World trivia questions
4036 multiple-choice World trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- In which city was blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan expected to arrive, when his helicopter crashed killing everyone on board in 1990?
- This famous Norwegian explorer, the first man to reach the South Pole, died in a plane crash in the Barens Sea on June 18, 1928.
- Which musicians were killed in the crash on February 3, 1959, a day widely known as The Day The Music Died?
- American singer Patsy Cline died in a plane crash in Tennessee together with what other popular country singer?
- Which is the capital city of Scotland?
- What kind of animal is the haggis?
- When did monarchs sit on the Stone of Scone in Scotland?
- The Scottish island Fair Isle is famous for what?
- What are Berwick cockles?
- Who was on the cover of the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine?
- Dumping in the context of trade law is observed when this takes place.
- NAFTA includes three of these four countries. Which is the odd one?
- Although St. Valentines Day was declared a Church holiday as early as 496, it was not until the 14th century, in medieval England and France, that it was associated with romantic love. What was believed to occur on February 14th, to cause this association?
- Saint Valentine, a kind-hearted priest who according to legends lived in Rome during the third century AD, was sentenced to death, as he disobeyed the orders of which Roman emperor?
- Cupid, one of the major symbols in St. Valentines Day celebrations, is a mythological character, son of which goddess?
- This female character, depicted by Shakespeare, delivers the following line in her insane speech: Tomorrow is Saint Valentines Day.
- In the symbolic language of flowers, a rose of purple color given to someone on St. Valentines Day, signifies what?
- In the United States, this holiday is the humorous and somewhat sarcastic alternative to St. Valentines Day, also celebrated on February 14, but by those without a significant other.
- The day of February 14, 1929 remained in history not with its romantic atmosphere, but with one of the most publicized murders in the United States. Which famous American gangster stood behind these murders?
- This holiday is the Chinese equivalent of the Western, Saint Valentines Day.
- This little beauty had three deuces and a four speed and a 389. Ronnie and the Daytonas sang Cmon and turn it on, wind it up, blow it out, GTO. What make of car could really why-ee-eye-ine?
- In what song did Prince advise Baby Ure much 2 fast; U got to slow down.?
- He passed me on Doheny then I began to swerve But I pulled her out and there we were-at Dead Mans Curve. The singer was cruisin in his Stingray late one night when he was challenged to a drag race by the owner of another car. What make of car did the singer watch slide into the curve?
- Everybody says that there is nobody meaner than this little old grandma from Pasadena. Shes the terror of Colorado Boulevard. What slick machine is hidden in her rickey old garage?
- She should have gone to the library like she told her old man but shes too busy makin the Indy 500 look like a Roman chariot race, now. Too bad cause Daddy got wise (you shouldnt have lied, you shouldnt have lied) and there isnt going to be anymore Fun, Fun, Fun. What make of car did Daddy take away?
- Which US state hosts the school known as the CIA?
- Which one is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States?
- When Freud came to visit the USA, he lectured at this college.
- Which college was eleventh to join the Big Ten Conference?
- This college hosts the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the worlds leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry.