Humanities trivia questions
924 multiple-choice Humanities trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Sportin Life is the likable villain in which Gershwin show?
- The beautiful Belle changes everyones fate in which Broadway musical?
- Nicely-Nicely Johnson is a second banana character in which Frank Lessor musical?
- Often called the Father of American Anthropology, he established the first PhD program in anthropology in America.
- This fossil, first discovered in 1924, proved that the human race really had a natural history.
- The name of of which extinct species means working man in Greek?
- This diminutive species was nicknamed hobbits after J.R.R Tolkiens fictional race of similar size.
- The discovery site of which species was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1987?
- Turkana boy, a fossil famous for being almost a complete skeleton, was discovered in Kenya in which year?
- What is the meaning of the anthropology term Pithecanthropus in Greek?
- This anatomist is famous for his discovery of the first specimen of early hominid remains ever found outside Europe.
- The Cro-Magnons, considered virtually identical to contemporary humans, were discovered in France in which year?
- Name the remains of a prehistoric man, whose discovery in 1996 raised sensitive political issues, related to the Native Americans rights.
- This double-letter word is used to describe many items and is even the last name of some very famous people and fictional characters.
- This is an activity you usually do on snow but sometimes it is done on water.
- This double-letter word refers to a yummy baked dish that can be delivered to your house hot and ready to eat.
- These furry bundles of joy sometimes cause severe allergies in people.
- Which of the following words best fits this sentence: The next ____ will be out soon for everyone to read.?
- Sometimes people who hike very long distances hide supplies in boxes along their route. What are these boxes called?
- In 2007 this expression was introduced to describe an economy that is in a real frenzy.
- Someone who did not like the hardware made by Apple might use this expression.
- Because of the high cost of medical care, some older adults are abandoned by their caretakers. What is this called?
- Sometimes people can get so many e-mails that they cannot deal with them. They might just delete them all and start again. What is this action called?
- This new form of exercise which combines step aerobics with soul music.
- Which of these words describes movies that contain extreme and unnecessary violence.
- In computer messaging punctuation marks are sometimes used to show human emotion. What do we call a series of such marks?
- The mentoring system is all the rage. Which word refers to a person being mentored?
- This word refers to a newly wed man who was a bachelor for many years.
- Which word refers to a very long-winded person?
- This Navajo god of rains, whose name means water sprinkler, often played waggish tricks on mankind, but he never harmed anyone.