BIBLE TRIVIA

What is the only domesticated animal not mentioned in the Bible?
A: A Cat.

What word appears exactly 773,692 times in the King James Bible?
A: Amen.

What follows mass as the most popular activity in U.S. Catholic churches?
A: Bingo.

What Arab nation has the highest percentage of Christians?
A: Lebanon.

Bible trivia questions answers and facts.

What symbol did St. Patrick use to explain his theory of the Holy Trinity?
A: The Shamrock.

What political movement got its name from the hill in Jerusalem boasting the Temple of Solomon?
A: Zionism.

What country boasts the largest number of Catholics?
A: Brazil.

What name has been shared by the most popes?
A: John.

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Which two wicked cities were destroyed by God in Genesis?
A: Sodom and Gomorrah.

What two countries claim two-thirds of the world's 2,000-plus registered saints?
A: Italy and France.

What fruit is depicted in Leonardo's Last Supper, even though it did not arrive in the Holy Land until long after Jesus' death?
A: The Orange.

What is there more of in the world- nonreligious people, Hindus or Muslims?
A: Nonreligious people.

What former church lady got $75,000 to let "A Current Affair" televise her wedding in 1993?
A: Tammy Faye Bakker.

What religious movement began with Martin Luther's attack on the sale of indulgences?
A: The Reformation.

What Saudi Arabian city was the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad?
A: Mecca.

What storied city on the Euphrates River was 55 miles south of Baghdad?
A: Babylon.

What biblical place name means "pleasure"?
A: Eden.

What city did Napoleon occupy in 1798, sending Pope Pius VI to the south of France?
A: Rome.

What church raised millions sellig members "electropsychometer" lie detectors?
A: The Church of Scientology.

What nation has 1,000 permanent inhabitants and produces no export goods?
A: Vatican City.

What was the world's principal Christian city before it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453?
A: Constantinople.

What nation's Catholics saw the Pope make a triumphant homecoming visit in 1980?
A: Poland's.

What animal is mentioned most frequently in both the New and Old Testaments?
A: The Sheep.

What's the only 100 percent Christian nation on Earth?
A: Vatican City.

What biblical epic was the top-grossing movie of the 1950's?
A: The Ten Commandments.

Who was the first pope?
A: St. Peter.

What does an ecclesiophobic evangelist fear?
A: Churches.

What book did Christians often place on their foreheads to cure insomnia in medieval times?
A: The Bible.

How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale?
A: Three days and three nights.

According to the Bible, what substance was used to caulk Noah's ark and to seal the basket in which the infant Moses was set adrift on the Nile?
A: Pitch, or natural asphalt.

What language is Jesus believed to have spoken?
A: Aramaic.

According to the Bible, what weapons was the Philistine giant Goliath carrying when he was slain by David?
A: A sword and a spear, according to I Samuel 17:45.

According to the Bible, how many pearly gates are there?
A: 12 (Revelation 21:12-21).

What were the names of the three wise men?
A: Balthazar, Caspar and Melchior.

Who were the parents of King Solomon?
A: David and Bathsheba.

How many books of the Bible are named for women?
A: Two - Ruth and Esther.

In the Old Testament, who was Jezebel's husband?
A: Ahab, King of Israel.

Fun cosmological trivia questions, answers and facts.
Here are the printable fun trivia questions with the answers below them.
How long does it take light from the sun to reach the earth?
A: Approximately 8 minutes and 18 seconds.

How far is the moon from the earth?
A: The actual Earth-Moon distance ranges from about 360,000 to 405, 000 kilometers, depending on the position in the Moon's orbit. (223,694 to 251665 miles)

How much bigger is the sun than the earth?
A: The Earth is about 13 thousand kilometers (8000 miles) wide, whereas the Sun is roughly 1.4 million kilometers (900,000 miles) across. If the Sun were a hollow ball, you could fit about one million Earths inside of it!

Which planet is closest to the sun?
A: Mercury.

What is the name of the most recently discovered planet?
A: Quaoar.

What is the sun made out of?
A: The Sun is, at present, about 70% hydrogen and 28% helium by mass everything else amounts to less than 2%

What powers the sun?
A: Fusion, the same as a hydrogen bomb.

How old is the sun?
A: About 5 billion years.

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How old is the earth?
A: The earth is about 4.5 billion years old.

How old is the universe?
A: The Universe is at least 15 billion years old, but probably not more than 20 billion years old.

Which planet spins the fastest?
A: Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our solar system rotating on average once in just under 10 hours.

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Which planet spins the slowest?
A: Venus is the slowest spinning planet in the solar system. It rotates only once every two hundred forty-three Earth days

How long is a Martian year?
A: The orbital period of Mars is 686.9726 days.

Does the sun rotate?
A: The movements of the sunspots indicate that the Sun rotates once every 27 days at the equator, but only once in 31 days at the poles.

How big is the milky way?
A: The Milky Way is actually a giant, as its mass is probably between 750 billion and one trillion solar masses, and its diameter is about 100,000 light years.

What is the Milky Way?
A: The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy.

What star other than the sun is closest to the earth?
A: It is Proxima Centauri, the nearest member of the Alpha Centauri triple star system.

Fun food trivia questions and answers.

Food trivia questions and answers.

What milk product did the U.S. Agriculture Department propose as a substitute for meat in school lunches, in 1996?
A: Yogurt.

What breakfast cereal was Sonny the Cuckoo Bird "cuckoo for"?
A: Cocoa Puffs.

Why was the Animal Crackers box designed with a string handle?
A: The animal shaped cookie treats were introduced in 1902 as a Christmas novelty, and packaged so they would be hung from the Christmas trees.

On what vegetable did an ancient Egyptian place his right hand when taking an oath?
A: The onion. Its round shape symbolized eternity.

How many flowers are in the design stamped on each side of an Oreo cookie?
A: Twelve. Each as four petals.

Black-eyed peas are not peas. What are they?
A: Beans

What European nation consumes more spicy Mexican food than any other?
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What part of the banana is used to make banana oil?
A: No part. Banana oil, a synthetic compound made with amyl alcohol, is named for its banana-like aroma.

Under what name did the Domino's Pizza chain get its start?
A: DomNick's

What was margarine called when it was first marketed in England?
A: Butterine

What are the two top selling spices in the world?
A: Pepper is 1st and mustard is second.

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What was the name of Cheerios when it was first marketed 50 years ago?
A: Cheerioats

What flaver of ice cream did Baskin-Robbins introduce to commemorate Americ's landing on the moon on July 20, 1969?
A: Lunar Cheescake

What is the most widely eaten fish in the world?
A: The Herring

What is the name of the evergeen shrub from which we get capers?
A: The caper bush.

What fruits were crossed to produce the nectarine?
A: None. The nectarine is a smooth skinned variety of the peach.

What animals milk is used to make authentic Italian mozzarella cheese?
A: The water buffalo's.

What nation produces two thirds of the world's vanilla?
A: Madagascar.

Why did candy maker Milton S. Hershey switch from making caramels to chocolate bars in 1903?
A: Caramels didn't retain the imprint of his name in summertime, chocolate did.

What was the drink we know as the Bloody Mary originally called?
A: The Red Snapper, which was its name when it crossed the Atlantic from Harry's New York Bar in Paris.

What was the first commercially manufactured breakfast cereal?
A: Shredded Wheat.

When Birdseye introduced the first frozen food in 1930, what did the company call it?
A: Frosted Food. Company officials feared the word frozen would suggest flesh burns. The name was changed to frozen soon after.

What American city produces most of the egg rolls sold in grocery stores in the United States?
A: Houston, Texas.

What was the first of H.J. Heinz' "57 varieties"?
A: Horseradish, marketed in 1869

What is the literal meaning of the Italian word linguine?
A: Little tongues.



Where did the pineapple plant originate?
A: In South America. It didn't reach Hawaii until the early nineteenth century.

What recipe, first published 50 years ago, has been requested most frequently through the years by the readers of "Better Homes and Garden"?
A: The recipe for hamburger pie, which has been updated and republished a number of times over the years.

What is the only essential vitamin not found in the white potato?
A: Vitamin A

Q: What food is the leading source of salmonella poisoning?
A: Chicken.

Q: What company first condensed soup in 1898?
A: Campbell's.

Q: What nutty legume accounts for one sixth of the world's vegetable oil production?
A: The peanut.

Q: What country saw the cultivation of the first potato, in 200 A.D.?
A: South America.

Q: What type of lettuce was called Crisphead until the 1920s?
A: Iceberg lettuce.

Q: What tree gives us prunes?
A: The plum tree.

Q: What type of chocolate was first developed for public consumption in Vevey, Switzerland in 1875?
A: Milk Chocolate.

Q: What added ingredient keeps confectioners' sugar from clumping?
A: Corn starch.

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Q: What edible comes in crimmini, morel, oyster and wood ear varieties?
A: Mushrooms.

Q: What newly-imported substance caused the first major outbreak of tooth decay in Europe, in the1500's?
A: Sugar.

Q: What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack foods, despite reports of diarrhea and cramps?
A: Olestra.

Q: What ingredient in fresh milk is eventually devoured by bacteria, causing the sour taste?
A: Lactose.

Q: What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a home in?
A: Pork.

Q: What baking ingredient, sprayed at high pressure, did the U.S. Air Force replace its toxic paint stripper with?
A: Baking soda.

Q: What staple is laced with up to 16 additives including plaster of paris, to stay fresh?
A: Bread.

Q: What falling fruit supposedly inspired Isaac Newton to write the laws of gravity?
A: An Apple.

Q: What method of preserving food did the Incas first use, on potatoes?
A: Freeze-drying.

Q: What deli sandwich topped Dateline NBC's list for total fat content - a Reuben, BLT or tuna salad with mayo?
A: Tuna salad with mayo.

Q: What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by law to eat?
A: The coconut.

Q: What hit the market alongside spinach as the first frozen veggies?
A: Peas.

Q: How many sizes of chicken eggs does the USDA recognize, including peewee?
A: Six.

Q: What are de-headed, de-veined an sorted by size in a laitram machine?
A: Shrimp.

Q: What's the only fish that produces real caviar, according to the FDA?
A: Sturgeon.

Q: What type of egg will yield 11 and one-half average-size omelettes?
A: An Ostrich egg.

Q: What's the groundnut better known as?
A: The peanut.

Q: What crystalline salt is frequently used to enhance the flavor to TV dinners?
A: Monosodium glutamate.

Q: What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an antiseptic ointment for cuts and burns?
A: Honey.

Q: What should your diet be high in to lessen the chance of colon cancer, according to a 1990 study?
A: Fiber.

Q: What nut do two-thirds of its U. S. producers sell through Blue Diamond?
A: The Almond.

Free general science trivia questions with answers.
General science trivia questions and answers.



Q: What process involves treating rubber with sulphur to harden it?
A: Vulcanizing.

Q: What scale of zero to 14 is used to measure acidity or alkalinity?
A: The pH scale.

Q: What O-word describes oxygen with molecules that have three atoms instead of two?
A: Ozone.

Q: What unit of electrical power is equal to one joule per second?
A: The Watt.

Q: What planet is closest in size to our moon?
A: Mercury.

Q: What's the common name for a cubic decimeter?
A: A liter.

Q: What measure of energy comes from the Latin word meaning "heat"?
A: The calorie.

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Q: What's removed from water in the process of desalination?
A: Salt.

Q: What species Amazonian electric variety packs a 650 volt wallop?
A: The eel's.

Q: What C word defines a substance that speeds a chemical reaction without being consumed?
A: Catalyst.

Q: What's the base unit of mass in the metric system?
A: The kilogram.

Q: What cooking fuel is produced by heating wood without oxygen?
A: Charcoal.

Q: What's the only metal that's not a solid at room temperature?
A: Mercury.

Q: Which will yield the most BTUs of energy--a gallon of oil, a pound of coal or a gallon of gasoline?
A: A gallon of oil.

Q: What unit of measure do you multiply by .39 to convert it to inches?
A: Centimeters.

Q: What method of underwater detection is short for "sound navigation and ranging"?
A: Sonar.

Q: What hazardous substance is euphemistically referred to as "mineral fiber"?
A: Asbestos.

Q: What color does litmus turn when dipped into acid?
A: Pink.

Q: What process involves heating an ore to obtain a metal?
A: Smelting.

Q: What's the U. S. equivalent of 0.45 kilograms?
A: One pound.

Q: What's defined as the distance between a lens and its focal point?
A: It's focal length.

Q: What energy unit is defined as the heat required to raise one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius?
A: One Calorie.

Q: What founding father was knocked unconscious while attempting to electrocute a turkey?
A: Benjamin Franklin..

Q: What continent is subjected to the world's largest ozone hole?
A: Antarctica.

Q: What sea creature can have an eye measuring 16 inches across, the largest in the animal kingdom?
A: A squid.

Q: What explosive cosmic event was seen with the naked eye in 1987, for the first time in 383 jyears?
A: A supernova.

Q: What three terms are represented in Newton's second law of motion F = ma?
A: Force, mass, acceleration.

Q: How many of the nine planets have moons/
A: Seven.

Q: What were exterminated from Harvard's bio labs when they were found to be carrying radioactive chemicals into the walls?
A: Ants.

Q: What type of trees yield the resin used to produce turpentine?
A: Pine trees.

Q: What's the most malleable metal?
A: Gold.

Free math trivia questions with answers.
Math trivia questions and answers.

Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a transcendental number in 1882?
A: Pi.

Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
A: Obtuse.

Q: What's the top number of a fraction called?
A: The numerator.

Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?
A: Pythagoras.

Q: What's a polygon with four unequal sides called?
A: A quadrilateral.

Q: What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?
A: A hologram.

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Q: What number does "giga" stand for?
A: One billion.

Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?
A: Zero.

Q: What word describes a number system with a base of two?
A: Binary.

Q: How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
A: Twenty.

Q: What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides?
A: An octagon.

Q: What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it"?
A: Tangent.

Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
A: The hexagon.

Q: What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
A: One.

Q: What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?
A: K and M.

Q: What's short for "binary digit"?
A: Bit.

Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.

Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?
A: Googol.

Q: What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when the pocket calculator made the scene in the 1970s?
A: The Slide rule's.

Free physics science trivia questions with answers.
Physics science trivia questions and answers.

Q: What method of arranging elements into related groups was invented by Dimitri Mendeleyev?
A: The periodic table.

Q: What physicist remarked: "God is subtle, but he is not malicious"?
A: Albert Einstein.

Q: What M-word defines anything that occupies space?
A: Matter.

Q: What do you call a substance containing only one kind of atom?
A: An element.

Q: What teenager began studying physics after he noticed a chandelier swinging during a 1581 earthquake?
A: Galileo.

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Q: What elementary particle's antiparticle is the positron?
A: The electron.

Q: What element comes last alphabetically?
A: Zirconium.

Q: What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and pitchblende?
A: Uranium.

Q: What American physicist pioneered the theory of "black holes" in 1939?
A: J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Q: What's a charged atom, with unequal numbers of electrons and protons?
A: An Ion.

Q: What theory of physics proposes that energy is not transferred continuously but in discrete amounts>
A: The quantum theory.

Q: What element was converted to plutonium in the first nuclear reactors?
A: Uranium.

Q: What acronyms for "Weakly Interacting Massive Particles " and "Massive Compact Halo Objects" do physicists use to explain dark matter?
A: Wimps and Machos.

Q: What astronomical term gradually replaced the cumbersome "gravitationally completely collapsed object"?
A: Black Hole.

Q: What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"?
A: Laser.

Q: What's a single unit of quanta called?
A: A quantum.

Q: What did scientists build in a squash court under a football stadium at the University of Chicago in 1942?
A: A nuclear reactor.

Q: What's the atomic number of hydrogen?
A: One.

Q: What element begins with the letter "k"?
A: Krypton.

Q: What F-word is defined in physics as a "nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei"?
A: Fusion.

Q: What E-word was the first elementary particle to be discovered?
A: The electron.

Free invention trivia questions with answers.
Invention trivia questions and answers.

Q: What landmark invention did Ts'ai Lun invent from bark and hemp in the second century?
A: Paper.

Q: What did "Art Fry invent after scraps of paper to mark tunes in his hymnal kept falling out?
A: Post-it Notes.

Q: What did Leonardo invent to check humidity while he worked on the Last Supper fresco?
A: The hygrometer.

Q: What country was the first to register a patent on polyester?
A: Briton.

Q: What "foot doctor" held over 300 patents?
A: Dr. Scholl.

Q: What 1947 invention by Bell Telephone Laboratories spawned pocket-sized radios?
A: The transistor.

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Q: What disease prompted polio vaccine inventor Dr. Jonas Salk to come out of retirement in 1987?
A: AIDS.

Q: What was the occupation of cotton candy machine inventor William James Morrison?
A: Dentist.

Q: What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592?
A: Galileo.

Q: What did George Nisser invent after observing high wire performers bouncing on safety nets?
A: The trampoline.

Q: What century saw the invention of the shoelace?
A: The eighteenth.

Q: What name did George Eastman invent in 1888 because it was easy to memorize, pronounce, and spell?
A: Kodak.

Q: What innovative inventor's Dymaaxion car could carry eleven passengers, exceed 120 mph and get 30 miles per gallon in 1934?
A: Buckminster Fuller's.

Q: What type of structure did R. Buckminster Fuller patent in 1954?
A: The geodesic dome.

Q: What century saw Alexander Cummings issued the first patent for a flush toilet?
A: The eighteenth.

Q: What portable device did James Spengler invent in 1907, using a soap box, pillow case, a fan and tape?
A: The vacuum cleaner.

Q: What landmark invention eased farming chores for Sumerians in 3500 B.C.?
A: The plow.

Q: What food product did Hyppolyte Merge-mouries invent in 1868 by treating oils with hydrogen?
A: Margarine.

Q: What British second lieutenant got the idea to fill a canister shell with musket balls and a charge of gunpowder?
A: Sir Henry Shrapnel.

Q: Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his life?
A: Thomas Edison.

Q: What kitchen invention took the top prize at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
A: The dishwasher.

Q: What company gave the world the first electric toothbrush?
A: Interplak.

Q: What Edwin Budding invention began changing the face of English landscapes in the 1820s?
A: The lawn mower.

Q: What invention for keeping cold air out of buildings in winter was patented by Theophilus Van Kannel in 1888?
A: The revolving door.

Q: What Benjamin Holt invention was good news to farmers in 1900?
A: The Tractor.




Free medical trivia questions with answers.
Medical an health trivia questions and answers.

Q: What's the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men?
A: Prostate cancer.

Q: What does "CPR" stand for in medical emergencies?
A: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Q: What, along with heart disease and cancer, accounts for 64 percent of U.S. deaths?
A: Stroke.

Q: What virus did the World Health Organization say would infect 40 million people by the year 2000?
A: HIV.

Q: What do cosmetic surgeons remove 200,00 pounds of from Americans per year?
A: Fat.

Q: What do doctors look at through an ophthalmoscope?
A: The eye.

Q: What disease accounts for two of every three cases of dementia?
A: Alzheimer's.

Q: What S-word is defined as "a lateral curvature of the spine"?
A: Scoliosis.

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Q: What substance produced by the body is counteracted by antihistamine drugs./
A: Histamine.

Q: What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?
A: White blood cells, or leukocytes.

Q: What's most likely to occur when your diaphragm goes into spasms?
A: Hiccups.

Q: What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known as?
A: Athlete's foot.

Q: How many times a day must you take medication if your prescription reads "q.i.d."?
A: Four.

Q: What part of the eye may be obscured by cataracts?
A: The lens.

Q: What arthritic disorder occurs due t increased uric acid the the blood?
A: Gout.

Q: What hereditary blood defect is known as "the royal disease"?
A: Hemophilia.

Q: What organ is inflamed when one has encephalitis?
A: The brain.

Q: Where does the embryo implant itself in a tubal pregnancy?
A: A Fallopian tube.

Q: How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will die in two days?
A: Nine.

Q: What brain operation was tried first on a confused 63-yuar-old female at George Washington Hospital in 1956?
A: A lobotomy.

Q: What does the "myo" mean in myocardial?
A: Muscle.

Q: What was bovine spongiform encephalopathy called by the British press in 1996?
A: Mad cow disease.

Q: What's the medical term for low blood sugar?
A: Hypoglycemia.

Q: What's the tranquilizer diazepam better known as?
A: Valium.

Q: What's the common term for a cerebrovascular accident?
A: Stroke.

Q: What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were sorry they came into contact with/
A: Poison Ivy.

Q: What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and use as a pain reliever?
A: Morphine.

Q: What was the most widely prescribe antideppressant in the U.S. in the 1990s?
A: Prozac.

Q: What syndrome does SIDS mean to child care experts?
A: Sudden infant death syndrome.

Q: What disease is the focus of oncology?
A: Cancer.

Q: Where is liver bile stopped before being released into the small intestine?
A: The gall bladder.

Free international trivia questions with answers.
International trivia questions and answers.

Q: What organization elects the 15 judges of the World Court?
A: The United Nations.

Q: What Irish political movement is named after a phrase meaning "we ourselves:?
A: Sinn Fein.

Q: What nation was miffed when Hubert Humphrey declined its secret offer to help finance his 1968 presidential campaign?
A: The Soviet Union.

Q: What physicist's last words were not understood because his nurse did not speak German?
A: Albert Einstein's.

Q: What dictator is affectionately dubbed EL Maximo by fans?
A: Fidel Castro.

Q: What 10-year old began earning his bad reputation by throwing puppies off the Kremlin walls in 1540?
A: Ivan the Terrible.

Q: What country used weather-born balloons to drop more than a hundred bombs on North America during World War II.
A: Japan.

Q: What socialist writer's last words were: "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough"?
A: Karl Marx's.

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Q: What former Soviet newspaper had to depend on cash from the Greek Communist Party to stay alive in the 1990s?
A: Pravda.

Q: What strategic group of islands did Portugal allow Britain to access during World War II?
A: The Azores.

Q: What country was disputed in the largest sea-air battle in history, from October 22-27, 1944?
A: The Philippines.

Q: What did four million prisoners die mining for in Stalin's Kolyma forced labor camp?
A: Gold.

Q: What 1938 pact caused Winston Churchill to utter: "We have sustained a defeat without a war"?
A: The Munich Pact.

Q: Who's believed by many to be buried in Downpatrick under a tombstone marked with the letter "F"?
A: St. Patrick.

Q: What French explorer was murdered by his crew after he spent two years failing to locate the mouth of the Mississippi?
A: Robert La Salle.

Q: What can Germans publicly deny the existence of the earn five years in prison?
A: The Holocaust.

Q: What's the Islamic Resistance Movement better known as to Palestinians?
A: Hamas.

Q: What nation was bounced from the Organization of American States in 1962?
A: Cuba.

Q: What political system was gradually dismantled in South Africa, stating in 1989?
A: Apartheid.

Q: What famous Swiss citizen said of nuclear bombs: "If I had known, I would have become a watchmaker"?
A: Albert Einstein.

Q: Who did Yigal Amir assassinate in 1995?
A: Yitzhak Rabin.

Q: Who was the longest reigning Arab ruler, through 1995?
A: King Hussein of Jordan.

Q: What royal briefly banished Sir Walter Raleigh to the Tower of London after hearing of his secret marriage to her maid of honor?
A: Elizabeth I.

Q: What war lasted from June5, 1967 to June 10, 1967?
A: The six day war.

Q: What Polish political movement got the support of Pope John Paul II in the 1980s?
A: Solidarity.

Q: What Argentinean was buried in a Milan cemetery under the pseudonym Maria Maggi?
A: Eve Peron.


Free military trivia questions with answers.
Military trivia questions and answers.

Q: What marked the first time since the Revolution that the U.S. accepted direct financial aid to fight a war?
A: The Persian Gulf War.

Q: What U.S. military base was won in the last major battle against Japan?
A: Okinawa.

Q: What opportunistic country declared war on Japan five days before its surrender in 1945?
A: The Soviet Union.

Q: What U.S. war broke out the same year the federal government first printed paper money?
A: The Civil War.

Q: What country did ever-prudent King Farouk I declare war on in 1945?
A: Germany.

Q: What Bill Murray Ghostbusters term did Persian Gulf Warriors use to describe being hit by chemical weapons?
A: Slimed.

Q: What did an enemy have to be, for a U. S. soldier to call him a "believer" in the Vietnam War?
A: Dead.

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Q: What trials, beginning in 1945, spawned the phrase "I was only following orders"?
A: The Nuremberg war crimes trials.

Q: What was the first war the U. S. took part in that was partially financed with lottery dollars?
A: The Revolutionary War.

Q: What southeastern state was the last to return to the Union after the Civil War.
A: Georgia.

Q: What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in charge of combat operations "Jedi Knights"?
A: Norman Schwarzkopf.

Q: Which two nations, constitutionally barred from military actions, sent money to support the Allied coalition against Iraq in " 1991"?
A: Germany and Japan.

Q: What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in?
A: Dayton.

Q: What Civil War general graduated first in the West Point class of 1829?
A: Robert E. Lee

Q: What was the B-17 long-range bomber nicknamed in World War II?
A: The Flying Fortress.

Q: What English King introduced death by boiling and legalized the killing of gypsies?
A: Henry VIII.

Q: What two continents have never been the site of a major military conflict?
A: Antarctica and Australia.

Q: Who returned to Russia from exile in October, 1917?
A: Vlaldimir Ilyich Lenin.

Q: What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked?
A: The Star-Spangled Banner.

Q: What was the first war in which one jet plane shot down another/
A: The Korean War.

Q: What so called "war" spawned the dueling slogans "Better Dead Than Red" and "Better Red Than Dead" in the 1950s?
A: The Cold War.

Q: What modern vehicle was invented to circumvent trench warfare?
A: The Tank.

Space facts trivia questions answers and facts.

How old is the universe?
A: In a study published in the journal Science, a team of researchers says the universe is between 11.2 billion and 20 billion years old.

What is a black hole?
A: A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing can escape, even light.

How far is the nearest black hole?
A: As of now the closest known one is thought to lie at about 1,600 light years from Earth.

What is a supernova?
A: A supernova is a stellar explosion which produces an extremely bright object made of plasma that declines to invisibility over weeks or months.

What is a quasar?
A: The scientific consensus is that quasars are powered by material falling into super massive black holes in the nuclei of distant galaxies.

What is a neutron star?
A: Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of some massive stars.

What is a brown dwarf?
A: Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects with a mass below that necessary to maintain hydrogen-burning nuclear fusion reactions in their cores.

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What is a red giant?
A: They are stars of 0.4 - 10 times the mass of the Sun which have exhausted their supply of hydrogen in their cores and switched to fusing hydrogen in a shell outside the core.

How hot is the sun?
A: The core of the Sun is 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The surface of the Sun, is only 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

What is a solar flare?
A: A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun that happens when energy stored in twisted magnetic fields is suddenly released.

What are cosmic rays?
A: Cosmic rays are high energy charged particles, originating in outer space, that travel at nearly the speed of light and strike the Earth from all directions.

What is the Van Allen belt?
A: The Van Allen Radiation Belt is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, trapped by Earth's magnetic field.

What is the most common element found in the universe?
A: Hydrogen

What is Jupiter made of?
A: Jupiter is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium (by numbers of atoms, 75/25% by mass) with traces of methane, water, ammonia and "rock"

How many moons does Jupiter have?
A: Jupiter has 63 known satellites (as of Feb 2004): the four large Galilean moons plus many more small ones some of which have not yet been named.

How long is a day on Mercury?
A: Mercury rotates three times in two of its years.

How many stars are there in in the big dipper?
A: The Big Dipper is a group of seven bright stars, 3 which form a handle and 4 which form a bowl.

How many stars are in the little dipper?
A: The little dipper has 6 stars.

What is a constellation?
A: A constellation is a group of stars that, when seen from Earth, form a pattern.

How many named constellations are there?
A: There are 88 constellations.

What is the big red spot on Jupiter?
A: The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane-like storm system. It is large enough that two Earths could fit across it.

Where is the element gold come from?
A: Gold only comes from Super Novae.

What is a parsec?
A: The parsec is a unit of length used in astronomy, approximately equal to 3.261 light years.

Which planet has the most moons?
A: Jupiter has the most of any planet. Saturn is second.

Which planet is the hottest?
A: Venus is the hottest planet.

Which planet is the coldest?
A: Pluto is the coldest planet. It has an icy temperature of -400 F.

How much would 100 pounds here on earth weigh on the moon?
A: If you weighed 100 pounds on earth, you would weigh only about 16 pounds on the moon.

What is Titan's atmosphere made of?
A: The atmosphere of Titan is made mostly of Nitrogen (80-90%), just like the Earth's atmosphere!

What is the diameter of the earth?
A: The diameter of the earth at the equator is 7,926.41 miles (12,756.32 kilometers).

What is the diameter of the moon?
A: The diameter of the Moon is 3,474 kilometers.

How fast is the speed of light?
A: In metric units, the speed of light is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second (or 1,079,252,848.8 km/h). Approximately 186,000 miles per second.

How many miles is one light year?
A: A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles.

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What is a meteorite made of?
A: Most meteorites contain at least some iron metal (actually an alloy of iron and nickel). You can see the metal shining on a broken surface. Iron meteorites are all metal, stony iron meteorites are about half metal, half stone, and stone meteorites contain small flecks of metal.

How long is an astronomical unit?
A: The Astronomical Unit is the average distance between the Sun and Earth. Its value is 149,597,870 km (about 93 million miles).

Travel Trivia Questions and Answers



Fun travel trivia questions, and answers.

Is Scandinavia in the north or south of Europe?
A: North

Which Arctic country's Finnish name is Lapin Li?
A: Lapland

The Straight of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic Ocean with which Sea?
A: Mediterranean

Which country is also called the Hellenic Republic?
A: Greece

What is Europe's most mountainous country?
A: Switzerland

In Norway, a fjord is made up largely of what?
A: Water

Fun travel trivia questions, and answers.

The island of Rhodes belongs to which Mediterranean country?
A: Greece

Euro tunnel links which two countries?
A: England and France

The Left Bank generally refers to the Left Bank of the Seine in which city?
A: Paris

Okinawa is a volcano in which country?
A: Japan

What is the largest country in South America?
A: Brazil

What was the ancient city, carved out of red rock in Jordan, that was forgotten by Europeans until the 19th century?
A: Petra.

Which of the Seven Wonders of the World was a Ephesus?
A: The Temple of Artemis

What was the original purpose of the leaning tower of Pisa?
A: Bell Tower

What island in San Francisco Bay was the site of an almost escape-proof prison?
A: Alcatraz.

What was the former site of the two temples celcbrating Ramses II and Nefertari, before they were moved because of flooding by the waters of the Aswan High Dam?
A: Abu Simbel

Where is the Valley of the Kings, the scene of a terrorist attack in 1997?
A: Egypt.

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What was Ho Chi Minh City before it was called Ho Chi Minh City?
A: Saigon

To the nearest thousand, how many islands does Indonesia have?
A: 13

Which country contains the Biblical rivers of the Tigris and the EUPHRATES?
A: Iraq

What was St. Petersburg called for most of the 20th century?
A: Leningrad.

Which country lies to the north of Austria and to the south of Poland?
A: Czech Republic

What name is given to the popular holiday area between Marseille and La Spezia?
A: Riviera

How tall is the Eiffel Tower?
A: 984 feet.

Archaeologists believe they have located the burial site of Boudicca, the British queen who led a bloody revolt against Roman rule in the first century A.D. Where is it?
A: Under Platform 8 of the King's Cross Railway Station in London.

What Middle Eastern country's name includes the name of it's first ruler?
A: Saudi Arabia. Ruler Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud unified his dual kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd and their dependencies under the name Saudi Arabia in 1932.

What is the name of Moscow's largest department store?
A: GUM

What country has more volcanoes than any other?
A: Indonesia. It has 167 of the 850 active volcanoes known in the world.

What was an official language in 87 nations and territories, by 1994?
A: English.

What's the third-largest continent in square miles?
A: North America.

What is the capital of Kuwait?
A: Kuwait City. World trivia questions.

"What town name did residents of a Florida retirement community switch to because they found Sunset Depressing?
A: Sunrise.

What's the second most populous continent?
A: Europe.

What finally went out of fashion in ancient Rome, prompting people to begin wearing short pants called feminalia?
A: The Toga.

What southwestern U.S. state has the highest percentage of non-English speakers?
A: New Mexico.

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What M-word did Texas citizens choose as a town name that would "attract" folks?
A: Magnet.

What state leads the U.S. with 15 tons of solid waste per citizen each year?
A: California.

Which is further from the equator, Tasmania, Tanzania, or Transylvania?
A: Transylvania.

What eastern town is home for a service academy and the U.S. Sliver Depository?
A: West Point.

What's the University of Paris more commonly called?
A: The Sorbonne.

What two French cities are connected by the planet's fastest passenger train?
A: Paris and Lyons.

What religion has the most adherent, Buddhism, Christianity or Islam?
A; Christianity.

What U.S. state boasts a town called Captain Cook?
A: Hawaii.

What's the Greek name for hell?
A: Hades.

What European country does Aruba maintain the strongest ties to?
A: The Netherlands.

What do the Chinese call kwai-tsze, or "quick little fellows"?
A: Chopsticks.

What European country uses its Latin name, Helvetia, on its stamps?
A: Switzerland.

What British university boasts and endowment called the Jackie Mason Lectureship in Contemporary Judaism?
A: Oxford.

What country did Greek historian Herodotus dub "the gift of the Nile"?
A: Egypt.

What country is only bordered by Spain?
A: Portugal.

What's the flattest U.S. state?
A: Florida.

What U.S. state, after much debate, made the bizcochito the official state cookie?
A: New Mexico.

What Australian city boasts the largest Greek population in the world outside of Greece?
A: Melbourne.

What U.S. state boasts the towns of Gulf Stream, Lakebreeze and Frostproof?
A: Florida.

What country has bee the planet's largest aid donor since 1991?
A: Japan.

What island nation is a must for anyone wishing to see 40 species of lemours?
A: Madagascar.

What country is almost twice as large as either the U.S. or China?
A: Russia.

What South Asian city is the planet's biggest feature film producer?
A: Bombay.

How many Great Lakes do not border Michigan?
A: One.

What cowboy tune is the official song of Kansas?
A: Home on the Range.

What continent boasts the most telephone lines?
A: Europe.

What do Texas beef partisans call "wool on a stick"?
A: Lamb.

What South American country was home to the early human 'Patagnian giants"?
A: Argentina.

What Western Hemisphere people spoke Nahuatl?
A: The Aztecs.

What New Orleans soup has a name derived from the Bantu word for okra?
A: Gumbo.

What Pacific atoll got its name from its location between the Americas and Asia?
A: The Midway Islands.

What state volunteered to drop the moniker Hog and Hominy State?
A: Tennessee.

What regional accent did Americans deem sexiest, most liked and most recognizable?
A: Southern.

What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?
A: I-90.

What European country delights the Pope with the lowest divorce rate in the western world?
A: Italy

What Las Vegas hotel claims to display the world's largest hunk of gold?
A: The Golden Nugget

What's the only New England state without a seacoast?
A: Vermont

What foreign language do Norwegians study for seven years, beginning in the second grade?
A: English

What U.S. state has only 113 divorces for every 1,000 marriages?
A: Nevada

What two seas flank the Caucasus Mountains?
A: The Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

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What South American capital's name means "I saw the mountain"?
A: Montevideo's

What nation's culinary wizards gave the world Stuffed Calf's Eyes and Cow Brain Frittters?
A: France's

What's the largest country in the Commonwealth of Independent States?
A: Russia

What was the final destination of the first U.S. paddle wheel steamboat, which departed from Pittsburgh?
A: New Orleans

What southern city does Federal Express channel all its packages through?
A: Memphis

What country sends the most tourists to Australia?
A: Japan

What Spanish ethnic group do geneticists consider the most direct descendants of Cro-Magnons?
A: Basques

What U.S. state is the eighth largest economic power in the world?
A: California

What southeast Asian nation's shoppers began flashing new American Express cards in 1994?
A: Vietnam's

What bridge, celebrated in a Bobbie Gentry song, collapsed in 1972?
A: The Tallahatchie Bridge.

What do English-speaking tourists usually call France's Cote d' Azur?
A: The Riviera

What U.S. city is across the Rio Grande from Juarez?
A: El Paso

What European capital used to be called Lutetia?
A: Paris

What high-stakes city has the most unlisted phone numbers per capita in the U.S.?
A: Las Vegas

What South American archipelago has a name meaning "land of fire"?
A: Terra del Fuego

What country has the highest teen pregnancy rate of all the western industrial nations?
A: The U.S.

How many ngwee equal a kwacha when you're paying for gods in Zambia?
A: One hundred

What Jerusalem site is the only surviving part of the Second Temple?
A: The Wailing Wall

What city did environmental writer Edward Abbey call "the blob that ate Arizona"?
A: Phoenix

What nation in the Western Hemisphere is the world's largest exporter of forest products?
A: Canada

What sea laps shores of Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan?
A: The Caspian

80s Trivia Questions and Answers
Here are the stupid trivia questions and answers from the 80s.
Stupid Trivia Questions and answers

Over which country did Pan Am flight 103 crash in December 88?
A: Scotland.

Which 1980s US president survived an assassination attempt?
A: Ronald Reagan.

Which Bob who founded Band Aid received an honorary knighthood in 1986?
A: Mick Jagger.

In which 80s film did Meryl Streep play a Polish holocaust survivor?
A: Sophie's Choice.

Up Where We Belong was the theme music to which 80s film with Richard Gere and Debra Winger?
A: An Officer and a Gentleman.

Which 1982 Spielberg classic was about a little boy and his pet alien?
A: E.T.

Who sang about his Prerogative in the 1980s?
A: Bobby Brown.

Which TV evangelist did George Bush defeat to win the Republican nomination in 1988?
A: Pat Robertson.

Which Spaniard won two US Masters in the 80s?
A: Seve Ballesteros.

Which movie star appeared in General Hospital form 1981 to 1983?
A: Demi Moore.

Which all-girl group had 80s No 1s with Walk Like An Egyptian and Eternal Flame?
A: Bangles.

More stupid trivia questions and answers.

In which state did 80s chart-toppers Alabama form?
A: Alabama.

Who had a 1980 No 1 hit with Woman in Love?
A: Barbara Streisand.

Who was elected Senator for Tennessee in 1985?
A: Al Gore.

Which sitcom, premiered in 1988, featured Dr. Harry Weston?
A: Empty Nest.

Which spin-off from The Cosby Show premiered in 1987?
A: A Different World.

The 1980 Olympics were boycotted because of the USSR's invasion of which country?
A: Afghanistan.

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Where were the 1980 Olympics held which were boycotted by American athletes?
A: Moscow.

Who beat Carl Lewis in 1988 in Seoul but was later disqualified?
A: Ben Johnson.

Which 80s medical drama had the same production company as Hill Street Blues?
A: St. Elsewhere.

What kind of Boys had an 80s No 1 with West End Girls?
A: Pet Shop Boys.

In 1989, who had her first of many No 1s with Straight Up?
A: Paula Abdul.

Who was Addicted To Love in the 80s?
A: Robert Palmer.

Which volcano in Washington sate erupted in 1980?
A: Mount St. Helens.

Which 80s leader had a wife called Raisa?
A: Mikhail Gorbachev.
Still more silly stupid trivia questions and answers.

Who released an album called Thriller in 1982?
A: Michael Jackson.

Who won the ladies singles most times at Wimbledon in the 80s?
A: Martina Navratilova.

Anwar Sadat was President of which country when he died in 1981?
A: Egypt.

What kind of disaster claimed some 100,000 lives in Armenia in 1988?
A: Earthquake.

Where in the Ukraine was there a nuclear explosion in 1986?
A: Chernobyl.

What island was the home of Bob Marley, who died in 1981?
A: Jamaica.

Which city was devastated by an earthquake in 1985 and then hosted the World Cup in 1986?
A: Mexico.

Which President of the Philippines was deposed in 1986?
A: Marcos.

The increasing scarcity of elephants and rhinos led to a 1989 ban on which substance?
A: Ivory.

Who attempted to assassinate ?Ronald Reagan in 1981?
A: John Hinckley.

In 1987 Madonna filed for divorce from which husband?
A: Sean Penn.

Which dancing screen great was born in 1899 and died in 1987?
A: Fred Astaire.

In the 80s Afghanistan was occupied by troops from which country?
A: USSR.

Which Shroud was declared a fake in the 80s?
A: Turin.

In the 80s, which country was responsible for ethnic attack son the Kurds?
A: Iraq.

Whose 70th birthday concert did Whitney Houston sing at in London in 1988?
A: Nelson Mandela.

Which Nancy was elected to the Golfing Hall of Fame in 1987?
A: Lopez.

Which member of the Howe family held a record that Wayne Gretzky overtook in the 1980s?
A: Gordie.

Which Martina dominated tennis in the 80s?
A: Navratilova.

Which San Francisco team did Joe Montana play for through most of the 80s?
A: 49ers.

Who did Magic Johnson play for throughout the 80s?
A: Los Angeles Lakers.

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In 1987 the Russians and the Americans signed the Washington summit agreement to limit what?
A: Nuclear Missiles

In which 80s comedy did Dustin Hoffman play an actor who pretends to be a woman to get a part in a soap?
A: Tootsie.

Which member of Arthur's staff was played by John Gielgud in the 80s film with Dudley Moore?
A: .Valet.

Whose name followed Dirty in a 1980's No 1 for Michael Jackson?
A:: Diana.

What goes after Milli in the name of the late 80s act?
A: Vanilli.

Which Brit, Phil, was at No 1 at the end of the 80s?
A: Collins.

On which night of the week was falcon crest broadcast through most of the 80s?
A: Friday.

Which fruit gave its name to a desk top computer in 1984?
A: Apple.
printable trivia questions

Which Princess and former film star died in a car crash near Monte Carlo in 1982?
A: Grace.

At which Lake were the 1980 Winter Olympic held?
A: Placid.

Which film company merged with Time Inc in 1989 to make Time Warner?
A: Warner Brothers.

What post did Edward Shevardnadze hold in the USSR from 1985 to 1990?
A: Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Why did Bernhard Langer and Seve Ballesteros choose to share the Lancome Trophy in 1986?
A: Bad light stopped play.

In 1980 who became the then youngest ever Masters champion?
A: Seve Ballesteros.

Who was America's top Golf player between 1985 and 1989?
A: Curtis Strange.

In 1988 which city had the highest murder rate of any in the US?
A: Washington.

Which hospital was Ronald Reagan taken to after the 1981 attempt on his life?
A: George Washington Hospital.

In 1980 what was Operation Eagle Claw?
A: Attempt to rescue the US Embassy hostages in Tehran.

Who had an 80s No 1 hit with Karma Chameleon?
A: Culture Club.

Which all-girl group had an 80s No 1 with Venus?
A: Bananarama.

Who released the top-selling album Guilty in 1980?
A: Barbara Streisand.

Which spacecraft exploded on take-off in January 1986?
A: Challenger.

Which rodeo professional was Ronald Reagan's secretary of commerce from 1981 to 1987?
A: Malcolm Baldrige.

Who released the single Secret Agent Man--James Bond Is Back in '87?
A: Bruce Willis.