Trivia Questions

General trivia questions

1. What does “www” stand for in a website browser?
A: World Wide Web
2. How long is an Olympic swimming pool (in meters)?
A: 50 meters
3. Which country do the cities of Perth; Adelade & Brisbane belong to?
A: Australia
4. What punctuation mark ends an imperative sentence?
A: A period or exclamation point
5. Who named the Pacific Ocean?
A: Ferdinand Magellan
6. How many languages are written from right to left?
A: 12
7. How many countries still have shilling as currency? Bonus point: Which countries?
A: Four, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Somalia
8. What is the name of the man who launched eBay back in 1995?
A: Pierre Omidyar
9. What is the name of the biggest technology company in South Korea?
A: Samsung
10. Which animal can be seen on the Porsche logo?
A: Horse
11. Which monarch officially made Valentine's Day a holiday in 1537?
A: Henry VIII
12. The first dictionary was written by?
A: Robert Cawdrey
13. Worship of Krishna is observed by which Religious Faith?
A: Hinduism
14. Demolition of the Berlin wall separating East and West Germany began in what year?
A: 1989
15. What is the romanized Arabic word for "moon"?
A: Qamar
16. Who was the first woman pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic?
A: Amelia Earhart
17. What was the name of the Greek Goddess of Love?
A: Aphrodite
18. What were warriors in Japan known as?
A: Samurais
19. Who is the Greek goddess of victory?
A: Nike
20. Other than water, what is the most consumed beverage?
A: Tea

Geography
21. What is Earth's largest continent?
A: Asia
22. What river runs through Baghdad?
A: The Tigris river
23. What is the name of the largest ocean on earth?
A: Pacific Ocean
24. This is the smallest independent country on Earth.
A: Vatican City is the world’s smallest country
25. Which country borders 14 nations and crosses 8 time zones?
A: Russia
26. Havana is the capital of what country?
A: Cuba
27. This is the only major city located on two continents. Which continents are they?
A: Istanbul is located on the continents of Europe and Asia
28. Riyadh is the capital of this Middle-Eastern country.
A: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
 29. How many countries are in Africa?
A: 54
30. What is the world's longest river?
A: Amazon River
31. Which country consumes the most chocolate per capita?
A: Switzerland
32. What is the only country that borders the United Kingdom?
A: Ireland (which shares a border with Northern Ireland)
33. What is the name of the largest desert in the world?
A: Sahara
34. In the United Kingdom, what is the day after Christmas Day called?
A: Boxing Day
35. According to the UN's 2020 World Happiness Report, which country has the happiest
inhabitants?
A: Finland
36. What is the capital of Australia?
A: Canberra
37. What is the world's most earthquake-prone country?
A: Japan
38. What is the world's biggest island?
A: Greenland
39. What is the flattest continent?
A: Australia
40. What is the name of the smallest ocean?
A: Arctic Ocean
41. What is the most common first language in the world?
A: Mandarin Chinese
42. What country is home to Kangaroo island?
A: Australia
43. Which country sees the most international tourists annually?
A: France
44. What is the newest country?
A: South Sudan (which gained independence in 2011)

History
45. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
A: Leonardo da Vinci
46. What was the largest contiguous empire in history?
A: Mongol Empire (Gangus khan)
47. Who was the first man on the moon?
A:Neil Armstrong and Buz Aldrin
48. Which Japanese City was the first place to be attacked by an Atomic Bomb?
A: Hiroshima
49. Which country was the first to give women the right to vote?
A: New Zealand (in 1893)
50. The destruction of Pompeii in 79 AD was done by what volcano?
A: Mt. Vesuvius
51. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A: Marie Curie
52. Who was the first person in space?
A: Yuri Gagarin
53. Which American president is in the Wrestling Hall of Fame?
A: Abraham Lincoln
54. Pope Gregory IV tried to exterminate what animal from Europe, as he said they were instruments
of Satan?
A: Cats
55. Which two authors wrote the communist manifesto ?
A: Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
56. Who invented the telephone?
A: Alexander Graham Bell
57. During the US civil rights movement in the 1960s, who said: “We declare our right on this
earth…to be a human being…by any means necessary”
A: Malcolm X
58. What year was the treaty of wechale between Ethiopia and Italy signed?
A: 1889
59. What was the term for the official policy of racial segregation in South Africa until 1994?
A: Apartheid
60. What famous actor became Governor of California in 2003?
A: Arnold shwaziniger
61. What was the name given to military units from the Imperial Ethiopian Army which fought as
part of United Nations Command in the korean War ?
A: Kagnew Battalion (kagnew shaleka)
62. Who was the first female prime minister of Britain?
A: Margaret thatcher
63. Who was the first black secretary general of the United nations?
A: Kofi Annan
64. What was the given name of his imperial majesty Haile Selassie?
A: Ras Tafari Makonnen

Entertainment
65. What is the highest-grossing film of all time?
A: Avatar
66. What was the first Pixar movie?
A: Toy Story
67. Which movie was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture winner at the 2017 Academy Awards
A: La La Land
68. What actor starred in two of the top 10 highest grossing films of the 1990s and what were the
films?
A: Will Smith in Men in Black and Independence Day
69. What movie did this quote come from and which character or actor said it, “I’m the king of the
world.”?
A: Titanic and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio)
70. In Disney's Cinderella, what are the names of Cinderella's two stepsisters?
A: Anastasia and Drizella
71. In what year were the Academy Awards first presented?
A: 1929
72. How many Oscars has Meryl Streep been nominated for?
A: 21 (she's won three times)
73. What is the highest-grossing animated film of all time?
A: The Lion King (2019 remake)
74. In Back to the Future, what type of car is the time machine?
A: A DeLorean
75. What awards has an EGOT winner won?
A: An Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony
76. Which member of the Beatles married Yoko Ono?
A: John Lennon
77. What are the names of Cinderella’s stepsisters?
A: Anastasia and Drizella
78. Who starred in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
A: Will Smith
79. What band sings the hits “No Scrubs” and “Waterfalls?”
A: TLC
80. Which city is known as the birthplace of hip hop?
A: The Bronx, New York
81. What fictional town does Spongebob Squarepants live in?
A: Bikini Bottom
82. Will.i.am is a member of what band?
A: Black Eyed Peas
83. How many members are there in the Spice Girls?
A: Five
84. What band was Beyonce originally a part of?
A: Destiny’s Child
Sports
85. Which two countries have not missed one of the modern-day Olympics?
A: Greece and Australia
86. Who has won more tennis grand slam titles, Venus Williams or Serena Williams?
A: Serena Williams
87. What sport is dubbed the "king of sports"?
A: Football (Soccer)
88. Dump, floater, and wipe are terms used in which team sport?
Answer: Volleyball
89. Which country won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930?
A: Uruguay
90. Which athlete has won the most Olympic medals?
A: Michael Phelps (with 28 medals)
91. What is the national sport of Japan?
A: Sumo wrestling
92. Which African country was the first to ever qualify for a World Cup?
A: Egypt
93. What was Muhammed Ali's birth name?
A: Cassius Clay
94. The Olympics are held every how many years?
A: 4 years.
95. How long is a marathon?
A: 26.2 miles, 42 km
96. What is the only country to have played in every single soccer World Cup?
A: Brazil.
97. Who was the first ever Male Ethiopian swimmer to compete at the Olympic games?
A: Robel Kiros Habte
98. Who was the first Ethiopian female athlete to win a gold medal at the Olympic games?
A: Tirunesh Dibaba
99. Which team won the 2021 Ethiopian premier league?
A: Fasil kenema
 100. Labron James played for this NBA team?
A: LA lakers
101. How many players play a basketball game?
A: 5 each side 10 in total
102. Which country won the most fifa world cup? For men and women?
A: Brazil (5) for men, USA (4) for women
103. Name the Driver with most formula 1 championship titles?
A: lewis Hamilton (7)

Science
104. What's the human body's largest organ?
A: Skin
105. How many eyes do bees have?
A: 5
106. How many elements are in the periodic table?
A: 118
107. Which galaxy is closest to the Milky Way Galaxy?
A: Andromeda Galaxy
108. What is the largest bone in the human body?
A: Femur
109. What is the hardest known natural material?
A: Diamonds
110. What are the three types of rock?
A: Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
111. The first vaccine developed was for which disease?
A: Smallpox
112. What color is a giraffe's tongue?
A: Black
113. Which planet has the strongest gravity?
A: Jupiter
114. How many ribs are in the human body?
A: 24
115. What are the three layers of the Earth?
A: Crust, core, mantle
116. What is the hardest substance in the human body?
A: Tooth enamel
117. What is the largest animal to have ever existed?
A: The blue whale
118. Dolly was the first cloned animal. What type of animal was she?
A: Sheep
119. In what type of matter are atoms most tightly packed?
A: Solids
120. What is the hottest planet in the solar system?
A: Venus, with a temperature of 460 °C
121. Which physicist introduced the law of motion ‘for every action, there is an equal and
opposite reaction?
A: Isaac newton
122. What is the nearest planet to the sun?
A: Mercury
123. What tissues connect the muscles to the bones?
A: Tendons