General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Which word was coined by philosopher and theologian, William Whewell in 1833?
- What was the first word addressed to Mission Control by Neil Armstrong, when his craft landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969?
- The Cretaceous-Tertiary event, also known as KT boundary, refers to what?
- Sapphire is usually associated with this month.
- One of the following pairs (month - the gem associated with it) is wrong.
- The birth stones associated with March, September and December can all be found in this color.
- History records the fact that a Roman senator named Nonius chose exile rather than surrender his precious stone to Mark Anthony. This is Nonius gem stone.
- In chemistry, if you mix an acid with a base you would get these chemicals.
- Which was the first car model to sell one million cars in one year?
- Which company built the A6M, aka Zero -- the fighter aircraft that was used in the attack on Pearl Harbor?
- Which U.S. President is famous for saying I choose not to run?
- What type of chocolate contains the most flavonoids and may help lower your cholesterol?
- How much did the USA pay Russia for Alaska?
- At what temperature is the Fahrenheit temperature equal the Celsius temperature?
- What musical instrument made jazz performer Lionel Hampton famous?
- What are the only two landlocked countries in South America ?
- The real McCoy refers to the man who invented this.
- Which word means a practitioner of the martial art of Okinawan origin, karate?
- Which of these Biblical characters is known to have the greatest number of children?
- Which device was patented in 1970 by Douglas Engelbart, an American inventor of Norwegian descent?
- When did the famous American crooner Nat King Cole and his daughter Natalie Cole record their hit song, Unforgettable”?
- What does the Yiddish word Bupkis mean in English?
- In ancient times, which stone was believed to protect from drunkenness?
- Nicknamed Mighty Mo (or Big Mo), this Iowa-class battleship from the end of World War II was the last battleship built by the United States.
- In what year did French mechanic Nicolas Joseph Cugnot invent the first self-propelled road vehicle?
- This is the only RB/soul singer asked by Johnny Carson to perform twice in the same week in The Tonight Show.
- 3M Company was formed in 1902 in Two Harbors, Minnesota near Lake Superior with the intent of selling sandpaper. The company made $22.923 billion USD in 2006 and is famous for several inventions, including Scotch tape. What does 3M stand for?
- Having won 6 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, this 1950s production is a modern retelling of the Faust legend. Its main characters are Mr. Applegate, Joe Boyd and Lola.
- Born in Vladivostok, Russia in 1920, this Academy Award-winning actor is best know for playing King Mongkut of Siam 4,626 times onstage. He also reprised the role in the film version of the musical.
- This country is a founding member of the European Union and the United Nations and one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. It is visited by over 75 millions tourists annually.