General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- When Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address he was not the main speaker. Who was the main speaker?
- Which of these events came first?
- The newton (N), named after Sir Isaac Newton in recognition of his work on classical mechanics, is a unit measuring what?
- John Howard Lawson, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Sam Ornitz, Dalton Trumbo, Ed Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr, Alvah Bessie, and Lester Cole made short speeches to denounce McCarthyism. All of them belonged to a group, known by what name?
- He reigned until 1725 and carried out a policy of Westernization and expansion, that transformed his country into a major European power.
- This small, distinct religious community, whose religion resembles Islam, but is influenced by Greek philosophy and other religions, is based mostly in the Middle East. Its members call themselves the People of Monotheism.
- This Spanish playwright and poet, author of The Dog in the Manger and The Widow from Valencia, maintained that a writers business is to write so as to make himself understood.
- This English shipbuilder, merchant and navigator, whose innovative measures made the new English ships fast and highly maneuverable, was one of the main commanders of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
- This form of traditional Japanese theater, which aims to make the audience laugh, is characterised by brief plays, stock characters and exaggerated dialogue.
- This Dutch naval officer, who became a folk hero during the Eighty Years War between the Dutch republic and Spain, sailed out to capture the Spanish treasure fleet in 1628.
- The first screen kiss was seen in the short movie The Kiss, shown in what year?
- Rene Descartes, who is given credit for the invention of analytic geometry in 1637, may have been preceded in this regard by which French mathematician?
- A war, which was condemned by the United Nations, was fought in 1982 over a group of islands between which two countries?
- In chemistry, this term refers to two elements with the same atomic number, but different atomic weights.
- This ancient thinker, who was the first person to propose a heliocentric model of the Solar system, considered that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
- Which geographical term describes a geological formation that slopes down from the center in all directions?
- This US National Park, famous for its mineral waters, is located in southeastern Oklahoma, near the city of Sulphur.
- The Mars family were the richest American family of 1988, according to Fortune magazine. They named one of their most successful products after their horse, who was named what?
- In 1915, the great American baseball player of the 1920s, Babe Ruth, hit his first home against which team?
- In 1982, this major Japanese car manufacturer was the first one to begin production of Japanese cars in the USA.
- In what year were pencils first mass-produced?
- Which of these is not among the reasons for which most pencils are yellow?
- Which of these is a real event in the history of the pencil?
- Who was the famous American writer whose first job was selling and making pencils?
- This famous American writer wrote all of the novel Cannery Row in pencil. He claimed to have used 60 pencils a day for his writings.
- In the first manned rocket flights into space, pencils, not pens, were given to the cosmonauts and astronauts. Why?
- Approximately how many pencils are sold annually in the USA?
- A great step forward in the world of pencils was made in 1858. What was it?
- If your pencil has a pinkish grain and little or no smell, then it is probably made from which substance?
- If your pencil has a reddish brown grain and a smell, what does that usually indicate?