General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- In this fifth novel in Anne Rices The Vampire Chronicles, Lestat is offered a job by the devil himself. The Devil explains to him many things about heaven and hell, and reveals some of the secrets of the world. What is the title of the novel?
- Sympathy for the Devil is a song, originally released by this British rock band.
- What animal is responsible for the most human deaths in the world?
- What book is said to be the most shoplifted?
- What company is generally regarded as the largest toy distributor in the world?
- What percent of movies released in theaters in 1985 were R-rated?
- What is the maximum distance between Mars and the Sun?
- Which royal abode has had visitations from the ghosts of Thomas Becket, Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII and Lady Jane Grey amongst many others (including a bear)?
- In Native American beliefs, humans could be transformed into a dangerous cannibalistic spirits if they ate human flesh. What is the name given to these creatures?
- Once occupied by the Romans and then later the Vikings, which Yorkshire city is said to be the most haunted in Europe if not the world?
- Which famous hoax of the early twentieth century fooled many including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
- Which one of the following is not said to be haunted by the ghost of Abraham Lincoln?
- This seemingly lifelike substance is allegedly extruded from the bodies of mediums. It can be vaporous or solid and is said to smell of ozone. What is it?
- Which two famous ghosts supposedly haunt the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel?
- Which one of the following is not a Japanese ghost or spirit?
- What make of pistol did actor and Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth use to kill President Lincoln?
- In astronomy, what is a syzygy?
- Which of these celebrities was named after the Biblical character who was Namomis daughter-in-law?
- Which of these statements is true about the way Michelangelo drew the snake in the Sistine Chapel?
- What is the longest river in Asia Minor?
- The protest march from Philadelphia to Teddy Roosevelts home in 1903 was called this.
- Which was the first jazz single to sell one million copies?
- Which of the following people was a big fan of bowling?
- Which famous actor was Arthur Millers son-in-law?
- This United States Army lieutenant general was in command of the American army at the beginning of the American Civil War. He developed the Union strategy popular as the Anaconda Plan, that would be used to defeat the Confederacy.
- This song, composed by George Harrison, one of the members of the Beatles, caused a plagiarism trial.
- The name of this company, founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi in 1889, roughly translates as leave luck to heaven.
- It is generally accepted that this term, whose usage was reported by Newsweek in 1951, first appeared in Dr. Seusss book If I Ran the Zoo, where it names one of the comical, imaginary animals.
- This country was formerly known as the Republic of Upper Volta. On August 4, 1984, President Thomas Sankara gave it a new name which means the land of upright people.
- This small agricultural town, whose motto is solidarity in work, is located in Quebec, Canada, near the St. Lawrence River.