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Questions 1. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which U.S. president was the only one to serve on the Supreme Court after his term as president? 2. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What kind of creature is a fer-de-lance? 3. LANGUAGE: What is the study of the form, meaning and use of words called? 4. TELEVISION: What 1960s sci-fi drama began with the line, “There is nothing wrong with your television set”? 5. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: How long is the racetrack where the Kentucky Derby takes place? 6. PSYCHOLOGY: What is a fear of birds called? 7. MUSIC: The song “Waltzing Matil...
Questions 1. THEATER: What Stephen Sondheim play features the song “Send in the Clowns”? 2. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president was associated with the Four Freedoms? 3. GEOLOGY: What color is the mineral malachite? 4. GEOGRAPHY: Where are the Diomede Islands located? 5. MATH: How many sides does a decagon have? 6. SPORTS: What sport involves terms such as kickflip, Caballerial and Ollie north? 7. LITERATURE: Which of Ernest Hemingway’s novels had the working title “Fiesta”? 8. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Where did the peach tree likely originate...
Questions 1. MOVIES: Who directed the movie “La Dolce Vita”? 2. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the famous Olduvai Gorge located? 3. MYTHOLOGY: Tyr was a Norse god of what? 4. MUSIC: What pop group sang “Love Shack”? 5. PRESIDENTS: How old was Theodore Roosevelt when he was inaugurated? 6. SCIENCE: In what century was Isaac Newton born? 7. HISTORY: When was the last year the Dodgers played in Brooklyn? 8. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the symbol of the zodiac sign Scorpio? 9. LANGUAGE: What does the Greek prefix “speleo” mean? 10. MEASUREMENTS: How many bo...
Questions 1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Who was the first African-Amercian woman to be crowned Miss America? 2. SCIENCE: What temperature does water boil in Celsius? 3. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a group of ladybugs called? 4. MEDICAL: What type of blood does a universal donor have? 5. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital of Armenia? 6. HISTORY: When did the Spanish Civil War end? 7. TELEVISION: How does the title to this 1990s drama series end: “Beverly Hills, ...”? 8. GAMES: How many dots are on a standard, six-sided die? 9. MOVIES: What was the name of the...
Questions 1. GEOGRAPHY: The ancient city-state of Tenochtitlan once existed at the same site as what major world city? 2. ANATOMY: In humans, which gland regulates metabolism? 3. HISTORY: Which astronaut stayed aboard the Apollo 11 command service module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in 1969? 4. LITERATURE: What was the working title of “The Secret Garden”? 5. FAMOUS QUOTES: What modern novelist once wrote, “It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities”? 6. ANIMAL KINGDOM: The wombat i...
Questions 1. SCIENCE: What is the study of heat and its transformation to mechanical energy called? 2. LANGUAGE: What is the symbol associated with the Greek letter “Delta” (uppercase)? 3. MUSIC: Which city is hometown to the Red Hot Chili Peppers band? 4. PSYCHOLOGY: What is the fear represented in tachophobia? 5. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a male rabbit called? 6. GEOGRAPHY: Which two African nations joined to become Tanzania in 1964? 7. LITERATURE: Who wrote the children’s classic book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”? 8. MEASUREME...
Questions 1. GEOGRAPHY: Which of the Great Lakes reaches the farthest north and west? 2. LITERATURE: Which English poet wrote and illustrated “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”? 3. MOVIES: Who played the female lead in the 1942 film “Casablanca”? 4. OLYMPICS: In which sport would you perform the “Fosbury Flop”? 5. BUSINESS: Where was entrepreneur/inventor Elon Musk born and raised? 6. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What does a phlebotomist do for a living? 7. SCIENCE: What law is represented by the equation F=ma? 8. TELEVISION: Who starred in the TV s...
Questions 1. ANATOMY: What is the normal human body temperature in Celsius? 2. LITERATURE: The monster Grendel appears in what literary work? 3. MATH: What is the least common multiple of 3 and 7? 4. TELEVISION: Who was the first guest of the television news show “Face the Nation” when it debuted in 1954? 5. FOOD & DRINK: What is “tafelwein” in German? 6. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What does the name of the martial art taekwondo mean in Korean? 7. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the first graduate of West Point to serve as president? 8. GEOGRAPHY: What is...
Questions 1. LITERATURE: In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” who orders the deaths of Lady McDuff and her children? 2. GAMES: How much does it cost to land on the Income Tax square in the game of Monopoly? 3. GEOGRAPHY: What is the official language of Angola? 4. LANGUAGE: What is the professional name of a person who makes arrows for a living? 5. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president first appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as a delegate to the U.N.? 6. MYTHOLOGY: What is a gorgon? 7. HISTORY: What area of Alaska did gold seekers rush to in 1897 after the disco...
Questions 1. LITERATURE: What are the four houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? 2. GEOGRAPHY: Which of the six states in Australia is the largest in land area? 3. CHEMISTRY: What is the first element on the periodic table? 4. TELEVISION: Which long-running TV show features a business called Duff Brewery? 5. HISTORY: When did the Space Age begin? 6. CURRENCY: Whose likeness appears on the $2 bill in the United States? 7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: On which continent did the potato originate? 8. FOOD & DRINK: What is sushi usually...
Questions 1. MOVIES: Who directed the movie “La Dolce Vita”? 2. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the famous Olduvai Gorge located? 3. MYTHOLOGY: Tyr was a Norse god of what? 4. MUSIC: What pop group sang “Love Shack”? 5. PRESIDENTS: How old was Theodore Roosevelt when he was inaugurated? 6. SCIENCE: In what century was Isaac Newton born? 7. HISTORY: When was the last year the Dodgers played in Brooklyn? 8. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the symbol of the zodiac sign Scorpio? 9. LANGUAGE: What does the Greek prefix “speleo” mean? 10. MEASUREMENTS: How many bo...
Questions 1. FOOD & DRINK: What ingredient is added to sugar to make it brown sugar? 2. CURRENCY: Which historical figure featured on a $100 bill was NOT a president? 3. GEOGRAPHY: How many countries border Germany? 4. GAMES: Who invented the game of roulette? 5. ANIMAL KINGDOM: On which continent would you find a dingo, a wild dog? 6. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: What American industrialist once said, “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil”? 7. HISTORY: Who was the last queen of France? 8. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: How long did the Pony Exp...
Questions 1. GEOGRAPHY: Which is the shallowest of the Great Lakes? 2. HISTORY: Which Old West gunslinger was born with the name Henry McCarty? 3. TELEVISION: What was the name of the family car on “The Munsters”? 4. LITERATURE: How long did it take Tolstoy to write his epic novel “War and Peace”? 5. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Where were the first modern Olympic Winter Games held in 1924? 6. SCIENCE: What colors are mosquitos attracted to? 7. GAMES: How many pieces are in a double-six set of dominoes? 8. U.S. STATES: What is the nickname of the sta...
Questions 1. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which U.S. president was the shortest? 2. HISTORY: What agreement provided for the dissolution of the former Soviet Union? 3. LITERATURE: Which book in the Harry Potter series has a mythical creature in its title? 4. TELEVISION: Who played Thurston Howell III on “Gilligan’s Island”? 5. FOOD & DRINK: What is the method that involves cooking food in sealed bags, usually in water? 6. GAMES: What company introduced the “Hot Wheels” toys and games? 7. GEOGRAPHY: How many U.S. states border the Gulf of Mexico? 8. SCIENC...
Questions 1. TELEVISION: Who is the current host of the “Family Feud” game show? 2. ART: What is the only work of Michelangelo’s that bears his signature? 3. INVENTIONS: Who developed and patented the electric telegraph in the United States in 1837? 4. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital of South Dakota? 5. LANGUAGE: What letters end a gerund in the English language? 6. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the common term for bovine spongiform encephalopathy? 7. U.S. PRESIDENTS: How many vice presidents served with President Franklin D. Roosevelt durin...
Questions 1. HISTORY: Who was Jesse James’ brother and partner in crime? 2. ANATOMY: Where in the human body would you find the tympanic membrane? 3. MUSIC: Which artist recorded the album titled “Blood on the Tracks”? 4. LITERATURE: Who wrote the novel “The Swiss Family Robinson”? 5. CHEMISTRY: What is the symbol for the element magnesium? 6. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital of Portugal? 7. TELEVISION: What was the name of Robert Blake’s cockatoo in the TV series “Baretta”? 8. LANGUAGE: What does the Greek prefix “ornitho” refer to? 9. MATH:...
Questions 1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: How many missions did the space shuttles fly during the history of the space program? 2. LITERATURE: Who wrote the sci-fi novel “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”? 3. SCIENCE: What is an example of sublimation? 4. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital of Belgium? 5. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What does the word “hippopotamus” mean? 6. HISTORY: Which country was the last to abolish slavery? 7. MUSIC: How many valves does a trumpet have? 8. MYTHOLOGY: What is the name of the Greek goddess of agriculture? 9. FIRSTS: Who was the first A...
Questions 1. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is the only bird that can fly backward with precision? 2. EXPLORERS: What was the name of the ship that explorer Henry Hudson sailed up a river that bears his name today? 3. LITERATURE: What was the name of Hermione’s pet cat in the “Harry Potter” book series? 4. FOOD & DRINK: What type of bread also is commonly known as “pocket bread”? 5. BIBLE: In which book does the phrase “the love of money is the root of all evil” appear? 6. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the famed Trevi Fountain located? 7. MUSIC: Which band wa...
1. SCIENCE: What vitamin did scientist Linus Pauling advocate as having health benefits when taken in high doses? 2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Where is Arlington National Cemetery located? 3. U.S. PRESIDENTS: How many children did President Franklin Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt have? 4. TIME & MEASUREMENTS: If the military hour is 1600, what is the time to civilians? 5. ASTRONOMY: What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope? 6. THEATER: Who wrote the 20th-century play “Private Lives”? 7. GAMES: What color is the No....
1. MEASUREMENTS: How much is a dram in U.S. measurements? 2. ASTRONOMY: What kind of star is our sun? 3. LITERATURE: What children’s book features the characters Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet? 4. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the island nation of Cape Verde located? 5. MATH: What is M divided by L in Roman numerals? 6. MOVIES: Who was the lead actor in the 1968 movie “Planet of the Apes”? 7. TELEVISION: What 1960s show featured POWs by the name of Newkirk, LeBeau and Kinchloe? 8. U.S. PRESIDENTS: What is the call sign of the helicopter that carries the p...
1. U.S. CITIES: Which U.S. city is popularly known as “Beantown”? 2. MUSIC: What was the best-selling music single of all time? 3. MYTHOLOGY: In Greek mythology, how many graces are there? 4. TRANSPORTATION: Which major airport is known by the three-letter code DCA? 5. TELEVISION: What are the names of the two Muppet characters that heckle the cast from their balcony seats? 6. LITERATURE: What is the first name of Agatha Christie’s detective Miss Marple? 7. PSYCHOLOGY: What is triskaidekaphobia? 8. GEOGRAPHY: What is the largest fresh... Full story
1. ASTRONOMY: How large is Jupiter’s giant “red spot”? 2. U.S. STATES: Which is the only U.S. state that begins with the letter “p”? 3. HISTORY: Who was the last man to walk on the moon? 4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: The average person speaks how many words in a day? 5. MOVIES: In the movie “The Wizard of Oz,” what did the Tin Man want from the wizard? 6. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a guanaco? 7. BIBLE: In the Old Testament, who was Abraham’s first wife? 8. GEOGRAPHY: What two states border Lake Tahoe? 9. WEATHER: What was the fastest wind speed ever reco...
1. MYTHOLOGY: What was a harpy in Greek mythology? 2. GAMES: How many railroad spaces are on a Monopoly board? 3. LITERATURE: Which American novelist wrote the book “White Fang”? 4. U.S. STATES: What is the capital of Maryland? 5. MOVIES: What was the shortest title for a Best Picture Oscar winning movie? 6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which 19th-century president died from cirrhosis of liver? 7. ANATOMY: What does the Greek adjective “otic” refer to in the human body? 8. GEOGRAPHY: How many countries and principalities are neighbors of France? 9. THEA... Full story
TRIVIA TEST 1. AD SLOGANS: Which company advertised its products with the tagline “Maybe she’s born with it”? 2. SCIENCE: What is the process called when heat is transferred through a liquid or gas? 3. MOVIES: What is the theme song from “Titanic”? 4. MEASUREMENTS: How many pounds are in a ton (U.S.)? 5. ANATOMY: Metabolism is regulated by which gland in the human body? 6. LITERATURE: In which book in the Harry Potter series does the character of Dolores Umbridge appear? 7. MYTHOLOGY: Who was the Roman god of strength? 8. MATH: What is the de... Full story
1. LITERATURE: What American poet wrote the line, “My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night”? 2. MATH: The Roman numerals MCDXIV are equal to what Arabic number? 3. MONEY: Which U.S. president’s image appears on the $50 bill? 4. MEASUREMENTS: What does a “candela” measure? 5. MOVIES: What was the original name of Disney’s Mickey Mouse? 6. HISTORY: What war is the Battle of Leipzig associated with? 7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the birthstone associated with March? 8. GEOGRAPHY: What is the most populous city in the world? 9. N... Full story
