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General Trivia Quizzes – Random Trivia
Common Trivia Quiz
1. Light travels at the rate of 300000 km second. What distance will it travel in one light year?
Answer: 9.5 million km.
2. What is a hamster?
Answer: It is a rodent, a serious agricultural post.
3. The river Liffey flows through a capital city. Name the city:
Answer: Dublin.
4. Neerja Bhanot, who died in the Pan American hijacking to Karachi in 1987, became the first woman to win _
Answer: Ashok Chakra.
5. Many people have grown up with Penguin Books. When was the first batch published?
Answer: 1935.
6. Which is the first car factory in India? Where was it located?
Answer: Hindustan Motors, Kolkata.
7. Where is the world’s largest gas plant located?
Answer: USSR.
8. Who defeated Muhammad Ali in 1978 in the World Heavyweight Championship?
Answer: Leon Spink.
9. Several novels about the Sepoy Mutiny have been written by Indians as well as Englishmen. Who wrote ‘The siege of Krishnapur’?
Answer: J.G. Farrell.
10. Where does one hear the lowest noise?
Answer: Desert.
11. Like a man in relation to environment, a tree in relation to its environment is the subject of a special branch of science. What is it called?
Answer: Forest autecology.
12. After blood circulation stops, how long does the brain take to die?
Answer: 3 minutes.
13. Which is the world’s oldest free public city library supported by municipal taxes?
Answer: Boston Public Library.
14. For which vitamin is human requirement assumed but not proved?
Answer: Vitamin E.
15. Perhaps the most comic novel on war written in English is ‘Catch-22’. Who wrote it?
Answer: Joseph Heller.
Common Trivia Questions – Random Trivia Part 2
16. Who composed Piano Sonata No. 14, also known as the ‘Moonlight Sonata’?
Answer: Beethoven.
17. Which disease is Gingivitis?
Answer: Inflammation of gums.
18. Where was the INA formed in 1948?
Answer: Singapore.
19. Where in the world are the great vampire bats found?
Answer: Mexico and Paraguay.
20. In Judo parlance what is a ‘shiaijo’?
Answer: The fighting area.
21. What is the Golden Rule?
Answer: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
22. In which country is Marienbad, an internationally famous health resort, located?
Answer: Czechoslovakia.
23. What is the capital of Hong Kong?
Answer: Victoria.
24. The weapon in the Japanese martial art kendo has changed. What is it now?
Answer: Bamboo swords.
25. Socially unacceptable diseases are often called by another, deceptive name. What is Hansen’s disease really?
Answer: Leprosy.
26. What does inane mean?
Answer: Senseless and unimaginative.
27. Which is the world’s longest canal system?
Answer: Volga-Baltic canal system.
28. For how many weeks did ‘Mahabharat’ run on the Doordarshan?
Answer: 93 weeks.
29. In good maternity hospitals a vaccine is compulsorily administered some weeks before delivery. Which is it?
Answer: Tetanus vaccine.
30. The Republic of Ivory Coast is one of the largest producers in the world of?
Answer: Cocoa.
31. How many members are there in UN General Assembly?
Answer: 193 members.
32. Of what kind of dance did Johann Strauss become “king” in the late 19th century?
Answer: The Waltz.
33. Who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901?
Answer: Wilhelm Röntgen (German).
34. Which wintery waltz is by far Emile Waldteufel’s most famous composition?
Answer: The Skater’s Waltz.
35. Who won the men’s marathon gold in Atlanta Olympics ‘96?
Answer: Josia Thugwane of South Africa.
36. How many triangles can be seen in the Star of David on the Israeli flag?
Answer: 8.
37. Which place is known as ‘cradle’ of the Indian football?
Answer: Kerala.
38. Who sold their brother into slavery for 20 pieces of silver?
Answer: Joseph’s brothers.
39. Where and when was the first official test played between India and Pakistan?
Answer: 1952-53 in India itself.
40. Which British politician won the Admiral’s Cup in 1971 in his yacht “Morning Cloud”?
Answer: Sir Edward Heath.
41. Name the bronze medal winners in men’s singles in Bangkok Asian Games 1998:
Answer: (i) Srinath Prahlad (India) and (ii) Mahesh Bhupathi (India).
42. What flag was first adopted in Britain in 1606?
Answer: The Union Flag (popularly called the Union Jack).
43. Which king built the Tower of London?
Answer: William the conqueror.
44. Which are the only presidents in America’s history to have been impeached?
Answer: Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson.
45. What was the great invention made by the Sumerians in the field of transportation?
Answer: The wheels and chariots.
46. What do you call a grouping of buffalo?
Answer: A herd.
47. Write few examples of Mesophytes:
Answer: Cassia fistula, China Rose, Sunflower.
48. What percentage of the Earth land masses is deserts?
Answer: One third.
49. Write an example of a common acidic flux:
Answer: Sand.
50. Who established the Church of England?
Answer: Elizabeth I.
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