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1. Which country has the highest life 21. What is the capital of Canada?

Ottawa
expectancy? Hong Kong 22. In what capital would you find The Little Mermaid
2. What is the most common surname in the United statue? Copenhagen
States? Smith 23. On which continent would you find the city of
3. Who was the Ancient Greek God of the Sun? Apollo Baku? Asia
4. How many minutes are in a full week? 10,080 24. What is the only flag that does not have four
5. Aureolin is a shade of what color? Yellow sides? Nepal
6. How many faces does a Dodecahedron have? 12 25. How many stars are on the Chinese flag? 5
7. What is the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet? Delta 26. How many colors are used in the South African
8. What company was initially known as "Blue Ribbon flag? 6
Sports"? Nike 27. What colors is the flag of the United Nations? Blue
9. What art form is described as "decorative and white
handwriting or handwritten lettering"? Calligraphy 28. What country features a shipwreck on its national
10. What software company is headquartered in flag? Bermuda
Redmond, Washington? Microsoft 29. In what country is the Chernobyl nuclear plant
11. How many dots appear on a pair of dice? 42 located? Ukraine
12. What is acrophobia a fear of? Heights 30. Which is the only sea without any coastlines? The
13. December 26 is known by what names in Sargasso Sea
Ireland? Saint Stephen's Day 31. What mountain range separates Europe and
14. What phone company produced the 3310? Nokia Asia? The Ural Mountains
15. What is the world’s largest retailer? Walmart Science
16. Which day of the week does the Jewish Sabbath
begin? Friday
17. What is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence
of characters that reads the same backward as 1. How many elements are in the periodic table? 118
forward? Palindrome 2. Which planet in the Milky Way is the hottest? Venus
18. What is the name of the Chinese philosophical 3. Who discovered that the Earth revolves around the
system that emphasizes harmony with sun? Nicolaus Copernicus
nature? Taoism 4. Which planet has the most moons? Saturn
Geography 5. Which planet is closest to the sun? Mercury
6. Where is the strongest human muscle located? Jaw
7. Which is the only body part that is fully grown from
birth? Eyes
1. Where would you be if you were standing on the 8. How many bones do we have in an ear? 3
Spanish Steps? Rome 9. What scientific theory proposed that Earth revolves
2. What city is known as "The Eternal City"? Rome around the sun? Heliocentrism
3. In which country would you find Mount 10. What is the process by which plants convert sunlight
Kilimanjaro? Tanzania to energy? Photosynthesis
4. True or false: Halloween originated as an ancient 11. What is the scientific theory that explains the origin
Irish festival. True of the universe? The Big Bang Theory
5. What is the largest Spanish-speaking city in the 12. What is the name of the world's first artificial
world? Mexico City satellite? Sputnik 1
6. Which country has the most islands? Sweden 13. What is the chemical element with the symbol
(270,000) Fe? Iron
7. In Australia, what is commonly known as a bottle- 14. What is the smallest unit of matter? Atom
o? An off-license/liquor store 15. What is the outermost layer of the Earth’s
8. In which U.S. state is the country's busiest airport atmosphere called? Exosphere
located? Georgia (Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta 16. What is the process by which a liquid changes into a
International Airport) gas? Evaporation
9. Which is the only continent with land in all four History
hemispheres? Africa
10. Which river flows through the Grand
What was the name of the crime boss who was head of
Canyon? Colorado River
the feared Chicago Outfit? Al Capone
11. Where is Angel Falls, the world’s largest waterfall,
located? Venezuela 1. What year was the United Nations established? 1945
12. What is the state capital of New York? Albany 2. What Renaissance artist is buried in Rome's
13. On which continent would you find the world’s Pantheon? Raphael
largest desert? Antarctica 3. Who was the last Tsar of Russia? Nicholas II
14. What is the capital of Ireland? Dublin 4. Roald Amundsen was the first man to reach the
15. What is the smallest U.S. state by area? Rhode South Pole, but where was he from? Norway
Island 5. Who famously crossed the Alps with elephants on
16. What is the tallest type of tree? Redwood the way to war with the Romans? Hannibal
17. True or false: Holland is a region in The 6. The Parthenon Marbles are controversially located in
Netherlands? True what museum? The British Museum
18. What are the five Great Lakes? Superior, 7. In what year did World War II end? 1945
Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario 8. Which famous historical document begins with the
19. How many European capitals does the Danube flow words "We hold these truths to be self-evident"? The
through? 4 Declaration of Independence
20. Fill in the blanks: The capital of Bulgaria is 9. What event marked the end of the Roman Empire in
_ofi_. Sofia the West? The Fall of Rome
10. Which ancient Chinese dynasty is often considered 5. How many ghosts chase Pac-Man at the start of each
the "golden age" of Chinese civilization? Han game? 4
Dynasty 6. What shoe brand makes the "Mexico 66"? Onitsuka
11. What Renaissance artist painted the Sistine Chapel Tiger
ceiling? Michelangelo 7. What game studio makes the Red Dead Redemption
12. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel series? Rockstar Games
Prize? Marie Curie 8. What character have both Robert Downey Jr. and
13. What was the name of the German military strategy Benedict Cumberbatch played? Sherlock Holmes
of rapid, overwhelming attacks? Blitzkrieg 9. What is the highest-rated film on IMDb as of January
14. In what decade was the internet created? 1960s 1, 2024? The Shawshank Redemption
15. What was the primary cause of the Great Irish 10. Complete the following lyrics: "I should have
Famine? Potato blight changed that stupid lock....." I should have made
16. What was the name of the peace treaty that ended you leave your key
World War I? Treaty of Versailles 11. What was the name of the record label founded by
17. What was the name of the first computer Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine, and Interscope
virus? Creeper Records? Aftermath Records
18. What was the name of the ancient Egyptian sun 12. Kratos is the main character of what video game
god? Ra series? God of War
19. What was the code name for the Allied invasion of 13. What Netflix show had the most streaming views in
Normandy? Operation Overlord 2021? Squid Game
20. Which powerful Mongol ruler conquered a vast 14. In which country was Elon Musk born? South Africa
empire stretching from Asia to Europe? Genghis 15. Who performs the voice of Homer Simpson? Dan
Khan Castellaneta
Food and drink 16. What is the highest-grossing film of all time? Avatar
1. Which country drinks the most coffee per 17. What is the longest-running Broadway musical? The
capita? Finland Phantom of the Opera
2. How many measures of Gordon’s Gin are in a Vesper 18. What luxury brand is known for its iconic interlocking
(James Bond) martini? 3 “C” logo? Chanel
3. Cacio e pepe is a staple of what Italian city’s 19. What year was the first iPhone released? 2007
cuisine? Rome 20. Who is the director of the critically acclaimed film
4. Where did sushi originate? Japan “Parasite”? Bong Joon-ho
5. What is a Beaujolais? A type of red wine 21. Troy Bolten and Gabriella Montez are the two main
6. Which of the following sauces is NOT traditionally characters in what 2006 Disney movie? High School
vegan: hoisin, Worcestershire, mustard, or Musical
wasabi? Worcestershire 22. The 2002 movie “8 Mile” is a semi-biographical story
7. What is the world’s best-selling stout of what rapper? Eminem
beer? Guinness 23. In the wildly popular 2011 series “Game of Thrones,”
8. What meat is used in a shepherd's pie? Lamb what is the sigil of House Stark? Direwolf
9. What is the difference between brandy and
cognac? Cognac must come from the Cognac
region of France Sports
10. Pink Ladies and Granny Smiths are types of what
fruit? Apples
11. What is the main ingredient in hummus? Chickpeas
(garbanzo beans) 1. What does FIFA stand for in English? International
12. What is the rarest and most expensive spice in the Federation of Association Football
world by weight? Saffron
13. What cheese is traditionally made from the milk of a 1. Which country has won the most World Cups? Brazil
donkey? Pule 2. Who was the world’s highest-paid athlete in
14. What is the primary ingredient in the alcoholic 2023? Cristiano Ronaldo
beverage absinthe? Grand wormwood 3. In what city is the NFL Hall of Fame
15. What is the process of adding yeast to dough to located? Canton, Ohio
create carbon dioxide bubbles? Fermentation 4. Simone Biles is famous for her skill in what
16. Which country is credited with inventing ice sport? Gymnastics
cream? China 5. Where does the Tour de France finish each
17. What is the primary ingredient in the Italian dessert year? Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris
tiramisu? Mascarpone cheese 6. What do you call it when a bowler makes three
18. What is the name of the Japanese art of preparing strikes in a row? Turkey
and presenting food? Moritsuke 7. What was the first name of Argentinian soccer star
Pop culture Maradona? Diego
8. What height is a regulation NBA basket? 10 feet /
3.02 meters
9. What is the national sport of Japan? Sumo
1. Who has won the most total Academy Awards? Walt wrestling
Disney 10. What sporting event has a strict dress code of all
2. What artist has the most streams on Spotify? Drake white? Wimbledon
3. What company was originally called
"Cadabra"? Amazon
4. Queen guitarist Brian May is also an expert in what Animals
scientific field? Astrophysics
5. How many bones are there in the adult human body?
What is the world's fastest bird? Peregrine falcon
206 ✅
1. What is a group of crows called? A murder
2. How many hearts does an octopus have? Three
3. What is a group of pandas known as? An 6. What does the Yoga term ‘Pranayama’ refer to?
embarrassment
4. What is the loudest animal on Earth? Sperm whale Breathing exercises ✅
5. What is the only mammal capable of true flight? Bat
6. What animal has the largest brain relative to body 7. What is the gestation period of a rabbit?
size? Dolphin
7. What animal has the longest lifespan? Ocean a28-31 days ✅
quahog clam
8. What is the term for the study of birds? Ornithology 8. Which spice is known as "queen of spices"?
9. What is the process by which some animals produce
light called? Bioluminescence Cardamom ✅
10. What animal had the most powerful bite in the
world? Nile crocodile
9. What is a 'raid' on Twitch?
11. What animal has the longest tongue? Giraffe
Sending viewers to another channel ✅

Disney 10. What is the main ingredient in traditional Japanese


1. Where is Disney's European theme park miso soup?
located? Paris, France
2. Which Disney movie has had the most sequels? Toy Miso paste ✅
Story (4)
3. "I'll Make a Man Out of You" is a song from which 1. Which breed of dog is known for its excellent sense
movie? Mulan
4. What character have both Glen Close and Emma of smell and tracking abilities?
Stone played? Cruella de Vil Bloodhound ✅
5. Who was the first Disney princess? Snow White
6. What color are Mickey Mouse's shoes? Yellow
7. Scuttle stars in which movie? The Little Mermaid
8. What year was Cinderella released? 1950
9. Mickey Mouse was originally named 2. In "To Kill a Mockingbird," what is the name of
what? Mortimer Mouse
Atticus Finch's daughter?
10. How many Academy Awards for Best Original Song
has Disney won? 14
Scout ✅

3. What part of the brain is responsible for memory and


1. What is the primary ingredient in traditional French learning?

béchamel sauce? Hippocampus ✅

Milk ✅

2. What platform is the most often used for video game 4. In which ancient text is Yoga primarily outlined?

live streaming? Yoga Sutras of Patanjali ✅

Twitch ✅

3. In which novel does the character Atticus Finch 5. What part of the body does an otolaryngologist

appear? specialize in?

To Kill a Mockingbird ✅ Ear, nose, and throat ✅

4. What feature did Instagram introduce in 2016 to 6. What is a traditional serving size of an Italian

compete with Snapchat? espresso?

Stories ✅ 1 oz ✅
7. What parent company owns both Instagram and 36-37 ✅

WhatsApp? Facebook (now Meta) ✅


3. Which author created the fictional detective

8. What is the main function of red blood cells? "Sherlock Holmes"?

Carrying oxygen ✅ Arthur Conan Doyle ✅

9. What is the purpose of blanching vegetables? 4. What type of fish is known for cleaning algae in

To retain color and halt enzymatic processes ✅ aquariums?

Pleco ✅

10. What is the medical term for high blood pressure? 5. What part of the brain is responsible for memory and

Hypertension ✅ learning?

1. The medical term for white blood cells is: cHippocampus ✅

c) Leukocytes ✅
6. The Heimlich maneuver is used to help someone

2. What is the purpose of ‘Savasana’? who is:

Deep relaxation ✅ Choking ✅

3. Which novel starts with the line: "Call me Ishmael."? 7. Which spice is known as "queen of spices"?

Moby-Dick ✅ Cardamom ✅

8. What is the primary ingredient in traditional French

4. What is the title of the first Harry Potter book in the béchamel sauce?

UK? Milk ✅

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ✅

5. Which herb is typically paired with lamb in 9. In which dystopian novel does the government

Mediterranean cuisine? control every aspect of the citizens’ lives, including

Rosemary ✅ their thoughts?

b) 1984 ✅

10. What is the main ingredient in traditional Japanese


6. What type of pastry is used to create a traditional
miso soup?
French Croissant
c) Miso paste ✅
Laminated dough ✅

7. What is an otoscope used for?

Looking into the ear ✅


1. What is the function of the alveoli in the lungs?

8. Who created the fictional detective "Sherlock To exchange gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide) ✅

Holmes"?
2. The medical term for white blood cells is:
Arthur Conan Doyle ✅
c) Leukocytes ✅
1. Which human bone is the longest and strongest?
3. In which ancient text is Yoga primarily outlined?
a) T Femur ✅
c) Yoga Sutras of Patanjali ✅
2. What is the normal range for human body

temperature in Celsius?
4. Who is the author of "The Book Thief"? 8. What is the average lifespan of a domestic cat?

a) Markus Zusak ✅ b) 10-15 years ✅

1. In which city is the Eiffel Tower located?


5. What does MRI stand for in medical imaging?
c) Paris ✅
a) Magnetic Resonance Imaging ✅

2. Who wrote "The Great Gatsby"?


6. How many chambers does the human heart have?
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald ✅
c) 4 ✅

7. Who wrote the novel "Brave New World"?


3. What part of the body is the 'Atlas' bone located?
b) Aldous Huxley ✅
Neck ✅

4. What is the primary focus of cognitive behavioral


8. What is the gestation period of a rabbit?
therapy (CBT)?
a) 28-31 days ✅
c) Changing thought patterns ✅

5. What is the average lifespan of a domestic dog?


1. Who wrote the novel "War and Peace"?
b) 10-13 years ✅
a) Leo Tolstoy ✅

6. Which is the smallest country in the world by land

area?
2. What part of the brain is associated with emotion
c) Vatican City ✅
and memory?

b) Hippocampus ✅ 7. Who wrote "The Odyssey"?

a) Homer ✅
3. What is cognitive dissonance?

a) Conflict between attitudes and behaviors ✅ 8. What part of the brain is responsible for voluntary

movement?

a) Cerebellum ✅
4. In which book does the character "Elizabeth Bennet"

appear? 9. Which country is home to the ancient city of Petra?

c) Pride and Prejudice ✅ a) Egypt

b) Jordan ✅

c) Israel
5. Which country is the largest by land area?
d) Lebanon
d) Russia ✅

10. How many whiskers does a cat usually have on each


6. Who created the hierarchy of needs?
side?
c) Abraham Maslow ✅
c) 12-14 ✅
7. What does the term ‘Asana’ refer to in Yoga?
1. What is the capital city of Canada?
c) Physical postures ✅
c) Ottawa ✅

2. Who wrote "Crime and Punishment"?

b) Fyodor Dostoevsky ✅
3. What is the part of the brain associated with vision? 8. Who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?

c) Occipital lobe ✅ a) Oscar Wilde ✅

4. Which country has the most islands in the world? 9. What is the part of the brain responsible for

d) Sweden ✅ regulating sleep?

d) Hypothalamus ✅
5. Who developed the theory of operant conditioning?

b) B.F. Skinner ✅ 10. Which country has the most natural lakes in the

world?

b) Canada ✅
6. Which human organ can regenerate itself if a part of
1. What is the average lifespan of a ferret?
it is removed?
7-10 years ✅
c) Liver ✅

2. What is the capital city of Egypt?


7. Which country is known as the "Emerald Isle"?
a) Cairo ✅
b) Ireland ✅

3. Who wrote "Jane Eyre"?


8. Who wrote "The Iliad"?
a) Charlotte Brontë ✅
a) Homer ✅

4. What is the primary function of neurotransmitters in


9. What is the name of the bone in the thigh?
the brain?
b) Femur ✅
b) Chemical communication between neurons ✅
10. What is the psychological term for mistaken belief in
5. Which country is known for the pyramids and the
the face of facts?
Sphinx?
a) Delusion ✅
c) Egypt ✅
1. Which animal is considered the largest living

terrestrial animal? 6. What is the term for the deception of the mind's

b) Elephant ✅ perception of a stimuli?

c) Illusion ✅
2. What is the capital city of Brazil?

c) Brasília ✅

7. Which animal is known for its ability to regenerate


3. Who wrote "Brave New World"?
lost limbs?
b) Aldous Huxley ✅
c) Starfish ✅
4. What is the primary function of the cerebellum?
8. What is the capital city of Japan?
c) Coordination and balance ✅

9. c) Tokyo ✅
5. Which country is Mount Everest located in?

b) Nepal ✅ 10. Who wrote "Moby-Dick"?

b) Herman Melville ✅
6. What is the average lifespan of a guinea pig?

b) 4-6 years ✅ 11. What part of the brain regulates body temperature?

d) Hypothalamus ✅
7. In which continent is the Sahara Desert located?

b) Africa ✅ 1. Who, in 1903, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Marie Curie Answer: New Delhi

2. What year did the Berlin Wall fall 13. Which two states in the U.S. share the most borders with
other states?
Answer: 1989

Answer: Tennessee and Missouri


3. What element does the chemical symbol Au stand for?

Answer: Gold
14. What is the more popular name for the portrait officially
titled “La Gioconda,” painted in Florence in 1503?
4. What is the sign directly opposite Scorpio in the zodiac?

Answer: Taurus Answer: The Mona Lisa

5. Who wrote the classic American novel Their Eyes Were 15. At a restaurant, you’ll see deer meat on the menu under
Watching God? what name?
Answer: Zora Neale Hurston

Answer: Venison
6. The shooting of whom, in 1914, started World War I?

Answer: Archduke Franz Ferdinand 16. The author of the best-selling, four-part book series
known as the Neapolitan Novels, now an HBO series,
famously publishes their works under what pseudonym?
7. What is the smallest planet in our solar system?

Answer: Mercury
Answer: Elana Ferante

8. What is the highest-grossing Broadway show of all time?


17. Where was the hottest-ever temperature on Earth
Answer: The Lion King recorded, per the World Meteorological Organization?

9. What New York City bar was the location of a 1969 Answer: Death Valley, California (where it hit 134 degrees
uprising credited as sparking the modern LGBTQ+ rights Fahrenheit in July 1913)
movement?

Answer: The Stonewall Inn


18. Who holds the record for the most wins in the Primetime
Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or
Competition Program category?
10. What are the first 22 cards in a tarot deck called?

Answer: The Major Arcana


Answer: RuPaul

11. What was the name of the possessed hotel in Steven


King’s novel (and movie) The Shining, based on the real-life 19. What was the first book published by Jane Austen?
Stanley Hotel in Colorado?
Answer: Sense and Sensibility

Answer: The Overlook Hotel


20. Which two countries have the longest shared
international border?

12. What is the capital of India? Answer: Canada and the U.S.

21. What city hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics?


Answer: Sochi, Russia 33. What country was the Marxist revolutionary figure Che
Guevara born in?

22. What is the longest running Broadway show?


Answer: Argentina
Answer: The Phantom of the Opera, which finally closed in
April 2023 after a record 13,981 performances

34. What is the capital of Singapore?

23. What is the human body’s largest organ?

Answer: Skin Answer: Singapore (it’s an island city-state)

24. What year was the first iPhone released? 35. What is the word for the weather event also called a
winter hurricane?
Answer: 2007

Answer: A bomb cyclone


25. What’s the (extremely metal) name for a group of crows?

Answer: A murder of crows


36. What was the first country to give women the right to
vote?
26. What are the first names of the four main characters in
Golden Girls?
Answer: New Zealand — in 1893, all women across races
Answer: Sophia, Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche and ethnicities who were “British subjects” in New Zealand
won the right to vote. This included Indigenous women, like
Māori women, but excluded groups who did not have
27. What is the longest above-water mountain range? citizenship in New Zealand, like Chinese women.

The Andes

37. What year was the landmark civil and LGBTQ+ rights
case Obergefell v. Hodges ruled on?
28. What year did Netflix, previously a DVD rental business,
introduce streaming services?

Answer: 2007 Answer: 2015; it’s more commonly referred to as the


marriage equality case

29. How many feet are in a yard?


38. What are the names of the four March sisters in Little
Answer: Three Women?

30. How many bones do sharks have? Answer: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy

Answer: Zero! 39. What chewy dessert topping is made from tartar and egg
whites and often found on pie?

31. What is the deadliest mammal?


Answer: Meringue
Answer: The hippo

40. In Greek mythology, who was known as the messenger


32. What is the deadliest animal in the world?
of the gods?

Answer: The mosquito


Answer: Hermes
41. What was Eleanor Roosevelt’s maiden name before Answer: Des Moines
marrying FDR?

50. What is the most commonly spoken language in Brazil?


Answer: Roosevelt (she and Franklin were fifth cousins once
removed!)
Answer: Portuguese

42. What was the birth name of boxing legend Muhammad


Ali?
51. To what artist is this famous quote attributed: “I am my
own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want
to know better”?
Answer: Cassius Clay

Answer: Frida Kahlo


43. In what city were the first infections of COVID-19
discovered?
52. How many colors will you find in a regular bag of M&Ms?

Answer: Wuhan, China


Answer: Six

44. In chess, what direction can a bishop move?


53. The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the U.S. from what
country?
Answer: Diagonally

Answer: France
45. What celebrity was the world’s first cloned animal, a
sheep, named after in 1996?
54. How many wives did Henry VIII have?

Answer: Dolly Parton


Answer: Six

46. What is the name for the solar event that occurs on
March 20th or 21st of each year?
55. What is the rarest blood type?

Answer: The Vernal Equinox


Answer: AB negative

47. What’s the shortcut for the paste function on most


56. Which famous art movement did Pablo Picasso co-
computers?
create?

Answer: Ctrl+V
Answer: Cubism

48. What river runs through Paris?


57. Which U.S. president is featured on the $2 bill?

Answer: The Seine


Answer: Thomas Jefferson

49. What is the capital of Iowa?


58. What phase does a moon enter into after it’s full?
Answer: Waxing Gibbous Answer: Cambridge, Massachusetts

59. Where on the food pyramid do eggplants belong? 68. Who is the actress with the longest-running TV career?

Answer: In the fruit section Answer: Betty White

60. What alcoholic beverage is made from juniper berries? 69. What does DNA stand for?

Answer: Gin Answer: Deoxyribonucleic Acid

61. For how many nights is Hanukkah celebrated? 70. What is celebrated on February 2 and is also a film?

Answer: Eight Answer: Groundhog Day

62. What religious and political organization did Malcolm X 71. Which is the only vowel on a standard keyboard that is
join in 1952, helping it to grow exponentially before cutting not on the top line of letters?
ties with it in 1964?

Answer: A
Answer: The Nation of Islam

72. What is the longest running American animated TV


63. What country has the highest number of citizens over show?
the age of 65?

Answer: The Simpsons


Answer: Japan

73. Where in the human body is the smallest bone located?


64. Area 51 is located in which U.S. state?

Answer: The ear


Answer: Nevada

74. What is the capital city of Canada?


65. What U.S. fast food chain is credited with introducing the
first drive-through window to the masses?
Answer: Ottawa

Answer: In-N-Out Burger


75. Which planet in our solar system has the most moons?

66. What temperature does water boil at?


Answer: Jupiter

Answer: 212 degrees Fahrenheit or 100 degrees Celsius


76. What does BMW stand for (in English)?

67. In what city and state is Harvard University located?


Answer: Bavarian Motor Works 85. What is the most commonly spoken language in the
world?

77. In what year was the first birth control pill made
available to the public in the U.S.? Answer: Mandarin Chinese

Answer: 1960 86. What is the only metal that is liquid at room
temperature?

78. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was written by which


writer? Answer: Mercury

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle 87. Which famous activist was placed on the FBI’s Most
Wanted list in 1970 after being falsely accused of conspiring
to break a member of the Black Panther Party out of jail?
79. What city is built atop the ruins of the Aztec city of
Tenochtitlan?
Answer: Angela Davis

Answer: Mexico City, Mexico


88. What are the three water signs of the zodiac?

80. What temperature does water boil at?


Answer: Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio

Answer: 212 degrees Fahrenheit or 100 degrees Celsius


89. Which animal can be seen on the Porsche logo?

81. Who holds the title of top scorer of all time in NCAA
Division I basketball? Answer: Horse

Answer: Caitlin Clark 90. What is the slogan of Apple Inc.?

82. Who was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Answer: Think Different
Best Director?

91. How many ribs are in a human body?


Answer: Kathryn Bigelow, who won in 2010 for The Hurt
Locker
Answer: Twenty-four

83. Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun?


92. What are the two main ingredients in the classic French
dish coq qu vin?
Answer: Japan

Answer: Chicken — bonus point if you specifically guessed


84. In what year did the first Walt Disney World park open in rooster! — and red wine
Florida?

93. Where did Winnie the Pooh and his crew live, serving as
Answer: 1971 the setting for their adventures with Christopher Robin?
Answer: The Hundred Acre Wood 102. What is the process by which plants release water
vapor into the air called?

94. In what year did the Titanic sink?


Answer: Transpiration

Answer: 1912
103. What famous Texan-born singer was popularly called
the "Queen of Tejano” during her too-short lifetime?
95. What is the chemical symbol for oxygen?

Answer: Selena Quintanilla-Pérez


Answer: O

104. What flagship menu item first put today’s second-


largest fast food burger chain in the world on the map in
96. What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
1957?

Answer: Sicily
Answer: The Whopper

97. What was Princess Diana's maiden name?


105. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished
slavery, if only in name and not in influence?

Answer: Spencer
Answer: The 13th Amendment

98. Who composed the "Moonlight Sonata"?


106. What color is opposite blue on the color wheel?

Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven


Answer: Orange

99. What dish featuring minced meat, onions, and oatmeal is


the national dish of Scotland?
107. What is the name of the fermented cabbage dish that’s
a staple in Korean cuisine?

Answer: Haggis
Answer: Kimchi

100. What was director Spike Lee’s first feature-length film,


later adapted as a Netflix show?
108. What is the name of the ancient Greek poet who
inspired the coining of the term lesbianism?

Answer: She’s Gotta Have It


Answer: Sappho

101. In The Chronicles of Narnia, what does Edmund


ultimately betray his family and Aslan in exchange for after
109. What was the better-known name of the actress born
meeting the White Witch?
Norma Jeane Mortenson?

Answer: Turkish Delight — our guy really betrayed all of his


Answer: Marilyn Monroe
siblings and brought eternal winter on Narnia in exchange
for Turkey’s equivalent to gummy worms

110. What was the last name of the four Dominican sisters
who rebelled against the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and
were assassinated for their activism in 1960, as
memorialized in Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of Butterflies?
Answer: The Great Barrier Reef, located off the coast of
Queensland, Australia

Answer: Mirabal

8. Globe and Jerusalem are both types of what?

111. What best-selling book and movie franchise was


originally created as Twilight fanfiction under the pen name
Snowqueen Icedragon? Answer: Artichokes

Answer: 50 Shades of Grey 9. Which planet is the hottest in the solar system?

1. Which marine animals hold hands in their sleep to prevent Answer: Venus
drifting apart?

10. Which bone are babies born without?


Answer: Sea otters, and my system is unable to process that
level of cuteness.
Answer: Knee cap

2. What type of flower was once used as money?


11. Which planet has the most gravity?

Answer: Tulips, whose bulbs were once used as a form of


currency in Holland! Answer: Jupiter

3. In what country do more than half of people believe in 12. What is the smallest country in the world?
elves?

Answer: Vatican City


Answer: Iceland

13. How many Pyramids of Giza were made?


4. For up to how long do cicadas live underground before
emerging above ground for just a few weeks?
Answer: Three

Answer: 17 years
14. What is the national dish of Spain?

5. Where is the world’s tallest roller coaster?


Answer: Paella

Answer: New Jersey (at Six Flags Great Adventure — it’s the
Kingda Ka roller coaster, with a height of 456 feet)
15. Where is the tallest building in the world located?

6. What is the national animal of Scotland?


Answer: Dubai, where the Burj Khalifa stands at a height of
2,717 feet

Answer: The unicorn


16. Which mammal has no vocal cords?

7. What is the largest living structure on Earth?


Answer: Giraffe 26. What is the hardest naturally occurring substance in the
world?

17. According to Greek mythology, who was the first woman


on earth? Answer: A diamond

Answer: Pandora 27. What did the first message sent by telegram — basically,
the first text message — say?

18. Fissures, vents, and plugs are all associated with which
geological feature? Answer” “What hath God wrought,” sent by Samuel Morse in
1844

Answer: Volcanos
28. What state in the U.S. has only two escalators?

19. Which country consumes the most chocolate per capita?


Answer: Wyoming

Answer: Switzerland
29. In what one country will you find, from start to finish, the
longest road?
20. What is the loudest animal on Earth?

Answer: The U.S. — Route 20 covers 3,365 miles. If looking


at roads that aren’t contained within one country, the
Answer: The sperm whale
longest road is the Pan-American Highway at 19,000 miles.

21. What was the first toy to be advertised on television?


30. In what country is the world’s oldest university located?
Answer: Mr. Potato Head
Answer: Italy — found in the city of Bologna, the University
of Bologna was founded in 1088

22. How many eyes does a bee have?


31. What country has the longest coastline of any country in
the world?
Answer: Five
Answer: Canada, with 125,570 miles of coastline

23. Which bird can fly backward?


32. In what country is the world’s highest post office
located?
Answer: The hummingbird

Answer: India — the post office of Hikkim, Himachal Pradesh,


is found at an altitude of 14,567 feet
24. What is the only continent without any active volcanoes?

33. What is the only mammal capable of sustained flight


Answer: Australia
Answer: The bat

25. What is the tallest breed of dog in the world?


34. What is the only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S.
state name?
Answer: The Great Dane
Answer: Q
35. What musical artist today spent 13 years as a Answer: Honey
competitive gymnast, holding the title of fifth-ranked
gymnast in the U.S. during their sophomore year of high
school?
44. What famous historical queen is today remembered for,
Answer: SZA among other things, her X-rated taste in furniture?

Answer: Catherine the Great

36. In Japan, what is the name for the edible pufferfish,


notorious for its potentially lethal toxins if not prepared
45. In what country is fermented shark, which smells heavily
correctly?
of ammonia, treated as a national delicacy?
Answer: Fugu
Answer: Iceland

37. What is the collective noun for a pack of pug dogs?


1. Which country is both an island and a continent?
Answer: A grumble
Answer: Australia

38. What late-19th century U.S. invention was intended to


2. What is the name of the world’s longest river?
“tackle the twin national crises of indigestion and
masturbation”? Answer: The Nile

Answer: Corn flakes 3. How many Lord of the Rings films are there?

Answer: Three
39. What actress went viral for lying about loving limes?

4. Who is the only U.S. president to serve more than two


terms in office?
Answer: Dakota Johnson
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

40. What is the one animal species to-date that’s officially


classified as “biologically immortal?” 5. Which Williams sister has won more Grand Slam titles

Answer: Serena
Answer: Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish, also known as "immortal
jellyfish” (there are a small handful of other organisms with
characteristics thought to be similar to biological 6. What type of shark is responsible for the most attacks on
immortality, but so far, this jellyfish species is the only one humans annually?
commonly agreed upon)

Answer: Great white sharks — but the number of attacks is


41. The face of what U.S. politician was used to test the small. In 2023, seven people were attacked by a great white.
intelligence of crows?

7. In the United Kingdom, what is the day after Christmas


Answer: Dick Cheney — masks of the former Vice President’s known as?
face were used in a famous study
Answer: Boxing Day

42. What is the shortest war in history?


8. Which artist painted "The Starry Night"?

Answer: Vincent van Gogh


Answer: The Anglo-Zanzibar War, which lasted 38 minutes in
1896
9. What is the largest ocean on Earth?

Answer: The Pacific Ocean


43. What is the only food that does not spoil?
20. On what television show did both Ryan Gosling and
Christina Aguliera get their start?
10. Which gas makes up the majority of Earth's atmosphere?
Answer: The Mickey Mouse Club

Answer: Nitrogen
21. Which ancient civilization built the famous city of Machu
Picchu in Peru?
11. Which planet is known as the "Red Planet"? Answer: The Inca civilization

Answer: Mars 22. What is the four-word nickname given to the titular
character of the Harry Potter series

Answer: The Boy Who Lived


12. What is the official national anthem of the United States
of America?

Answer: “The Star Spangled Banner 23. What is the term for the fear of spiders

Answer: Arachnophobia
13. Who was the first Disney Princess?

Answer: Snow White — the movie came out in 1937! (But if 24. Who is the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Prize?
you’re a diehard Disney trivia fan, you probably knew that.)

Answer: Malala Yousafzai, who won at age 17!


14. Which American state is the largest (by area)?

Answer: Alaska
25. What’s the most-consumed beverage in the world that is
not water?
15. How many stripes does Adidas have in its logo?

Answer: Three Answer: Tea

16. What natural wonder is commonly referred to as “the 26. How many Cheetah Girls are there in the movie series of
Lungs of the World” the same title?
Answer: The Amazon Rainforest

Answer: Four
17. Which country won the FIFA Women's World Cup in
2019?
27. How many justices serve on the United States Supreme
Answer: The United States Court?

Answer: Nine
18. Which iconic baseball player broke Major League
Baseball’s racial segregation barrier in 1947?
28. Which empire was ruled by Emperor Nero?
Answer: Jackie Robinson
Answer: The Roman Empire

19. What song did Tom Holland famously perform for his
appearance on Lip Sync Battle in 2017? 29. What’s the only vegetable that is also classified as a
flower?
Answer: “Umbrella” by Rihanna (if you’re one of the 10
people on the planet who hasn’t seen this video, do yourself Answer: Broccoli
a favor and watch it now)

30. What is the study of fossils called?


Answer: Paleontology Answer: Madam C.J. Walker, a Black woman and
entrepreneur who built a hugely successful haircare and
beauty product business in the early 1900s
31. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Answer: Michelangelo 5. How many colors were on the original Pride flag, flown at
the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade in 1978?

Answer: Eight (the flag’s pink and turquoise stripes were


32. What is the name of the central protagonist in J.D.
later dropped for production reasons)
Salinger’s classic book The Catcher in the Rye?

Answer: Holden Caulfield


6. What country has the national language with the longest
alphabet?
33. What breakfast cereal has been represented by a
Answer: Cambodia — their national language, Khmer, has 74
cartoon toucan mascot since 1963
characters
Answer: Froot Loops

7. What does “HTTP” stand for?


34. Which scale are earthquakes measured on?
Answer: HyperText Transfer Protocol
Answer: The Richter Scale

8. How many keys are on a modern, standard-sized piano?


35. What are the last names of the warring families in
Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: 88
Answer: The Montagues and Capulets

9. Which intercontinental city is divided into two separate


Hard trivia questions and answers
parts by the Bosphorus Strait, with half of the city in Europe
So, you breezed right through our list of easy, general and half in Asia?
knowledge trivia questions and now you’re ready to kick
Answer: Istanbul, Turkey
things up a notch. Whip out some of these difficult trivia
questions, covering topics from technology to world history
to geography, the next time you’re looking to really stump
your friends. But be warned: We’re not calling these tough 10. What nation has the highest number of time zones in the
trivia questions for nothing! world?

Answer: France — including its colonized territories and


territorial claim in Antarctica, France represents 13 time
1. How many countries are in the European Union? zones
Answer: 27

11. The Hays Code and its “morality” guidelines, used to


censor Hollywood movies, were in effect until when?
2. What is the smallest unit of memory in computers?
Answer: 1968 — the code started in 1930
Answer: A bit, short for binary digit

12. What movie holds the record for the most successful
3. The Hawaiian Islands archipelago is made up of what
movie of all time at the Irish box office?
number of major islands?
Answer: Barbie (you thought we were going to say
Answer: Eight major islands (plus a bunch of smaller islands
something Irish-y, didn’t you?)
and islets for a total of 137 islands!)

13. What element are human beings predominantly


4. Who is considered the first female self-made millionaire in
composed of?
the U.S.?
Answer: Carbon
14. The Goo Goo Dolls wrote “Iris” for what movie? 23. Although Bram Stoker’s character draws inspiration from
multiple sources, including folklore, who in history is thought
Answer: City of Angels, which means that, yes, the lyrics of to be the primary real-life template for Dracula?
“Iris” are really about the plot of a Nicholas Cage movie
Answer: Vlad the Impaler

15. Name three movies that are based on rides or attractions


at Walt Disney World. (Naming multiple movies in the same 24. Who was the top-earning Hollywood star of 2023?
franchise doesn’t count.)
Answer: Adam Sandler, and to that we say, how??
Answers: Tower of Terror, the Pirates of the Caribbean
series, Mission to Mars, The Country Bears, The Haunted
Mansion, Tomorrowland, Jungle Cruise
25. What best-selling author and TV star had an earlier
career as a secret agent, during which time they contributed
to the development of a still-in-use shark repellent to keep
16. What Nobel Prize in Literature and U.S. Presidential curious sharks from detonating underwater explosives?
Medal of Freedom recipient said they spent their “entire
writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not Answer: Julia Child
the dominant one in any of my books”

Answer: Toni Morrison


26. What national park is home to the largest population of
Photinus carolinus — fireflies that blink in synchronization —
in the Western Hemisphere?
17. Who invented the World Wide Web?
Answer: The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

27. What two seminal horror texts do we owe to the utter


18. What is the term for the fear of being without a mobile boredom of getting rained-in on vacation?
phone or unable to use it?

Answer: Nomophobia
Answer: Frankenstein and The Vampyre (the precursor to
Bram Stoker’s Dracula)

19. What was the working title for the movie-turned-


phenomenon Everything Everywhere All At Once?
28. What is the world's largest flower?
Answer: A Woman Tries to Do Her Taxes, which, frankly, is
incredible
Answer: Rafflesia arnoldii, also known as the “corpse flower”
due to it smelling like, well, a corpse
20. Who is the youngest-ever person to win an Oscar?

Answer: Tatum O'Neal, who won Best Supporting Actress at


age 10 for her role in Paper Moon 29. Where was coffee invented, according to most
researchers as well as a popular legend about a goat herder?

21. What modern-day country was home to the ancient


civilization credited with inventing, among many things, beer Answer: Ethiopia
some 5,000 years ago?

Answer: Iraq — the Sumerians are most commonly credited


30. Question: Which word in the English language is spelled
with inventing beer in ancient Mesopotamia
incorrectly in every dictionary?

Answer: Incorrectly (be honest, we know we got you with this


22. What product made for surfers in Australia eventually one!)
blew up as a global celebrity fashion staple in the early
2000s?
31. The poet Emily Dickinson has a sixth cousin, three times
Answer: Uggs
removed, who is famous for writing so-called “quill-pen
songs” — who is that person?

Answer: Taylor Swift


32. What Pulitzer Prize winner is credited with coining the 7. Who was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll
term “colorism” in 1982 Hall of Fame?

Answer: Alice Walker Answer: Aretha Franklin

33. What is the name of the ship that rescued Titanic 8. What musical artist played a whopping 27 different
passengers hours after the “unsinkable” ship went down? instruments on their debut album, “For You”?

Answer: The Carpathia Answer: Prince

34. With their posthumous Grammy win in 1994, what 9. Where did the band ABBA form?
Hollywood star joined a list of just 19 EGOT winners?
Answer: Sweden
Answer: Audrey Hepburn — her Grammy was for Best
Spoken Word Album for Children, and who even knew that
category existed?
10. Which Beatles’ single was No. 1 on the Billboard charts
for the longest stretch of time?

35. What is the deepest known part of the ocean? Answer: “Hey Jude”

Answer: The Mariana Trench, which has a maximum depth of


36,070 feet
11. What was the Notorious BIG’s real first name?

Answer: Christopher
1. Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin all belong to
what unfortunate group?
12. How old was Taylor Swift when she took home her first
Album of the Year Grammy
Answer: The 27 Club
Answer: 20

2. Who besides Britney Spears did Madonna kiss at the 2003


13. Starchild, Demon, Spaceman (or Space Ace), and
VMAs?
Catman are the on-stage personas of what band?
Answer: Christina Aguilera
Answer: KISS

3. What song holds the title of the very first music video to
14. How many members does BTS have?
ever premiere on MTV?
Answer: Seven
Answer: “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles

15. What was The Beach Boys’ first No. 1 single, out of a
4. With what album did Beyoncé start her solo career?
total of four?
Answer: Dangerously In Love
Answer: “I Get Around”

5. What is the stage name of Stefani Joanne Angelina


16. What instrument does Lizzo play?
Germanotta?
Answer: The Flute
Answer: Lady Gaga

17. What musical artist cast themselves as every character


6. Who sang the first recorded version of “Strange Fruit,” a
in a 1978 televised performance of West Side Story?
classic, haunting protest song against racism and violence
against Black bodies? Answer: Cher
Answer: Billie Holiday

18. What is the longest-running band still featuring its


original lineup?
Answer: U2 Answer: “All I Want” — Rodrigo wrote it for High School
Musical: The Musical: The Series, and it entered the Billboard
Hot 100 in January 2020
19. What is the best-selling album of all time in the U.S.?

Answer: “Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)” by the Eagles — 29. How many of the 10 top-selling albums of 2023 were
we wish we were kidding Taylor Swift albums?

Answer: Five
20. How did Otis Redding die? 30. Who is the first Black woman with a sole songwriting
credit on a No. 1 country hit?
Answer: A plane crash
Answer: Tracy Chapman, via Luke Combs’ cover of her hit
song “Fast Car”
21. Which famous country artist had a hit in 1957 with
“Walkin’ After Midnight”?
31. Who won the 2024 Grammy for Record of the Year?
Answer: Patsy Cline
Answer: Miley Cyrus for “Flowers”

22. In 2017, what single topped the charts in 47 countries


simultaneously? 32. How many solo albums has Lauryn Hill, who first rose to
fame as part of hip-hop trio The Fugees, put out?Answer:
Answer: “Despacito”
One – despite the impact of her debut solo album, “The
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” Hill has not released another
solo work
23. Who did Beyoncé edge out in 2021 for the title of female
artist with the most Grammys?

Answer: Alison Krauss 33. What’s the name of the influential punk band formed by
Kathleen Hanna in the early 1990s?

Answer: Bikini Kill


24. What is the name of Led Zeppelin’s fourth studio album,
which includes the song “Stairway to Heaven”?

Answer: It’s untitled! Although it’s most often referred to as 34. Who are the three members of indie supergroup
Led Zeppelin IV boygenius, a band that’s been called “the Beatles for
tortured bisexuals”

Answer: Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus


25. Ariana Grande started her career at age 15 in what
Broadway musical?

Answer: 13 35. What are the first names of all five members of the
Backstreet Boys?

Answer: Nick, AJ, Brian, Kevin, and Howie


26. Who is the youngest person to ever win a Grammy
Award for Album of the Year?

Answer: Billie Eilish (she was 18) Movie trivia questions

1. What movie is the Oscar-nominated song “Journey to the


Past” from?
27. Who released the song "Uptown Funk," which, in 2015,
spent 14 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Answer: Anastasia
100 chart

Answer: Mark Ronson — the song features Bruno Mars but


2. Who plays the Fairy Godmother in the 1997 version of
was the lead single from Ronson’s fourth studio album
Cinderella, starring Brandy?

Answer: Whitney Houston


28. What was the first song written by Olivia Rodrigo to enter
the Billboard Hot 100?
3. How many children are in the Von Trapp family in The
Sound of Music?
Answer: Seve 14. What movie is Alan Rickman’s first film credit?

4. What is the highest-grossing movie of all time?

Answer: Die Hard

Answer: Avatar

15. The costume designer for Romy & Michele’s High School
Reunion also did the costumes for what other iconic 90s-
5. What specific shade does Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly fashion movie?
dedicate a monologue to in The Devil Wears Prada?
Answer: Clueless
Answer: Cerulean

16. Who is the only Disney princess to have been inspired by


6. What famous documentary depicts New York City’s a real person?
ballroom scene at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the
mid-to-late 1980s? Answer: Pocahontas — although given Disney’s historical
inaccuracies, let’s go ahead and call this one capital-L
Answer: Paris is Burning Loosely inspired

7. What was the first feature-length animated movie ever 17. How many suns does the planet Tatooine, Luke’s home,
released? have in Star Wars
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Answer: Two

8. What is the name of the character played perfectly by Jeff 18. What was the first — and still only — horror movie to win
Goldblum in Jurassic Park and significantly less perfectly by the Oscar for Best Picture?
Goldblum in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Answer: Silence of the Lambs
Answer: Ian Malcolm

19. What movie was the first non-English film to win the
9. What’s the name of the iconic dance that starts with a Oscar for Best Picture?
“jump to the left” in The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Answer: Parasite
Answer: The Time Warp

20. What is the name of the hotel in Psycho?


10. In what fictional town is Jaws set
Answer: The Bates Motel
Anser: Amity Island

21. How many times has the movie A Star is Born been
11. What musical group is the movie Dreamgirls purportedly remade
based on?
Answer: Four times
Answer: Although the movie is a fictional blend of multiple
Motown female-led singing groups, it’s thought to draw the
most from the Supremes
22. Why is Ally Sheedy’s character in detention in The
Breakfast Club?

12. In Titanic, where is Jack Dawson from? Answer: She “didn’t have anything better to do”

Answer: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

23. Who was the first Black actress to win an Oscar?

13. What does the movie rating “R” stand for? Answer: Hattie McDaniel, who won Best Supporting Actress
in 1940 for her role in Gone With the Wind

Answer: Restricted
24. What three movies share the title for winner of the most Answer: Crazy Rich Asians in 2018 — that’s 25 years after
Oscars? The Joy Luck Club

Answer: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Ben-Hur,


Titanic
34. What 2019 heartfelt teen buddy-comedy movie was
directed, in her directorial debut, by Olivia Wilde?

25. What is the name of Tom Cruise’s character in the Answer: Booksmart
Mission Impossible series?

Answer: Ethan Hunt


35. Where does Lizzie McGuire travel to in the Lizzie McGuire
Movie for her junior high graduation class trip?

26. What iconic Old Hollywood actress is famous for saying Answer: Rome, and real talk, what group of 14-year-olds
"when I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm whose parents aren’t in the 1% get to go to Italy for
better”? graduating 8th grade?

Answer: Mae West

36. What is the name of the rock camp that Demi Lovato’s
Mitchie Torres and Joe Jonas’ Shane Gray attend in the
27. What 2000s band plays a central role in the Mary Kate classic Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock?
and Ashley movie New York Minute?
Answer: Camp Rock (sorry-not-sorry for the trick trivia
Answer: Simple Plan question!)

28. What does actor Barry Keoghan dance to at the end of 37. What’s the last name of the three witch sisters in the
Saltburn, giving the song a major second life two decades classic Halloween movie Hocus Pocus?
after its initial release?
Answer: Sanderson
Answer: “Murder on the Dancefloor” by Sophie Ellis-Bextor

38. What song do Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, and Bette


29. What is the name of the fictional African nation depicted Midler iconically dance to at the end of The First Wives Club?
in the Marvel movie Black Panther?
Answer: “You Don’t Own Me” by Lesley Gore
Answer: Wakanda

39. What does the dad of Robin Williams’ Alan Parrish do for
30. What 2011 movie features Ryan Gosling and Emma a living in Jumanji?
Stone as love interests and a dance move pulled straight out
of Dirty Dancing?

Answer: He owns a shoe factory

Answer: Crazy, Stupid, Love

40. What’s the name of Andie (Molly Ringwald)’s best friend


in Pretty in Pink?
31. What is the name of the character Michael Cera plays in
the 2023 Barbie movie? Answer: Duckie

Answer: Allan 41. What does Cady come to the Halloween party dressed up
as in Mean Girls?

Answer: Any variation of “Frankenstein’s bride,” “zombie


32. In the The Hunger Games, what is the name of the bride,” or “scary bride” works!
fictional nation where the story takes place?

Answer: Panem
42. What Shakespeare play is 10 Things I Hate About You
loosely based on
33. Following The Joy Luck Club in 1993, what was the next Answer: The Taming of the Shrew
major Hollywood feature film to star a predominantly Asian
cast?
43. What’s the name of the kind, caring teacher in Matilda?

Answer: Miss Honey Question: Who was the Greek Goddess of Wisdom?

Answer: Athena
44. Who wins the famous “I’ll play you for your heart”
basketball game at the end of Love & Basketball?
Question: Thoth was the ancient Egyptian god of what?
Answer: Monica
Answer: The Moon

45. What’s the name of the magical land Tia and Tamara
Mowry hail from in Twitches? Question: Who was the Greek god of Woods and Fields?

Answer: Coventry Answer: Pan

46. What was the first-ever Mary Kate and Ashley movie? Question: Aphrodite is the Greek Goddess of what?
Answer: To Grandma’s House We Go (1992), a made-for-TV Answer: Love
movie — their first feature film was It Takes Two (1995)

Question: Who is considered the father of Greek Drama?


47. Who does Sarah Michelle Gellar play in the 1992 Buffy
the Vampire Slayer movie? Answer: Thespis

Answer: No one — the movie came out five years before the Question: Who was the wife of Zeus in Greek Myth?
TV show and, though it’s also written by Joss Whedon, is
otherwise a totally unrelated production Answer: Hera

48. What kind of blood is Carrie covered in after being Question: Which P is the Roman God of woods?
crowned prom queen in the movie Carrie?
Answer: Picus
Answer: Pig’s blood

Question: Who was the Norse god of thunder


49. How many letters did Lara Jean write in the breakout-hit
Netflix series To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before? Answer: Thor

Answer: Five

Question: In Greek myth, who was the goddess of autumn?

50. Out of a list of dozens of rules, what’s rule No. 1 for Answer: Demeter
surviving the zombie apocalypse in the movie Zombieland?

Answer: Cardio (the more famous “double tap” is rule No. 2)


Question: In what year BC was Solon declared Archon?

Answer: 594
Question: Who was the Greek God of Wine

Answer: Dionysus
Question: The Greek god Poseidon ruled over what

Answer: Sea
Question: In Ancient Greece, what was the 'Aeropagus'?

Answer: Council
Question: Which S is the Greek Goddess of the moon?

Answer: Selene
Question: Which bird was the symbol of Athena?

Answer: Owl
Question: What was the profession of Hippocrates? Answer: Shield

Answer: Physician

Question: Amphitrite was the Greek Goddess of where?

Question: Who was the Greek God of Fire? Answer: Sea

Answer: Hephaestus

Question: What profession did the Greek Sophocles have?

Question: What kind of works were written by Hesiod? Answer: Playwright

Answer: Poetry

Question: Pythagoras was born in what year BC?

Question: Who was the Greek God of Love? Answer: 570

Answer: Eros

Question: Hephaestus was the Greek God of what?

Question: Hebe was the Greek Goddess of what? Answer: Fire

Answer: Youth

Question: Who was the Greek God of Marriage

Question: Who was the Greek God of the Sun? Answer: Hymen

Answer: Helios

Question: What kind of plays did Aristophanes specialize in?

Question: Who was the Greek God of Domestic Life? Answer: Comedy

Answer: Hestia

Question: Which A is the Greek God of vegetation and rebirth?

Question: Who was the Greek god of sleep? Answer: Adonis

Answer: Morpheus

Question: What's the name of the ancient Roman goddess of the hunt

Question: Who was the Greek Goddess of Spring? Answer: Diana

Answer: Persephone

Question: Who was the most important god of the Vikings?

Question: Who was the Greek God of Marriage? Answer: Odin

Answer: Hymen

Question: The fabled bird the griffin had the head of which real bird?

Question: Demeter was the Greek Goddess of what? Answer: Eagle

Answer: Agriculture

Question: In Greek myth, Terpsichore was the muse of what?

Question: Hecate was the Greek God of what? Answer: Dance

Answer: Magic

Question: Persephone was the Greek Goddess of which season?

Question: Aegis belonged to Zeus, what was Aegis? Answer: Spring


Question: Euclid was a famous figure in which academic field? Question: Which fleece was sought by Jason and the Argonauts?

Answer: Mathematics Answer: Golden Fleece

Question: In Norse mythology, what are Odrerir, Son, and Bodn Question: How many books are there in Euclid's 'Elements'

Answer: Cauldrons Answer: 13

Question: Pluto was the Greek God of where? Question: Which Greek figures were the tutor to Alexander the Great?

Answer: Underworld Answer: Aristotle

Question: Apollo was the Greek God of what? Question: The centaur is a mythical creature, part man, part what?

Answer: Music and Poetry Answer: Horse

Question: Who was the Greek Equivalent of the Roman God Jupiter? Queson: Thales, the famous Greek philosopher, came from which area?

Answer: Zeus Answer: Miletus

Question: Which Greek playwright wrote the 'Oresteia' trilogy? Question: In Greek myth, which god murdered Osiris?

Answer: Aeschylus Answer: Seth

Question: hich of the following was NOT a famous Greek playwright? Question: Who is the Greek equivalent of the Roman God Vulcan?

Answer: Hephaestus

Answer: Plato

Question: Irene is the Greek Goddess of what?

Question: Who opened his Academy in Athens in 370 BC? Answer: Peace

Answer: Plato

Question: Which of these characters is from Greek Myth?

Question: The Parthenon was built as a temple for whom? Answer: Medusa

Answer: Athena

Question: Nike was the Greek God of what?

Question: Who was the Greek God of Witchcraft and magic? Answer: Victory

Answer: Hecate

Question: Where would you find an Acropolis in Greek times?

Question: Aphrodite of Cnidos' is a work by which Greek Sculptor Answer: City

Answer: Praxiteles

Question: Who was the Greek Goddess of Agriculture?

Question: Who founded the Ancient Greek school known as the Academy? Answer: Demeter

Answer: Plato
Question: Artemis was linked with which of the following? Question: Who is Hector's wife in "The Iliad"?

Answer: Moon Answer: Andromache

Question: In what year BC did the famous Battle of Marathon occur? Question: Which Greek god supports the Trojans in "The Iliad"?

Answer: 490 Answer: Apollo

Question: Who was the Ancient Greek Goddess of the Dawn? Question: Who is the Greek warrior known for his cunning in "The Iliad"

Answer: Odysseus

Answer: Eos

Question: Who is the god of war in Greek mythology and a major character
in "The Iliad"?
Question: Oedipus Rex was a work by which Greek Playwright?
Answer: Ares
Answer: Sophocles

Question: Who is the goddess of wisdom and a supporter of the Greeks in


Question: What types of work were written by Sappho in Ancient Greece? "The Iliad"?
Answer: Poems Answer: Athena

Question: Which E was the wife of Orpheus in Greek legend? Question: Who is the Trojan prince who falls in love with Helen of Sparta in
Answer: Eurydice "The Iliad"?

Answer: Paris

Question: Who was the Greek God of Witchcraft and magic?

Answer: Hecate Question: Who is the Greek hero who kills Hector in "The Iliad"?

Answer: Achilles

Question: Aphrodite of Cnidos' is a work by which Greek Sculptor?

Answer: Praxiteles Question: Who is the Greek warrior known for his strength in "The Iliad"?

Answer: Ajax

Qestion: Who is the author of the epic poem "The Iliad"?

Answer: Homer Question: Who is the Greek warrior who kills Patroclus in "The Iliad"?

Answer: Hector

Question: What is the central theme of "The Iliad"?

Answer: The Trojan War Question: What is the name of Achilles' loyal friend and companion in "The
Iliad"?

Answer: Patroclus
Question: Who is the greatest Greek warrior in "The Iliad"?

Answer: Achilles
Question: Who is the goddess who intervenes in the Trojan War and
protects the Trojans in "The Iliad"?

Question: Who is the king of Troy in "The Iliad"? Answer: Aphrodite

Answer: Priam

Question: Who is the author of the epic poem "The Odyssey"?


Answer: Homer Question: Who is the god of the sea and Odysseus' main adversary in "The
Odyssey"?

Answer: Poseidon
Question: What is the central theme of "The Odyssey"?

Answer: The journey and homecoming of Odysseus


Question: Which epic event is narrated by Odysseus to the Phaeacians in
"The Odyssey"?
Question: How many years does Odysseus spend trying to return home in Answer: The Trojan War
"The Odyssey"?

Answer: 10 years
Question: Who disguises Odysseus as an old beggar upon his return to
Ithaca in "The Odyssey"?
Question: Who is Odysseus' faithful wife in "The Odyssey"? Answer: Athena

Answer: Penelope Question: Who strings Odysseus' bow and helps him defeat the suitors in
"The Odyssey"?

Question: Who is Odysseus' son in "The Odyssey"? Answer: Telemachus

Answer: Telemachus
Question: Who recognizes Odysseus disguised as a beggar in "The Odyssey"

Question: Who is the goddess who helps Odysseus throughout his journey Answer: Eurycleia
in "The Odyssey"?

Answer: Athena Question: How does Odysseus prove his identity to Penelope in "The
Odyssey"?

Question: Which mythical creature does Odysseus encounter on his journey Answer: He strings and shoots a bow
in "The Odyssey"?

Answer: Cyclops Question: Who is the queen of the Phaeacians who helps Odysseus return
home in "The Odyssey"?

Question: Who is the sorceress who turns Odysseus' men into pigs in "The Answer: Nausicaa
Odyssey"?

Answer: Circe Question: How does Odysseus finally reveal his true identity to the suitors
in "The Odyssey"?

Question: What is the name of the monster who whirls up a deadly Answer: He reveals his scar and defeats them in battle
whirlpool in "The Odyssey"?

Answer: Charybdis Question: What is the name of the epic poem that tells the story of
Odysseus' journey in "The Odyssey"?

Question: Who is the enchantress who lures sailors to their deaths with her Answer: The Odyssey
song in "The Odyssey"?

Answer: Sirens Question: In Greek mythology, who is the king of the gods?

Answer: Zeus
Question: What is the name of Odysseus' faithful dog in "The Odyssey"?

Answer: Argos Question: Who are the parents of Zeus in Greek mythology

Answer: Cronus and Rhea


Question: What is the weapon that Zeus wields in Greek mythology?

Answer: Thunderbolt Question: In Greek mythology, which oracle is associated with Zeus?

Answer: Oracle of Dodona

Question: In Greek mythology, who is both Zeus' wife and sister?

Answer: Hera

Question: Which bird is often associated with Zeus in mythology?

Answer: Eagle

Question: Who is the Roman counterpart of Zeus in mythology?

Answer: Jupiter

Question: Which Titan did Zeus overthrow to become the ruler of the gods?

Answer: Cronus

Question: What domains or powers does Zeus preside over in Greek


mythology?

Answer: Sky, lightning, thunder

Question: How many siblings does Zeus have in Greek mythology?

Answer: Five (Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon)

Question: According to Greek mythology, who is Zeus' favorite daughter?

Answer: Athena

Question: According to Greek mythology, on which mountain is Zeus


believed to reside?

Answer: Mount Olympus

Question: What is the primary symbol or attribute associated with Zeus in


mythology?

Answer: Thunderbolt

Question: Who serves as the chief messenger of Zeus in Greek mythology?

Answer: Hermes

Question: Which mortal woman did Zeus have an affair with, resulting in
the birth of Hercules?

Answer: Alcmene

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