General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- After graduation, Howard Stern worked for what obscure station in Briarcliff Manor, New York, playing disco music?
- The true cowboy in the comedy City Slickers, this man was an actor who professed to enjoy acting in westerns.
- Which comic actor starred with Shelley Winters in the Poseidon Adventure and was famed on the Dean Martin Roast programs for his skit on Never Got a Dinner?
- The war was caused by Saddam Husseins aspirations to Iran. It began on 22 September 1980 on the pretext that Iran backed an assassination attempt against Iraqs Foreign Minister, Tariq Aziz.
- Model 5150 of this was announced in 1981 by IBM and retailed for $2880.
- The launch of this item is referred to as the Big Bang of digital audio revolution. It was released on the market in 1983 and 800,000 were sold in the US alone.
- The acronym we now use for this disease was first coined in 1982. Initially referred to as the gay plague, this infectious disease killed 853 people that same year.
- The first reports about this surfaced in 1984, when a group of British scientists discovered a 35% reduction, in comparison to 1960. Later, the American satellite Nimbus-7 confirmed the statements. What was discovered?
- This accident occurred in 1986 when a reactor in a Ukrainian nuclear power plant exploded. As a result, at least 5% of the radioactive material in the reactor core leaked into the atmosphere.
- Tim Berners-Lee was the creator of this, initially a networked information project at CERN.
- As AIDS became widely spread, commercials of these appeared for the first time on TV.
- In November 9, 1989 this symbol of communism fell, after 28 years in existence.
- Even though the first system of this kind, Aspen Movie Map was created in 1977, the term did not get coined till 1989. Lanier, who coined the term, is one of the pioneers of the field, founding a company, which built some of the first systems in the 1980s.
- This song was a #1 hit in the U.S. for Wilson Phillips in 1990.
- What 1998 song was a #1 hit in the U.S. for Will Smith?
- This song by Bryan Adams was a #1 hit in the U.S. in 1995.
- What song recorded by T.L.C. was a #1 hit in the U.S. in 1995?
- This song was a #1 hit for No Doubt in the U.S. in 1996.
- This song by Cher was a huge smash hit in 1999 and skyrocketed all the way to #1.
- This song came off the The Bodyguard soundtrack and was a #1 hit for Whitney Houston in 1992.
- This smash hit performed by Toni Braxton was a #1 song in the U.S. in 1996.
- What classic 90s song was a smash hit in 1992 for rapper Sir-Mix-Alot?
- Which song was a huge hit for singer Vanilla Ice in 1990?
- This 1984 movie stars Kevin Bacon as a teenager who moves to a small town that doesnt allow rock music or dancing. After befriending a group of students, they make it their mission to have a senior prom.
- This 1991 romantic comedy stars Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins as rival journalists who eventually discover they have feelings for each other.
- This 2005 movie stars Kevin Bacon as a stuck up hairdresser named Jorge.
- This 2005 movie, set in the late 50s, stars Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth as a Martin and Lewis-like comedy team who fall apart after a young woman is found dead in their hotel room.
- This 2002 movie stars Kevin Bacon and Courtney Love, who plays his wife and partner in crime in the abductions of children from wealthy families for ransom rewards.
- This 2004 movie stars Kevin Bacon who portrays a pedophile returning home after being imprisoned for 12 years. He finds himself abandoned by friends and family, then he meets Vicki, a love interest played by real life wife Kyra Sedgwick.
- Kevin Bacon stars in this 2000 movie as a brilliant scientist who is developing an invisibility serum for the military. He decides to test the serum on himself and when he is unable to regain his visibility, he becomes violent and begins to kill off everyone who knows about his secret.