General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- How many movies were made featuring the character Dirty Harry during the 70s and 80s?
- For which two movies has Clint Eastwood been given the Academy Award for Best Director?
- Which Academy Award-winning film actor married Madonna in 1985 and divorced her in 1989?
- Which American actor, known for his passion for basketball and the LA Lakers in particular, appeared in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest as Randle Patrick McMurphy?
- This actress, best known for her roles in Legally Blonde and Walk the Line, got engaged to Ryan Phillippe in 1998, and co-starred with him in the 1999 hit movie Cruel Intentions.
- Which of the Baldwin brothers was married to Kim Basinger from 1993 to 2002?
- Which Hollywood actress won an Academy Award for her portrayal of the young transman, Brandon Teena in the 1999 movie Boys Dont Cry?
- In 2004, this Academy Award-winning actress, was listed by the Australian magazine BRW, as the richest Australian woman under 40.
- In 2004, this English actress received her fourth Academy Award nomination for her performance in the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
- Which Welsh-born actor got two Oscar nominations for playing US Presidents in the movies Nixon and Amistad?
- This Hollywood actress, who at the age of 7 starred in the film E.T. the Extra -Terrestrial, described her troubled childhood in her 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost.
- This Golden Globe-winning actress was arrested on December 12, 2001 for shoplifting designer clothes in a department store in Beverly Hills.
- This fictional detective, created by a British author and physician, delivered the following words in the short story, ‘The Boscome Valley Mystery’: ‘There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.’
- This eccentric literary detective, who lives alone in Paris, is the creation of Edgar Allan Poe.
- This fictional detective first appeared in the novel, ‘The Murder at the Vicarage’. Her motto is The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people know the young people are fools.
- This fictional detective, described as a ‘hard and shifty fellow’, is the leading character in the novel ‘The Maltese Falcon’.
- This fictional police detective, who likes smoking pipes, is the literary creation of Georges Simenon. Unlike his assistant Leroy, he often relies on his instincts in solving cases.
- The name of this fictional detective from the novel, ‘The Roman Hat Mystery’ is also the pseudonym under which the two cousins, Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee wrote detective fiction.
- This literary private eye, who works in Southern California, was first introduced in the novel, ‘The Moving Target’.
- This fictional private eye made the following observation in the book, ‘The Big Sleep’: ‘Dead men are heavier than broken hearts‘.
- What was the estimated number of deaths of marijuana overdose in the USA for 2005?
- Archaeologists report that marijuana was possibly the first plant cultivated by humans. The first evidences of this date back to approximately what time?
- Sterilized hemp seeds are often sold as what?
- How many Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 1997?
- Which of the following is not a name for marijuana?
- Which film about marijuana was directed by Louis Gasnier and released in 1936?
- The famous boyhood friends depicted by Mark Twain were Huckleberry Finn and this character.
- What was the title of Leo Tolstoys classic about the Napoleonic Wars?
- Which of the following words usually follows the word zip?
- In the B O Railroad, what does the B stand for?