Free trivia questions and answers

What is the name of the tallest skyscraper in the world, completed in 2010?

Answer: Burj Khalifa

How many letters are in the English alphabet?

Answer: 26

What is the smallest country in the world by area?

Answer: Vatican City

What is the densest planet in our solar system?

Answer: Earth

What is the largest desert on Earth?

Answer: Antarctic

How long is a marathon in miles?

Answer: 26.2

How many dimples are on a standard golf ball?

Answer: 336

Tom Brady spent most of his career playing in which sport?

Answer: American football (NFL)

How long is an Olympic swimming pool in meters?

Answer: 50

In golf, what term means "two strokes under par" on a single hole?

Answer: Eagle

In which year was the discovery of the Higgs boson announced at CERN?

Answer: 2012

A graph that can be drawn in the plane with no edges crossing is called:

Answer: Planar

What is the freezing point of pure water in degrees Celsius?

Answer: 0

Which scientist formulated the three classical laws of motion?

Answer: Isaac Newton

How many teeth does an adult cat typically have?

Answer: 30

Who painted the post-Impressionist work "The Starry Night" in 1889?

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Who led Nazi Germany as its head of state from 1934 to 1945?

Answer: Adolf Hitler

Which 1929 event is traditionally cited as the start of the Great Depression?

Answer: Wall Street Crash

Which US President resigned from office in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal?

Answer: Richard Nixon

The French Revolution began in which year?

Answer: 1789

Which spell is the disarming charm in the Harry Potter series?

Answer: Expelliarmus

What kind of glasses are shown next to the popcorn?

Answer: 3D Glasses

Who wrote "The Hunger Games" novel trilogy?

Answer: Suzanne Collins

What Marvel movie featured the snap that erased half the universe?

Answer: Infinity War

Which Italian poet wrote the medieval epic "The Divine Comedy"?

Answer: Dante Alighieri

What is the capital of Brazil?

Answer: Brasilia

What is the capital of China?

Answer: Beijing

Which European capital sits on two continents?

Answer: Istanbul

Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake, straddles Peru and which other country?

Answer: Bolivia

Sydney is the capital of which Australian state?

Answer: New South Wales

Which is the only US state where coffee is grown commercially?

Answer: Hawaii

Which is the most popular ice cream flavor sold in the United States?

Answer: Vanilla

Which French dessert features baked custard topped with a hard caramelized sugar crust?

Answer: Creme brulee

What is the main protein in the classic British-Indian dish "Tikka Masala"?

Answer: Chicken

Which grape variety is the principal component of Italian Chianti wine?

Answer: Sangiovese

"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" is the signature song from which 1987 film soundtrack?

Answer: Dirty Dancing

Which SZA album features the hit single 'Good Days'?

Answer: SOS

In musical notation, what does the dynamic marking "forte" indicate?

Answer: Loud

What instrument does a violinist play?

Answer: Violin

What is the time signature of a typical waltz?

Answer: 3/4

Who directed all three "Lord of the Rings" trilogy films?

Answer: Peter Jackson

In "Lost," what is the final number in the sequence 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, ___?

Answer: 42

Which film features the quote "Here's looking at you, kid"?

Answer: Casablanca

Which 2003 film tied the all-time record for most Academy Awards won by a single film, with 11?

Answer: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Who created the HBO crime drama "The Sopranos"?

Answer: David Chase

Which is the most common file format used for sharing digital photographs on the web?

Answer: JPEG

Which Danish computer scientist created the C++ programming language as an extension of C?

Answer: Bjarne Stroustrup

What does "CPU" stand for?

Answer: Central Processing Unit

Who founded Facebook (now Meta) in 2004?

Answer: Mark Zuckerberg

Bitcoin was introduced in a 2008 whitepaper authored under which pseudonym?

Answer: Satoshi Nakamoto

Who is the captain of the USS Enterprise-D in Star Trek: The Next Generation?

Answer: Jean-Luc Picard

In The Next Generation, who is the cyberneticist that created the android Data?

Answer: Dr. Noonien Soong

On which Star Trek series is Benjamin Sisko the commanding officer?

Answer: Deep Space Nine

Mr. Spock is half-human and half what species?

Answer: Vulcan

What is the name of the starship commanded by Captain James T. Kirk in the original series?

Answer: USS Enterprise

Which amendment established a clear process for presidential succession and disability?

Answer: 25th Amendment

Which patriot spy reportedly said, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"?

Answer: Nathan Hale

At which Virginia courthouse did Lee surrender to Grant in 1865?

Answer: Appomattox

In what city was the Constitutional Convention of 1787 held?

Answer: Philadelphia

Lyndon Johnson's ambitious set of domestic programs was called the:

Answer: Great Society

Which sound designer created the iconic Star Wars lightsaber hum and Chewbacca's voice?

Answer: Ben Burtt

Which planet is home to the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi?

Answer: Endor

On which desert planet does Luke Skywalker grow up?

Answer: Tatooine

Which assassin droid bounty hunter appears on the bridge of the Executor in The Empire Strikes Back?

Answer: IG-88

What is the clone-trooper designation of Captain "Rex" in The Clone Wars?

Answer: CT-7567

Who becomes the government-appointed "US Agent" replacement Captain America before Sam Wilson takes the shield?

Answer: John Walker

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, what is Adrian Toomes' villain alias?

Answer: The Vulture

What is the name of the time-policing organization in the Disney+ series Loki?

Answer: The TVA

Which actor plays Everett Ross, the CIA agent in Black Panther and Captain America: Civil War?

Answer: Martin Freeman

In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, what is the name of the radical group led by Karli Morgenthau?

Answer: The Flag Smashers

Which of Aragorn's ancestors cut the Ring from Sauron's hand?

Answer: Isildur

What was the secret tongue of the Dwarves, which they kept hidden from other peoples?

Answer: Khuzdul

What is Aragorn's reforged sword called after it is remade in Rivendell?

Answer: Anduril

Which Dwarf-lord of Nogrod led the sack of Menegroth and slew King Thingol over the Nauglamir?

Answer: Naugladur

What is the name of the wizard who is grey and later becomes white?

Answer: Gandalf

What is the name of the school Harry attends?

Answer: Hogwarts

What is the name of Ron's pet rat, later revealed to be an Animagus?

Answer: Scabbers

What kind of magical creature is Buckbeak, whom Hagrid introduces in his first lesson?

Answer: A Hippogriff

Which Deathly Hallow is also known as the Wand of Destiny?

Answer: The Elder Wand

Which Death Eater impersonates Alastor Moody at Hogwarts during Harry's fourth year?

Answer: Barty Crouch Jr

The Souls series (Dark Souls, Elden Ring) is primarily developed by which studio?

Answer: FromSoftware

In the original Legend of Zelda, what is the name of the princess Link seeks to save?

Answer: Zelda

The character Master Chief is the protagonist of which franchise?

Answer: Halo

Which company developed the acclaimed 1998 stealth game Thief: The Dark Project?

Answer: Looking Glass Studios

Which company manufactures the Xbox console?

Answer: Microsoft

In the Weatherlight Saga, what was the name of the flying ship crewed by Gerrard, Sisay, and Squee?

Answer: The Weatherlight

The keyword "infect" deals damage to players via which alternate resource?

Answer: Poison counters

Which infamous blue instant from Alpha counters a spell unless its controller pays an escalating cost, and is restricted in Vintage?

Answer: Mana Drain

What is the name of the basic land that produces black mana?

Answer: Swamp

Which legendary Antiquities land taps for one colorless mana and is infamous in fast-artifact decks?

Answer: Mishra's Workshop

In Norse mythology, what is the name of the world tree connecting the nine realms?

Answer: Yggdrasil

In Greek mythology, which craftsman built the wings of feathers and wax used by his son Icarus?

Answer: Daedalus

In Inuit mythology, Sedna became mistress of the sea animals when what happened to her as she sank beneath the water?

Answer: Her fingers were cut off and became seals, whales, and walruses

In Egyptian mythology, the soul-devouring goddess Ammit was a composite of a crocodile, a lion, and which third animal?

Answer: Hippopotamus

In Mesopotamian mythology, who is the hero-king of one of the oldest surviving epic poems?

Answer: Gilgamesh

The technique "sfumato", soft hazy transitions between tones, is most associated with which artist?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Which banking family were the dominant patrons of Renaissance Florence?

Answer: The Medici

In fresco painting, what is the term for painting on wet plaster so the pigment bonds with the wall as it dries?

Answer: Buon fresco

The De Stijl journal, associated with Mondrian, was founded by which artist-theorist?

Answer: Theo van Doesburg

Which French Neoclassical painter created "The Death of Marat" and "Oath of the Horatii"?

Answer: Jacques-Louis David

What was the name of the first artificial satellite, launched in 1957?

Answer: Sputnik 1

Which mission achieved the first crewed landing on the Moon?

Answer: Apollo 11

What is the most abundant element in the universe by mass?

Answer: Hydrogen

What is the closest star to Earth other than the Sun?

Answer: Proxima Centauri

Which NASA mission deliberately impacted the moonlet Dimorphos in 2022 to test asteroid deflection?

Answer: DART

The Latin phrase "sine qua non" most precisely means which of the following?

Answer: Without which, not (an indispensable condition)

In economics, a good whose demand rises as its price rises, violating the ordinary law of demand, is called a what?

Answer: Giffen good

The "veil of ignorance" thought experiment for deriving principles of justice is associated with which philosopher?

Answer: John Rawls

Which mathematician introduced the concept of "imaginary" numbers' notation i for the square root of -1?

Answer: Leonhard Euler

The word "assassin" is commonly traced to an Arabic word referring to users of which substance?

Answer: Hashish