General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- What author wrote about the candiru in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch?
- This fish, which was introduced to Lake Victoria in East Africa in the 1950s, caused the extinction or near-extinction of several hundred native species.
- What flowers are growing in the field where Dorothy falls asleep in The Wizard of Oz?
- What famous actress portrays the young flower seller Eliza Doolittle in the 1964 Academy Award-winning movie My Fair Lady?
- In the movie Broken Flowers, Bill Murrays character stops at a florist to buy flowers for one of his many ex-girlfriends. What else does the florist do for him?
- In what country is Carré Otiss character, Emily, when she awakens in her room and finds a bouquet of wild orchids?
- In which of these movies are rose petals a recurring motif?
- “Where do you want me to put the third rose?” is a memorable quote from 2007 fantasy drama film Youth Without Youth. Name its director.
- In the movie Steel Magnolias, this actress plays a character who suffers from diabetes.
- What 1946 film noir, written by Raymond Chandler, tells the story of a returning war veteran and his faithless wife?
- Who won the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the movie Lilies of the Field?
- In a scene from this 2007 movie, Keira Knightleys character is carrying freshly picked flowers and is wearing a floral-print blouse.
- What is Jean Dujardins only audible line in the 2011 silent movie The Artist?
- Which of these Academy Awards did the French movie The Artist NOT receive?
- The 2011 British biopic The Iron Lady brought Meryl Streep her second Best Actress Academy Award. For what movie did she receive her first Best Actress Academy Award?
- Which of these 2011 movie with multiple Academy Award nominations is NOT correctly matched with its director?
- In what capital city does 12-year-old Hugo Cabret live in the Academy Award-winning movie Hugo?
- In Woody Allens movie Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilsons character is transported to the 1920s, an era he idolizes. Which of the following famous authors does he not encounter?
- The movie The Descendants closes with George Clooneys character and his two daughters curled up on the living room couch, eating ice cream, and watching this documentary.
- What kind of animal is Rango, the protagonist of the self-titled Oscar-winning movie of the same name?
- What actor, who was awarded an Oscar for his performance in the movie Beginners, became the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award?
- What actress won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the outspoken maid in the 2011 film The Help?
- The Red Vineyard was the only painting which this famous red-haired artist sold during his lifetime.
- This Baroque composer, nicknamed The Red Priest, is best known for a series of violin concertos titled The Four Seasons.
- This influential Irish author is honored on Bloomsday, the day on which his novel Ulysses is set.
- This prolific American poet from Massachusetts lived in seclusion and finally later in life refused to even leave her home.
- In his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, this famous red haired author wrote, When red headed people are above a certain social grade, their hair is auburn.
- What redhead actress, known for her headstrong independence, received four Academy Awards for Best Actress?
- Name the redhead author of It Can Happen Here, who became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- According to his self-portrait this leading painter of the Venetian School was a redhead. He painted so many women with red hair that his name became associated with a shade of red.