World trivia questions
4036 multiple-choice World trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Which of these sports teams is a baseball team from the U.S. state of Missouri?
- Which of these nicknames belongs to the U.S. state of Kansas?
- What U.S. state has been nicknamed The Baked Bean State?
- This culinary nickname has been given to the U.S. state of Nebraska?
- Which of these nicknames has been given to the U.S. state of Nevada?
- Which U.S. state is also known as The Beehive State?
- This sweet nickname has been given to the U.S. state of Louisiana.
- The U.S. state of California is known by this fruity nickname.
- Which U.S. state has been called The Land of the Midnight Sun?
- Which U.S. state has been nicknamed The Tar Heel State?
- Which of these U.S. states is nicknamed The Outer Space State?
- In which of these countries is Fathers Day not celebrated on the third Sunday of June?
- In which US state was Fathers Day first celebrated?
- Sonora Smart Dodd began a movement to establish Fathers Day as an officially recognized holiday. In which state did she live?
- Who was the first President to celebrate Fathers Day in the White House?
- Which of these Presidents was very vocal in advocating Fathers Day as a National Holiday?
- Which President was first to declare the third Sunday in June as Fathers Day?
- Which one of these actors was not in the movie Fathers Day?
- This movie presented a realistic look at a familys reaction to a mothers suicide.
- In the 1989 movie Dad Ted Danson becomes his fathers caretaker as a result of which they become closer. Who played his father?
- Halloween traditions were brought to North America by Irish immigrants between 1845 and 1852. What term is used to refer to this period?
- Devils Night is chiefly associated with the serious vandalism and arson seen in this US city on October 30.
- What root vegetable was carved and placed in windows to ward off evil spirits in traditional Celtic Halloween festivals?
- What is E.T. disguised as on Halloween in Steven Spielbergs classic sci-fi movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
- The Witches Spell, which came to be regarded as a Halloween poem, is spoken in what Shakespearean play?
- Halloween is typically linked to the ancient harvest festival of Samhain held on October 31–November 1. What is the origin of Samhain?
- This character from the Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas is a being from Halloween Town who opens a portal to Christmas Town.
- In Agatha Christies detective novel Halloween Party, Hercule Poirot must unmask the real evil of Halloween night by investigating the murder of a girl named Joyce Reynolds. How was she murdered?
- The popular Halloween custom trick-or-treating has its roots in the late medieval practice of souling, when poor people would go door to door on Hallowmas. The practice is mentioned in this Shakespearean comedy when Speed accuses his master of puling [whimpering or whining] like a beggar at Hallowmas.
- The Great Pumpkin is an unseen character in this comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz.