Humanities trivia questions
924 multiple-choice Humanities trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- When prefix means high?
- All but one of the following suffixes changes the word from an adjective or a verb into a noun. Which is the odd one?
- Which suffix means foot?
- Which suffix means one who?
- Which prefix means across a distance?
- Which of the following prefixes does not mean not?
- Which prefix means together?
- Freya was the goddess of this.
- Odins favorite pets were these creatures.
- What did god Tyr sacrifice in order to bind the evil Fenris wolf?
- Which of the following gods was famous for his talent to quickly transform his appearance?
- Norse mythology associates the aurora with this beautiful goddess.
- He was the first man, according to Norse mythology.
- In what movie does a character say, Yo, Adrian.?
- Yo-Yo Ma is considered by most to be the best musician in the world to play this instrument. Yo-Yo Mas nickname for his instrument is Petunia. What type of instrument is Petunia?
- If a person is downright, then he is this.
- A playwright is someone who writes for the theatre. One of the following famous Greeks was not a playwright.
- One of these is not a spright.
- If he denied the charges outright, then his denial cannot be described as this.
- In the UK one of these parties is not considered right-winged.
- Which of these languages is not an official national language in a South American country?
- What language has the most native speakers in the world?
- What movie features an actor speaking one of the Khoisan languages of southwestern Africa, which have a range of click sounds (sounds which are not found outside this region)?
- The largest language family (a group of historically related languages) is the Indo-European family, which includes well-known European languages such as English, French and Russian. Which of the following languages is NOT a member of this family?
- What European language is not related to any other language in the world?
- The Romance languages are all descended from Latin, and form a branch of the Indo-European family. It is common knowledge that languages such as French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese are related and are Romance languages. There is another major European language which is also a member of this branch. What is it?
- What language has contributed the following words to the English language: ketchup, gong, orangutan, amok, bamboo, cockatoo, mango, paddy, gingham, compound (as in military compound) and cooties?
- What language has contributed the following words to English: bungalow, jungle, thug, khaki, cot, loot, sentry, shampoo, and bangle?
- The nation of Singapore has four official languages. However, all education is conducted in this language, by law.
- Which goddess was Apollos sister?