Hard Trivia Questions : Your general knowledge trivia round can be made up of questions about more generalist subjects such as news and current affairs, which can be followed by themed sections on specific topics, such as geography, music and movies.
Hard Trivia Questions
Which country has won the most medals in Olympic snowboarding history?
Answer: United States
What NHL player is the only player in league history to score a goal in his first game, last game, and 1,000th game?
Answer: Gordie Howe
In what year did women’s boxing become an Olympic sport?
Answer: 2004
In what year was the first World Cup of Softball held?
Answer: 1993
Who was the first player to win the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award without making the playoffs?
Answer: Wes Unseld
What MLB team holds the record for the most consecutive games won in a single season?
Answer: Cleveland Indians
What former NBA player holds the record for the most steals in a single game?
Answer: Scottie Pippen
Who is the only athlete to have won a gold medal at both the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games?
Answer: Lauren Woolstencroft
What country has won the most Women’s Volleyball World Cup championships?
Answer: China
Who is the only player to have won the NBA Finals MVP award while playing for the losing team?
Answer: Jerry West
What is someone who shoes horses called?
Answer: A farrier.
Name the actor who starred in 142 films including The Quiet Man, The Shootist, The Searchers and Stagecoach.
Answer: John Wayne.
Name the world’s largest island.
Answer: Greenland.
Which kind of bulbs were once exchanged as a form of currency?
Answer: Tulips.
Which chess piece can only move diagonally?
Answer: The bishop.
When did Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister?
Answer: 1979.
Who wrote the novel Death in Venice, which was later made into a film of the same name?
Answer: Thomas Mann.
May Queen, Wisley Crab, Foxwhelps and Lane’s Prince Albert are all species of what?
Answer: Apple.
Australia has the world’s largest sand island. What is its name?
Answer: Fraser Island.
In what year was Advance Australia Fair proclaimed as the national anthem by the Governor-General?
Answer: 1984.
What civilization is known for creating the first known democracy?
Answer: The Ancient Greeks
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Marie Curie
What was the deadliest battle in human history?
Answer: The Battle of Stalingrad
Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
Answer: France
What was the original name of New York City?
Answer: New Amsterdam
Who was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth?
Answer: John Glenn
What is the name of the first known civilization?
Answer: The Sumerians
Who was the first female ruler of Egypt?
Answer: Sobekneferu
What year did the United States declare independence from Britain?
Answer: 1776
Which ancient empire was ruled by Cyrus the Great?
Answer: The Persian Empire
Name the three bones found in the inner ear.
Answer: Hammer, anvil, stirrup
How many total chromosomes does a human cell have?
Answer: 46 – 23 pairs, but 26 total
What is the second-biggest organ in the human body?
Answer: Liver
Name four types of bone found below your pelvis?
Answer: Femur, patella, tibia, fibula, tarsals, metatarsals, phalanges
Does an average head of full hair have about 1,000, 7,500, 10,000 or 15,000 hairs?
Answer: 10,000
Which sport is older, basketball or American football?
Answer: Football
In which decade was baseball’s first perfect game thrown?
Answer: 1880s
Name five positions on a soccer/football team?
Answer: Goalkeeper, sweeper, center back, full back, defensive midfielder, central midfielder, attacking midfielder, wing back, winger, striker, forward
In which year was the first football World Cup held?
Answer: 1930
This Major League Baseball team (currently) has the second-most World Series wins?
Answer: Cardinals, 11
Who (currently) holds the all-time point record in the National Basketball Association?
Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabar, 38,387
Who was the first to suggest that Daylight Savings Time be implemented?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Larry “Doc” Sportello is the pot-smoking private investigator protagonist of what 2009 Thomas Pynchon novel that was adapted into a film by director Paul Thomas Anderson?
Answer: Inherent Vice
A demonstration sport at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics was which form of skiing very similar to figure skating, combining spins, jumps, and flips in a two-minute routine choreographed to music?
Answer: Ski ballet
Informally known as “The God of Cricket,” what former Indian cricketer is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the sport and is the highest run-scorer of all time in international competition?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
CERN hosts the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s highest energy particle collider which opened underneath the Swiss-French border in 2008. The LHC surpassed the prior record-holding particle accelerator in what U.S. state?
Answer: Illinois
Calvinism is a branch of Protestantism that is most closely associated with what European country? The association arises from the fact that most early ministers were taught in this country.
Answer: Switzerland
The term “magic bullet” was coined by German scientist Paul Ehrlich to describe a compound that would kill only a specifically targeted organism. Ehrlich even invented the “first magic bullet” with Salvarsan, which was used to treat which disease?
Answer: Syphillis
What Hapsburg monarch declared Martin Luther to be an outlaw at the Diet of Worms and also divided Hapsburg territory into two parts prior to his abdication just after the Peace of Augsburg?
Answer: Charles V
Which geological time period that began 358.9 million years ago, during which large coal deposits formed, has a name derived from the Latin for “coal-bearing?”
Answer: Carboniferous
Around 200 B.C. in Asia there was a technological breakthrough that suddenly made horses much more valuable to the military because of the increased riding stability. What was this invention?
Answer: Stirrups
The highest volcano outside of South America also doubles as its home continent’s highest mountain. In what country is this 19,000-foot peak found?
Answer: Tanzania
Craigslist is named after its founder. What is Craig’s seven-letter two-syllable “N” last name?
Answer: Newmark
Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe?
Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
What were Ancient Egyptian tombs mainly used for?
Answer: To bury the Pharaohs and their families
What is the national animal of Scotland?
Answer: The unicorn
What is the driest place on the planet?
Answer: The Atacama Desert in Chile
What is the oldest country in the world?
Answer: Iran
What type of animal is on the Uganda flag?
Answer: A Crested Crane
What was the ship’s name that transported the Pilgrims to New England in 1620?
Answer: The Mayflower
How many time zones are there in the world?
Answer: 24
The Cajun holy trinity of cooking consists of what three vegetables?
Answer: Onions, bell peppers, and celery
What is the name of the now-extinct flightless bird that was last observed off the coast of Iceland?
Answer: The Great Auk
What was major league baseball’s Yogi Berra’s real name?
Answer: Lawrence Peter Berra
What was the first console video game that allowed the video game to be saved?
Answer: The Legend of Zelda
What is the fungi Hydnellum peckii, also known as?
Answer: The bleeding tooth fungus
What is Glenn Close allergic to? (hint: In the movie 101 Dalmatians, they had to get creative due to her allergy)
Answer: Tobacco
In regards to data storage, what does the acronym SSD stand for?
Answer: Solid State Drive
What is the name for the monetary unit used in Thailand?
Answer: Thai Bhat
Where are dolphin’s nipples located?
Answer: Anus
What island state was formerly known by the name Formosa?
Answer: Taiwan
Bobby Fischer is considered to be the greatest player of all time in which game?
Answer: Chess
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