World trivia questions
4036 multiple-choice World trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- If you mix milk, eggs and sugar youll get this Christmas drink.
- What does to Christmas tree a test mean for students?
- According to the Bible, after Christ was born in Bethlehem, three Magi visited him. They presented Jesus with all these treasures, but one. Can you spot it?
- Finish this popular Christmas song about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names They never let poor Rudolph ...
- At Christmas time radio stations broadcast famous Christmas carols, songs and often, the Hallelujah chorus from the oratorio Messiah, by this composer.
- Christmas is believed to have originated from a pagan Roman festival. It lasted 7 days and included the winter solstice, which at that time fell on December 25. Which Roman god did this festival honor?
- Christian Nativity scenes are very popular during the Christmas holidays. However, a life-sized Nativity scene is on permanent display in Piazza San Pietro, in this city.
- The 2004 movie The Polar Express starred this actor in five distinct roles. For example, he was the Boy, the Conductor and even Santa Claus.
- He is the French equivalent of Santa Claus.
- A Christmas Carol is a novella, telling us the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited by the spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come. Who wrote this famous book?
- Florida became this number state to enter the union on March 3, 1845.
- Florida is a Spanish adjective which means this.
- Here is the refrain of the state song of Florida, The Swanee River. However, its lines are jumbled. Can you put them in the right order? 1) Far from the old folks at home 2) Everywhere I roam. 3) All the world is sad and dreary 4) O brothers, how my heart grows weary
- Sidney Poitier is a Bahamian-American actor, born in Miami, Florida. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in this movie.
- This city is the oldest one in the US and is located in Florida.
- This leader, then president of one of the most influential countries of the world, resigned from his post on Christmas Day, 1991.
- On Christmas Day, 1868, this U.S. President granted unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
- This talented and much loved actor and director, born on April 16, 1889 in London, England, passed away on Christmas Day, 1977. Two years earlier, he was knighted as a Knight of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
- On Christmas Day in 1818, this famous carol which has since been translated in more than 300 languages, was performed for the first time, in Austria.
- In 1914, during World War I, troops from these two hostile countries observed an unofficial Christmas truce.
- On Christmas Day in 1939, this popular Christmas play written by Charles Dickens, was read on radio for the first time.
- Which European country adopted the Julian calendar on Christmas Day, 597?
- On Christmas Day, In 1492, this largest ship used by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, docked at the Dominican Republics shore.
- On Christmas Day, 1973, this forerunner of the Internet crashed, when a programming bug forced all traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.
- On December 24 and 25, 1974, tropical cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, a city located on this countrys far north-western coastline.
- What do the 13 red and white stripes on the US flag stand for?
- What do the stars on the flag of the United States of America represent?
- When reciting the United States Pledge of Allegiance, what should you do?
- When is the United States Flag flown at half-mast?
- On what United States holiday are small versions of the flag placed by war memorials and next to graves of U.S. war dead?