Free trivia questions and answers

Which planet is known as the Red Planet?

Answer: Mars

What is the chemical symbol for sodium?

Answer: Na

What is the largest desert on Earth?

Answer: Antarctic

What is the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere?

Answer: Nitrogen

What is the official language of Brazil?

Answer: Portuguese

In which Swiss city is FIFA headquartered?

Answer: Zurich

In American football, how many points is a safety worth?

Answer: 2

In cricket, how many runs is a "century"?

Answer: 100

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

Answer: Eagle

How many points is a try worth in modern rugby union?

Answer: 5

The Pauli exclusion principle applies to fermions. What property defines a fermion?

Answer: Half-integer spin

The number of elements in any finite field must be:

Answer: A prime power

How many legs does an adult insect have?

Answer: 6

What is the hybridization of each carbon atom in benzene?

Answer: sp^2

What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?

Answer: Carbon Dioxide

The Roman Empire was centered on which city?

Answer: Rome

Who led India's nonviolent independence movement against British rule?

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

In what year did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?

Answer: 1941

Which Soviet leader oversaw the dissolution of the USSR in 1991?

Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev

In what year did the Spanish Armada fail in its attempt to invade England?

Answer: 1588

What video game franchise features a character named Link?

Answer: The Legend of Zelda

How many pieces does each player start with at the beginning of a chess game?

Answer: 16

What TV show is set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana?

Answer: Stranger Things

Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Which Marvel superhero wields an iconic unbreakable shield made of vibranium?

Answer: Captain America

Which lake is the world's deepest and oldest, holding about 20% of Earth's unfrozen surface fresh water?

Answer: Lake Baikal

What is the capital of Turkey?

Answer: Ankara

The Challenger Deep, the ocean's deepest point, lies in which trench?

Answer: Mariana Trench

What is the longest mountain range in the world?

Answer: Andes

The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to which other body of water?

Answer: Red Sea

What vegetable are french fries made from?

Answer: Potato

Which country is the rice dish paella originally from?

Answer: Spain

Classic French onion soup is typically topped with toasted bread and which melted cheese?

Answer: Gruyere

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

Answer: Creme brulee

Which type of vinegar is traditionally served with British fish and chips?

Answer: Malt

What is the highest female singing voice?

Answer: Soprano

Which country singer is most associated with the hit "Stand by Your Man"?

Answer: Tammy Wynette

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

Answer: Dirty Dancing

What is the title of SZA's debut studio album released in 2017?

Answer: Ctrl

Which Spanish musical genre is famous for rhythmic guitar and passionate dance?

Answer: Flamenco

In "The Matrix," which colored pill does Neo take to learn the truth about reality?

Answer: Red

Who wrote and directed the 1994 film "Pulp Fiction"?

Answer: Quentin Tarantino

In the Star Wars films, what color is Yoda's lightsaber?

Answer: Green

Who plays physicist Sheldon Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory"?

Answer: Jim Parsons

Who played Captain Jack Sparrow throughout the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise?

Answer: Johnny Depp

Which company manufactures the iPad tablet?

Answer: Apple

What is the name of Tesla's more affordable mass-market sedan, first delivered in 2017?

Answer: Model 3

What is the name of Google's primary mobile payment service?

Answer: Google Wallet (Google Pay)

What does "RAM" stand for in computer terminology?

Answer: Random Access Memory

What does "API" stand for in software development?

Answer: Application Programming Interface

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

Answer: USS Enterprise

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

Answer: Deep Space Nine

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

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

Answer: Vulcan

What are the three colors of the United States flag?

Answer: Red, white, and blue

Who was the third President of the United States?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Which 1917 event helped bring the United States into World War I?

Answer: Zimmermann Telegram

The 1787 compromise creating a two-house Congress is known by what name?

Answer: The Connecticut (Great) Compromise

The Wright brothers made their first powered flight in 1903 in which state?

Answer: North Carolina

Which weapon is the traditional weapon of the Jedi?

Answer: Lightsaber

Who composed the musical scores for the Star Wars saga films?

Answer: John Williams

Which actor played the young Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace?

Answer: Jake Lloyd

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

Answer: CT-7567

What is Anakin Skywalker's mother's name?

Answer: Shmi Skywalker

Which Infinity Stone is hidden inside the Tesseract?

Answer: Space Stone

Which 2008 film launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Answer: Iron Man

What is the name of Star-Lord's spaceship in the first Guardians of the Galaxy?

Answer: The Milano

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

Answer: The Vulture

Which sorcerer, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, becomes a Master of the Mystic Arts?

Answer: Doctor Strange

What was the name of the ship in which Earendil sailed the heavens bearing a Silmaril?

Answer: Vingilot

Who was the first of the Elves to awake at Cuivienen, according to Tolkien's legendarium?

Answer: Imin

What was the haven of the Teleri Elves, whose swan-ships were seized in the Kinslaying?

Answer: Alqualonde

Which of the Two Trees of Valinor bore silver light?

Answer: Telperion

What is the name of Frodo Baggins's loyal gardener who accompanies him to Mordor?

Answer: Samwise Gamgee

What is the name of Hagrid's three-headed dog?

Answer: Fluffy

Which house did the Sorting Hat consider placing Harry in before Gryffindor?

Answer: Slytherin

Which Muggle Studies professor does Voldemort murder at Malfoy Manor?

Answer: Charity Burbage

What type of wood is Harry's wand made from?

Answer: Holly

What creature is Aragog, whom Hagrid raised in secret?

Answer: An Acromantula

Which 1980 arcade game featured named ghost enemies Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde?

Answer: Pac-Man

Which company manufactures the Xbox console?

Answer: Microsoft

Who is credited as the creator of the Metal Gear series?

Answer: Hideo Kojima

The 1986 Legend of Zelda was an early console game notable for what save technology?

Answer: Battery-backed cartridge memory

The MMORPG EverQuest, released in 1999, was developed by which studio?

Answer: Verant Interactive

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

The mechanic Phyrexian mana, payable with either mana or 2 life, first debuted in which set?

Answer: New Phyrexia

What was the name of the first Magic: The Gathering core set, released in 1993?

Answer: Alpha

Which keyword grants a creature the ability to attack the turn it comes under your control?

Answer: Haste

In Finnish mythology, what is the name of the national epic compiled by Elias Lonnrot?

Answer: The Kalevala

In Norse mythology, what is the hall in which Odin's chosen slain warriors await Ragnarok?

Answer: Valhalla

In Norse mythology, what is the name of Odin's eight-legged horse?

Answer: Sleipnir

In Greek mythology, who was the primordial earth goddess who gave birth to Uranus?

Answer: Gaia

In Slavic folklore, the hut of the witch Baba Yaga is famously said to stand on what?

Answer: Chicken legs

Who painted "The Birth of Venus"?

Answer: Sandro Botticelli

Which architect designed the spiral Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City?

Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright

Which German artist created the engraving "Melencolia I"?

Answer: Albrecht Durer

The "contrapposto" stance first appears in Greek sculpture with which early Classical work?

Answer: The Kritios Boy

Which Spanish painter created the court portrait "Las Meninas"?

Answer: Diego Velazquez

What is the term for the point in a planet's orbit where it is closest to the Sun?

Answer: Perihelion

The 2019 Event Horizon Telescope image showed the supermassive black hole at the center of which galaxy?

Answer: M87

Edwin Hubble classified galaxies using a diagram commonly nicknamed what?

Answer: The tuning fork

What is the name of the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape?

Answer: Event horizon

The epoch at which the universe became transparent, releasing the cosmic microwave background, is called what?

Answer: Recombination

Euler's identity relates five fundamental constants. Which equation expresses it?

Answer: e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0

In which key is Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 written?

Answer: A major

The condition in which the heart points toward the right side of the chest is known as what?

Answer: Dextrocardia

The philosophical razor stating "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity" is named after whom?

Answer: William of Ockham

In statistics, a value dividing a dataset into 100 equal parts is called a what?

Answer: Percentile