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Trivia Question: What is the rarest M&M color?
Answer: Brown
Trivia Question: In a website browser address bar, what does “www” stand for?
Answer: World Wide Web
Trivia Question: In what year were the first Air Jordan sneakers released?
Answer: 1984
Trivia Question: In a bingo game, which number is represented by the phrase “two little ducks”?
Answer: 22
Trivia Question: According to Greek mythology, who was the first woman on earth?
Answer: Pandora
Trivia Question: Samuel Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton share what distinction among U.S. presidential candidates?
Answer: They won the popular vote but lost the electoral college vote
Trivia Question: Which African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Answer: Ethiopia
Trivia Question: Tennis star Serena Williams won which major tournament while pregnant with her first child?
Answer: The Australian Open
Trivia Question: In which European city would you find Orly airport?
Answer: Paris
Trivia Question: Which singer’s real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?
Answer: Lady Gaga
Trivia Question: The only known monotremes in the animal kingdom are the echidna and which other creature?
Answer: The platypus
Trivia Question: Kingston, Zuma, and Apollo are the sons of which American female pop star?
Answer: Gwen Stefani
Trivia Question: Fissures, vents, and plugs are all associated with which geological feature?
Answer: Volcanos
Trivia Question: Which author wrote the ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ books?
Answer: A. A. Milne
Trivia Question: Which Dutch artist painted “Girl with a Pearl Earring”?
Answer: Vermeer
Trivia Question: Where were the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights stored during World War II?
Answer: Fort Knox
Trivia Question: Which country consumes the most chocolate per capita?
Answer: Switzerland
Trivia Question: Which two U.S. states don’t observe Daylight Saving Time?
Answer: Arizona and Hawaii
Trivia Question: What is the loudest animal on Earth?
Answer: The sperm whale
Trivia Question: What was the first toy to be advertised on television?
Answer: Mr. Potato Head
Trivia Question: What is the tiny piece at the end of a shoelace called?
Answer: An aglet
Trivia Question: In the United Kingdom, what is the day after Christmas known as?
Answer: Boxing Day
Trivia Question: Which of Shakespeare’s plays is the longest?
Answer: Hamlet
Trivia Question: Outside which New York building was John Lennon killed?
Answer: The Dakota Building
Trivia Question: How many of Snow White’s seven dwarfs have names ending in the letter Y?
Answer: Five: Dopey, Grumpy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Happy
Trivia Question: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ is an autobiography about the early years of what inspirational African-American writer and poet?
Answer: Maya Angelou
Trivia Question: What is the tallest breed of dog in the world?
Answer: The Great Dane
Trivia Question: What is the softest mineral in the world?
Answer: Talc
Trivia Question: Lateral Epicondylitis is a condition commonly known by what name?
Answer: Tennis Elbow
Trivia Question: Who was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Trivia Question: How many ribs are in a human body?
Answer: Twenty-four
Trivia Question: What is the world’s biggest island?
Answer: Greenland
Trivia Question: Which country is known as the Land of White Elephant?
Answer: Thailand
Trivia Question: What is the smallest ocean in the world?
Answer: The Arctic
Trivia Question: What color eyes do most humans have?
Answer: Brown
Trivia Question: In which city was Anne Frank’s hiding place?
Answer: Amsterdam
Trivia Question: What is the largest type of deer?
Answer: The moose
Trivia Question: Which Disney film features the song ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’?
Answer: Pinocchio
Trivia Question: What is the lowest army rank of a US soldier?
Answer: Private
Trivia Question: Before the Beatles were formed, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison were originally members of which group?
Answer: The Quarrymen
Trivia Question: What is the name of the Earth’s largest ocean?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean
Trivia Question: When Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls, how many NBA Championships did he win?
Answer: Six
Trivia Question: What country won the very first FIFA World Cup in 1930?
Answer: Uruguay
Trivia Question: In what year was the first-ever Wimbledon Championship held?
Answer: 1877
Trivia Question: What is often seen as the smallest unit of memory?
Answer: kilobyte
Trivia Question: Which planet is the hottest in the solar system?
Answer: Venus
Trivia Question: Which country produces the most coffee in the world?
Answer: Brazil
Trivia Question: What is the common name for dried plums?
Answer: Prunes
Trivia Question: What does BMW stand for (in English)?
Answer: Bavarian Motor Works
Trivia Question: Which two countries share the longest international border?
Answer: Canada and the USA
Trivia Question: What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer: Vatican City
Trivia Question: Which bone are babies born without?
Answer: Knee cap
Trivia Question: Which name is rapper Sean Combs better known by?
Answer: P. Diddy
Trivia Question: Which British girl group had a member by the name of Mel B?
Answer: Spice Girls
Trivia Question: How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: Three
Trivia Question: How many eyes does a bee have?
Answer: Five
Trivia Question: What was the name of the rock band formed by Jimmy Page?
Answer: Led Zeppelin
Trivia Question: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903)?
Answer: Marie Curie
Trivia Question: Which mammal has no vocal cords?
Answer: Giraffe
Trivia Question: What type of music has been shown to help plants grow better and faster?
Answer: Classical
Trivia Question: Power outages in the US are mostly caused by what?
Answer: Squirrels
Trivia Question: What celebrity has their dog cloned– twice?
Answer: Barbara Streisand
Trivia Question: What was the first state?
Answer: Delaware
Trivia Question: What is the painting ‘La Gioconda’ more usually known as?
Answer: Mona Lisa
Trivia Question: Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in 1770 in which city?
Answer: Berlin
Trivia Question: Water has a pH level of around?
Answer: 7
Trivia Question: What’s the most expensive home in the world?
Answer: Buckingham Palace
Trivia Question: What did the Crocodile swallow in Peter Pan?
Answer: An alarm clock
Trivia Question: What’s the hardest rock?
Answer: A diamond
Trivia Question: What is the national dish of Spain?
Answer: Paella
Trivia Question: Which horoscope sign has a crab?
Answer: Cancer
Trivia Question: What color is Absinthe?
Answer: Green
Trivia Question: The Statue of Liberty was given to the US by which country?
Answer: France
Trivia Question: Which US city is known as the City of Brotherly Love?
Answer: Philadelphia
Trivia Question: What substance are nails made out of?
Answer: Keratin
Trivia Question: How many children does Oprah Winfrey have?
Answer: Zero
Trivia Question: Where is the Sea of Tranquility located?
Answer: The moon
Trivia Question: What country has the world’s most ancient forest?
Answer: Australia
Trivia Question: Which kind of bulbs were once exchanged as a form of currency?
Answer: Tulips
Trivia Question: What color jersey is worn by the winners of each stage of the Tour De France?
Answer: Yellow
Trivia Question: Which chess piece can only move diagonally?
Answer: A bishop
Trivia Question: When did the Cold War end?
Answer: 1989
Trivia Question: What is allspice alternatively known as?
Answer: Pimento
Trivia Question: Who invented scissors?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
Trivia Question: Which country was the Caesar salad invented in?
Answer: Mexico
Trivia Question: On which ship did Charles Darwin make his famous expedition, which led to his evolution theory?
Answer: HMS Beagle
Trivia Question: In which film did father and son actors Will and Jaden Smith first appear together?
Answer: The Pursuit of Happiness
Trivia Question: Which NFL team holds the record for the most Super Bowl appearances?
Answer: New England Patriots
Trivia Question: In which city is Jim Morrison buried?
Answer: Paris
Trivia Question: Which actress keeps her Oscar in her bathroom so guests can hold it and make speeches in the mirror shame-free?
Answer: Kate Winslet
Trivia Question: In medieval England, what was used as currency, specifically for rental agreements?
Answer: Eels
Trivia Question: What famous horse won the Triple Crown in 1973?
Answer: Secretariat
Trivia Question: What is the most common letter in the English alphabet?
Answer: E
Trivia Question: Chimpanzees and gorillas have human-like fingerprints, and so do what other non-human animals?
Answer: Koalas
Trivia Question: A tick bite can make you allergic to what food?
Answer: Red meat
Trivia Question: What animal is constitutionally protected in Florida?
Answer: Pigs
Trivia Question: What planets literally rain diamonds?
Answer: Saturn and Jupiter
Trivia Question: Saudi Arabia imports camels from what country?
Answer: Australia
Trivia Question: Who is the youngest person ever to appear on a Billboard chart?
Answer: Blue Ivy Carter
Trivia Question: What is the only state that borders just one other state?
Answer: Maine
Trivia Question: What is the Twitter bird’s official?
Answer: Larry
Trivia Question: What is a community of ants called?
Answer: A colony
Trivia Question: Who was said to “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee”?
Answer: Muhammed Ali
Trivia Question: Where did Heineken beer originate?
Answer: The Netherlands
Trivia Question: “Cirque du Soleil” started in what country?
Answer: Canada
Trivia Question: How many signs are there in the Zodiac?
Answer: 12
Trivia Question: What are the two fruit juices in a cosmopolitan?
Answer: Cranberry and lime
Trivia Question: What object is said to bring bad luck if it is broken?
Answer: A mirror
Trivia Question: Which country did bagels originate from?
Answer: Poland
Trivia Question: What is the name of the group of men who elect a Pope?
Answer: College of Cardinals
Trivia Question: An Apgar score is given to what?
Answer: Health of newborns
Trivia Question: The Candlestick, Lead Pipe, Knife, Revolver, Rope, and what else are the six weapons in a standard game of Clue?
Answer: Wrench
Trivia Question: What city did Starbucks open its first store in 1971?
Answer: Seattle
Trivia Question: What do you call filo pastry stuffed with chopped nuts and honey or syrup?
Answer: Baklava
Trivia Question: What is the Jewish New Year called?
Answer: Rosh Hashanah
Trivia Question: What book starts with the line “Call me Ishmael.”?
Answer: Moby Dick
Trivia Question: What is the first element on the Periodic Table?
Answer: Hydrogen
Trivia Question: What object did Ben Franklin attach to the end of a kite string to prove that lightning is electricity?
Answer: A metal key
Trivia Question: What does a Scoville unit measure?
Answer: Spiciness
Trivia Question: What US president put a Twinkie in the country’s millennium time capsule?
Answer: Bill Clinton
Trivia Question: What is an ice hockey puck made from?
Answer: Rubber
Trivia Question: Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs was known for wearing what color turtleneck?
Answer: Black
Trivia Question: How many red stripes are there on the American flag?
Answer: Seven
Trivia Question: What 3-word phrase is written on Martin Luther King’s gravestone?
Answer: Free At Last
Trivia Question: What is Japanese sake made from?
Answer: Rice
Trivia Question: What American beer has been long promoted as the “King of Beers”?
Answer: Budweiser
Trivia Question: Which fashion designer was shot dead in the summer of 1997?
Answer: Gianni Versace
Trivia Question: As what type of beans are chickpeas, also known as?
Answer: Garbanzo
Trivia Question: Galileo was the citizen of which country?
Answer: Italy
Trivia Question: Which country is the largest producer of vanilla?
Answer: Madagascar
Trivia Question: Who performs the character of Mark Zuckerberg in the movie “The Social Network”?
Answer: Jesse Eisenberg
Trivia Question: What is the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside?
Answer: Strawberry
Trivia Question: What is the only metal that is a liquid at normal atmospheric pressure and temperature?
Answer: Mercury
Trivia Question: Who was the only US President to resign?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Trivia Question: In which city did Hitler commit suicide?
Answer: Berlin
Trivia Question: In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at someone was a declaration of what?
Answer: Love
Trivia Question: Who wrote songs for The Lion King?
Answer: Elton John
Trivia Question: What U.S. newspaper is nicknamed “the Gray Lady”?
Answer: The New York Times
Trivia Question: What is the real first name of Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: Norma Jeane
Trivia Question: What country has the most vending machines per capita?
Answer: Japan
Trivia Question: What’s the most populous city in the United States?
Answer: New York City
Trivia Question: Which fruit floats because 25% of its volume is air?
Answer: Apple
Trivia Question: What’s the brightest star in the sky?
Answer: Sirius
Trivia Question: The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for what city?
Answer: Barcelona
Trivia Question: In which of Britney’s video does she appear as a stewardess?
Answer: Toxic
Trivia Question: Carrots are a good source of which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin A
Trivia Question: What is the name of the prehistoric town in which The Flinstones live?
Answer: Bedrock
Trivia Question: What is the driest continent?
Answer: Antarctica
Trivia Question: Which US state has the longest cave system in the world?
Answer: Kentucky
Trivia Question: What blood type qualifies as a universal donor?
Answer: O negative
Trivia Question: What is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust?
Answer: Aluminium
Trivia Question: What is the most abundant element in the universe?
Answer: Hydrogen
Trivia Question: What was Babe Ruth’s first name?
Answer: George
Trivia Question: Who was Sports Illustrated’s first female sportsperson of the year?
Answer: Billie Jean King
Trivia Question: Robin Williams won a best supporting actor Oscar for what film?
Answer: Good Will Hunting
Trivia Question: What was the first Disney animated film based on the life of a real person?
Answer: Pocahontas
Trivia Question: What character did Michael J. Fox play in ‘Back to the Future’?
Answer: Marty McFly
Trivia Question: What was the predecessor to the United Nations?
Answer: League of Nations
Trivia Question: A flamboyance is a group of what animals?
Answer: Flamingos
Trivia Question: What color is a polar bear’s skin?
Answer: Black
Trivia Question: What is the largest lizard?
Answer: Komodo dragon
Trivia Question: The male of what species testicles explode on mating and then dies?
Answer: Honeybee
Trivia Question: Europe is separated from Africa by which sea?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
Trivia Question: Canberra is the capital city of which country?
Answer: Australia
Trivia Question: New York City comprises how many boroughs?
Answer: 5
Trivia Question: Which nuts are used to make marzipan?
Answer: Almonds
Trivia Question: Botany is the scientific study of what?
Answer: Plants
Trivia Question: Tanks were used in battle for the first time in which conflict?
Answer: World War 1
Trivia Question: Squab is a name given to the young of which bird?
Answer: Pigeon
Trivia Question: Which female singer discovered a ‘Genie in a Bottle’ in 1999?
Answer: Christina Aguilera
Trivia Question: Complete the title of a 1979 number one by Blondie – ‘Heart of…’
Answer: Glass
Trivia Question: Which Italian fascist leader was known as ‘Il Duce’?
Answer: Mussolini
Trivia Question: If a male donkey is a jack, what is the female called?
Answer: Jenny
Trivia Question: In what country did carving jack o’ lanterns originate?
Answer: Ireland
Trivia Question: In what American state is it illegal to dress up like a priest or a nun?
Answer: Alabama
Trivia Question: What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
Trivia Question: What has a gravitational pull so strong that even light cannot escape it?
Answer: Black Hole
Trivia Question: Which 1998 Disney film was Lindsay Lohan’s film debut?
Answer: Parent Trap
Trivia Question: What type of business did Annie have that failed in “Bridesmaids”?
Answer: Bakery
Trivia Question: What were the two sides in World War II known as?
Answer: Allies and Axis
Trivia Question: What number did Derek Jeter wear on his New York Yankees jersey?
Answer: 2
Trivia Question: What vitamin does the sun’s ultraviolet rays help the skin produce?
Answer: Vitamin D
Trivia Question: What is “jaggery” used in Indian cooking?
Answer: Sugar
Trivia Question: What TV show won the most Emmys in 2018?
Answer: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Trivia Question: Nepal is located on which continent?
Answer: Asia
Trivia Question: What does a seismologist study?
Answer: Earthquakes
Trivia Question: Where did Barack Obama teach constitutional law?
Answer: University of Chicago
Trivia Question: Which sea is located in Israel and Jordan?
Answer: Dead Sea
Trivia Question: What are the bones in the fingers called?
Answer: Phalanges
Trivia Question: What company makes the Butterfinger bar?
Answer: Nestle
Trivia Question: Which character becomes Brienne’s squire in season 4 of “Game of Thrones”?
Answer: Podrick Payne
Trivia Question: What particle in an atom has a positive charge?
Answer: Proton
Trivia Question: What is the biggest artery in the human body?
Answer: Aorta
Trivia Question: What is the name of Jordan’s capital city?
Answer: Amman
Trivia Question: What is Harry Potter’s Patronus?
Answer: A stag
Trivia Question: What candy was used to lure E.T. in the 1982 movie “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial”?
Answer: Reese’s Pieces
Trivia Question: The tuba is the largest member of which musical family?
Answer: Brass
Trivia Question: Which is the main substance used to make a crayon?
Answer: Wax
Trivia Question: The video game “Happy Feet” features what animals?
Answer: Penguins
Trivia Question: What actress won her first Oscar for “Kramer vs. Kramer”?
Answer: Meryl Streep
Trivia Question: What object of Dwight’s did Jim put in Jell-O on the TV show “The Office”?
Answer: Stapler
Trivia Question: Who voices Morty in the series “Rick and Morty”?
Answer: Justin Rolland
Trivia Question: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” originated in what movie?
Answer: Jaws
Trivia Question: What does the “R” stand for on the rating of a movie?
Answer: Restricted
Trivia Question: Who played Cher Horowitz in the movie “Clueless”?
Answer: Alicia Silverstone
Trivia Question: Which artist painted “Guernica”?
Answer: Pablo Picasso
Trivia Question: What country produced the most strawberries in 2016?
Answer: China
Trivia Question: The traditional Wimbledon colors are green, and what?
Answer: Purple
Trivia Question: On the television show “How I Met Your Mother,” what is Lily’s occupation?
Answer: Kindergarten Teacher
Trivia Question: Which art movement is Salvador Dali associated with?
Answer: Surrealism
Trivia Question: Where did rap superstar Eminem grow up?
Answer: Detroit
Trivia Question: In what city did Princess Diana suffer her fatal car crash?
Answer: Paris
Trivia Question: What grows from an acorn?
Answer: Oak Tree
Trivia Question: What prison film starring Tim Robbins was based on a story by Stephen King?
Answer: The Shawshank Redemption
Trivia Question: Which U.S. state has “Garden State” as its nickname?
Answer: New Jersey
Trivia Question: Which type of fruit juice did Dole sell first?
Answer: Pineapple
Trivia Question: What is the main ingredient in a falafel?
Answer: Chickpea
Trivia Question: What currency is used in South Africa?
Answer: Rand
Trivia Question: Port-au-Prince is the capital of which country?
Answer: Haiti
Trivia Question: What major movie actor’s first role was in “A Nightmare On Elm Street”?
Answer: Johnny Depp
Trivia Question: What was Toyota’s first popular hybrid car called?
Answer: Prius
Trivia Question: What did the first vending machine dispense?
Answer: Holy Water
Trivia Question: Who created the animated series “Futurama”?
Answer: Matt Groening
Trivia Question: What is the most populous city in Canada?
Answer: Toronto
Trivia Question: Taylor Swift grew up on what type of farm?
Answer: Christmas Tree Farm
Trivia Question: Which Doors song is about Jim Morrison’s relationship with Pamela Courson?
Answer: Queen Of The Highway
Trivia Question: Which President of South Africa ordered Nelson Mandela’s release from prison?
Answer: De Klerk
Trivia Question: Which 2008 comedy had the tagline “Put this in your pipe and smoke it”?
Answer: Pineapple Express
Trivia Question: Islamabad is the capital of which country?
Answer: Pakistan
Trivia Question: American pioneer, John Chapman, was famous for planting which kind of tree?
Answer: Apple Trees
Trivia Question: Where is the uvula located?
Answer: In The Throat
Trivia Question: What gas makes soda bubbly?
Answer: Carbon Dioxide
Trivia Question: Which country has a red flag with a star in the middle?
Answer: Morocco
Trivia Question: Who preceded Fidel Castro as the political leader of Cuba?
Answer: Fulgencio Batista
Trivia Question: How many sides does the home plate in baseball have?
Answer: 5
Trivia Question: What color dresses do Chinese women traditionally wear on their wedding day?
Answer: Red
Trivia Question: Tom Cruise considered pursuing a career in what sport before being injured?
Answer: Wrestling
Trivia Question: What country is bordered by Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine?
Answer: Poland
Trivia Question: The Da Vinci Code opens with a murder in which famous museum?
Answer: Lourve
Trivia Question: Which insect can indicate the air temperature?
Answer: Cricket
Trivia Question: What candy ran the promotion for baseball’s one-millionth run?
Answer: Tootsie Rolls
Trivia Question: What country is the band “The Cranberries” from?
Answer: Ireland
Trivia Question: Blueberries are native to which continent?
Answer: North America
Trivia Question: A book by Barack Obama is titled “The Audacity of” what?
Answer: Hope
Trivia Question: What type of lens has a thin middle and makes objects appear smaller?
Answer: Concave
Trivia Question: What is the Hawaiian name for yellowfin tuna?
Answer: Ahi
Trivia Question: Rihanna banned fans from bringing what items to her U.K. concerts in 2008?
Answer: Umbrellas
Trivia Question: Who created the alien rock superstar Ziggy Stardust?
Answer: David Bowie
Trivia Question: Which young girl helped drive the English from French soil in the 15th century?
Answer: Joan of Arc
Trivia Question: What U.S. President coined the phrase “Good to the last drop,” referring to coffee?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
Trivia Question: What is the biggest supermarket chain in the U.S.?
Answer: Kroger Co.
Trivia Question: On every continent, there is a city named what?
Answer: Rome
Trivia Question: Which name are the Sandwich Islands, better known as?
Answer: Hawaii
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