General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- How many miles per gallon did the 1908 Ford Model T get?
- The members of this band included Sgt. Floyd Pepers, Janice, Zoot, Animal, and Lips.
- At what temperature does water begin to boil on top of Mount Everest?
- This is the name of the computer program developed by the Hollywood division of the Los Angeles Police Department to create a database of crimes, criminals, and all related information.
- What do Lou Gehrig, the four Beatles, Beethoven, Bach and Mr. Spock have in common?
- What do you add to steel to make it stainless?
- This word can mean to jump straight up or a foolish and/or weak person.
- This actor played Murphy Brown’s son in the Murphy Brown sitcom.
- How did Michael Moore finance his movie „Roger and Me?”
- U.S. antitrust lawyers took Microsoft to court claiming that the company tried to use its monopolistic power to destroy this computer language.
- Which singer led The Nude Tour?
- He was the first NHL player to buy his former team.
- Which super computer lost a match to Garry Kasparov?
- What does the Arabic term, Maghrib represent?
- Widely known as Crazy Bet, she was a famous Union spy in the American Civil War.
- The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, which established the United States Civil Service Commission, was drafted during the office of which President?
- The melody of which 1951 pop song was written by a politician who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
- The famous Japanese cherry trees were planted in Washington, D.C., around the Tidal Basin at the request of which US First Lady?
- What does the Latin proverb, Dum spiro, spero, mean in English?
- You are given a bag with 10 marbles, four red marbles and six blue marbles. You select one at random. What is the probability that the marble you select is either blue or green?
- This French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher, author of the Lettres provinciales, stated the following: There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other.
- This Irish playwright, novelist and poet wrote the following line in his famous play Waiting for Godot: We are all born mad. Some remain so.
- This soul singer and songwriter, often called Silky Smooth because of his rich baritone, is famous for his hits Rainy Night in Georgia, Fools Rush In, This Time of the Year.
- This city, known also as Anvil City, is situated in Northwest Alaska.
- Easter Island, an island in the south Pacific Ocean, is a territory of which country?
- The Walden Pond, made famous by writer, naturalist, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, is located in which US state?
- The dialectic of this philosopher is most often characterized as a three-step process of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. According to his concept, a thesis would cause the creation of its antithesis and this would eventually result in a synthesis.
- In Freuds psychoanalytic theory, the defense mechanism in which anxiety-producing or unacceptable emotions are replaced by their direct opposites is defined by which term?
- Bloomsday is a secular holiday, which commemorates the life of Irish writer James Joyce and the fictitious events in his novel Ulysses. Bloomsday is celebrated annually, on what date?
- What does the Latin phrase ceteris paribus mean?