General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- This Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics wrote more than 60 plays during his lifetime, which earned him a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
- This Irish actor has played a German industrialist, credited with saving over 1,100 Jews, a Jedi master and an Irish revolutionary.
- This red-headed Irish actress often worked with director John Ford and her longtime friend John Wayne. Her autobiography, Tis Herself, was published in 2004 and became a New York Times Bestseller.
- This Irish-born author published her first novel Under the Net in 1954. She was portrayed by Kate Winslet and Judi Dench in a 2001 movie.
- What military conflict is depicted in Stephen Cranes novel The Red Badge of Courage?
- What novel by Kurt Vonnegut is based on real life World War II events, written from the perspective of characters?
- The plot and the interactions of the characters in Leo Tolstoys novel War and Peace take place in the era surrounding this historical event.
- What famous French novel depicts the notorious St. Bartholomews Day Massacre of 1572, when thousands of Protestants are slaughtered?
- An important event described in the novel Captain Corellis Mandolin is the massacre of Italian troops by the Germans in September 1943. On what island did the massacre occur?
- What novel by Charles Dickens is set before and during the French Revolution?
- Which of the following novels is subtitled A Narrative of the Time of Nero?
- In the novel The Three Musketeers, which Queen consort of France secretly conducts an affair with the Duke of Buckingham?
- Alison Weirs novel Innocent Traitor tells the story of an English noblewoman, known as the The Nine Days Queen. What was her name?
- Which novel of James Clavels popular Asian Saga opens in 1945 and focuses on prisoners of war in a Japanese camp in Singapore?
- This Pulitzer-Prize-winning author studied law but dropped out after the first semester. Like the narrator of her only novel, she was the daughter of a respected small-town attorney.
- This Victorian writer left school to work in a boot blacking factory after his father was thrown into debtors prison.
- This pioneer of the Beat generation earned a scholarship for Columbia University due to his athletic skills as a running back in American football. After cracking a tibia his football career was over and he dropped out of university.
- This author, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Reivers, dropped out of school at age 15 to work in his grandfather’s bank.
- This notable author dropped out of school at the age of 12, when his father died. He became a printers apprentice and later worked as a steamboat pilot, an occupation that gave him his pen name.
- This Irish playwright, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Oscar, harboured a lifelong animosity toward schools and teachers.
- This prominent science fiction author dropped out of school at the age of 14, when his father, a professional cricket player, fractured his thigh. His unhappy apprenticeship as a draper inspired his novels The Wheels of Chance and Kip.
- Financial circumstances forced this author to leave the University of California, Berkeley in 1897 and he sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush.
- This author, noted for his childrens stories, moved to Copenhagen at the age of 14 to seek employment as an actor. In 1835 he published the first installment of his immortal Fairy Tales.
- This playwright, director and actor, born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, was thrown out of New York University after one semester for poor grades.
- What dance is featured in the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, starring Anthony Quinn?
- What cocktail is made with vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice and lime juice?
- What kind of flower was named in honor of Lady Diana in Singapore?
- The original Ferris Wheel was created for the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition, held in this city.
- Veni, vidi, vici is a Latin sentence reportedly written by in 47 BC by this Roman statesman.
- This author, famous for his novel The Human Comedy, made the following statement to the Associated Press five days before his death in 1981: Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case?