Friday, December 23, 2011

Trivia Quiz #83 - Earth and Nature Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Nature, earth, and environment trivia quiz questions.
  1. What is the name given to the geological time period of 363-290
    million years ago during which coal measures were formed?
     
  2. Which is further north, the tropic of cancer or the tropic of
    Capricorn?
     
  3. What name is given to your angular distance on the Earth's surface
    relative to the equator?
     
  4. Which landlocked Asian country is described as the world's 'highest
    rubbish dump' because of all the refuse left behind by expeditions?
     
  5. What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
     
  6. When and where was the Mount Pinatubo eruption?
     
  7. What name is given to the layer of the atmosphere closest to the
    surface of the Earth?
     
  8. What name is given to the Earth's single continent, which existed 250
    million years ago?
     
  9. What component of CFCs causes destruction of ozone?
     
  10. Why is lead in petrol dangerous?
     
  11. What does a barometer measure?
     
  12. What is the basic chemical composition of malachite?
     
  13. What is the term for a fold of the Earth's crust in which the layers
    of rock dip inwards?
     
  14. Which clouds only occur above 10,000 meters?
     
  15. What is the name of the organization which controls whaling?
     
  16. How large is the area seated within the project BioSphere 2?
     
  17. What kind of a person might study a podzol?
     
  18. Where might you find an aurora?
     
  19. Which gas in the atmosphere can be turned into fertilizer by some
    microbes?
     
  20. Which layer of the Earth is believed to be formed of molten iron and
    nickel?
     
  21. Which is the world's largest nature reserve?
     
  22. What is the collective noun for rhinoceri?
     
  23. What type of rock is formed by the rapid cooling of molten lava?
     
  24. What name is given to the rock formations used as a source of water?
     
  25. How long does it take for
    the Earth to spin once on its axis?
     
  26. What is a very hard,
    naturally-occurring mineral, of which ruby and sapphire are gem quality
    varieties?
     
  27. Which common mineral is
    used to make casts, moulds, blackboard chalk and plaster of Paris?
     
  28. Corundum is a mineral
    oxide of which metal?
     

Answers to Quiz #83 - Earth and Nature Trivia Quiz



  1. Carboniferous.
  2. Tropic of Cancer.
  3. Latitude.
  4. Nepal.
  5. In erosion, particles of rock are transported away by wind or rain.
  6. In the Philippines, north of Manila, in 1991.
  7. Troposphere.
  8. Pangaea.
  9. Chlorine.
  10. It can affect the development of the nervous system, especially in
    children.
  11. Atmospheric pressure.
  12. Copper carbonate.
  13. Syncline.
  14. Cirrus.
  15. The International Whaling Commission or IWC.
  16. 3.5 acres.
  17. A soil scientist.
  18. The polar skies.
  19. Nitrogen.
  20. Outer core.
  21. Etosha Reserve in Namibia.
  22. Crash.
  23. Obsidian.
  24. Aquifers.
  25. One day.
  26. Corundum.
  27. Gypsum.
  28. Aluminum.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Trivia Quiz #82 - Nature and Environmental Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Nature and environment trivia quiz questions.
  1. Which Indian state is at the eastern end of the Himalayas?
     
  2. What is the name of the atmospheric gas which screens out the sun's
    harmful ultraviolet radiation?
     
  3. What is the world's deepest ocean?
     
  4. Which is the largest animal ever to have inhabited the Earth?
     
  5. What once covered 14% of the Earth's land area, but by 1991 over half
    had been destroyed?
     
  6. Which inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is fast
    disappearing because the rivers that feed it have been diverted and
    dammed?
     
  7. The damaged Chernobyl nuclear power station is situated in which
    country?
     
  8. What type of rock is granite?
     
  9. What type of rock is basalt?
     
  10. What is the main constituent of natural gas?
     
  11. What is the term for nutrient enrichment of lakes?
     
  12. Which of the Earth's atmospheric layers reflects radio waves?
     
  13. Which gas forms 80% of Earth's atmosphere?
     
  14. In which mountain chain would you find Mount Everest?
     
  15. What is the collective term for substances such as coal, oil and
    natural gas, the burning of which produces carbon dioxide?
     
  16. What contributes to the greenhouse effect at lower atmospheric
    levels, but in the upper atmosphere protects life on Earth?
     
  17. What is the name of the process by which substances are washed out of
    the soil?
     
  18. Who was director of the environmental pressure group Friends of the
    Earth 1984 - 90?
     
  19. Which European country is committed to decommissioning all of its
    nuclear reactors?
     
  20. Which Canadian city gave its name to the 1987world agreement on
    protection of the ozone layer?
     
  21. Five-legged creatures have damaged which 1250 mile long wonder of the
    world?
     
  22. The dodo was a native bird of which island?
     
  23. What is the name given to the study of earthquakes?
     
  24. How do igneous rocks form?
     
  25. How many carats is pure gold?
     
  26. Marble is formed by the metamorphosis of which rock?
     
  27. Which common water pollutant is believed to be harmful to newborn
    babies?
     
  28. Which radioactive substance sometimes occurs naturally in spring
    water?
     
  29. What natural feature covers approximately 6% of the Earth's land
    surface, and harbors 40% of the Earth's species?
     
  30. What name is given to the huge growths of algae sometimes seen in
    polluted lakes and rivers?
     
  31. What was the name of the dioxin-containing defoliant used during the

    Vietnam war by the USA army?
     
  32. In which area of the world do tropical rainforests occur?
     
  33. CITES is an international agreement on which environmental problem?
     
  34. What is the approximate circumference of the earth?
     
  35. What prevents the earth's atmosphere from floating out into space?
     
  36. What element give amethyst its violet color?
     
  37. Which of the emissions from cars are acidic?
     
  38. Which quarry in the Italian region of Tuscany is renowned for the
    quality of its marble?
     
Answers to Quiz #82- Nature and Environment Trivia Answers



  1. Assam.
  2. Ozone.
  3. Pacific.
  4. Blue Whale.
  5. Rainforest.
  6. Aral Sea.
  7. Ukraine.
  8. Igneous.
  9. Igneous.
  10. Methane.
  11. Eutrophication.
  12. Ionosphere.
  13. Nitrogen.
  14. Himalayas.
  15. Fossil fuel.
  16. Ozone.
  17. Leaching.
  18. Jonathon Porritt.
  19. Sweden.
  20. Montreal.
  21. Great Barrier Reef.
  22. Mauritius.
  23. Seismology.
  24. From cooling volcanic lava.
  25. 24.
  26. Limestone.
  27. Nitrate.
  28. Radon.
  29. Tropical rainforest.
  30. A bloom.
  31. Agent Orange.
  32. On or near the equator.
  33. The trade in endangered species.
  34. 24,900 miles.
  35. Gravity.
  36. Manganese.
  37. Nitrogen oxides.
  38. Carrara.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Trivia Quiz #81 - Nature, Earth, and Environmental Trivia Quiz

Earth, nature, and environment trivia quiz questions.
  1. Which gas released by car exhausts, stops the blood hemoglobin from
    working correctly?
     
  2. What name is given to the hard white material of elephant tusks?
     
  3. What device is added to a car's exhaust system to reduce pollution?
     
  4. Which Australian mammal lays eggs?
     
  5. What is the term for something that will break down naturally?
     
  6. Which is the most common gas in the atmosphere?
     
  7. Which fuel is formed by the fossilization of plants?
     
  8. Oxygen forms approximately what proportion of the atmosphere?
     
  9. What kind of tide appears at full Moon?
     
  10. What is the term given to the study of the weather?
     
  11. What is the second most common gas in the atmosphere?
     
  12. What is the name given to the outermost layer of the Earth?
     
  13. Which country produces the world's largest quantity of municipal
    waste per person per year?
     
  14. Which is the largest national park in Europe?
     
  15. Which sea is so highly polluted that the Barcelona Convention was set
    up in 976 to try and clean it up?
     
  16. What was the viral disease controversially introduced into Britain
    during the 1950s to reduce the rabbit population?
     
  17. What is the collective noun for larks?
     
  18. What is the scientific scale for measuring the hardness of rocks?
     
  19. What is the world's smallest continent?
     
  20. Which gas forms approximately 1% of the atmosphere?
     
  21. What is the term for the energy obtained from hot, underground rocks?
     
  22. What name is given to the rocks swallowed by dinosaurs to assist
    their digestion?
     
  23. Which animal has been hunted almost to extinction because of its
    horn?
     
  24. Which chemical, commonly used to increase crop yield, sometimes
    contaminates drinking water?
     
  25. Where is the Glacier Bay national park?
     
  26. When you recycle a drink can, which metal is it you are recovering?
     
  27. What is the earth's core made of?
     
  28. What is the name of the liquid rock which pours from a volcano?
     
  29. What is the term applied to the process of gathering together weather
    forecasts from various recording stations?
     
  30. What kind of natural phenomenon 'meanders'?
     
  31. What is a cloud?
     
  32. What is the collective name for rain hail, snow, and sleet?
     
  33. What is the hardest natural substance known?
     
  34. What was the name of the ship that spilt 85,000 tons of oil off the
    Shetland Islands in 1993?
     
  35. What is the collective noun for crows?
     
  36. What are the three main greenhouse gases?
     
  37. 25% of which traditional British feature was cut down between 1945
    and 1985 because of agricultural mechanization?
     
  38. What is the maximum speed of a garden snail: 0.03 mph, 0.3 mph, or 3
    mph?
     
  39. Someone who studies tectonics is probably an expert in which field?
     
  40. What common mineral is formed by the fossilization of vegetation?
     
  41. Which theory compares the Earth to a living organism?
     
  42. In which part of the atmosphere is the ozone layer?
     
  43. Where are you likely to come across a laccolith?
     
Answers to Quiz #81 - Nature and Earth Trivia Answers

  1. Carbon Monoxide.
  2. Ivory.
  3. Catalytic converter.
  4. Duck-billed platypus.
  5. Biodegradable.
  6. Nitrogen.
  7. Coal.
  8. 20%.
  9. Spring tide.
  10. Meteorology.
  11. Oxygen.
  12. Crust.
  13. USA.
  14. Hobe Tauern in Austria.
  15. Mediterranean Sea.
  16. Myxomatosis.
  17. Exhalation.
  18. Mohs' scale.
  19. Australia.
  20. Argon.
  21. Geothermal.
  22. Gastroliths.
  23. Rhinoceros.
  24. Nitrate.
  25. S E Alaska.
  26. Aluminum.
  27. Molten iron and nickel.
  28. Lava.
  29. Synoptic forecasting.
  30. A river.
  31. Water vapor condensed into droplets.
  32. Precipitation.
  33. Diamond.
  34. Braer.
  35. Murder.
  36. Carbon dioxide; methane; chlorofluorocarbons.
  37. Hedges / hedgrerows.
  38. 0.03 mph.
  39. Movement of continental plates.
  40. Coal.
  41. Gala hypothesis.
  42. Stratosphere.
  43. In igneous rock.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Trivia Quiz #80 - Science Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers About the Human Body

Human body science trivia quiz questions
  1. Which parts of the body are formed by the bones of the metatarsals
    and phalanges?
     
  2. What is the fluid that lubricates and cushions the movable joints
    between the bones?
     
  3. What is the oxygen-carrying protein found in the red blood cells of
    the body?
     
  4. What are the chemicals produced by the endocrine glands to control
    body functions?
     
  5. Where in the human body do you find the alveoli?
     
  6. What name is given to the genetic make-up of an individual?
     
  7. A bone is joined to a muscle by which structure?
     
  8. What is the biggest bone in the body?
     
  9. Which of the retina's cells can distinguish between different
    wavelengths of light?
     
  10. What is the name of the large buttock and thigh muscle?
     
  11. Which hormone causes male sexual development?
     
  12. Which part of the brain controls the heart rate?
     
  13. How many genes are there in the human genome?
     
  14. When the egg is released from the ovary, what is left behind?
     
  15. What is an overgrowth of fibrous tissue, usually produced at the site
    of a scar?
     
  16. Which is the only vein in the body to carry oxygenated blood?
     
  17. Which human body organ weighs about 2 kilos?
     
  18. What is the threshold of noise-induced pain, measured in decibels?
     
  19. Which name is given to the heart chamber which receives blood?
     
  20. Which organ makes bile?
     
  21. What kind of joint is the hip?
     
  22. What term is given to the lymphocytes which mature in the thymus?
     
  23. Where is the sinoatrial node?
     
  24. What is the substance that the body over-produces in an allergic
    reaction to pollen?
     
  25. Where is the pituitary gland?
     
  26. Which organ of the body secretes insulin?
     
  27. Where are the semicircular canals?
     
  28. Which part of the gut absorbs water from thje food?
     
  29. Where would you find the islets of Langerhans?
     
  30. What is the colored muscle that responds involuntarily to light?
     
  31. What is the name of the enzyme produced in the mouth?
     
  32. Which glands secrete estrogen?
     
  33. The pituitary controls many hormones, but what controls the
    pituitary?
     
  34. What is the pigment that colors skin?
     
  35. Which tissue secretes progesterone during the second half of the
    menstrual cycle?
     
  36. Which gland secretes the corticosteroids?
     
  37. What are the natural pain-killing substances produced in the brain
    and pituitary gland?
     
  38. In which organ are the feces formed?
     
  39. What is the function of the islets of Langerhans?
     
  40. What is the scientific name for the heart's pacemaker?
     
  41. Which hormone helps control ovulation?
     
  42. What hormone was discovered by John Jacob Abel?
     
  43. What is the substance produced by hard exercise and oxygen debt,
    causing stiffness in the muscles?
     
  44. Where would you find the carotid arteries?
     
  45. Of what do we have 52 in a lifetime, 20 of which are deciduous?
     
  46. Which protein forms hair and nails?
     
Answers to Quiz #80 - Human Body Trivia Answers

  1. Feet.
  2. Synovial fluid.
  3. Hemoglobin.
  4. Hormones.
  5. Lung.
  6. Genotype.
  7. Tendon.
  8. Femur.
  9. Cone cells.
  10. Gluteus maximus.
  11. Testosterone.
  12. Medulla oblongata.
  13. 80,000.
  14. Corpus luteum.
  15. Keloid.
  16. Pulmonary vein.
  17. Liver.
  18. 140db.
  19. Atrium.
  20. Liver.
  21. Ball-and-socket.
  22. T cells.
  23. Heart.
  24. Histamine.
  25. In the brain.
  26. Pancreas.
  27. The inner ear.
  28. Colon.
  29. Pancreas.
  30. Iris.
  31. Salivary amylase.
  32. Ovaries.
  33. Hypothalamus.
  34. Melanin.
  35. Corpus luteum.
  36. Adrenal.
  37. Endorphins.
  38. Colon.
  39. They secrete insulin.
  40. Sinoatrial node.
  41. Luteinizing hormone.
  42. Adrenaline.
  43. Lactic acid.
  44. Neck.
  45. Teeth.
  46. Keratin.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Trivia Quiz #79 - Science Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers About the Human Body

Human body trivia quiz questions
  1. Which part of the brain regulates physiological stability in the
    body?
     
  2. Which organ is responsible for regulating the blood sugar level?
     
  3. Which organ makes urine?
     
  4. What is the scapula?
     
  5. What is the scientific name for the human ''tail'?
     
  6. Where are the ossicles?
     
  7. When might a person show rapid eye movement (REM)?
     
  8. Which organ removes excess water from the blood?
     
  9. Which is the most acidic part of the digestive system?
     
  10. A deficiency of which vitamin can cause scurvy?
     
  11. What is the average human body temperature when taken by a
    thermometer under the tongue.
     
  12. What are the two main veins in the neck, returning blood from the
    brain to the heart?
     
  13. What is the term fro a series of uncontrollable  intakes of air
    caused by sudden spasms of the diaphragm?
     
  14. Which part of the eye contains about 137 million light-sensitive
    cells in one square inch?
     
  15. What is the more common name for the tympanic membrane?
     
  16. What is the name for a red blood cell?
     
  17. What is the scientific name for the windpipe?
     
  18. Where do the Graafian follicles develop?
     
  19. Which part of the body produces the excretory product urea?
     
  20. Where would you find the pisiform bone?
     
  21. What is the scientific name for the kneecap?
     
  22. What is protected by the cranium?
     
  23. What is the name of the large muscle just beneath the lungs?
     
  24. Where in the body is the thyroid?
     
  25. Which glands secrete adrenaline?
     
  26. Which organ in the body stores excess sugar as glycogen?
     
  27. What name is given to the small bones which form the spinal column?
     
  28. Which teeth are the third molars, and are always the last to0 erupt?
     
  29. What is secreted by the pancreas to regulate blood sugar levels?
     
  30. Where in the body are the cerebellum, the medulla and the
    hypothalamus?
     
  31. What makes up 60-70% of human body weight?
     
  32. What beats more than 2,000 million times during an average lifetime -
    or about 72 beats per minute?
     
  33. What are the very narrow blood vessels which form a network between
    arteries and veins?
     
  34. What is the name of the membrane enclosing the fluid around the
    fetus?
     
  35. What is the ring of bones at the hip called?
     
  36. What is the colorless liquid, consisting of plasma and white cells,
    which bathes the body tissues?
     
  37. What tube connects the kidney to the bladder?
     
  38. What is the name of the structural tissue found in the ear, the nose,
    and in between the vertebral discs?
     
  39. Which artery supplies the kidney with blood?
     
  40. Which organ destroys old red blood cells?
     
  41. Which three bones are collectively known as the auditory ossicles?
     
  42. How many chambers has the heart?
     
  43. How many ventricles are there in the human heart?
     
  44. What is the scientific name for the tube connecting the mouth with
    the stomach?
     
Answers to Quiz #79 - Human Body Trivia Answers

  1. Hypothalamus.
  2. Pancreas.
  3. Kidney.
  4. Shoulder blade.
  5. Coccyx.
  6. In the ear.
  7. During sleep.
  8. Kidney.
  9. Stomach.
  10. Vitamin C.
  11. 98.4 degrees F.
  12. Jugular veins.
  13. Hiccups.
  14. Retina.
  15. Ear drum.
  16. Erythrocyte.
  17. Trachea.
  18. Ovaries.
  19. Liver.
  20. Wrist.
  21. Patella.
  22. Brain.
  23. Diaphragm.
  24. The neck.
  25. Adrenal glands.
  26. Liver.
  27. Vertebrae.
  28. Wisdom teeth.
  29. Insulin.
  30. Brain.
  31. Water.
  32. Heart.
  33. Capillaries.
  34. Amnion; amniotic membrane.
  35. Pelvic girdle.
  36. Lymph.
  37. Ureter.
  38. Cartilage.
  39. Renal artery.
  40. Spleen.
  41. Hammer; anvil; stirrup.
  42. Four.
  43. Two.
  44. Oesophagus.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Trivia Quiz #78 - Science Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Science  trivia quiz - questions about plants, animals, insects, fungus and more.
  1. Which family of insects has species named 'drivers', 'weavers', 'and
    even individuals called 'soldiers'?
     
  2. Which South American vulture can have a wing span of up to 3 meters
    and a body weight of up to 13 kilos?
     
  3. What name is given to the study of animal behavior?
     
  4. Which part of a beetle's body is a skeleton?
     
  5. Mosses are classified as belonging to which part of the plant
    kingdom?
     
  6. What is the name of the structures which allow leaves to breathe?
     
  7. In what state is a 'sessile' animal likely to be?
     
  8. Which rodent rears its young, called kittens, in a nest called a drey?
     
  9. Which sub-division of plants is named after their practice of forming
    'naked seeds'?
     
  10. The maidenhair tree is the sole survivor of which class of plant?
     
  11. What is the state of inactivity through the dry, summer season, as
    hibernation is the dormancy of the winter months?
     
  12. Which insects' larvae secrete blobs of froth called 'cuckoo spit'?
     
  13. What kind of a creature is a scorpion?
     
  14. Which part of the common valerian is used to make a sedative?
     
  15. What is the name of the structures which allow stems to breathe?
     
  16. What has a central vein called a midrib?
     
  17. Which mammal constructs a lodge in which to store food, rear young,
    and pass the winter?
     
  18. Which acid is contained in rhubarb leaves, making them poisonous to
    eat?
     
  19. What is a tragopan?
     
  20. What kind of an organism causes a 'rust' attack on plants?
     
  21. Which is the dominant generation in the ferns?
     
  22. Which is the biggest flower in the world?
     
  23. What is the name of the lustrous substance that forms pearl and
    mother-of-pearl?
     
  24. Which beautiful youth from mythology has a plant named after him?
     
  25. What is the name of the so-called 'first-bird'?
     
  26. What do amoebas do by binary fission?
     
  27. What is the Latin word for 'liquid' which we use to mean the fluid
    produced by the tree Ficus elastica?
     
  28. What is the generic word for plants that grow in water or
    water-logged conditions?
     
  29. What is the main use of the tree Citrus bergamia?
     
  30. In animal classification, how are the phyla subdivided?
     
  31. Which physician developed a type of remedy involving wild flowers?
     
  32. What kind of specialist would study storm petrels?
     
  33. The best longbows were constructed from which wood?
     
  34. How many species of domestic dog are found today?
     
  35. What kind of creature is a barnacle?
     
  36. Machiavelli used which plant's name as the title of one of his books?
     
  37. What is the name of the evolutionary theory suggesting that evolution
    has an uneven pace?
     
  38. Which step in photosynthesis is responsible for splitting water
    molecules?
     
  39. Which kind of organisms are likely to show a 'taxis'?
     
Answers to Quiz #78 - Science Trivia Answers

  1. Ant.
  2. Condor.
  3. Ethology.
  4. The outside.
  5. Bryophyta.
  6. Stomata.
  7. Stationary.
  8. Squirrel.
  9. Gymnosperms.
  10. Ginko.
  11. Aestivation.
  12. Froghopper / spittlebug.
  13. Arachnid.
  14. Root.
  15. Lenticels.
  16. Leaf.
  17. Beaver.
  18. Oxalic acid.
  19. A Himalayan pheasant.
  20. Fungus.
  21. Sporophyte.
  22. Fafflesia arnoldiana or stinking corpse lily.
  23. Nacre.
  24. Narcissus.
  25. Archaeopteryx.
  26. Reproduce.
  27. Latex.
  28. Hydrophytes.
  29. Perfume.
  30. Classes.
  31. Bach.
  32. An ornithologist.
  33. Yew.
  34. One.
  35. A crustacean.
  36. Mandrake.
  37. Punctuated equilibrium.
  38. Light reaction.
  39. Protozoa.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Trivia Quiz #77 - Science Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Science trivia quiz questions about plants and animals.
  1. What is the favorite food of the giant panda?
     
  2. What leaves does a silkworm prefer to eat?
     
  3. How long is a giraffe's neck, approximately?
     
  4. What kind of an animal is a marmoset?
     
  5. Which plant has flowers but no proper leaves?
     
  6. What name is given to animals that eat both flesh and plant material?
     
  7. Which flightless marine birds of the southern hemisphere live in
    rookeries?
     
  8. Which species of decapod has varieties called "fiddler', 'spider' and
    'hermit'?
     
  9. What is the name of the seasonal journey undertaken by many animals
    to distant feeding band breeding grounds?
     
  10. Which digestive organ is well-developed in grass-eating herbivores,
    but is only vestigial in humans?
     
  11. Which are the only birds able to fly backwards?
     
  12. Photosynthesis is carried out in which part of the cell?
     
  13. What is the name of the protective outer layer of trees?
     
  14. What liquid do plants need for photosynthesis?
     
  15. What is the fastest animal on two legs?
     
  16. What is the green pigment used by plants to trap sunlight?
     
  17. What are the young of bats called?
     
  18. Which plant has flowers but no proper leaves?
     
  19. What is the larva of a toad called?
     
  20. Which bird, a member of the cuckoo family, is often seen dashing
    along the highways of the southern USA and Mexico... hence its name?
     
  21. What grow as parasites and saprotrophs, contain no chlorophyll, and
    reproduce by means of spores?
     
  22. Why do fish have gills?
     
  23. Which animal can move by jet propulsion?
     
  24. Which acid is produced in large quantities by lemon trees?
     
  25. What id the name given to the study of birds?
     
  26. What name is given to the microscopic plants found in great numbers
    in rivers, lakes, and oceans?
     
  27. Of which reptile are there only two species, one living in the
    Mississippi and the other in China?
     
  28. What are the nocturnal, herding herbivores of Australia, Tasmania,
    and New Guinea?
     
  29. What type of seaweed grows up to 100 meters in length, and is farmed
    for its alginates?
     
  30. Where in an animal would you find a mandible?
     
  31. Which vertebrates have a skeleton of cartilage rather than bone?
     
  32. Which European tree lives the longest?
     
  33. What is a beaver's home called?
     
  34. Which tissue carries sugary sap around the plant?
     
  35. Which cells form the middle layer of plant leaves?
     
  36. How long is the gestation period of a duck-billed platypus?
     
  37. Which antipodean bird is the largest member of the kingfisher family?
     
  38. Which microscopic organisms form the basis of marine and freshwater
    food chains?
     
  39. Which bird feeds with its head upside-down and its beak held
    horizontally beneath the water?
     
  40. Where in a vertebrate would you find the protein myoglobin?
     
  41. What kind of a tongue does the okapi have?
     
  42. What do baleen whales eat?
     
  43. What is the name of the food storage organ found in many birds?
     
  44. What is the most abundant substance in the plant kingdom, which no
    mammal produces the enzyme to digest?
     
Answers to Quiz #77 - Science Trivia Answers
  1. Bamboo shoots.
  2. Mulberry.
  3. 3 meters.
  4. An American monkey.
  5. Cactus.
  6. Omnivores.
  7. Penguins.
  8. Crab.
  9. Migration.
  10. Appendix.
  11. Hummingbirds.
  12. Chloroplast.
  13. Bark.
  14. Water.
  15. An Ostrich.
  16. Chlorophyll.
  17. Pups.
  18. Cactus.
  19. Tadpole.
  20. Roadrunner.
  21. Fungi.
  22. To absorb oxygen.
  23. Octopus.
  24. Citric Acid.
  25. Ornithology.
  26. Algae.
  27. Alligator.
  28. Kangaroos.
  29. Kelp.
  30. Skull.
  31. Sharks.
  32. Yew.
  33. Lodge.
  34. Phloem.
  35. Mesophyll.
  36. It doesn't have one.
  37. Kookaburra.
  38. Plankton.
  39. Flamingo.
  40. Muscle tissue.
  41. Prehensile.
  42. Krill.
  43. Crop.
  44. Cellulose.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Trivia Quiz #76 - Science Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Science Physics trivia quiz questions complete with the answers.
  1. Which Swedish scientist had a temperature scale named after him?
     
  2. How many colors are there in the spectrum when white light is
    separated?
     
  3. What is the term used to denote the tendency of an object to remain
    in a state of rest until acted upon by an external force?
     
  4. The discovery of which law provoked the surprised cry 'Eureka!'?
     
  5. What is measured by the SI unit called a 'henry'?
     
  6. What is the force that opposes the relative motion of two bodies that
    are in contact?
     
  7. What is the study and use of frequencies above 20 khz?
     
  8. What is an unchanging position in which forces cancel each other out?
     
  9. Which physicist's law states that equal volumes of all gases,
    measured at the same temperature and pressure, contain the same number
    of molecules?
     
  10. What is the ability of fluids to offer resistance to flow?
     
  11. What was invented by Dennis Gabor in 1947, winning him a Nobel prize
    in 1971?
     
  12. What is described as an ionized gas with approximately equal numbers
    of positive and negative charges?
     
  13. What name is given to the very serious chain of events which can
    follow the failure of the cooling system in a nuclear reactor?
     
  14. Which electronic device magnifies the strength of a signal?
     
  15. What was the name of the unit of heat now replaced by the joule?
     
  16. What does c represent in the equation e = mc*2?
     
  17. What is commonly used in a rectifier to convert alternating current
    to direct current?
     
  18. What is a cylindrical coil of wire in which a magnetic field is
    created when an electric current is passed though it?
     
  19. What describes a substance that exists in more than one form,
    differing in physical rather than chemical properties?
     
  20. Whose 'unified field theory' tried to explain the four fundamental
    forces in terms of a single, unified force?
     
  21. In Britain, how many lines makeup the picture on a TV screen?
     
  22. What diverges rays of light, if it is concave?
     
  23. What can be expressed as the number of cycles of a vibration
    occurring per unit of time?
     
  24. What is the product of the mass of a body and its linear velocity?
     
  25. Which quantity has direction as well as magnitude?
     
  26. What is the SI unit of magnetic flux density, named after a Croatian
    electrical engineer?
     
  27. What does the abbreviation STP stand for?
     
  28. What is studied in the science of cryogenics?
     
  29. What does the acronym maser stand for?
     
Answers to Quiz #76 - Science Trivia Answers



  1. Anders Celsius.
  2. Seven.
  3. Inertia.
  4. Archimedes Principle.
  5. Inductance.
  6. Friction.
  7. Ultrasonic's.
  8. Equilibrium.
  9. Amadeo Avogadro.
  10. Viscosity.
  11. Holography / Holograms.
  12. Plasma.
  13. Meltdown.
  14. Amplifier.
  15. Calorie.
  16. Speed of light.
  17. Diode.
  18. Solenoid.
  19. Allotropic.
  20. Einstein.
  21. 625.
  22. Lens.
  23. Frequency.
  24. Momentum.
  25. Vector quantity.
  26. Tesla.
  27. Standard Temperature and Pressure.
  28. Very low temperature.
  29. Microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Trivia Quiz #75 - Science and Scientific Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Science trivia quiz questions complete with the answers.
  1. What type of coal is brown and fibrous?
     
  2. What is the sticky wax obtained from sheep?
     
  3. What is the trade name for the non-stick material used for coating
    cooking pans?
     
  4. What name is given to the brittle kind of iron used for making engine
    blocks and manhole covers?
     
  5. Which scientific unit gives a measure of loudness?
     
  6. The behavior of sound in rooms and concert halls is a separate
    science. what is its name?
     
  7. What kind of animal is an iguana?
     
  8. Camera film bears an ISO number. What does ISO stand for?
     
  9. What is the name given to the molten rock beneath the surface of the
    Earth?
     
  10. Which disease is spread in minute water drops?
     
  11. What raw material is used for making glass?
     
  12. What is the strong inelastic material found in a human tendon?
     
  13. What material forms the hard outermost layer of a human tooth?
     
  14. Snowflakes are symmetrical. How many sides do they have?
     
  15. What name is given to an atomic particle carrying a negative charge?
     
  16. DNA is found in which part of the cell?
     
  17. By which name is the drug acetylsalicylic acid better known?
     
  18. How many legs has an insect?
     
  19. What kind of an organism is a truffle?
     
  20. Where in the body does a cataract form?
     
  21. What is the most abundant element in the universe?
     
  22. Which flower has the same name as a diaphragm in the eye?
     
  23. What is the name of the strong material found in plant cell walls?
     
  24. Which animals are arthropods and have eight legs?
     
  25. Which is the modern scientific unit of work and energy?
     
  26. Chlorine, fluorine and bromine belong to which family of elements?
     
  27. What name is given to  the change of state from liquid to gas?
     
  28. Who pioneered the airship?
     
  29. What in genetics, is the term denoting the transmission of traits and
    characteristics from parents of offspring?
     
  30. Which scientist discovered the neutron?
     
  31. Which was the first antibiotic to be discovered?
     
  32. What is oncology?
     
  33. What is the boiling point of water?
     
  34. Ascorbic acid is which vitamin?
     
  35. What, specifically, are the metals amalgam, solder, pewter and steel?
     
  36. What is the generic term for the mechanical, electrical and
    electronic components of a computer?
     
  37. Whose research on X-ray diffraction of ?DNA crystals helped Crick and
    Watson during the race to discover the structure of DNA?
     
  38. Heisenberg is most associated with which branch of physics?
     
  39. What did Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes discover?
     
  40. What science is the study of missiles in motion?
     
  41. Which branch of science has four fundamental principles: addition,
    subtraction, multiplication, and division.
     
  42. What kind of elements are found in a pure state in nature?
     
  43. What are classified by their measurement in degrees as "right",
    "reflex", "obtuse", or "acute"?
     
  44. What is the name given to the longest side of a right-angled
    triangle?
     
Answers to Quiz #75 - Science Trivia Answers



  1. Lignite.
  2. Lanolin.
  3. Teflon.
  4. Cast Iron.
  5. Decibel.
  6. Acoustics.
  7. Reptile.
  8. International Standards Organization.
  9. Magma.
  10. Legionnaire's disease.
  11. Sand.
  12. Collagen.
  13. Enamel.
  14. Six.
  15. Electron.
  16. Nucleus.
  17. Aspirin.
  18. Six.
  19. Fungus.
  20. The eye.
  21. Hydrogen.
  22. Iris.
  23. Cellulose.
  24. Arachnids.
  25. Joule.
  26. Halogens.
  27. Evaporation.
  28. Count Von Zeppelin.
  29. Heredity / inheritance.
  30. James Chadwick.
  31. Penicillin.
  32. Branch of medicine concerning cancer.
  33. 100 degrees Celsius.
  34. Vitamin C.
  35. Alloys.
  36. Hardware.
  37. Rosalind Franklin.
  38. Quantum Mechanics.
  39. Superconductivity.
  40. Ballistics.
  41. Arithmetic.
  42. Native elements.
  43. Angles.
  44. Hypotenuse.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Trivia Quiz #74 - Trivia Questions about Famous People

Trivia Quiz questions about Famous People

  1. Who was Pope for only 33 days in 1978?
     
  2. Who was lead singer with the group Queen?
     
  3. Which author had the real name Charles Dodgson?
     
  4. Who introduced the potato and tobacco to Europe.
     
  5. Who was the Lord Chancellor beheaded for refusing to recognize Henry
    VIII as head of the church?
     
  6. In which of the arts did Vaslav Nijinsky and Margot Fonteyn excel?
     
  7. Who led the Free French forces during World War II?
     
  8. Which battle of 1876 was Custer's last stand?
     
  9. Which actor, comedian and singer was born David Daniel Kaminski?
     
  10. Which builder of steam engines formed a successful partnership with
    Matthew Boulton?
     
  11. What nationality was the spy Mata Hari?
     
  12. Who said: "The customer is always right"?
     
  13. Which Russian goldsmith became famous for his jeweled eggs?
     
  14. What pen name was used by the Spanish orator Dolores Ibarruri, who
    said "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees"?
     
  15. For what purpose did Melvil Dewey devise his decimal system in 1876?
     
  16. Who was the king of rock and roll?
     
  17. Who was Sherlock Holmes' assistant?
     
  18. What are the indigenous people of new Zealand called?
     
  19. Who was the film star who married Prince Rainier III of Monaco?
     
  20. What was the first name of the politician Gladstone, the composer
    Walton, and the reformer Wilberforce?
     
  21. Of which tribe was Goliath the champion?
     
  22. What was the nickname of the French singer Edith Piaf?
     
  23. What nickname was given to General Thomas Jackson because of his
    stern defense at the battle of Bull Run?
     
  24. Whose birthday is celebrated by a public holiday on the third Monday
    in January in the USA?
     
  25. Which Christian martyr was first bishop of Rome?
     
  26. Who was the most famous of English lexicographers?
     
  27. In which of the arts has Richard Avedon distinguished himself?
     
  28. Which religious grou0p migrated westward to the Great Salt Lake,
    Utah, in 1847?
     
  29. Which 18th-century dictionary compiler defined himself as a "harmless
    drudge"?
     
  30. Who was president of the USSR from 1985-91?
     
  31. What was the name of the Thracian slave who led an ultimately
    unsuccessful gladiator revolt against Rome in 73 BC?
     
  32. Which English king abdicated and became Duke of Windsor?
     
  33. Who was the first man in space in 1961?
     
  34. Who was the American politician who made wild claims of communist
    infiltration in the 1950s?
     
  35. What invention made the fortune of Alfred Noel, founder of the Nobel
    prize?
     
  36. Whose circus did General Tom Thumb join at the age of five in 1843?
     
  37. Which building is the official residence of Queen Elizabeth the Queen
    Mother?
     
  38. Of which country was de Valera the prime minister, and later the
    president?
     
  39. Which actress starred opposite Alan Ladd in the film "The Blue
    Dahlia"?
     
  40. Which French fashion designer created the "Little black dress"?
     
Answers to Quiz #74 - Famous People Trivia Answers



  1. John Paul I.
  2. Freddie Mercury.
  3. Lewis Carroll.
  4. Sir Walter Raleigh.
  5. Thomas More.
  6. Ballet.
  7. Charles de Gaulle.
  8. Little Bighorn.
  9. Danny Kaye.
  10. James Watt.
  11. Dutch.
  12. Harry Gordon Selfridge.
  13. Peter Faberge.
  14. La Pasionaria.
  15. Classifying books.
  16. Elvis Presley.
  17. Dr. Watson.
  18. Maoris.
  19. Grace Kelly.
  20. William.
  21. Philistines.
  22. The "Little Sparrow".
  23. Stonewall.
  24. Martin Luther King.
  25. St. Peter.
  26. Samuel Johnson.
  27. Photography.
  28. Mormons.
  29. Samuel Johnson.
  30. Mikhail Gorbachev.
  31. Spartacus.
  32. Edward VIII.
  33. Yuri Gagarin.
  34. Joe McCarthy.
  35. Dynamite.
  36. P T Barnum.
  37. Clarence House.
  38. Ireland.
  39. Veronica Lake.
  40. Coco Chanel.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Trivia Quiz #73 - Trivia Questions About World Politics

Trivia Quiz questions about Politics


  1. What was the racial segregation policy practiced by South
    Africa's National Party until 1994?
     
  2. Which party was led by Adolf Hitler from 1921 to 1945?
     
  3. How old must you be to vote in a British parliamentary election?
     
  4. How many readings does an act of Parliament have in the House of
    Commons before being given royal assent?
     
  5. In which city did Karl Marx write Das Kapital?
     
  6. What was the former name of the British Green Party?
     
  7. Which party did F W de Klerk represent as South African president?
     
  8. What is the term used when a sitting MP is removed as the candidate
    for a forthcoming election?
     
  9. Who played the part of Piers Fletcher Dervish, personal assistant to
    MP Alan B'stard, in the television comedy series The New Statesman?
     
  10. Which MP entered Parliament as a Tory in 1833, but became Liberal
    prime minister in 1868?
     
  11. What was the British government forced to abolish in 1991, replacing
    it with the council tax?
     
  12. Who was the last foreign secretary to serve in Margaret Thatcher's
    cabinet, an MP who also contested the leadership after her resignation?
     
  13. Which publication documents all proceedings of the British
    parliament?
     
  14. Which British minister of health inaugurated the National Health
    Service?
     
  15. Who were the two prime ministers of Britain during World War II?
     
  16. What is the name for the group of opposition spokesmen who comment on
    the policies of government ministers?
     
  17. Who was "Britain's first ever Labour prime minister in 1924?
     
  18. Which politician has been referred to as "Red Ken"?
     
  19. What became known s "the F-word" at the 1991 Maastricht summit, where
    Britain wanted it removed from the treaty?
     
  20. Which British actress won the Hampstead and Highgate seat for Labour
    in the 1992 General Election?
     
  21. Whose book Inside NO 10 described Harold Wilson's Downing Street
    years?
     
  22. What is the name of the Welsh nationalist party?
     
  23. What is the Swedish name of the official who acts for the private
    citizen in complaints against the government?
     
  24. Which US president introduced the New Deal in 1933 to counter the
    depression?
     
  25. Mario Soares became the first socialist president of which country in
    1986?
     
  26. Which policy helped Pierre Trudeau to a landslide victory in the
    Canadian presidential election of 1980?
     
  27. What is the title of the member of the upper house equivalent to that
    of the Speaker in the lower house?
     
  28. Who was the first president of France's Fifth Republic?
     
  29. Who was dismissed from office as Australian prime minister in 1975
    after refusing to call a general election?
     
  30. Which government office was held successively by Geoffrey Howe, Nigel
    Lasson, and John Major?
     
  31. What is the more common name of the "simple plurality" system of
    voting?
     
  32. Which word, meaning "I forbid" in Latin, means the right to prevent a
    law being enacted or an action being taken?
     
  33. What collective name is given to the first ten amendments to the US
    constitution?
     
  34. What is the collective name of the international agreements signed by
    all the member states of the European Community?
     
  35. In which year did Mikhail Gorbachev resign as Soviet president?
     
  36. Which political commentator has presented both Weekend World and A
    Week in Politics?
     
  37. How many countries are there in the British Commonwealth?
     
  38. What is the Irish house of representatives called?
     
  39. What word for unthinking patriotism is derived from the name of one
    of Napoleon's admirers?
     
Answers to Quiz #73 - Political Trivia Answers



  1. Apartheid.
  2. Nazi Party.
  3. 18.
  4. Three.
  5. London.
  6. Ecology Party.
  7. National Party.
  8. Deselection.
  9. Michael Troughton.
  10. Gladstone.
  11. Poll tax / community charge.
  12. Douglas Hurd.
  13. Hansard.
  14. Aneurin Bevan.
  15. Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill.
  16. Shadow cabinet.
  17. James Ramsey MacDonald.
  18. Ken Livingstone.
  19. Federalism.
  20. Glenda Jackson.
  21. Lady Falkender.
  22. Plaid Cyumru.
  23. Ombudsman.
  24. Franklin Roosevelt.
  25. Portugal.
  26. Opposing Quebec separatism.
  27. Lord Chancellor.
  28. Charles de Gaulle.
  29. Gough Whitlam.
  30. Chauvinism.
  31. First past the post.
  32. Veto.
  33. Bill of Rights.
  34. Treaties of Rome.
  35. 1991.
  36. Peter Jay.
  37. 50.
  38. Dáil Éireann
  39. Chauvinism.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Trivia Quiz #72 - Trivia Questions About Politics

Trivia Quiz questions about Politics


  1. What is the official residence of the president of France?
     
  2. Who set out his political ideas in Mein Kampf?
     
  3. Who preceded Ronald Reagan as American president?
     
  4. In which year was Ulster incorporated into the UK, under the Home
    Rule Act?
     
  5. What name is shared by the chairs of the UK House of Commons and the
    US House of Representatives?
     
  6. Which is the lower house of the British parliament?
     
  7. Of what electoral system are "single transferable vote" and "party
    list" forms?
     
  8. Who was the USA's vice president in 1990?
     
  9. Which prime minister took Britain into the European Community in
    1973?
     
  10. Which publication was the vehicle for John 'Wilkes's attacks on the
    Tories for which he was imprisoned in 1768?
     
  11. How did the suffragette Emily Davison meet her death in 1913?
     
  12. What was enforced by Parliament in 1379 and was the trigger that
    caused the Peasants' Revolt?
     
  13. In which country did Pol Pot lead the feared Khmer Rouge?
     
  14. How often are American presidential elections held?
     
  15. Israel was proclaimed an independent state in 1948. Who was its prime
    minister from then until 1963?
     
  16. Who did Margaret Thatcher succeed as leader of the Conservative
    Party?
     
  17. Who said 'A week is a long time in politics'?
     
  18. In which parliament has the UK 87 seats for members who are elected
    for a five0-year term?
     
  19. What name is given to the series of strikes in the winter of 1978-79
    that led to the defeat of the Labour government?
     
  20. Which Elizabethan politician, philosopher and essayist was fined
    L40,000 for taking bribes?
     
  21. Who succeeded Clement Attlee as Labour Party leader in 1955?
     
  22. Whose book Sexual Politics was a landmark in feminist thinking?
     
  23. Which American economist is the foremost advocate of monetarism?
     
  24. In what year did the Representation of the People Act give the vote
    to all women over 21?
     
  25. Who was Italy's Fascist lender from 1925-43?
     
  26. Which human-rights organization campaigns for the release of
    political prisoners worldwide?|
     
  27. Which British company was effectively the ruler of much of India
    until the India Act of 1858?
     
  28. What offence was former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega tried for in
    the USA?
     
  29. Which are the two main political parties in the USA?
     
  30. What do the British call the person other countries might call
    minister of the interior?
     
  31. Who was the youngest ever leader of the Labour Party, elected in
    1983?
     
  32. Which party leader was a Royal Marine commando?
     
  33. Which British prime minister fell from office because of his repeal
    of the Corn Laws?
     
  34. Which Conservative MP was a middle-distance runner who won two
    Olympic gold medals and set eleven world records during the 1970s and
    1980s?

Answers to Quiz #72 - Political Trivia Answers


  1. Elysee Palace.
  2. Adolf Hitler.
  3. Jimmy Carter.
  4. 1920.
  5. Speaker.
  6. House of Commons.
  7. Proportional representation.
  8. Dan Quayle.
  9. Edward Heath.
  10. The North Briton.
  11. She threw herself under the king's horse in the Derby.
  12. Poll tax.
  13. Cambodia.
  14. Every four years.
  15. Ben-Gurion.
  16. Edward Heath.
  17. Harold Wilson.
  18. European Parliament.
  19. Winter of Discontent.
  20. Frances Bacon.
  21. Hugh Gaitskell.
  22. Kate Millett.
  23. Milton Friedman.
  24. 1928.
  25. Mussolini.
  26. Amnesty International.
  27. East India Company.
  28. Drug Trafficking.
  29. Democrats and Republicans.
  30. Home Secretary.
  31. Neil Kinnock
  32. Paddy Ashdown.
  33. Robert Peel.
  34. Sebastian Coe.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Trivia Quiz #71 - Trivia Questions About European History

Trivia Quiz questions about Europe and European History


  1. What year saw the nationalization of British Railways?
     
  2. Who are the only two English sovereigns from whom Prince Charles is
    not descended?
     
  3. Who succeeded the Roman emperor, Trajan?
     
  4. In which country is the castle that gives the Habsburg dynasty its
    name?
     
  5. Who was the admiral of the French fleet defeated by Nelson at the
    Battle of Trafalgar?
     
  6. During which war was the Battle of Blenheim?
     
  7. Which royal house consisted of Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI?
     
  8. In which Indian city did British troops open fire without warning on
    a crowd of 10,000 in 1919?
     
  9. In which war was the Battle of Ramillies?
     
  10. Which sultan of Egypt, who precipitated the third Crusade,
    subsequently made peace with Richard I?
     
  11. In which naval battle did Rome decisively defeat the forces of Antony
    and Cleopatra?
     
  12. Which new policy in 1958 was an attempt to achieve "true communism"
    in China?
     
  13. Who was appointed successor to Hitler in 1939 but expelled from the
    Nazi party six years later?
     
  14. What was ceded to Britain in 1713 as part of the settlement of the
    War of Spanish Succession?
     
  15. Which people did Alaric lead in the capture of Rome in 410?
     
  16. Who was the queen of the British king, Charles I?
     
  17. Whom did Charles V confront at the Diet of Worms in 1521?
     
  18. What was the name of the Libyan king deposed by Colonel Kaddafi in
    1969?
     
  19. Who were the victors of the Battle of Austerlitz?
     
  20. What was the first considerable engagement in the American
    Revolution?
     
  21. Who succeeded Henry I as king of England in 1135?
     
  22. Which treaty after World War I established the League of Nations?

Answers to Quiz #71 - European Historical Trivia Answers
  1. 1948.
  2. Charles II and James II.
  3. Hadrian.
  4. Switzerland.
  5. Pierre de Villeneuve.
  6. War of Spanish Succession.
  7. House of Lancaster.
  8. Amritsar.
  9. War of Spanish Succession.
  10. Saladin.
  11. Battle of Actium.
  12. The Great Leap Forward.
  13. Hermann Goering.
  14. Gibraltar.
  15. A:  Visigoths.
  16. Henrietta (Maria).
  17. Marin Luther.
  18. King Idris.
  19. The French under Napoleon.
  20. Bunker Hill.
  21. Stephan.
  22. Versailles.

Trivia Quiz #70 - History Trivia Questions About Historical Topics

Trivia Quiz questions about History and Historical Topics


  1. What year saw the nationalization of British Railways?
     
  2. Who are the only two English sovereigns from whom Prince Charles is
    not descended?
     
  3. Who succeeded the Roman emperor, Trajan?
     
  4. In which country is the castle that gives the Habsburg dynasty its
    name?
     
  5. Who was the admiral of the French fleet defeated by Nelson at the
    Battle of Trafalgar?
     
  6. During which war was the Battle of Blenheim?
     
  7. Which royal house consisted of Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI?
     
  8. In which Indian city did British troops open fire without warning on
    a crowd of 10,000 in 1919?
     
  9. In which war was the Battle of Ramillies?
     
  10. Which sultan of Egypt, who precipitated the third Crusade,
    subsequently made peace with Richard I?
     
  11. In which year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
     
  12. In which naval battle did Rome decisively defeat the forces of Antony
    and Cleopatra?
     
  13. Which new policy in 1958 was an attempt to achieve "true communism"
    in China?
     
  14. Who was appointed successor to Hitler in 1939 but expelled from the
    Nazi party six years later?
     
  15. What was ceded to Britain in 1713 as part of the settlement of the
    War of Spanish Succession?
     
  16. Which three states did the USA gain after the Mexican war?
     
  17. Which people did Alaric lead in the capture of Rome in 410?
     
  18. Who was the queen of the British king, Charles I?
     
  19. Where did George Washington's army endure the winter of 1777-78?
     
  20. Whom did Charles V confront at the Diet of Worms in 1521?
     
  21. What was the name of the Libyan king deposed by Colonel Kaddafi in
    1969?
     
  22. Who were the victors of the Battle of Austerlitz?
     
  23. Which US president ended his country's participation in the Vietnam
    War?
     
  24. What was the first considerable engagement in the American
    Revolution?
     
  25. Who succeeded Henry I as king of England in 1135?
     
  26. In which war was the Battle of Shiloh?
     
  27. Which treaty after World War I established the League of Nations?
     
  28. In which year did the Korean War break out?

Answers to Quiz #70 - Historical Trivia Answers


  1. 1948.
  2. Charles II and James II.
  3. Hadrian.
  4. Switzerland.
  5. Pierre de Villeneuve.
  6. War of Spanish Succession.
  7. House of Lancaster.
  8. Amritsar.
  9. War of Spanish Succession.
  10. Saladin.
  11. 1941.
  12. Battle of Actium.
  13. The Great Leap Forward.
  14. Hermann Goering.
  15. Gibraltar.
  16. New Mexico, California, and Texas.
  17. A:  Visigoths.
  18. Henrietta (Maria).
  19. Valley Forge.
  20. Marin Luther.
  21. King Idris.
  22. The French under Napoleon.
  23. Richard Nixon.
  24. Bunker Hill.
  25. Stephan.
  26. American Civil War.
  27. Versailles.
  28. 1950.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Trivia Quiz #69 - Trivia Questions About History

Trivia Quiz questions about History and Historical Topics


  1. Which country first tried unsuccessfully to build the Panama Canal?
     
  2. Which family ruled Florence for three centuries from 1434?
     
  3. Who were the Celtic-speaking peoples living in France and Belgium
    during Roman times?
     
  4. Which king of England had a mother and a son who were both beheaded?
     
  5. Which battle of 1746 ended the Jacobite revolution?
     
  6. What Soviet "man of steel" was educated for the priesthood but was
    expelled from the seminary?
     
  7. In which year did Brunei gain independence fro Britain?
     
  8. What country sold land including the present-day states of Louisiana,
    Arkansas, and Oklahoma to the USA in 1803?
     
  9. Which British monarch married Anne of Denmark?
     
  10. In which year did Dublin's Easter Rising take place?
     
  11. Which US president was shot five days after the end of the American
    Civil War?
     
  12. In which battle did Harold II, the last Saxon king, lose his life?
     
  13. "What was the name of the Austrian-born dictator who succeeded
    Hindenburg as Germany's head of state?
     
  14. Who was the black educationist who was born a slave but became a
    leader in the search for civil rights in the early 1900s?
     
  15. Which French revolutionary was nicknamed "the Incorruptible"?
     
  16. Where did Florence Nightingale establish a hospital to treat
    casualties of the Crimean War?
     
  17. Which rebellion was effectively ended by the Battle of Culloden?
     
  18. What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World, now
    in ruins?
     
  19. Who was the first president of independent Kenya?|
     
  20. Who proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949?
     
  21. Which country was ruled by the Romanov dynasty 1613-1917?
     
  22. Which country's liberalization program was halted by the invasion of
    600,000 Soviet troops in 1968?
     
  23. Which Axis Power changed sides during World War II, declaring war on
    Germany in October 1943?
     
  24. Who was the first democratically elected Marxist head of state?
     
  25. What was the name of the basalt slab that became the key for
    deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics?
     
  26. What title did Charlemagne, already king of the Franks, acquire in
    800?
     
  27. In which industrial process was the inventor Joseph Arkwright
    responsible for an important breakthrough in 1768?
     
  28. What is the name of the British political regime 1649-60 established
    by Oliver Cromwell?
     
  29. Which wife of Henry VIII had already married twice before she became
    queen, and married for a fourth time after Henry's death?
     
  30. What was the name of the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, fought
    in 1485?
     
  31. Who was the prime minister of South Africa who was assassinated in
    1966?
     
  32. Which 17th-century king of Sweden was known as the "Lion of the
    North"?
     
Answers to Quiz #69 - Historical Trivia Answers

  1. France.
  2. Medici.
  3. Gauls.
  4. James I.
  5. Culloden.
  6. Joseph Stalin.
  7. 1984.
  8. France.
  9. James I.
  10. 1816.
  11. Abraham Lincoln.
  12. Battle of Hastings.
  13. Adolf Hitler.
  14. Booker T. Washington.
  15. Robespierre.
  16. Scutari.
  17. Jacobite rebellion.
  18. Jamestown.
  19. Jomo Kenyatta.
  20. Mao Zedong.
  21. Russia.
  22. Czechoslovakia.
  23. Italy.
  24. Salvador Allende.
  25. Rosetta Stone.
  26. Holy Roman Emperor.
  27. Spinning Cotton.
  28. The Commonwealth.
  29. Catherine Parr.
  30. Battle of Bosworth.
  31. Hendrik Verwoerd.
  32. Gustavus Adolphus.

Trivia Quiz #68 - Trivia Questions About Europe

Trivia Quiz questions about Europe and European Things.


  1. Which is the highest mountain in the Alps?
     
  2. Which country is divided into cantons?
     
  3. In which Italian city would you find Leonardo's Last Supper?
     
  4. Which is Italy's longest river?
     
  5. On which river does Verona stand?
     
  6. In which country is the Eiger?
     
  7. Which poet died while helping the Greeks fight for their
    independence?
     
  8. Who was king of France at the time of the French Revolution?
     
  9. From which country did Iceland become independent in 1944?
     
  10. Which river runs through Budapest?
     
  11. What is the principal language of Bulgaria?
     
  12. What is the tiny principality in the Pyrenees on the border between
    Spain and France?
     
  13. From which city did Neville Chamberlain claim that he had brought
    back "peace in our time"?
     
  14. Which two colors appear on the flag of Denmark?
     
  15. In which capital city is the Tivoli amusement park?
     
  16. On which river does Prague stand?
     
  17. What is the name of the cathedral in Red Square, Moscow?
     
  18. Which country is known to its people as Suomen Tasavalta?
     
  19. Which European country restored its monarchy in 1975?
     
  20. In which autonomous region of Spain are the cities of Cadiz and
    Cordoba?
     
  21. Which European country colonized Brazil?
     
  22. Which country was defeated by the USSR in the Winter War of 1939?
     
  23. What is the name of the bay between northern Spain and western
    France, known for its rough seas?
     
  24. Which city linked by canal with Rotterdam and Amsterdam, is the seat
    of the Netherlands government?
     
  25. Which is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
     
  26. Which city was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990?
     
  27. With which power did Bulgaria side in World War II?
     
  28. In which Cypriot town will you find the "Tombs of the Rings"?
     
  29. In which country did Grand Duke Jean become head of state in 1964?
     
  30. Who was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor in 800?
     
  31. In which country was Pope John Paul II a cardinal before his
    election?
     
  32. Which two countries have a border with Liechtenstein?
     
  33. Which country has as its joint heads of state a Spaniard and a
    Frenchman?
     
  34. In which country was Adolf Hitler born?
     
  35. Which two colors appear on the flag of Greece?
     
  36. Which crusade was led by Philip II Augustus of France and Richard I
    of England?
     
  37. Which is further north, Corsica or Sardinia?
     
  38. Which European country left the Commonwealth and declared itself a
    republic in 1949?
     
  39. The shamrock is the national badge of which country?
     
  40. In which capital city were the treaties signed that established the
    European Economic Community?
     
  41. Which country was ruled for 40 years by the dictator Antonio Salazar?
     
  42. What nationality was the 16th-century poet and soldier Camoens?
     
  43. Which group had most seats in the European Parliament after the 1989
    election - the left, the centre or the right?
     
  44. In which country is Legoland Park?
     
  45. Of which island is Valletta the capital?
     
  46. In Norway, what are Hardanger and Sogne?
     
  47. In which Polish city was the Solidarity union formed in 1989?
     
  48. Which French river flows into the sea at St. Nazaire and is famous
    for its chateaux?
     
  49. In which city does the Council of Europe sit?
     
  50. In which year were East and West Germany unified?
     
  51. On which of the Greek islands did Bacchus find Ariadne, according to
    legend?
     
  52. Which country's parliament is called the Storting?
     
  53. Which German city is known as "Aix-la-Chapelle in French?
     
  54. What emblem appears on the flag of Albania?
     
  55. Where did Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet in 1945 to plan the
    final defeat of Germany?
     
  56. In which Netherlands city does the United Nations International Court
    of Justice sit?

Answers to Quiz #68 - European Trivia Answers

  1. Mont Blanc.
  2. Switzerland.
  3. Milan.
  4. Po.
  5. Adige.
  6. Switzerland.
  7. Byron.
  8. Louis XVI.
  9. Denmark.
  10. Danube.
  11. Bulgarian.
  12. Andorra.
  13. Munich.
  14. Eire.
  15. Copenhagen.
  16. Vltava.
  17. St. Basil's.
  18. Finland.
  19. Spain.
  20. Andalusia.
  21. Portugal.
  22. Finland.
  23. Bay of Biscay.
  24. The Hague.
  25. Sicily.
  26. Bonn.
  27. Germany.
  28. Paphos.
  29. Luxembourg.
  30. Charlemagne.
  31. Poland.
  32. Switzerland and Austria.
  33. Andorra.
  34. Austria.
  35. Blue and white.
  36. Third crusade.
  37. Corsica.
  38. Eire.
  39. Ireland.
  40. Rome.
  41. Portugal.
  42. Portuguese.
  43. The Left.
  44. Denmark.
  45. Malta.
  46. Fjords.
  47. Gdansk.
  48. Loire.
  49. Strasbourg.
  50. 1990.
  51. Naxos.
  52. Norway.
  53. Aachen.
  54. Eagle.
  55. Yalta.
  56. The Hague.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Trivia Quiz #67 - Trivia Questions About Asia and Asians

Trivia Quiz questions about Asia.


  1. Is the Great Wall of China 650, 1,450 or 2,050 miles long?
     
  2. Where did the Gang of Four try to size power in 1976?
     
  3. Which Asian city hosted the 1988 Olympic Games?
     
  4. Who was emperor of Japan during world War II?
     
  5. What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
     
  6. Of which country is Vientiane the capital?
     
  7. Who was the Mongol ruler who conquered Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia,
    and Georgia in the 14th Century?
     
  8. Which two Middle-Eastern countries fought a war from 1980 to 1988?
     
  9. Which sea lies between china and Korea?
     
  10. In which modern country are the ports of Sidon and Tyer?
     
  11. What is the name of the mountain pass which lies between Pakistan and
    Afghanistan?
     
  12. The West Bank of which river has been occupied by Israel since 1967?
     
  13. Which 15th-century navigator discovered the sea route from Europe to
    India by the Cape of Good Hope?
     
  14. What is the name of the group of 1,196 islands in the North Indian
    Ocean, none bigger than five square miles?
     
  15. What did Burma change its name to in 1989?
     
  16. A 25 km causeway, the longest in the world, links Saudi Arabia with
    which other country?
     
  17. Beside which river are the Indian cities of Delhi and Agra?
     
  18. On which inland sea do the ports of Astrakhan and Baku lie?
     
  19. Of which state in India is Lucknow the capital?
     
  20. Which country was suspended from the Arab League for ten years from
    1979?
     
  21. With what is the Japanese art of bonsai concerned?
     
  22. By what name was Thailand known until 1939?
     
  23. What kind of wild cattle with shaggy coats and upturned horns live in
    the mountains of Tibet?
     
  24. Which 13th-century Mongol warlord controlled probably a larger area
    than anyone in history, from the Yellow Sea to the Black Sea?
     
  25. Which country is bounded by Saudi Arabia, Oman, the Gulf of Aden, and
    the Red Sea?
     
  26. Which is the largest city in India?
     
  27. Which is the principal island of Japan?
     
  28. What distinguished the Japanese tanker Shin-Attoku-Maru, launched in
    1980?
     
  29. What is the dominant classical language of the Indian subcontinent?
     
  30. In which 1954 battle did the Vietminh defeat the French and end their
    influence in Indochina?
     
  31. What nationality are the Gurkhas, who have fought for the British and
    Indian armies since 1815?
     
  32. Which major export of Bangladesh is used to make sacking?
     
  33. What was the former name of Iran?
     
  34. Which river runs 1,560 miles to the Bay of Bengal?
     
  35. Which sheikhdom is the capital of the United Arab Emirates?
     
  36. Which native East Asian plant is the richest natural vegetable food?
     
  37. What is the capital of Hong Kong?
     
  38. Which Syrian city is said to be the oldest continually inhabited city
    in the world?
     
  39. Who founded the modern republic of Turkey and, in 1934, took a name
    meaning "Father of the Turks"?
     
  40. What is the Japanese product kakiemon?
     
  41. Which river with a vast delta to the South china Sea rises as the Za
    Qu in Tibet?
     
  42. Isfahan is a major city in which country?
     
  43. Which Indian poet and philosopher was the first Asian to win the
    Nobel Prize for Literature?
     
  44. In which square in Beijing did troops massacre ore than 1,000
    demonstrators in 1989?
     
  45. Who was supposed to have told the Arabian Nights tales?

Answers to Quiz #67 - Asia Trivia Answers

  1. 1,450.
  2. China.
  3. Seoul.
  4. Hirohito.
  5. Riyadh.
  6. Laos.
  7. Tamerlane.
  8. Iran and Iraq.
  9. Yellow Sea.
  10. Lebanon.
  11. Khyber pass.
  12. Jordan.
  13. Vasco da Gama.
  14. Maldives.
  15. Myanmar.
  16. Bahrain.
  17. Jumna.
  18. Caspian Sea.
  19. Uttah Pradesh.
  20. Egypt.
  21. Miniature Trees.
  22. Siam.
  23. Yak.
  24. Genghis Khan.
  25. Yemen.
  26. Calcutta.
  27. Honshu.
  28. Assisted by wind.
  29. Sanskrit.
  30. Dien Bien Phu.
  31. Nepalese.
  32. Jute.
  33. Persia.
  34. Ganges.
  35. Abu Dhabi.
  36. Soya.
  37. Victoria.
  38. Damascus.
  39. Kemal Ataturk.
  40. Porcelain.
  41. Mekong.
  42. Iran.
  43. Rabindranath Tagoe.
  44. Tiananmen Square.
  45. Scheherazade.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Trivia Quiz #66 - Trivia Questions About Africa and Africans

Trivia Quiz questions about Africa and Africans.


  1. Which 100-mile long waterway links the Mediterranean and the Red Sea?
     
  2. In which country is the Aswan Dam?
     
  3. Which country has the rand as its currency?
     
  4. What does ANC stand for?
     
  5. Who was the Egyptian king whose tomb and treasures were discovered in
    the Valley of the Kings in 1922?
     
  6. Which volcano in Tanzania is the highest mountain in Africa?
     
  7. Which country, bordering Zaire, takes its name from the former name
    of the Zaire river?
     
  8. Which is the second longest river in Africa?
     
  9. What is the name shared by the currency units of "Algeria and
    Tunisia?
     
  10. What is the capital of Kenya?
     
  11. Which country is the island of Zanzibar part of?
     
  12. What is the capital of Sierra Leone?
     
  13. Who was Zambia's first president?
     
  14. Name the East African country which lies on the Equator.
     
  15. What appears in the middle of the Rwandan flag?
     
  16. Which country includes the Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa-Fulani peoples?
     
  17. Who was the founder of the Back to Africa movement who largely
    inspired Rastafarianism?
     
  18. At which town in the Sudan do the White and Blue Niles join?
     
  19. In which country did King Hassan II ascend the throne in 1961?
     
  20. In which country are Tangier and Casablanca?
     
  21. The flag of Libya is a plain rectangle of which color?
     
  22. From which European country did Angola achieve independence in 1975?
     
  23. Mount Toubkai is the highest peak of which range of mountains?
     
  24. Which South African politician won the Nobel peace Prize in 1960?
     
  25. In which township were 69 demonstrators killed by South "African
    police in March 1960?
     
  26. Afrikaans is a variety of which European language?
     
  27. What is the former name of the People's Republic of Benin?
     
  28. Which country unilaterally declared independence in November 1965?
     
  29. What is Africa's largest country?
     
  30. Which African country is sandwiched between Ghana and Benin?
     
  31. Which country is the home of the Ashanti?
     
  32. Which country was called Upper Volta until 1984?
     
  33. Which explorer was the first to reach the Cape of Good Hope?
     
  34. In which country are the towns of Gweru and Kwekwe?
     
  35. Where did Idi Amin rule from 1971 -1979?
     
  36. Who was the Egyptian president who was assassinated in 1981?
     
  37. Which British general was killed at Khartoum in 1885?
     
  38. Which country mainly makes up the Horn of Africa?
     
  39. In which country are the ruins of ancient Carthage?
     
  40. In which country does the White Nile leave Lake Victoria?
     
  41. What are the two main arms of the River Nile called?
     
  42. Which actor won an Academy Award for his performance in The African
    Queen?
     
  43. On the border of which two countries is the Victoria Falls?
     
  44. Who was the woman sentenced to six years in jail after the murder of
    Stompei Seipi?
     
  45. Which African explorer translated the Arabian Nights?
     
  46. After which American President is the capital of Liberia named?
     
  47. What is the name of the volcanic valley that runs from the Sinai
    peninsula to central Mozambique?
     
  48. In which country were the Mau-0Mau a secret guerrilla movement?
     
  49. Who was the Danish author of Out of Africa?
     
  50. Which new city in Nigeria has been shaped like a crescent, and has
    replaced Lagos as capital?
     
  51. The Zambezi and which other river define the borders of Matabeleland?
     
  52. In and around which desert do the Bushmen live?
Answers to Quiz #66 - Africa Trivia Answers

  1. Suez Canal.
  2. Egypt.
  3. South Africa.
  4. African National Congress.
  5. Tutankhamen.
  6. Kilimanjaro.
  7. Congo.
  8. Zaire, formerly Congo.
  9. Dinar.
  10. Nairobi.
  11. Tanzania.
  12. Freetown.
  13. Kenneth Kaunda.
  14. Kenya.
  15. A letter R.
  16. Nigeria.
  17. Marcus Garvey.
  18. A :Khartoum.
  19. Morocco.
  20. Morocco.
  21. Green.
  22. Portugal.
  23. Atlas Mountains.
  24. Albert Luthuli.
  25. Sharpeville.
  26. Dutch.
  27. Dohomey.
  28. Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
  29. Sudan.
  30. Togo.
  31. Ghana.
  32. Burkina Faso.
  33. Bartolomeu Diaz.
  34. Zimbabwe.
  35. Uganda.
  36. Sadat.
  37. Gordon.
  38. Somalia.
  39. Tunisia.
  40. Uganda.
  41. Blue Nile; White Nile.
  42. Humphrey Bogart.
  43. Zambia and  Zimbabwe.
  44. Winnie Mandela.
  45. Richard Burton.
  46. James Monroe.
  47. Great Rift Valley.
  48. Kenya.
  49. Karen Blixen.
  50. Abuja.
  51. Limpopo.
  52. Kalahari.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Trivia Quiz #65 - Miscellaneous European Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Trivia Quiz questions about miscellaneous European topics.


  1. In 1997 which airline replaced the flag on its tail fin with ethnic designs
    from around the world?
     
  2. Where did Anne Frank die?
     
  3. According to the British Bishop Mervyn Stockwood, who would "go to the
    Follies Bergere and look at the audience?
     
  4. In which city was the peace treaty ending the Vietnam war signed?
     
  5. What was Scotland's answer to California's Silicon Valley called?
     
  6. What was St. Petersburg called for most of the 20th century?
     
  7. What is London's biggest airport called?
     
  8. Which country is locked within Belgium, Germany and France?
     
  9. Which two national teams made the first flight over Everest in a hot air
    balloon?
     
  10. In which category did Marie Curie win her second Nobel Prize?
     
  11. The fastest man on land at the beginning of this century came from which
    country?
     
  12. In which country were motorized ambulances first used?
     
  13. What is the largest inland port in Europe?
     
  14. Which company manufactured the first car to run on diesel?
     
  15. In 1939 who described the actions of Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery
    inside an enigma?"
     
  16. In Nazi Germany, what was Endloslung?
     
  17. Who was Hitler's Prime Minister in Prussia?
     
  18. Vehicles from which country use the international registration letter L?
     
  19. Where in England is the location of the Glastonbury Festival?
     
  20. The Channel Islands are in which Channel?
     
  21. The French region of Grasse is famous for making what?
     
  22. Which was the last country in mainland Europe to switch from driving on the
    left?
     
  23. By the end of the 80s, what percentage of British households had two cars?
     
  24. In which city was the first Model T produced outside the USA?
     
  25. Who became mayor of Cologne in 1945?
     
  26. Who was Churchill referring to when he said "never was so much owed by so
    many to so few?
     
  27. In which year did Britain's lease on Hong Kong officially expire?
     
  28. Which Norwegian explorer did Robert Feary beat to the North Pole?
     
  29. What is the Pacific terminus of the Trans Siberian Railway?
     
  30. In what year did the millionth Volkswagen roll off the assembly line?
     
  31. A bridge too far" referred to airborne landings in which country?
     
  32. Who founded the Cubism movement with Picasso?

Answers to Quiz #65 - Miscellaneous European Trivia Answers

  1. British Airways.
  2. Belsen.
  3. A psychiatrist.
  4. Paris.
  5. Silicon Glen.
  6. Leningrad.
  7. Heathrow.
  8. Luxembourg.
  9. Australia/UK.
  10. Chemistry.
  11. Belgium.
  12. France.
  13. Hamburg, Germany.
  14. Mercedes Benz.
  15. Winston Churchill.
  16. The Final Solution.
  17. Goering.
  18. Luxembourg.
  19. Pilton.
  20. English Channel.
  21. Perfume.
  22. Sweden.
  23. 20%
  24. Manchester.
  25. Konrad Adenauer.
  26. RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain.
  27. 1997.
  28. Roald Amundsen.
  29. Vladivostok.
  30. 1955.
  31. Netherlands.
  32. Braque.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Trivia Quiz #64 - Miscellaneous European Trivia Questions and Answers

Trivia Quiz questions about Europe and European things.


  1. In 1997 which airline replaced the flag on its tail fin with ethnic designs
    from around the world?
     
  2. Where did Anne Frank die?
     
  3. According to the British Bishop Mervyn Stockwood, who would "go to the
    Follies Bergere and look at the audience?
     
  4. In which city was the peace treaty ending the Vietnam war signed?
     
  5. What was Scotland's answer to California's Silicon Valley called?
     
  6. What was St. Petersburg called for most of the 20th century?
     
  7. What is London's biggest airport called?
     
  8. Which country is locked within Belgium, Germany and France?
     
  9. Which two national teams made the first flight over Everest in a hot air
    balloon?
     
  10. In which category did Marie Curie win her second Nobel Prize?
     
  11. The fastest man on land at the beginning of this century came from which
    country?
     
  12. In which country were motorized ambulances first used?
     
  13. What is the largest inland port in Europe?
     
  14. Which company manufactured the first car to run on diesel?
     
  15. In 1939 who described the actions of Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery
    inside an enigma?"
     
  16. In Nazi Germany, what was Endloslung?
     
  17. Who was Hitler's Prime Minister in Prussia?
     
  18. Vehicles from which country use the international registration letter L?
     
  19. Where in England is the location of the Glastonbury Festival?
     
  20. The Channel Islands are in which Channel?
     
  21. The French region of Grasse is famous for making what?
     
  22. Which was the last country in mainland Europe to switch from driving on the
    left?
     
  23. By the end of the 80s, what percentage of British households had two cars?
     
  24. In which city was the first Model T produced outside the USA?
     
  25. Who became mayor of Cologne in 1945?
     
  26. Who was Churchill referring to when he said "never was so much owed by so
    many to so few?
     
  27. In which year did Britain's lease on Hong Kong officially expire?
     
  28. Which Norwegian explorer did Robert Feary beat to the North Pole?
     
  29. What is the Pacific terminus of the Trans Siberian Railway?
     
  30. In what year did the millionth Volkswagen roll off the assembly line?
     
  31. "A bridge too far" referred to airborne landings in which country?
     
  32. Who founded the Cubism movement with Picasso?
     
Answers to Quiz #64 - European Trivia Answers

  1. British Airways.
  2. Belsen.
  3. A psychiatrist.
  4. Paris.
  5. Silicon Glen.
  6. Leningrad.
  7. Heathrow.
  8. Luxembourg.
  9. Australia/UK.
  10. Chemistry.
  11. Belgium.
  12. France.
  13. Hamburg, Germany.
  14. Mercedes Benz.
  15. Winston Churchill.
  16. The Final Solution.
  17. Goering.
  18. Luxembourg.
  19. Pilton.
  20. English Channel.
  21. Perfume.
  22. Sweden.
  23. 20%
  24. Manchester.
  25. Konrad Adenauer.
  26. RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain.
  27. 1997.
  28. Roald Amundsen.
  29. Vladivostok.
  30. 1955.
  31. Netherlands.
  32. Braque.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Trivia Quiz #63 - Entertainment, Entertainers, Actors, Actresses, Movie Stars, Singers and More!

Trivia Quiz questions about Entertainment.
  1. In Chaplin's The Great Dictator, what was the dictator's name?
     
  2. To which conductor did Vaughan Williams dedicate his 8th Symphony?
     
  3. What did critic John Mason Brown describe as "chewing gum for the eyes?"
     
  4. Who wrote the book on which the musical Whistle Down the Wind was based?
     
  5. In what country was British choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton born?
     
  6. Which orchestral conductor was married to one of the subjects of the film
    Hillary and Jackie?
     
  7. Which director's autobiography was called The Name Above the Title?
     
  8. Where was blues singer Leadbelly when he was 'discovered' musically?
     
  9. Most of the Three Tenors come from which country?
     
  10. Who is taller, Holly Hunter or Madonna?
     
  11. What is Ryan O'Neal's real first name?
     
  12. Who wrote the song Mad Dogs And Englishmen?
     
  13. Who wrote the children's classic The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe?
     
  14. The first Miss World came from which country?
     
  15. Which writer and politician became Lord Tweedsmuir?
     
  16. Who directed the 1980 film of Popeye?
     
  17. For which movie did Spielberg win his first Oscar?
     
  18. Which part did Michael Jackson play in The Wiz?
     
  19. What was advertised by Rod Stewart and Tina Turner's version of It Takes Two?
     
  20. Which brothers bought Shepperton movie studios in 1994?
     
  21. Which studios did the Rank Organization open in 1936?
     
  22. Who made the film Renaldo and Clara with Bob Dylan?
     
  23. Which British composer wrote the theme music for the film Murder on the
    Orient Express?
     
  24. The expression Great White Hope was used to describe which black boxer's
    opponents?
     
  25. Which Dallas actress was born on exactly the same day as singer / songwriter
    Stephen Stills?
     
  26. Which Bond girl was played by Diana Rigg?
     
  27. Who was the German soldier in Rowan and Martin's Laugh In?
     
  28. In which decade was Kim Basinger born?
     
  29. Who had a 1980s No 1 hit with Shakedown?
     
  30. What food has sexual overtones in Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris?
     
  31. On whose life was the short-lived musical Winnie based?
     
  32. How many Gilbert & Sullivan operas are there?
     
  33. Who said, "Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle?"
     
  34. About whom did Kenneth Tynan say, "What one sees in other women
    drunk, one sees in... sober?"
     
  35. Which pop star went on The Serious Tour?
     
  36. In what year was the first Tarzan novel published?
     
  37. Michael Jackson's Will You Be There came from which movie?
     
  38. Who had a 60s No 1 hit with The Theme From a Summer Place?
     
  39. What was Blossom's last name in the comedy series?
     
  40. Who won the Best Director Oscar for Platoon?
     
  41. In which decade of the 20th century was Jessica Lange born?
     
  42. The first great rock charity show was in aid of the people of which country?
     
  43. Which film poster included the line "I told you... you know nothing about
    wickedness?"
     
  44. Who wrote the very last episode of Seinfeld?
     
Answers to Quiz #63 - Enterainment Trivia Answers

  1. Adenoid Hynkel.
  2. Barbirolli.
  3. TV.
  4. Mary Hayley Bell.
  5. Ecuador.
  6. Daniel Barenboim.
  7. Frank Capra.
  8. Prison.
  9. Spain.
  10. Madonna.
  11. Patrick.
  12. Noel Coward.
  13. C. S. Lewis.
  14. Sweden.
  15. John Buchan.
  16. Robert Altman.
  17. Schindler's List.
  18. The Scarecrow.
  19. Pepsi.
  20. Scott.
  21. Pinewood.
  22. Joan Baez.
  23. Richard Rodney Bennett.
  24. Jack Johnson.
  25. Victoria Principal.
  26. Tracy Vincenzo.
  27. Artie Johnson.
  28. 50s.
  29. Bob Seger.
  30. Butter.
  31. Winston Churchill.
  32. 13.
  33. Bob Hope.
  34. Greta Garbo.
  35. Phil Collins.
  36. 1914.
  37. Free Willy.
  38. Percy Faith.
  39. Russo.
  40. Oliver Stone.
  41. 1940s.
  42. Bangladesh.
  43. The Lady From Shanghai.
  44. Larry David.