Humanities trivia questions
924 multiple-choice Humanities trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Zeus was married to this goddess.
- What is the name of the daughter of the goddess, Demeter?
- What is the name of the 3 headed dog that guards the Underworld?
- Hermes is the Greek god of shepards, land travel, weights and measures, oratory, literature, merchants and athletics. His Roman equivalent however, is usually considered to be just the god of trade, profit and travel. Who is the Roman god in question?
- Dionysus is the Greek god of wine. Who is the Roman god of wine?
- Hephaestus is the Greek God of fire and the patron of blacksmiths. Who is the Roman god of fire and craftsmanship?
- The Greek goddess of flowers is Chloris. Who is the Roman goddess of flowers, the personification of spring?
- Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, was very popular and powerful among Greek sailors. His Roman equivalent was inferior in power and popularity. Who was the Roman god of the sea?
- Eros is the Greek personification of the dawn and his siblings are the sun (Helios) and the moon (Selene). Who is the Roman personification of the dawn, whose siblings are Sol (sun) and Luna (moon).
- Which one of these words means sooty or murky; having a dark or dusky color?
- Which word means a group of unofficial often secret and scheming advisers?
- What word means to be not reputable or decent?
- What word means melancholy, gloomy, or having a peevish temperament?
- What word means a defamatory falsehood published for political effect?
- It is estimated that this country has more English speakers than the United States.
- The Mazateco language is the native language of the Mazatec peoples of Oaxaca, Mexico. Besides by words, messages in this language can be conveyed by what other means?
- The creator of the most widely used constructed international language, Esperanto, philologist L. L. Zamenhof, had what other profession?
- Which of the following languages does not use a definite article?
- In which country should you be careful with any objects labelled gift (when the word is used as a noun)?
- Which of these words begins with one and the same sound in a great percentage of the languages in the world?
- Which is the only South American country that uses English as its official language?
- Which is the common official language of Austria, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland?
- What is the country with the greatest number of official languages?
- Which Broadway show features the character of Billy Bigelow as the male lead?
- Which Rogers and Hammerstein musical features the comic character Ado Annie?
- The character of Professor Harold Hill was created by composer Meredith Willson for which musical about Mid-West small town life in the turn of the 20th century?
- Carrie Pepperidge is the comic relief in which Rogers and Hammerstein show?
- Shoeless Joe Hardy sold his soul to the devil in which 50s musical revised in the 1990s?
- Charlemange of the Holy Roman Empire was a character in which Fosse musical?
- Marian the Librarian is the main love interest in which show?