Whether you're passing the time with friends or preparing for a pub quiz, it never hurts to expand your mental inventory of fascinating facts. If you feel like your supply is starting to run low, then you're in luck. We've compiled a varied list of general knowledge questions and answers for you to study up on. We've also organized these trivia items based on subject and difficulty, so you can either start slow or dive right into the more challenging material. Read on to test how much you really know.
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Easy General Knowledge Questions
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- Question: In what galaxy is our solar system located?
- Question: Red, yellow, and blue are examples of what?
- Question: What type of gas is absorbed by plants?
- Question: What’s the primary ingredient in hummus?
- Question: Which planet is known as the “Red Planet”?
- Question: Who is most often credited with inventing electricity?
- Question: Anti-clockwise moves in which direction?
- Question: What is the shortest month of the year?
- Question: The sun rises in the...
- Question: How many years are in a millennia?
- Question: What is the world's smallest continent?
- Question: Who is known as the “Father of Modern Physics”?
- Question: In what year did the Titanic sink?
- Question: Where does the majority of Earth's energy come from?
- Question: What year was the very first model of the iPhone released?
Answer:The Milky Way
Answer: Primary colors
Answer: Carbon dioxide
Answer: Chickpeas
Answer: Mars
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Answer: Left
Answer: February
Answer: East
Answer: 1,000
Answer: Australia
Answer: Albert Einstein
Answer: 1912
Answer: The sun
Answer: 2007
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Funny General Knowledge Questions
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- Question: What animal did Australian soldiers have to fight back in 1932?
- Question: What household item was originally called the "Whirlwind"?
- Question: In what country is it illegal to own a single guinea pig because they tend to get lonely?
- Question: Women were forbidden from wearing what in 19th-century Florence?
- Question: It's illegal for anyone who is not a magician to own one of these in Queensland, Australia.
- Question: What was the first patented service uniform in the U.S.?
- Question: How do you say entrance” and “driveway” in Swedish, respectively?
- Question: What is a group of unicorns called?
- Question: In Georgia, it’s illegal to eat what with a fork?
- Question: What color is an airplane's "black box," really?
- Question: Coprastastaphobia is the fear of what?
- Question: In which U.S. state is it illegal to swear in front of a corpse?
- Question: What is a Gambrinus?
- Question: What country has been put up for sale online—multiple times?
- Question: Who claimed he could “drive away the devil with a fart?”
Answer: The emu
Answer: The vacuum
Answer: Switzerland
Answer: Buttons
Answer: A rabbit
Answer: The Playboy Bunny
Answer: “Infart” and “uppfart”
Answer: A blessing
Answer: Fried chicken
Answer: Orange
Answer: Constipation
Answer: Texas
Answer: The symbol and personification of beer
Answer: New Zealand
Answer: Martin Luther
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Hard General Knowledge Questions
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- Question: What is the national bird of India?
- Question: In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified this planet.
- Question: Who holds the record for the most Grand Slam titles in women's tennis?
- Question: What festival is called the Festival of Colors?
- Question: What two cities represent letters in the phonetic alphabet?
- Question: What language contains the most words?
- Question: In what month does Russia celebrate the October Revolution?
- Question: What does the word "matrix" mean in the Bible?
- Question: What country is the kiwi fruit native to?
- Question: What is the main ingredient of Bombay Duck?
- Question: What website did Mark Zuckerberg create before Facebook that allowed users to compare the attractiveness of two people side by side?
- Question: What is the common name for enuresis?
- Question: Who discovered penicillin?
- Question: What were clocks missing before 1577?
- Question: What is the chemical symbol for the element mercury?
Answer: The peacock
Answer: Pluto
Answer: Margaret Court
Answer: Holi
Answer: Lima and Quebec
Answer: English
Answer: November
Answer: Womb
Answer: China
Answer: Fish
Answer: Facemash
Answer: Bedwetting
Answer:Alexander Fleming
Answer: Minute hands
Answer: Hg
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General Trivia About Sports
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- Question: Which country won the most medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics?
- Question: In which country was the sport of curling invented?
- Question: Which country won the first FIFA World Cup back in 1930?
- Question: Which boxer has been nicknamed “The Greatest” and “The People’s Champion”?
- Question: Which country invented table tennis?
- Question: How many NBA Championships did Michael Jordan win while playing for the Chicago Bulls?
- Question: What sport has been played on the moon?
- Question: In what year was the first-ever Wimbledon Championship held?
- Question: How many players are there on a rugby league team?
- Question: What is the national sport of Japan?
Answer: The U.S.
Answer: Scotland
Answer: Uruguay
Answer: Muhammad Ali
Answer: England
Answer: Six
Answer: Golf
Answer: 1877
Answer: 13 players
Answer: Sumo wrestling
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General Knowledge Questions About Film and Art
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- Question: Which Indiana Jones movie was released back in 1984?
- Question: Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 2020 film Joker?
- Question: The Hunger Games series was written by which author?
- Question: What is the name of the fourth book in the Harry Potter series?
- Question: Who is the writer of The Merchant of Venice?
- Question: Anna Pavlova was famous for performing this dance form.
- Question: Which artist is most famous for their close-up perspective paintings of flowers?
- Question: Who designed the Guggenheim Museum?
- Question: Who is considered the father of European abstract art?
- Question: What 1927 movie musical was the first "talkie"?
- Question: Who was the first person of color to win an Oscar?
- Question: Which animated film features a character named Timon?
- Question: The Dutch painter Rembrandt lived during which century?
- Question: Which of Picasso’s famous paintings was inspired by the bombings of civilians during the Spanish Civil War?
- Question: Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Answer: Joaquin Phoenix
Answer: Suzanne Collins
Answer: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Answer: William Shakespeare
Answer: Ballet
Answer: Georgia O’Keeffe
Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright
Answer: Wassily Kandinsky
Answer: The Jazz Singer
Answer: Hattie McDaniel
Answer The Lion King
Answer: 17th
Answer: Guernica
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
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General Knowledge Trivia Questions About the Human Body
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- Question: When people are frightened, their ears produce more of what?
- Question: What is the space between your nostrils called?
- Question: How long is the small intestine?
- Question: What is the smallest bone in the human body?
- Question: How many bones do babies have when they are born?
- Question: What is the rarest blood type in humans?
- Question: What is the body’s most flexible and movable joint?
- Question: Who has more hair follicles: blondes or brunettes?
- Question: How much salt does the average human body contain?
- Question: What's the longest bone in the body?
- Question: How many muscles does it take to smile?
- Question: Which part of the brain is responsible for balance and coordination?
- Question: How many chambers does the human heart have?
- Question: What is the hardest substance in the human body?
- Question: True or false: If you go into space, you get taller.
Answer: Earwax
Answer: The columella
Answer: Seven meters
Answer: The stapes, located in the middle ear
Answer: 300
Answer: AB negative
Answer: The shoulder joint
Answer: Blondes
Answer: 250 grams
Answer: The femur
Answer: 13
Answer: The cerebellum
Answer: Four
Answer: Tooth enamel
Answer: True—the cartilage disks in your spine expand due to the lack of gravity
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General Geography Trivia
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- Question: What is the capital city of Australia?
- Question: On which continent is the Amazon Rainforest located?
- Question: Which two countries share the longest international border?
- Question: What is the largest desert in the world?
- Question: Name the country known as the Land of the Rising Sun.
- Question: Which river runs through the Grand Canyon?
- Question: What is the largest country in the world (by area)?
- Question: What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
- Question: What is the name of the longest river in the world?
- Question: What is the world's longest continental mountain range?
- Question: What is the smallest country in the world?
- Question: The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of which country?
- Question: What is the largest island in the world?
- Question: What is the name of the largest ocean on Earth?
- Question: Which is the tallest mountain in the world?
Answer: Canberra
Answer: South America
Answer: Canada and the U.S.
Answer: The Sahara Desert
Answer: Japan
Answer: Colorado River
Answer: Russia
Answer: Sicily
Answer: The Nile
Answer: The Andes
Answer: Vatican City
Answer: Australia
Answer: Greenland
Answer: Pacific Ocean
Answer: Mount Everest
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General Knowledge Questions About Animals
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- Question: What is the largest mammal in the world?
- Question: How long is the gestation period of an African elephant?
- Question: Ants do what to warn one another of danger?
- Question: How many years can a snail sleep for?
- Question: Which bird lays the largest eggs?
- Question: How many noses does a slug have?
- Question: What do you call a group of zebras?
- Question: Why do otters hold hands when floating in water?
- Question: What is the smallest species of monkey?
- Question: What is the slowest animal in the world?
- Question: What part of the body is used to determine the age of a horse?
- Question: Which ocean creatures have no teeth?
- Question: How many compartments does a cow’s stomach have?
- Question: What is the world’s largest living reptile?
- Question: What is the fastest land animal in the world?
Answer:The blue whale
Answer: 22 months
Answer: Release pheromones
Answer: Three
Answer: The ostrich
Answer: Four
Answer: A dazzle
Answer: So they don't drift apart while sleeping
Answer: Pygmy marmoset
Answer: The three-toed sloth
Answer: Its teeth
Answer: Baleen whales
Answer: Four
Answer: The saltwater crocodile
Answer: The cheetah
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General Knowledge Questions About History
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- Question: In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?
- Question: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
- Question: What ancient civilization built the Machu Picchu complex in Peru?
- Question: What event is believed to have kicked off World War I?
- Question: Who was the first Prime Minister of India?
- Question: What was the capital city of the Inca Empire?
- Question: In which country was the Battle of Culloden fought?
- Question: What year did World War II end?
- Question: What year did the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) go into effect?
- Question: Who was the first female millionaire in the U.S.?
- Question: The Great Wall of China was primarily built by which dynasty?
- Question: Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
- Question: How many biological children did George Washington have?
- Question: What was the name of the first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth?
- Question: Who was the first ruler of the Mongol Empire?
Answer: 1989
Answer: Marie Curie
Answer: The Incas
Answer: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Answer: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Cuzco
Answer: Scotland
Answer: 1945
Answer: 1994
Answer: Madam CJ Walker
Answer: The Ming Dynasty
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Answer: None
Answer: Sputnik
Answer: Genghis Khan
