Humanities trivia questions
924 multiple-choice Humanities trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Peter Kurten was called a vampire, because he consumed the blood of some of his victims. He was accused of nine murders and seven attempted murders and was sentenced to death. He was guillotined on 2 June 1932. What was his nationality?
- The great circle on the celestial sphere, midway between the celestial poles is called this.
- If I am famous for my steadiness of mind under stress, then I am famous for this.
- If a statement is ambiguous, it is said to be this.
- One of the four pairs of words below contains two synonyms.
- One of these words has mid-17th century Latin origins and is a synonym of the word, wavy.
- Which of these definitions does not describe a present day meaning of the word sesquipedalian?
- Which of these words is used to describe something with a yellow color or tending toward a yellow color?
- We all know purple and its numerous variations, but can you name the odd one in this synonymic order dedicated to the shade of purple?
- The amarok, which is typical for the mythology of the Eskimos, is what kind of an animal?
- The banshee, a female spirit in Irish mythology, is known for doing what?
- The hippocampus, a mythical monster with the head of a horse and body of a fish, pulled the chariot of which god?
- Anubis was the jackal-headed judge of the dead from what mythology?
- The Kraken from seafaring lore was a monster often described as what?
- A brownie is a legendary elf popular in the folklore of which two countries?
- A cuero is a mythical giant octopus of which continent?
- A dwarf is a little humanoid creature with a large head and a long beard, typical for what mythology?
- A ghul is an evil spirit encountered by travelers in what area of the world?
- The wodewose is a club-wielding ogre with green hair who suffers from what malady?
- Priests often wore a mask of this god during mummification ceremonies.
- God Bes was depicted as this.
- Osiris had an equivalent in Greek mythology. Who was this counterpart of his?
- The name of god Amen means this.
- At first, there was only this god. He was the dark waters of chaos.
- The word tycoon means a wealthy businessperson. What language does it come from?
- Apart from being the name of a well-known rock group, placebo also means an innocuous medicine, prescribed only for psychological effect over the patient or for experimentations. But what is its true meaning in Latin?
- The original meaning of the word grotesque was very different from the one we know. What was it?
- The Amazon estuary is truly magnificent. The word estuary comes from this language.
- The word devil is derived from the Greek word diabolos. What does diabolos mean?
- After a divorce, the court might order one of the sides to pay an alimony. What are the origins of the word alimony?