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General Knowledge Trivia Questions

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

1992

b)

1996

c)

2000

d)

2004

2.

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

a)

Lithium

b)

Nickel

c)

Magnesium

d)

Mercury

3.

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?

a)

Trancing the Tiger

b)

Life of Pi

c)

Dream Tiger

d)

Beasts of Prey

4.

How long was the Hundred Years' War?

a)

98 years

b)

100 years

c)

116 years

d)

125 years

5.

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

a)

Tokyo

b)

Paris

c)

Hong Kong

d)

Shanghai

6.

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?

a)

Myanmar

b)

Indonesia

c)

Bangladesh

d)

India

7.

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

a)

Public Library System

b)

Public Transportation System

c)

Sewer System

d)

Road System

8.

In which state was Spiro Agnew investigated for corruption?

a)

Delaware

b)

Maryland

c)

New Jersey

d)

New York

9.

Who led the USSR from 1917-1922?

a)

Leon Trotsky

b)

Nikita Khrushchev

c)

Joseph Stalin

d)

Vladimir Lenin

10.

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

a)

Wuthering Heights

b)

Anna Karenina

c)

Pride and Prejudice

d)

Jane Eyre

11.

Which subfield of biology involves studying the structures of cells, tissues, and organs by looking at them with a microscope?

a)

Genetics

b)

Virology

c)

Histology

d)

Mycology

12.

Because it's "nature's engineer," a beaver named Tim serves as the mascot for the sports teams at what East Coast private research university?

a)

Princeton University

b)

Cornell University

c)

New York University

d)

MIT

13.

Which country was the first to legalize same-sex marriage?

a)

Chile

b)

Greece

c)

Netherlands

d)

Thailand

14.

What video game was the first ever to be played in space?

a)

Tetris

b)

Street Fighter II

c)

Super Mario Kart

d)

Mortal Kombat

15.

What vase-shaped lake in Venezuela, the largest in South America, is thought to be one of the oldest lakes on earth?

a)

Lake Nahuel Huapí

b)

Lake Poopó

c)

Lake Titicaca

d)

Lake Maracaibo

16.

What Nigerian novelist and playwright of “Death and the King's Horseman” was the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to be granted the Nobel Prize in Literature?

a)

Nadine Gordimer

b)

Naguib Mahfouz

c)

Wole Soyinka

d)

Abdulrazak Gurnah

17.

Which of these is not one of the 7 base units in the International System of Units (SI)?

a)

hertz

b)

ampere

c)

second

d)

mole

18.

What stadium located in London is known as “the cathedral of football?”

a)

Stamford Bridge

b)

Loftus Road

c)

Craven Cottage

d)

Wembley Stadium

19.

Which American poet and short-story writer is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for collections such as "The Bell Jar?"

a)

Emily Dickinson

b)

Maya Angelou

c)

Sylvia Plath

d)

Marge Piercy

20.

Which planet in our solar system has the most moons?

a)

Jupiter

b)

Saturn

c)

Uranus

d)

Neptune

21.

How far did Jesse Owens jump in his gold medal-winning long jump in the 1936 Berlin Olympics?

a)

7.64 meters

b)

7.73 meters

c)

7.87 meters

d)

8.06 meters

22.

What is the name of the treaty that ceded much of Northern Mexico to the United States in 1848?

a)

Treaty of Cahuenga

b)

Adams–Onís Treaty

c)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

d)

Mallarino–Bidlack Treaty

23.

What 2001 film from Japan's Studio Ghibli (which was distributed in North America by Disney in 2002) won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003?

a)

Princess Mononoke

b)

Howl's Moving Castle

c)

Spirited Away

d)

My Neighbor Totoro

24.

The Nile River Delta is located just north of which African capital city?

a)

Cairo

b)

Rabat

c)

Khartoum

d)

Tunis

25.

Which music video was the first to reach 1 billion views on YouTube?

a)

See You Again

b)

Gangnam Style

c)

Despacito

d)

Friday

26.

Agatha Christie's "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" are two novels who take their titles from lines in which Shakespeare play?

a)

Othello

b)

Romeo & Juliet

c)

Hamlet

d)

Macbeth

27.

Who is the only player to average more than 100 rushing yards per game during a career in the NFL?

a)

O.J. Simpson

b)

Jim Brown

c)

Derrick Henry

d)

Walter Payton

28.

In which nation can you find the Coober Pedy, an opal mining town where summers are so hot, most of the town is built underground?

a)

China

b)

Australia

c)

Tunisia

d)

Kuwait

29.

Which U.S. President had a home called The Hermitage?

a)

Zachary Taylor

b)

James K. Polk

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

William Henry Harrison

30.

Which tree do acorns come from?

a)

elm trees

b)

oak trees

c)

sycamore trees

d)

maple trees

31.

Which sea is actually the world's largest lake, since it’s an inland body of water surrounded by Kazakhstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Turkmenistan?

a)

Arabian Sea

b)

Black Sea

c)

Caspian Sea

d)

Red Sea

32.

Who played the title character in Moesha (1996-2001)?

a)

Lisa Bonet

b)

Brandy

c)

Tracee Ellis Ross

d)

Queen Latifah

33.

Which country did the United Kingdom fight against in the Falklands War?

a)

Spain

b)

Denmark

c)

Russia

d)

Argentina

34.

First appearing in the children's book "Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys", what is the most famous character created by H. A. and Margaret Rey?

a)

Curious George

b)

Kerchak

c)

Francine Frensky

d)

Shift

35.

What are animals that are active during dawn and dusk called?

a)

nocturnal

b)

crepuscular

c)

diurnal

d)

vespertinal

36.

Founded in 2017, which NHL expansion team is the first major professional sports team to represent Las Vegas?

a)

Thrashers

b)

Golden Knights

c)

Predators

d)

Wild

37.

Where is the world's most active volcano located?

a)

Hawaiʻi, United States

b)

Los Lagos Region of Chile

c)

Sicily, Italy

d)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

38.

In Scrabble, how many points is the letter J worth?

a)

3 points

b)

5 points

c)

10 points

d)

8 points

39.

What is the name of the talking pig on "Dragon Ball Z"?

a)

Gregory

b)

Oolong

c)

Bubbles

d)

Puar

40.

With 128 million people, a majority of whom belong to either the Oromo or Amhara ethnic groups, which nation is the highest populated landlocked country in the world?

a)

Uzbekistan

b)

Ethiopia

c)

Nepal

d)

Uganda

41.

Who invented the vaccine for polio?

a)

Louis Pasteur

b)

Waldemar Haffkine

c)

Jonas Salk

d)

Edward Jenner

42.

Which nation was the first to formally allow women to vote in national elections in 1893?

a)

Afghanistan

b)

Sweden

c)

Ecuador

d)

New Zealand

43.

The renowned artists Rousseau and Matisse share which first name?

a)

Edgar

b)

Pierre

c)

Henri

d)

Claude

44.

Who overthrew Salvador Allende in Chile in a coup d’etat?

a)

Fulgencio Batista

b)

Rafael Trujillo

c)

Nicolas Maduro

d)

Augusto Pinochet

45.

Measuring about 63 million square miles, which of the world’s oceans is the biggest and deepest?

a)

Atlantic

b)

Indian

c)

Pacific

d)

Arctic

46.

Which Baltimore woman's cells were taken without her consent when she sought cancer treatment at Johns Hopkins and have contributed to many medical breakthroughs?

a)

Helena Hicks

b)

Nina R. Harper

c)

Henrietta Lacks

d)

Victorine Q. Adams

47.

"Temperature," "We Be Burnin'," and "Gimme the Light" are three 2000s hit singles by which Jamaican rapper?

a)

Sean Kingston

b)

The Notorious B.I.G

c)

Sean Paul

d)

Busta Rhymes

48.

Where were the Winter Olympics held in 2018?

a)

Sochi

b)

Salt Lake City

c)

Vancouver

d)

Pyeongchang

49.

When was YouTube founded?

a)

2004

b)

2005

c)

2003

d)

2002

50.

Milorad Cavic is a Serbian swimmer that lost to Michael Phelps by mere fingertips at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In what event was this photo finish?

a)

200m freestyle

b)

200m backstroke

c)

100m butterfly

d)

400m IM

51.

Played by Frank Sinatra in a film version, Nathan Detroit is a gambling boss in what classic 1950s Broadway musical?

a)

Oklahoma!

b)

The King and I

c)

Guys and Dolls

d)

Damn Yankees

52.

When did Libya gain independence from Italy?

a)

1951

b)

1956

c)

1960

d)

1961

53.

Which pop icon portrayed Eva Peron in the musical sensation “Evita”?

a)

Cher

b)

Whitney Houston

c)

Tina Turner

d)

Madonna

54.

Which geographical term is a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon?

a)

coombe

b)

fjord

c)

estuary

d)

atoll

55.

What is the name of the highest mountain in Antarctica?

a)

Mount Aconcagua

b)

Mount Kosciuszko

c)

Vinson Massif

d)

Jaya Peak

56.

Which legendary country songstress had us swooning with hits like “I Fall to Pieces,” “Crazy,” and “She's Got You,” leaving a musical legacy?

a)

Dolly Parton

b)

Loretta Lynn

c)

Tammy Wynette

d)

Patsy Cline

57.

On average, how long is an adult human's small intestine?

a)

7 feet

b)

12 feet

c)

17 feet

d)

22 feet

58.

What company has sponsored the championship trophy for the Professional Golfers' Association Tour since 2007?

a)

Sprint

b)

Xfinity

c)

FedEx

d)

Coca-Cola

59.

What is African American inventor Frederick McKinley Jones best known for inventing?

a)

super soaker

b)

potato chips

c)

refrigerated trucks

d)

gas mask

60.

Who became the first non classical or jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018?

a)

Kendrick Lamar

b)

Jennifer Higdon

c)

Tania León

d)

Bob Dylan