World trivia questions
4036 multiple-choice World trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Soccers home is Europe. Which two teams played the first official international game?
- The worlds first constitution was the American one. Which constitution was the second in the world and the first in Europe?
- Who were the first Europeans allowed to trade with Japan?
- This was the first family to have two members who got the Nobel Prize in the same year.
- Who made the first four-wheeled automobile powered by gasoline?
- Who made the first transatlantic radio transmission?
- Who was the first explorer to reach both the North and the South Poles?
- Tetris is a popular computer game with hundreds of versions. Who designed and programmed the original game?
- For how long is the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade usually televised?
- When did the first large balloons replace real animals at the Macys Parade?
- What was the first balloon in the Macys parade to be modeled after a living person?
- In 2005 three bombs exploded in the London Underground killing 52 and injuring 700. This first kamikaze attack in Western Europe took place in which month?
- What does the word kamikaze mean in Japanese?
- Who was the perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995?
- This play was shown at the Moscow theatre when Chechen terrorists took the audience hostage on October 23, 2002.
- 192 people died and 2,050 were wounded in the Madrid train bombings in 2004. What part of the day was it, when the tragic event took place?
- Which terrorist organization was responsible for the bombings of the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya on August 7, 1998?
- What is the origin of the name al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the USA?
- The Beslan school siege in which 186 children were killed by Chechen terrorists took place in what year?
- On September 11, 2001 the four hijacked flights were United Airlines Flight 93, American Airlines Flight 77, American Airlines Flight 11 and which other flight?
- How many were the terrorists who hijacked the four airliners and carried out the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon?
- The following lines are from a poem written by this author who was part of the Harlem Renaissance: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?.
- What is the state motto of Texas, also called The Lone Star State?
- Which historical figure is referred to as the Father of Texas?
- After gaining its independence from Mexico, the Republic of Texas existed for what period of time?
- How many were The Old Three Hundred, the families which settled in south Texas and formed the first Anglo-American colony there?
- Which one of these American entertainers was not born in Texas?
- Big Tex, the 16-meter tall icon of the State Fair of Texas, wears what brand of denim jeans?
- Sam Houston, who was President of the Republic of Texas, Senator for the State of Texas and later its governor, was born in 1793 in which state?
- On July 20, 1969, Houston was the first word ever spoken from the Moon by which member of the Appolo 11 mission?