100 Fun General Knowledge Quiz Questions with Answers: Quiz 14

 

If you are looking for a fun and free quiz, look no further! Here are 100 trivia questions with the answers in italics. They're divided into groups of 10 on different subjects, so everyone can join in no matter how diverse their interests.

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10 Easy Ice-Breakers

1. Who was the legendary Benedictine monk who invented champagne? Dom Pérignon
2. What is the largest freshwater lake in the world? Lake Superior
3. Where would you find the Sea of Tranquility? The moon
4. What is someone who shoes horses called? Farrier
5. What item of clothing was named after its Scottish inventor? Mackintosh
6. What kind of weapon is a falchion? Sword
7. Which word can go before 'vest', 'beans' and 'quartet'? String
8. What is another word for lexicon? Dictionary
9. What is the seventh planet from the sun? Uranus
10. Who invented the rabies vaccine? Louis Pasteur

10 Questions About Geography

1. Which is the only U.S. state to begin with the letter 'p'? Pennsylvania
2. What is the world's biggest island? Greenland (As a continent, Australia is technically not considered an island.)
3. What is the world's longest river? Nile (The Amazon is the largest by volume.)
4. What is the world's largest ocean? Pacific
5. What is the diameter of Earth? 8,000 miles
6. What is the name of the world's most ancient forest, and where is it located? Daintree Forest, north of Cairns, Australia
7. Which four British cities have underground rail systems? Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastle and London
8. What is the capital city of Spain? Madrid
9. Which country is Prague in? Czech Republic
10. Which British town was a forerunner of the Parks Movement and the first city in Europe to have a street tram system? Birkenhead.

Did You Know?

Time Magazine called Trivial Pursuit the 'biggest phenomenon in game history'. More than 50 special editions have been released since the game's 1981 debut.

10 Questions About Movies

1. What actor starred in 142 films including The Quiet Man, The Shootist, The Searchers and Stagecoach? John Wayne
2. What noir actress starred in I Married a Witch, The Glass Key, So Proudly We Hail! and Sullivan's Travels? Veronica Lake
3. What is the title of the first film ever made, and when was it made? Roundhay Garden Scene, made in 1888
4. Which actress has won the most Oscars? Katharine Hepburn, with four Oscars and 12 total nominations
5. Which actress said, 'Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night', in the film All About Eve? Bette Davis (as Margo Channing)
6. Who directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Peter Jackson
7. Who played Neo in The Matrix? Keanu Reeves
8. Which actress's career launched at the age of three, and then went on to star in films such as Contact, Maverick and The Silence of the Lambs? Jodie Foster
9. Bray Studios, near Windsor in Berkshire, was home to which famous brand of horror films? Hammer Horror
10. In which film did Humphrey Bogart say, 'We'll always have Paris'? Casablanca

10 Questions About Gardening

1. By what name is Lancelot Brown more usually known? Capability Brown
2. What is the name of the world-famous gardens situated 10 miles outside of London, close to the River Thames? Kew Gardens
3. Which popular gardener created Barnsdale Gardens and was the author of many books such as The Ornamental Kitchen Garden, Paradise Gardens and Gardeners World: Practical Gardening Course? Geoff Hamilton
4. Which garden is considered to be among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
5. What colour is a Welsh poppy? Yellow
6. What colour is a Himalayan poppy? Blue
7. Which organic gardener is almost as famous for his long blond plait as he is for his books such as Going Organic and The Gourmet Gardener, as well as his regular appearances on the BBC radio's Gardener's Question Time? Bob Flowerdew
8. What is the alternative name for a mountain ash tree? Rowan
9. Which kind of bulbs were once exchanged as a form of currency? Tulips (17th-century Holland)
10. By which Latin name was Rosa Gallica previously known? Rosa Mundi

Did You Know?

Alex Trebek hosted more than 8,000 episodes of 'Jeopardy!' over 36 years before his death in 2020. During that period, he won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host seven times.

10 Questions About Sports

1. What colour jersey is worn by the winners of each stage of the Tour de France? Yellow
2. Which heavyweight boxing champion was the only one to finish his career of 49 fights without ever being defeated? Rocky Marciano
3. Which sport does Constantino Rocca play? Golf
4. Which country is home to the Cresta Run? Switzerland
5. How many times did Björn Borg win the men's tennis singles title at Wimbledon? Five
   
6. Which country hosted a Formula 1 race for the first time in 2011? India
7. What is the name of the game played on a lawn called a 'crown green'? Bowls
8. Which chess piece can only move diagonally? Bishop
9. Which footballer is the only one to have played for Liverpool, Everton, Manchester City and Manchester United? Peter Beardsley
10. In football, who was nicknamed 'The Divine Ponytail'? Roberto Baggio

10 Questions About the Arts

1. What are the three primary colours? Red, yellow and blue
2. In needlework, what does UFO refer to? Unfinished object
3. Who was the famous ballet Russian dancer who changed the face of modern ballet? Rudolf Nureyev
4. What is the painting La Gioconda more usually known as? The Mona Lisa
5. What does the musical term 'piano' mean? To be played softly
6. Who was the Spanish artist, sculptor and draughtsman famous for co-founding the Cubist movement? Pablo Picasso
7. How many valves does a trumpet have? Three
8. Who painted How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Percival were Fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way? Dante Gabriel Rossetti
9. If you were painting with tempera, what would you be using to bind together colour pigments? Egg yolk
10. What is John Leach famous for making? Pottery

Did you know?

The 1994 movie 'Quiz Show', directed by Robert Redford and starring John Turturro, was based on a real-life 1950s scandal in which it was revealed that the wildly popular TV game show 'Twenty-One' was rigged.

10 Questions About History

1. When was William Shakespeare born? 23 April 1564
2. On what date did the Battle of Culloden take place? 16 April 1746
3. Who was Henry VIll's first wife? Catherine of Aragon
4. Which famous battle between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy took place on 21 October 1805? Battle of Trafalgar
5. Who became the British prime minister after Winston Churchill in 1955? Sir Robert Anthony Eden, The 1st Earl of Avon
6. When did Margaret Thatcher become prime minister of the UK? 1979
7. When did the Cold War end? 1991. (The Berlin wall came down in 1989, but the Soviet Union did not dissolve until 1991.)
8. Who was the architect who designed London's Millennium Dome? Richard Rogers
9. When did the Eurostar train service between Britain and France start running? 14 November 1994
10. When was the euro introduced as legal currency on the world market? 1 January 1999

10 Questions About Books

1. What is the oldest surviving printed book in the world? The Diamond Sutra, dated at 868 AD
2. In publishing, what does POD mean? Print on demand
3. Who is the author of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Dr No and Thunderball, among others? Ian Fleming
4. Which Shakespeare play features Shylock? The Merchant of Venice
5. Who wrote the novel Death in Venice, which was later made into a film of the same name? Thomas Mann
6. Who wrote the Vampire Chronicles, which include the novels Armand, Blood and Gold and Interview with the Vampire? Anne Rice
7. When was the ebook invented? 1971
8. How tall would a double elephant folio book be? 50 inches
9. Who wrote the contemporary children's books about mermaids set on the coast of Cornwall? Helen Dunmore
10. How old is the world's oldest dictionary? Cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian word lists have been dated to 2300 BCE.

10 Questions About TV

1. In Thunderbirds, what was the name of Lady Penelope's chauffeur? Parker
2. On Blue Peter, what was the name of John Noakes's dog? Shep
3. What is the title of the BBC series about a shipping line set in Liverpool during the late 1800s? The Onedin Line
4. In the TV series Dad's Army, what was Captain Mainwaring's first name? George
5. Who invented the TV? Scottish inventor John Logie Baird developed the first mechanical TV. American inventor Philo Farnsworth developed the electrical technology that brought TVs to the mass market.
6. What was the most-watched UK TV programme of all time? Eastenders: the episode when Den divorced Angie, which drew 30.10 million viewers on 25 December 1986.
7. Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey was as famous for her flamboyant character as for her cookery books and TV show throughout the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. By what name was she more usually known? Fanny Cradock
8. Which popular BBC series about old collectables began in 1979, presented by Bruce Parker and Arthur Negus, and is still running to this day? Antiques Roadshow
9. Which BBC music programme was broadcast weekly between 1964 and 2006? Top of the Pops
10. Alastair Burnett, Sandy Gall, Reginald Bosanquet, Alastair Stewart, Carol Barnes and Trevor McDonald were all regular presenters of which TV programme? ITV News at Ten

Did you know?

Before TVs were common, radio quiz shows were popular. One of the most famous was 'Dr. I.Q.', in which the host would deliver silver dollars to members of his studio audience who correctly answered his questions.

10 Questions About Food and Drink

1. If you had Lafite-Rothschild on your dinner table, what would it be? Wine
2. What is sushi traditionally wrapped in? Edible seaweed
3. May Queen, Wisley Crab, Foxwhelps and Lane's Prince Albert are all species of what? Apples
4. What is allspice alternatively known as? Pimento
5. What colour is Absynthe? Green
6. What flavour is Cointreau? Orange
7. If you were to cut a hare into pieces, marinate it in wine and juniper berries and then stew it slowly in a sealed container, what would this recipe be called? Jugged hare
8. True or false. The following are all traditional foods: fried tarantulas, eggs boiled just before they're due to hatch, live octopus and puffin hearts eaten raw when still warm. True
9. How many crocus flowers does it take to make a pound of saffron? Up to 75,000 flowers, which is enough to fill an entire football pitch
10. Costing around $2,600 per pound and made only to order by Knipschildt, what is the name of this chocolate truffle? Chocopologie