World trivia questions
4036 multiple-choice World trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Which CBS news show was the first to feature live simultaneous transmissions both from the East Coast and the West Coast?
- Which is the United Kingdoms official newspaper first published on November 7, 1665?
- Which weekly magazine, established in 1828 in London, had the same owner as The Daily Telegraph?
- Which journalist received the Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his brilliant coverage of President John F. Kennedys assassination?
- What does the term outside mean in Alaskan jargon?
- In Alaska, what term is used to refer to the contiguous states below Canada?
- What does the Alaskan term break up mean?
- In Alaskan terms, what is a snowbird?
- What do Alaskan people call bunny boots?
- In what year did the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race take place?
- Which baleen whale that can be seen in Alaskan waters has a white band on each flipper?
- Helicopters are generally believed to excel most conventional fixed-wing aircraft in what aspect?
- This canal, known as the largest man-made waterway in the world, with a total length of 1200 miles, is also one of the most ancient ones.
- Plus 15, opened in 1970 and located in Calgary, Canada, is what type of modern transport infrastructure?
- The Great Manmade River is a tremendous transportation infrastructure, which is not a river as its name suggests, but what?
- Segway HT, a two-wheeled light-mode transportation device, invented by Dean Kamen and presented in December 2001, is the worlds first vehicle of what type?
- Cats eye, a piece of equipment invented in 1933 by Briton Percy Shaw and used in road construction, is used as what?
- Which of these types of bridge constructions allows for the greatest span range?
- Of what origin is Sinterklaas, the basis of the mythical holiday figure of Santa Claus?
- Although many people consider Santa Claus and Father Christmas to be interchangeable, the characters have different origins and are not completely identical. The American version of Santa Claus says that he lives on the North Pole, while Father Christmas is believed to reside in this country.
- What Christmas song popularized the legend according to which Santa Claus categorizes children as naughty or nice?
- What traditional gift-bringer is NOT correctly matched with the country?
- Which of these winter holiday gift-bringers is NOT a kid?
- Who created the modern image of the red-suited bearded, plump Santa Claus?
- What happens to the eccentric shopping network executive, played by Whoopi Goldberg, in the 2001 TV special Call Me Claus?
- In his work History of New York (1809), this author Americanized Sinterklaas into Santa Claus and depicted him as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe in a green winter coat.
- In the comic strip Bloom County, Santa Claus tells the story of how his elves went on strike and were fired by this US President.
- The Flying Santa is a tradition that dates back to to Christmas Day of 1929. What does it involve?
- In many Christian countries the birth of this saint is celebrated on 24 June (Midsummer).
- Summertime, which has become a popular jazz standard, was written by George Gershwin for this opera.