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This collection has 170+ general knowledge questions and answers across 13 categories, from easy warm-ups to hard trivia. Pull a round from movies, sports, science, or Game of Thrones, or run the whole thing as one long quiz night. Every answer here is checked and current as of 2026.
What you'll find in this post
- 170+ general knowledge questions and answers across 13 categories
- Easy, medium, and hard difficulty tiers so you can pace a quiz night properly
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General knowledge trivia
A spread of subjects from history to chemistry, sorted by difficulty so you can ease a crowd in before turning up the heat.
Easy
1. What is the longest river in the world?
Answer: The Nile River.
2. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci.
3. What is the name of the biggest technology company in South Korea?
Answer: Samsung.
4. What is the chemical symbol for water?
Answer: H2O.
5. What is the largest organ in the human body?
Answer: The skin.
6. How many days are in a year?
Answer: 365 (366 in a leap year).
7. What is the name of the house made entirely of ice?
Answer: Igloo.
8. What is the square root of 64?
Answer: 8.
9. What month has 28 days?
Answer: All of them (a classic trick question).
Medium
10. What is the capital of Portugal?
Answer: Lisbon.
11. How many breaths does the human body take daily, on average?
Answer: Around 20,000.
12. What is the chemical symbol for silver?
Answer: Ag.
13. What is the first line of the novel "Moby Dick"?
Answer: Call me Ishmael.
14. What is the world's smallest bird?
Answer: The bee hummingbird.
15. What is Barbie's full name?
Answer: Barbara Millicent Roberts.
16. Who holds the Guinness World Record for the loudest burp, at 112.4 decibels in 2021?
Answer: Neville Sharp, of Australia.
17. What was Disney's first full-color cartoon?
Answer: Flowers and Trees.
Hard
18. Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1841 to 1846?
Answer: Robert Peel.
19. What did Al Capone's business card state his occupation was?
Answer: A used furniture salesman.
20. Who invented the tin can for preserving food, in 1810?
Answer: Peter Durand.
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Movie general knowledge quiz
21. In which year was The Godfather first released?
Answer: 1972.
22. Which actor won the Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994)?
Answer: Tom Hanks.
23. How many self-referential cameos did Alfred Hitchcock make in his films between 1927 and 1976?
Answer: 37.
24. Which 1982 film tells the story of a young, fatherless suburban boy and a lost, friendly visitor from another planet?
Answer: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
25. Which actress played Mary Poppins in the 1964 film Mary Poppins?
Answer: Julie Andrews.
26. In which 1963 classic film did Charles Bronson appear?
Answer: The Great Escape.
27. In which 1995 film did Sandra Bullock play the character Angela Bennett?
Answer: The Net.
28. Which New Zealand director made In the Cut (2003), The Water Diary (2006), and Bright Star (2009)?
Answer: Jane Campion.
29. Which actor provided the voice for Nemo in the 2003 film Finding Nemo?
Answer: Alexander Gould.
30. Which prisoner, dubbed "the most violent prisoner in Britain," was the subject of a 2009 biopic?
Answer: Charles Bronson (the film is titled Bronson).
31. What 2008 film starring Christian Bale features the line "whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you stranger"?
Answer: The Dark Knight.
32. Who played Tokyo underworld boss O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill Vol. I and II?
Answer: Lucy Liu.
33. In which film did Hugh Jackman play a rival magician to Christian Bale's character?
Answer: The Prestige.
34. Director Frank Capra, best known for It's a Wonderful Life, was born in which Mediterranean country?
Answer: Italy.
35. Which British actor played Lee Christmas alongside Sylvester Stallone in The Expendables?
Answer: Jason Statham.
36. Which American actor starred opposite Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks?
Answer: Mickey Rourke.
37. Which former Doctor Who actress played Nebula in Avengers: Infinity War?
Answer: Karen Gillan.
38. Who voiced the "Hit Me Baby One More Time" cover in Kung Fu Panda 4?
Answer: Jack Black.
39. Who played Julia Carpenter in 2024's Madame Web?
Answer: Sydney Sweeney.
40. Which 2025 film is the most recent addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe's main "Fantastic Four" story, as of this quiz's last update?
Answer: The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Sports general knowledge quiz
41. Where does the Tampa Bay Rays play their home games?
Answer: Tropicana Field.
42. First held in 1907, in which sport is the Waterloo Cup contested?
Answer: Crown green bowls.
43. Who was the BBC's "Sports Personality of the Year" in 2001?
Answer: David Beckham.
44. Where were the Commonwealth Games held in 1930?
Answer: Hamilton, Canada.
45. How many players are there in a water polo team?
Answer: Seven.
46. What sport did Neil Adams excel in?
Answer: Judo.
47. Which country won the 1982 World Cup in Spain, defeating West Germany 3-1?
Answer: Italy.
48. What is the nickname of Bradford City football club?
Answer: The Bantams.
49. Which team won the American football Super Bowl in 1993, 1994, and 1996?
Answer: The Dallas Cowboys.
50. What greyhound won the Derby in 2000 and 2001?
Answer: Rapid Ranger.
51. Who won the 2012 Australian Open women's final, defeating Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-0?
Answer: Victoria Azarenka.
52. Who scored the extra-time drop goal that won England the 2003 Rugby World Cup, beating Australia 20-17?
Answer: Jonny Wilkinson.
53. Which sport did James Naismith invent in 1891?
Answer: Basketball.
54. As of 2026, how many times have the Patriots reached the Super Bowl final?
Answer: 12.
55. Wimbledon 2017 was won by a 14th seed who defeated Venus Williams in the final. Who was she?
Answer: Garbiñe Muguruza.
56. How many players are on an Olympic curling team?
Answer: Four.
57. As of 2020, who was the last Welshman to win Snooker's World Championship?
Answer: Mark Williams.
58. Which American city's Major League Baseball team is named the Cardinals?
Answer: St Louis.
59. Which country has won the most Olympic synchronized swimming golds since the event's return in 2000?
Answer: Russia.
60. Canadian Connor McDavid is a star of which sport?
Answer: Ice hockey.
Science general knowledge quiz
61. Who dropped a hammer and a feather on the Moon to show they fall at the same rate without air resistance?
Answer: David R. Scott.
62. If the Earth were compressed into a black hole, what would the diameter of its event horizon be?
Answer: About 20mm.
63. If you fell down a frictionless hole straight through the Earth, roughly how long would the fall take?
Answer: About 42 minutes.
64. How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: Three.
65. In what year did chemist Norm Larsen invent WD-40?
Answer: 1953.
66. How many hairs does the average human head have, to the nearest thousand?
Answer: Around 100,000.
67. What is the furthest object visible to the naked eye?
Answer: The Andromeda Galaxy, roughly 2.5 million light-years away.
68. Who invented the gramophone?
Answer: Emile Berliner.
69. What do the initials HAL stand for in the HAL 9000 computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Answer: Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer.
70. Roughly how many years would a spacecraft launched from Earth take to reach Pluto?
Answer: About nine and a half years, the flight time of NASA's New Horizons probe.
71. Who is credited with inventing man-made carbonated (fizzy) drinks?
Answer: Joseph Priestley.
72. In 1930, Albert Einstein and a colleague were issued a US patent for what invention?
Answer: A refrigerator.
73. What is the largest single molecule in the human body?
Answer: Chromosome 1.
74. Roughly how much water is there on Earth per person?
Answer: Around 170 billion liters per person.
75. How many grams of sodium chloride are in a liter of typical seawater?
Answer: About 35 grams, since seawater is roughly 3.5% salt by mass.
76. What percentage of the solar system's total mass is in the Sun, to the nearest 1%?
Answer: 99%.
77. What is the average surface temperature on Venus?
Answer: About 460°C (860°F).
78. Where were some of the first computer animations produced?
Answer: The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK.
79. What is the largest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Jupiter.
80. What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere during photosynthesis?
Answer: Carbon dioxide.
Music general knowledge quiz
81. Which 1960s American pop group is credited with creating the "surf sound"?
Answer: The Beach Boys.
82. In what year did the Beatles first tour the USA?
Answer: 1964.
83. Who was the lead singer of the 1970s pop group Slade?
Answer: Noddy Holder.
84. What was Adele's debut single called?
Answer: "Hometown Glory."
85. "Future Nostalgia," which includes the single "Don't Start Now," is the second studio album by which English singer?
Answer: Dua Lipa.
86. Name the band with these members: John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, and Roger Taylor.
Answer: Queen.
87. Which singer was known as "the King of Pop" and "the Gloved One"?
Answer: Michael Jackson.
88. Which American pop star had back-to-back 2015 hits with "Sorry" and "Love Yourself"?
Answer: Justin Bieber.
89. What was the name of Taylor Swift's 2023-2024 stadium tour?
Answer: The Eras Tour.
90. Which song opens with the lyrics "May I have your attention, please"?
Answer: "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem.
Football general knowledge quiz
91. Which club won the 1986 FA Cup final?
Answer: Liverpool, beating Everton 3-1.
92. Which goalkeeper holds England's caps record, with 125 appearances?
Answer: Peter Shilton.
93. How many league goals did Jurgen Klinsmann score for Tottenham Hotspur across 41 league starts in the 1994-95 Premier League season?
Answer: 20.
94. Who managed West Ham United between 2008 and 2010?
Answer: Gianfranco Zola.
95. What is Stockport County's nickname?
Answer: The Hatters (also known as County).
96. In which year did Arsenal move from Highbury to the Emirates Stadium?
Answer: 2006.
97. What is Sir Alex Ferguson's middle name?
Answer: Chapman.
98. Which Sheffield United striker scored the first ever Premier League goal, in August 1992?
Answer: Brian Deane.
99. Which Lancashire team plays home games at Ewood Park?
Answer: Blackburn Rovers.
100. Who took charge of the England national team in 1977?
Answer: Ron Greenwood.
Art general knowledge quiz
101. Which artist created "Campbell's Soup Cans" in 1962?
Answer: Andy Warhol.
102. Which sculptor created "Family Group" in 1950, his first large-scale commission after World War II?
Answer: Henry Moore.
103. What nationality was sculptor Alberto Giacometti?
Answer: Swiss.
104. How many sunflowers appear in Van Gogh's third version of "Sunflowers"?
Answer: 12.
105. Where is Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa exhibited?
Answer: The Louvre, Paris.
106. Which artist painted "The Water-Lily Pond" in 1899?
Answer: Claude Monet.
107. Which contemporary artist is known for preserving dead animals, including a shark, a sheep, and a cow, as art?
Answer: Damien Hirst.
108. What nationality was artist Henri Matisse?
Answer: French.
109. Which artist painted "Self-Portrait with Two Circles"?
Answer: Rembrandt van Rijn.
110. What is the name of Bridget Riley's 1961 optical-art piece: "Shadow Play," "Cataract 3," or "Movement in Squares"?
Answer: Movement in Squares.
Famous landmark general knowledge quiz
Name the country each landmark is in.
111. Giza Pyramid and the Great Sphinx
Answer: Egypt.
112. The Colosseum
Answer: Italy.
113. Angkor Wat
Answer: Cambodia.
114. The Statue of Liberty
Answer: United States.
115. Sydney Harbour Bridge
Answer: Australia.
116. The Taj Mahal
Answer: India.
117. The Juche Tower
Answer: North Korea.
118. The traditional water towers
Answer: Kuwait.
119. The Azadi Monument
Answer: Iran.
120. Stonehenge
Answer: United Kingdom.
World history general knowledge quiz
Name the year each event took place.
121. The first university was founded, in Bologna, Italy.
Answer: 1088.
122. The First World War ended.
Answer: 1918.
123. The first contraceptive pill became available to women.
Answer: 1960.
124. William Shakespeare was born.
Answer: 1564.
125. Modern paper was first used, in China.
Answer: 105 AD.
126. The People's Republic of China was founded.
Answer: 1949.
127. Martin Luther launched the Reformation.
Answer: 1517.
128. The Second World War ended.
Answer: 1945.
129. Genghis Khan began his conquest of Asia.
Answer: 1206.
130. The traditionally cited birth year of Buddha.
Answer: 563 BC.
Game of Thrones general knowledge quiz
131. Master of Coin Lord Petyr Baelish was also known by what name?
Answer: Littlefinger.
132. What is the title of the very first episode?
Answer: "Winter Is Coming."
133. What is the name of the Game of Thrones prequel series?
Answer: House of the Dragon.
134. What is Hodor's real name?
Answer: Wylis.
135. What is the title of the season 7 finale?
Answer: "The Dragon and the Wolf."
136. Daenerys has three dragons: Drogon, Rhaegal, and one more. Name it.
Answer: Viserion.
137. How did Cersei's daughter Myrcella die?
Answer: She was poisoned.
138. What is the name of Jon Snow's direwolf?
Answer: Ghost.
139. Who created the Night King?
Answer: The Children of the Forest.
140. Iwan Rheon, who played Ramsay Bolton, originally auditioned for which character?
Answer: Jon Snow.
James Bond franchise general knowledge quiz
141. What was the first Bond film, released in 1962 with Sean Connery as 007?
Answer: Dr. No.
142. How many Bond films did Roger Moore appear in as 007?
Answer: Seven: Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, and A View to a Kill.
143. In which 1973 Bond film did the henchman Tee Hee appear?
Answer: Live and Let Die.
144. Which Bond film was released in 2006?
Answer: Casino Royale.
145. Which actor played Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker?
Answer: Richard Kiel.
146. True or false: Halle Berry played the character Jinx in the 2002 Bond film Die Another Day.
Answer: True.
147. In which 1985 Bond film does an airship marked "Zorin Industries" appear?
Answer: A View to a Kill.
148. Name the Bond villain in From Russia with Love (1963), played by Lotte Lenya and shot dead by Tatiana Romanova.
Answer: Rosa Klebb.
149. Which actor played Bond immediately before Daniel Craig, across four films as 007?
Answer: Pierce Brosnan.
150. Which actor played Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, his only appearance in the role?
Answer: George Lazenby.
Michael Jackson quiz questions and answers
151. True or false: Michael won the 1984 Grammy for Record of the Year for "Beat It."
Answer: True.
152. Name the other four members of The Jackson 5.
Answer: Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon Jackson.
153. What song was the B-side of the single "Heal the World"?
Answer: "She Drives Me Wild."
154. What was Michael's middle name?
Answer: Joseph.
155. Which 1982 album is certified the best-selling album in US chart history by the RIAA?
Answer: Thriller.
156. How old was Michael when he passed away in 2009?
Answer: 50.
157. True or false: Michael was the eighth of ten children.
Answer: True.
158. What was the title of Michael's 1988 autobiography?
Answer: Moonwalk.
159. In what year did Michael receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Answer: 1984.
160. Which song did Michael release in September 1987?
Answer: "Bad."
Board games general knowledge quiz
161. Which board game has 40 spaces, including 28 properties, four railroads, two utilities, and the four corners GO, Jail, Free Parking, and Go to Jail?
Answer: Monopoly.
162. Which party board game, mixing trivia, sculpting, charades, and word games, was created in 1998 by Whit Alexander and Richard Tait?
Answer: Cranium.
163. Name the six suspects in the board game Cluedo.
Answer: Miss Scarlett, Colonel Mustard, Mrs White, Reverend Green, Mrs Peacock, and Professor Plum.
164. Which general-knowledge and pop-culture board game was created in 1979?
Answer: Trivial Pursuit.
165. Which 1967 game involves a plastic tube, plastic rods called straws, and marbles?
Answer: KerPlunk.
166. In which board game do teams try to identify words from their teammates' drawings?
Answer: Pictionary.
167. What is the grid size in a game of Scrabble?
Answer: 15 x 15.
168. What is the maximum number of players in a game of Mouse Trap?
Answer: Four.
169. In which game do players collect marbles using plastic hippos?
Answer: Hungry Hungry Hippos.
170. Name the game that simulates a person's life from college to retirement, played by two to six people.
Answer: The Game of Life.
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Frequently asked questions
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170+ questions and answers across 13 categories: general trivia (easy, medium, hard), movies, sports, science, music, football, art, landmarks, world history, Game of Thrones, James Bond, and Michael Jackson.
What's a good mix of difficulty for a mixed-age quiz night?
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