Trivia Questions for Adults : 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.
Trivia Questions for Adults
Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun?
Answer: Japan
What is the capital of France?
Answer: Paris
What river runs through Egypt?
Answer: The Nile River
Which is the largest ocean in the world?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean
In which country would you find the Sydney Opera House?
Answer: Australia
What is the name of the world’s highest mountain?
Answer: Mount Everest
How many continents are there on Earth?
Answer: Seven
Which U.S. state is known as the ‘Sunshine State’?
Answer: Florida
What is the capital city of Spain?
Answer: Madrid
Which desert is the largest in the world?
Answer: The Sahara Desert
Which country is thought to have the most highway miles in the world?
Answer: China
In Greek mythology, who was condemned to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity?
Answer: Sisyphus.
What is the smallest country in the world by land area?
Answer: Vatican City.
Which planet in our solar system rotates on its side, making it appear to roll rather than spin?
Answer: Uranus.
What is the fear of the number 13 called?
Answer: Triskaidekaphobia.
In what year was the microwave oven first introduced for home use?
Answer: 1955.
What is the rarest blood type in humans?
Answer: AB negative.
What is the only mammal capable of true sustained flight?
Answer: The bat.
Which country is both an island nation and a continent?
Answer: Australia.
What is the term for a group of flamingos?
Answer: A flamboyance
What is the name of the biggest ocean on Earth?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
How many planets are in our solar system?
Answer: Eight
What is the capital city of Australia?
Answer: Canberra
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Answer: SpongeBob SquarePants
What is the name of Mickey Mouse’s pet dog?
Answer: Pluto
How many letters are in the alphabet?
Answer: 26
What are the five primary flavors that human beings can taste?
Answer: Sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami
What are baby sheep called?
Answer: Lambs
What animals do not have teeth?
Answer: Birds
What is the name of the fairy in Peter Pan?
Answer: Tinker Bell
In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
Answer: 1989
How many times has the Mona Lisa been stolen?
Answer: One
What is another word for lexicon?
Dictionary
What was New York’s original name?
Answer: New Amsterdam
In what year did the Titanic sink?
Answer: 1912
Until 1981, Greenland was a colony of which country?
Answer: Denmark
How many US presidents have been assassinated?
Answer: Four
What is the modern name for the island formerly known as Van Diemen’s Land?
Answer: Tasmania
Who was assassinated in New York in 1980?
Answer: John Lennon
Who painted The Last Supper?
Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci
What is the only planet that spins clockwise?
Answer: Venus.
Can humans see the Great Wall of China from space?
Answer: No. Unless you’re in low orbit “under a specific set of weather and lighting conditions,” according to Scientific American. Unfortunately, the Great Wall’s composition of clay and stone simply blends in too much to the surrounding landscape for anyone to make it out with an unaided eye from orbit.
Is Pluto a planet?
Answer: No. Pluto used to be identified as a planet in our solar system, but it is now classified as a dwarf planet. See more facts you’ve always believed that are actually false.
What was the name of the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957?
Answer: Sputnik 1.
Trivia question: What is the biggest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter.
Trivia question: Which planet is closest to the sun?
Answer: Mercury.
Trivia question: Does the earth go around the sun, or does the sun go around the earth?
Answer: This is an easy piece of earth trivia: The earth goes around the sun.
Trivia question: True or False? All radioactive material is man-made.
Answer: False. The sun and stars emit cosmic radiation that interacts with the earth’s atmosphere. There’s also naturally radioactive material in soil, water, and vegetation.
Trivia question: Is the earth flat or round?
Answer: Humans have known that the earth is round since the time of Ancient Greece.
Trivia question: True or False? The center of the earth is very hot.
Answer: True. The temperature of Earth’s core is almost 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit—as hot as the surface of the sun.
What does a micron measure?
Answer: Distance
What is Neonatology the study of?
Answer: diseases and the care of newborn infants; a branch of pediatrics/paediatrics
What is Oceanology the study of?
Answer: oceans
Which is the largest known butterfly?
Answer: Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing
What is Symptomatology the study of?
Answer: symptoms
Which science deals with the motion of projectiles?
Answer: Ballistics
What is Neurology the study of?
Answer: nutrition
Which astronomer had a metal nose?
Answer: Tycho Brahe
What is Lexicology the study of?
Answer: the signification and application of words
How many degrees does the earth rotate each hour
Answer: Fifteen
Who succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple Inc.?
Answer: Tim Cook
What Fortune 500 company was originally founded as a small book store in 1994?
Answer: Amazon
What multinational company acquired LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in 2016?
Answer: Microsoft Corporation
Which Fortune 500 company initiated the “Un-carrier” movement in the telecommunication industry?
Answer: T-Mobile
What major corporation is parent to brands like Audi, Porsche, Bentley, and Lamborghini?
Answer: Volkswagen Group
Who was the CEO of IBM during its centennial year in 2011?
Answer: Samuel J. Palmisano
What technology company has its headquarters located in Round Rock, Texas?
Answer: Dell Technologies
What Fortune 500 company began as an agricultural machinery business and still uses a leaping deer as its logo?
Answer: John Deere
What retail corporation owns chains including TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods?
Answer: TJX Companies
What major economic indicator measures the total value of all publicly traded companies in the U.S.?
Answer: Wilshire 5000
Where was the first modern Olympic Games held?
Answer: Athens, 1896
Which football team is known as ‘The Red Devils’?
Answer: Manchester United
Which driver has won the most Formula 1 championships?
Answer: Michael Schumacher
Who is 3rd on the all-time list of female tennis Grand Slam champions?
Answer: Serena Williams
What was the clothing company Nike originally called?
Answer: Blue Ribbon Sports
When was Netflix founded: 1997, 2001, 2009, 2015?
Answer: 1997
What was the most-watched series on Netflix in 2019?
Answer: Stranger Things
Name Pixar’s first feature-length movie?
Answer: Toy Story, 1995
What is the name of the coffee shop in the sitcom Friends?
Answer: Central Perk
Name Disney’s first film?
Answer: Snow White, 1937
What kind of painters were Monet, Renoir, and Degas?
Answer: Impressionists
In what country would you find the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
Answer: The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Which letter is representative of 50 in Roman numerals?
Answer: L
Which is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Venus
Which continent is the largest?
Answer: Asia
Who wrote the Goosebumps series?
Answer: R.L. Stine
Which country did Ikea originate in?
Answer: Flags that consist of a yellow or gold Nordic cross on a field of light blue hang from a building exterior
Which musical is based on the songs of ABBA?
Answer: Mamma Mia
In which mountain range would you find the Matterhorn?
Answer: The Alps
Bump, set, and spike are terms from which sport?
Answer: Volleyball
What animated movie features a rat who dreams of becoming a chef in Paris?
Answer: Ratatouille
Which actor played Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Answer: Robert Downey Jr.
What is the name of the fictional continent where “Game of Thrones” primarily takes place?
Answer: Westeros
Who wrote the Harry Potter book series?
Answer: J.K. Rowling
What TV series follows the lives of the Dutton family and their Montana ranch?
Answer: Yellowstone
Which pop star is known as the “Queen of Pop”?
Answer: Madonna
What is the name of the fictional African country in Black Panther?
Answer: Wakanda
Which actor played Jack Dawson in Titanic?
Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio
What is the highest-grossing animated film of all time?
Answer: Frozen II
Who is the lead singer of the rock band Coldplay?
Answer: Chris Martin
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