General Knowledge Trivia Questions

What year was the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) founded?

• 1992

• 1996

• 2000

• 2004

As its chemical symbol of Hg indicates, what liquid-at-room-temperature metallic element was once known as "hydrargyrum"?

• Lithium

• Nickel

• Magnesium

• Mercury

A large portion of what 2001 Yann Martel novel features the title character stranded on a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker?

• Trancing the Tiger

• Life of Pi

• Dream Tiger

• Beasts of Prey

How long was the Hundred Years' War?

• 98 years

• 100 years

• 116 years

• 125 years

Where was the 1st Disneyland outside of the United States?

• Tokyo

• Paris

• Hong Kong

• Shanghai

Located at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are an administrative division of which country?

• Myanmar

• Indonesia

• Bangladesh

• India

Rome's Cloaca Maxima was an early example of what infrastructure project that makes cities a whole lot more livable?

• Public Library System

• Public Transportation System

• Sewer System

• Road System

In which state was Spiro Agnew investigated for corruption?

• Delaware

• Maryland

• New Jersey

• New York

Who led the USSR from 1917-1922?

• Leon Trotsky

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Lenin

Which classic novel deals with two West Yorkshire families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and in particular the adopted Earnshaw, Heathcliff?

• Wuthering Heights

• Anna Karenina

• Pride and Prejudice

• Jane Eyre