General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Where is the International Tennis Hall of Fame located?
- Where is the Bowling Hall of Fame located?
- This pop singer, songwriter and pianist, who attended the highly regarded Julliard School of Music, recorded two different versions of the song Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.
- In 1908, this caricaturist, regarded as the father of French animation, made the film Fantasmagorie, which is considered the first fully-animated film ever made.
- This satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral on January 31, 1958, by the Jupiter-C vehicle, was the first United States Earth satellite.
- British aircraft manufacturer, Saunders Roe, developed the first practical man-carrying hovercraft, the SR-N1. Its first public demonstration, including a cross-channel run, was made in what year?
- In what year did Capt. John Alcock and Lt. A.W. Brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight?
- This soul singer recorded the song Dock of the Bay in 1967, three days prior to his death in a plane crash.
- Which Major League Baseball pitcher was nicknamed, The Spaceman?
- This psychiatrist, founder of Analytical Psychology, made the following observation: The more critical reasoning dominates, the more impoverished life becomes.
- He invented the vulcanized rubber double-tube tire in 1845 and the glass fountain pen in 1849. He also came up with the technique of firing explosive charges using electricity.
- Name the longest continuous stretch of railroad.
- Famous for his work, The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices, he is considered the father of human space flight and the first man to conceive the space elevator -- a hypothetical structure designed to transport material from a planets surface into space.
- He was ridiculed for preparing in 1863 the first periodic table of the elements arranged in order of relative atomic masses, and pointing out in 1865 the law of octaves, where every eighth element has similar properties.
- It was a war fought because a Prussian prince was put on the Spanish throne.
- He was arrested and imprisoned in 1849 for engaging in revolutionary activity against the ruler, but became one of his countrys greatest writers.
- Find the next number in this sequence: 8, 5, 4, 9, 1, 7, ...
- The first Europeans to see this beautiful Caribbean island were on the boat of Alonzo Pinzon, who separated from Columbus to explore on his own, in 1492. It is the smallest of the Greater Antilles. What island is it ?
- It was one of the longest running off-Broadway plays. Its orchestra consisted of a harp and a piano. It was written by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. It originally starred Rita Gardner, Thomas Bruce and Kenneth Nelson.
- Which of these words means dealing with charity or aided by charity?
- U.S. President Hardings administration was rocked by this scandal, involving oil.
- Hammer v. Dagenhart was an important Supreme Court case, which dealt what topic?
- The terms ahimsa and satyagraha are generally associated with whom?
- This friend of Vincent Van Gogh and once-successful stockbroker produced the famous work, The Yellow Christ.
- Which English coin represented one-twentieth of a pound?
- The states of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado form an exception to what important mathematical theorem?
- Which of the following types of music are not generally associated with Jamaica?
- The Golden State Warriors of the NBA once traded a player and a draft choice for center, Billy Joel Carroll. Who were the two players they traded?
- Three of these people were competitors and / or critics of Newton. Can you spot the odd one?
- This woman, who was the second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII, is said to have become a headless ghost after her death.