General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- We all know that New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are the three largest cities in the USA. What is the fourth largest city in the USA, as measured by metropolitan area (SMSA) according to 2006 US Census Bureau estimates?
- What is the fourth largest city in Canada (after Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver), as measured by metropolitan area according to 2006 estimates?
- Who was the fourth baseball player to hit 600 home runs in the US major leagues (Babe Ruth, of course, was the first)?
- What nation won the fourth World Cup (of football/soccer) in 1950?
- Which river in China caused a flood of mammoth proportions in 1931?
- What state was affected by the most powerful earthquake recorded in U.S. history prior to 2000?
- What European country was affected the worst by the European Heat Wave of 2003?
- Which of the following volcanoes caused the most deaths?
- What part of the U.S. was hit by the North American Storm Complex of 1993?
- Where is the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art?
- This became the longest running Broadway play on 9 January, 2006 .
- William Moulton Marston was the psychologist who invented the polygraph or lie detector. What else did he create?
- Ketchikan, Alaska holds what distinction?
- Where is the only Christopher Wren building in the Western Hemisphere?
- Bernard Webb was a pseudonym used by which famous musician and songwriter?
- Can you name the singer who had a big music hit with Mr. Bojangles.
- For what is Scottish Sir James Dewar famous?
- Which of the following was not a member of the band Lynryd Skynyrd?
- The town of Juarez, Mexico is located next to what U.S. city?
- Michelangelos statue of David is housed in what city?
- In which TV series did American rapper Ice-T make his television debut?
- Where did Chicago Bears defensive lineman, William Fridge Perry, play college football?
- What is the mascot of the University of California at Irvine?
- This tiny sovereign state, with a territory of about 0.44 square kilometres, is the smallest country in the world.
- This President, often called by his opponents His Accidency, was the first politician to assume the office of US President following the death of his predecessor.
- In 1565, this German-Swiss naturalist became the first person to document and describe the pencil.
- Before his death, host of the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson, used to meet Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Carl Reiner in which club?
- In 1879, the Procter Gamble company created a new brand of soap as a result of what mistake?
- What was special about the playing cards that were given to British pilots in World War II?
- Mayday, an emergency code word used internationally as a distress signal, derives from which language?