General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- On what game show did contestants receive unwanted joke prizes, called zonks?
- What American star portrayed the character of Viktor Komarovsky in the 1965 drama-romance-war film Doctor Zhivago?
- What is rock singer Ozzy Osbournes real name?
- The movie “To Sir, with Love” stars Sidney Poitier as a teacher confronted with a class of arrogant and provocative students. In what city is the movie set?
- What fictional teacher, portrayed by Robin Williams, told his students that, if they felt daring, they could call him O Captain! My Captain!?
- This movie tells the story of a former U.S. Marine who becomes a teacher nicknamed white bread by her minority students.
- In what novel does Charles Dickens depict Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, the teacher who teaches his students nothing but facts?
- Now tell your father not to teach you any more. Its best to begin reading with a fresh mind are words Miss Caroline addresses to Jean Louise, the narrator of this novel.
- What 2007 movie, based on a true story, ends with a note that Erin Gruwell successfully brought many of her students to graduation and college?
- Name the Gus Van Sant movie in which Robert Crawford, a haughty literature professor, accuses Jamal Wallace of plagiarism.
- The movie Stand and Deliver is centered around Jaime A. Escalante, who gave up a steady well-paid job to become a dedicated teacher in a school where rebellion runs. What subject did Mr. Escalante teach?
- Which of these films does not tell the story of a real life teacher?
- Where is the loch, allegedly inhabited by the notorious Loch Ness Monster?
- Loch Ness is the largest body of water in which huge geologic fault?
- What is the Scottish Gaelic name of the Loch Ness Monster?
- This town, closely linked to the legend of the Loch Ness monster, lies at the mouth of the river Ness.
- The exploration of the Loch Ness Monster is related to which field of study?
- This Saint is supposed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster and even to have tamed it.
- What is the profession of Mr R.K. Wilson, who was claimed to have taken probably the most famous picture of what was supposed to be the Loch Ness Monster?
- This was the leader of the group that searched Loch Ness in the early 1970s and claimed to have made underwater photographs of the monster.
- What kind of creature was the extinct Plesiosaur, which is usually said to be similar to the monster of Loch Ness?
- Which part of the Loch Ness monster is most noteworthy according to people who claim to have seen it?
- Who was the first professional athlete in baseball history to hit a home run and score a touchdown in the same week?
- Which company did Clarence Saunders found in 1916?
- In which category did Krishna Bhanji win an Academy Award in 1982?
- In this movie Robert De Niro plays a timid and artistic NYC police detective. Bill Murray plays the criminal boss and Uma Thurman is a call girl De Niros character falls for.
- In Major League Baseball, who was the first pitcher to win 200 games in his career?
- 1919 saw the first general, city-wide strike in the USA. It involved about 35,000 workers. In which city did this strike occur?
- We all have learned that you can tell the age of a tree by the number of rings. Who was the first to discover this fact?
- Erle Stanley Gardner created the great fictional lawyer Perry Mason. On which TV show did the lawyer Perry Mason practice law?