General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- What was the last name of Italian brothers Carlo, Bindo, Alfieri, Ettore, and Ernesto who were all in the automobile business?
- Which is the correct definition for oxter?
- What is true about all objects that emit heat?
- What did Wilhelm Schickard invent?
- Which list contains four of the five basic ballet moves?
- The USA owns a territory in the Pacific called The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. What is its capital city?
- The Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki are the sacred texts of which religion?
- The dram is the monetary unit of this country whose capital city is Yerevan.
- The Virginia General Assembly was founded in Jamestown in what year?
- This city state, also called Ragusa, was first to recognize the independence of the newly formed United States of America.
- What was the currency of the Netherlands, before the adoption of the euro?
- This US President, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946.
- This US President was an instructor in classical languages. Being ambidextrous, he could simultaneously write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other.
- This abstract strategy board game is the national game of Ghana. The board has two straight rows of six pits or cavities, called houses.
- This English rock musician changed his name to avoid confusion with a singer from the Monkees, who had the same family name.
- Edaphic deserts can be found on some volcanic islands, in parts of Iceland and on the Colorado plateau in the USA. Which of these most accurately defines an edaphic desert?
- Dactyloscopy, a technique perfected by anthropologist Juan Vucetichs, studies what?
- This US city is located at the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Ohio River.
- How many are in a Bakers Dozen?
- Ann has $5.00 and Jeff gives her $2.50, then she goes and buys $3.38 worth of candy. How much money does she have left?
- A lion is part of which animal class?
- What 2 prominent actors did the movie Colors star?
- Said to be the first of the Film Noir genre, The Maltese Falcon starred Humphrey Bogart as the one and only Sam Spade. How many appearances did Bogart make as this character?
- In 1971 one of the classics of the Film Noir genre was made in color - Chinatown. The cast was stellar, as well as the director. Can you name him?
- Laura is one of the most memorable films made in the Film Noir genre, even more so thanks to Clifton Webbs performance. What was his film characters name?
- A notable movie in the Film Noir genre is Out of the Past. This movie featured Robert Mitchum as Jeff Bailey, who is forced to confront his past by one unsavory adversary, played by an actor who is not known for his roles playing a heavy. Name him.
- The famous fictional modern detective Philip Marlowe was played by many actors over the years, from Humphrey Bogart to Elliot Gould. Can you name the author who created him.
- Body Heat, written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan of Star Wars, has everything; scheming lovers, murder, blackmail and betrayal. Can you name the actor who played Matty Walkers doomed husband, Edmund?
- Periander of Corinth, Pittacus of Mitylene and Thales of Miletus have something in common. What is it?
- These US Presidents - William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Warren G. Harding, all have this in common.