General Knowledge trivia questions
7652 multiple-choice General Knowledge trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- What chemical is added to table salt in some European countries to prevent tooth decay?
- Potassium iodide, sodium iodide, or sodium iodate are added to table salt in order to prevent iodine deficiency. What health problems does iodine deficiency cause?
- What is the daily salt intake recommended by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition for the United Kingdom?
- Which of these medical conditions is linked to excessive salt consumption?
- What astronaut or cosmonaut performed the first space walk on March 18, 1965?
- Some of the most persecuted people in history, they trace their origins to northwestern India or present day Pakistan. The Nazis killed as many as 400,000 of them. By the 1400s they had spread across Asia Minor and into Egypt, Spain and Germany. Who are they?
- The term bibliobibuli refers to people who do what?
- This American professional basketball player, nicknamed The Pearl, was known for his flamboyant dribbling and play-making.
- In his twelve-volume analysis, this British historian wrote that history was not a continuous climb upward, but a series of waves or pulses, where civilizations rise, prosper and eventually fall.
- This Harvard dropouts first acting role was in Mystic Pizza, in 1988. He lived next door to historian, Howard Zinn.
- In 1836, German-Dutch farmers in South Africa moved north east through South Africa to establish a colony. What did they call this march?
- Cardinal Richelieu, the bad guy in many of the works of Dumas, was a brilliant minister for which king?
- Which countrys blue division helped Germany on the Eastern front during WWII?
- Every summer, a special basketball tournament is held in Harlem, NY. What is the original name of the tournament?
- This 2002 television series followed the lives of 3 families over 4 generations. The Keys, the Crawfords, and the Clarkes were all somehow linked with various alien encounters over the years and the culmination of all this was the birth of Allison Clarke played by Dakota Fanning.
- Can you name the 2004 television series the following quote is from: Me and 4,399 of my closest friends popped out of a ball of light right about here.
- This 1975 television movie, starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons, was based on the supposed abduction in 1961 of an inter racial couple living in New Hampshire.
- What are the names of George Costanzas parents on the TV show Seinfeld?
- According to geologists, in which era do we live?
- This very successful rock group appeared in an episode of Will and Grace.
- Who sang on the first million selling record?
- When was the Euro currency first launched?
- Where in the USA can you walk on a telescope?
- What is a fluid?
- What do these places have in common: Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Island, Navassa, Baker Island and Jarvis Island?
- What is the state motto of North Carolina?
- Rhode Island, the smallest US State, also has the shortest state motto. What is this one-word motto?
- To which of these countries are the Sami people not indigenous?
- How many people die in the final scene of Shakespeares Hamlet?
- Joe Barry Carroll was drafted by the Golden Gate Warriors in 1980. He was the first choice in that draft. Who did they give up to get him?