General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Which of the following are among the top female comedy writers in British television?
- Which of these is the name of the company that manufactures several first aid remedies?
- Which of these comedy teams consists of a husband and wife, whose son is an Emmy Award-winning actor?
- Complete the name of the American printmaking firm that produced prints by hand-colored lithography: ........... and Ives.
- Who were the two teenagers who were transported into various time periods in a series of movies?
- Which of the following are usually part of every restaurant table setting?
- In the U.S., the maximum term of an issued patent is this many years, from the earliest claimed filing date.
- Regardless of its size, approximately this much of an iceberg is visible above the waterline.
- In the game of Scrabble, if a player uses all seven of their letters in a turn, they receive a bonus of how many points?
- Teams in the NHL and the NBA both usually play this many regular season games.
- Over the course of the complete works of William Shakespeare, the bard uses this many different words.
- Before making the change to a decimal based monetary system, one English guinea was comprised of this many shillings. Coincidentally, it is also the number of letters in the Italian alphabet.
- The number of weeks the Barenaked Ladies hit, One Week was #1 on the U.S. Billboard pop chart in 1998.
- The top price for a ticket to the Super Bowl I in 1967.
- Solve for X: X = [(number of arms on a squid) - (height in feet of an NBA basketball hoop)] * [number of minutes taken for light from the sun to reach the earth]
- Homers epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are made up of this many books each.
- What term derives from a Latin word meaning rods bundled around an axe ?
- At the end of his historic performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, this musician set his guitar Fender Stratocaster on fire.
- This rhythm and blues song from 1951 is claimed by the owner of Sun Records, Sam Phillips, to be the first rock and roll song.
- What American state, known also as the Silver State, is named after a weather condition?
- During the reign of George III, this British politician held the position of Prime Minister from 1783 to 1801, and again from 1804 until his death.
- In what year did Nicolas Cugnot invent the first successful steam-powered road vehicle?
- In 1839, while spending the winter with George Sand in Majorca, this composer completed a work consisting of 24 short preludes. Each prelude was in a different major or minor key.
- This Greek word, used in Homers works, means virtue or being the best you can be.
- This author wrote a book in which the story is told from the view poin of the mulatto slave Cynara, born on the plantation Tata. The book is a parody of the novel Gone with the Wind.
- Alban W. Phillips is the discoverer of the Phillips Curve. What does this curve show?
- This tall actress is famous for her portrayal of Ripley in the film Alien.
- Which of these books was not written by Steve Allen?
- According to a study published in the Annals of Neurology, people who regularly come into contact with pesticides are 70 % more likely to develop what disease?
- Handel, Bach and Scarlatti were all born in what year?