Who is known as King of Pop?
Answer: Michael Jackson
Jay-Z’s full name is?
Answer: Shawn Corney Carter
Which song has the most views of all times by Luis Fonsi?
Answer: Despasito
Which country is a music group called ABBA from?
Answer: Sweden
General Trivia Questions
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The Islamic calendar is based on which cycle?
Answer: Lunar
Who was the last prophet in Islam?
Answer: Muhammad
“Cohen” is Hebrew for what?
Answer: Priest
What is the Hebrew term for a good deed done out of a sense of religious duty?
Answer: Mitzvah
In which country was Buddha born?
Answer: Nepal
Where does Buddhism fall in a ranking of the world’s largest religion?
Answer: Fifth
What is the holiest city in Sikhism, home to the Golden Temple?
Answer: Amritsar
What is the main pilgrimage site for Muslims, located in Mecca?
Answer: Kaaba
In Hinduism, what is the term for the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth?
Answer: Samsara
In Buddhism, what are the teachings of the Buddha known as?
Answer: Dharma
In Judaism, what is the central prayer expressing the oneness of God?
Answer: Shema
You will get picked up by the law for peeing in the ocean in which country?
Answer: Portugal
Which animal can hold its pee for up to eight months?
Answer: Wood frog
This English word has the most \”definitions.\”
Answer: Set
Napoleon Bonaparte was once attacked by what kind of animals?
Answer: Rabbits
How many time zones are located in France?
Answer: 12
What part of the human body can regrow itself in three weeks?
Answer: Liver
What is occasionally used to enhance vanilla flavorings?
Answer: Beaver bum goo
What is the oldest toy in the world?
Answer: A stick
What animal did Edison film with while experimenting with moving images with his Kinetograph invention in 1892?
Answer: Cat
By law every citizen of Kentucky must do what annually?
Answer: Take a bath
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