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.