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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

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Trivia Question: In a game of bingo, 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

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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

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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

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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 the 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

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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 Champi-
onships 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 as 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 theory of evolution?
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 agree-
ments?
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 animal?
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 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 for 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: Antartica

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-Terrestri-
al”?
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 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 pris-
on?
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 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 the
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 yellow fin 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 centu-
ry?
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