Test Your Knowledge With These Fun Trivia Questions and Answers

Ever heard the phrase “use it or lose it”? Well, that’s definitely applicable when it comes to your mind. While you may think your learning days are over once you finish school, it’s time to change your perspective. If you stop using your mind, your cognitive abilities begin to deteriorate. Just like your muscles need exercise to be strong, so does your mind. A fun way to give your brain the workout it needs is by doing trivia quizzes. With these fun trivia questions and answers, you’ll enjoy learning something new!

Animal Trivia Questions

1. Which mammal is known to have the most powerful bite in the world?
2. What object does a male penguin often gift to a female penguin to win her over?
3. How long is an elephant pregnant before it gives birth?
4. What are the only two mammals are the only ones known to lay eggs?
5. Why are flamingos pink?
6. A dog sweats through which part of its body?
7. What is the size of a newborn kangaroo?
8. How far away can a wolf smell its prey?
9. Which animal is known to spend 90% of its day, sleeping?
10. What color is the tongue of a giraffe?

Answers:

1. Hippopotamus
2. A pebble
3. 22 Months
4. The anteater and the duck-billed platypus
5. Because of their diet of algae, shrimps and crustaceans
6. Its paws
7. 1 inch
8. Almost 2 miles
9. Koalas
10. Purple

History Trivia Questions

1. What was the shortest war in human history?
2. How many years did the 100 years war last?
3. In which year did Hitler commit suicide?
4. One of the ancient world wonders, the “Hanging Gardens,” was found in which city?
5. Which organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1917?
6. How many days was William Harrison President of the United States?
7. What was the family name of the Russian rulers from the 17th century until the 1917 revolution?
8. Which U.S. president had a home called The Hermitage?
9. How many U.S. presidents have been assassinated?
10. Which King of England was executed in 1649 during the English Civil War?

Answers:

1. The war between England and Zanzibar
2. 116 years
3. 1945
4. Babylon
5. The Red Cross
6. 32
7. Romanov
8. Andrew Jackson
9. Four
10. Charles I.

Geography Trivia Questions

1. Which country has the largest population in the world?
2. What are the names of the five oceans of the world?
3. What American city is the Golden Gate Bridge located in?
4. What is the name of the largest country in the world?
5. Where is the Eiffel Tower located?
6. What is the name of the largest ocean in the world?
7. What country are the Great Pyramids of Giza located in?
8. What is the name of the smallest country in the world?
9. What country has the most natural lakes?
10. What planet is closest to Earth?

Answers:

1. China
2. Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and the Antarctic
3. San Francisco
4. Russia
5. Paris, France
6. The Pacific Ocean
7. Egypt
8. The Vatican City
9. Canada
10. Venus

Science Trivia Questions

1. What inorganic molecule is produced by lightning?
2. What is the nearest planet to the sun?
3. What is the largest known land animal?
4. How many elements are there in the periodic table?
5. How many bones do sharks have?
6. What is the rarest blood type?
7. What type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between different atoms?
8. What disease stems from the medieval term that means ‘bad air’?
9. What part of the brain deals with hearing and language?
10. Animals that eat both plants and meat are called what?

Answers:

1. Ozone
2. Mercury
3. Elephant
4. 118
5. Zero
6. AB-
7. Covalent
8. Malaria
9. Temporal lobe
10. Omnivores

Literature Trivia Questions

1. The Da Vinci Code opens with a murder in which famous museum?
2. Veronica Roth’s Divergent book series is set in a post-apocalyptic version of which U. S. city?
3. Who was the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
4. What was the working title of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone With the Wind?
5. What is the name of the poem John Keats wrote to a singing bird?
6. Which Stephen King novel takes place mostly in the fictional Overlook Hotel?
7. In what language was Don Quixote written?
8. What word did Robert A. Heinlein introduce into the English language in his book Stranger in a Strange Land? 
9. What is the name of Captain Ahab’s ship?
10. The book Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen takes place in what era?

Answers:

1. The Louvre
2. Chicago
3. Gao Xingjian
4. Ba! Ba! Black Sheep
5. Ode To A Nightingale
6. The Shining
7. Spanish
8. Grok
9. Pequod
10. 1930’s

Automobile Trivia Questions

1. What was the original color for all Ferrari models?
2. What does Volkswagen mean?
3. Japanese car company Toyota was originally established as a textiles manufacturer. True or false?
4. What is the world’s all-time best-selling car?
5. What is the car driven by Mr. Bean, the hapless character played by Rowan Atkinson?
6. Which iconic car manufacturer also made airplane engines?
7. Which sports car features in the Back To The Future trilogy?
8. What kinds of feathers are used to clean Jaguar cars before they are painted?
9. How many rings are in the Audi logo?
10. What is considered to be the first ‘pony car’?

Answers:

1. Red
2. The ‘people’s car’
3. True
4. Toyota Corolla
5. A MINI
6. Rolls Royce
7. DeLorean
8. Emu feathers. They are used to prevent the car from attracting dust.
9. Four
10. Ford Mustang

Art Trivia Questions

1. What is the Japanese art of flower arrangement called?
2. What artist sold a balloon dog for $58.4 million?
3. Which artist said ‘everything you can imagine is real’?
4. True Or False: Roman statues were made with detachable heads.
5. Who was the artist that inhaled his own work, Alice In Wonderland?
6. Pablo Picasso learned what first before walking?
7. What are the colors obtained by mixing equal amounts of two primary colors called?
8. The art of paper folding is known as what?
9. What animal often symbolizes peace in art?
10. Who is credited as the designer of the many statues which decorated the Parthenon?

Answers:

1. Ikebana
2. Jeff Koons
3. Pablo Picasso
4. True
5. Willard Wigan
6. Drawing
7. Secondary colors
8. Origami
9. Dove
10. Phidias

Sports Trivia Questions

1. The Olympics are held every how many years?
2. What do you call it when a bowler makes three strikes in a row?
3. How many dimples does an average golf ball have?
4. The classic 1980 movie called Raging Bull is about which real-life boxer?
5. In the 1971 Olympics, Nadia Comaneci was the first gymnast to score a perfect score. What country was she representing?
6. What country has competed the most times in the Summer Olympics yet hasn’t won any kind of medal?
7. Which golf tournament did Tiger Woods win by 12 strokes cementing his first-ever major championship win?
8. What does NBA stand for?
9. How many holes are played in an average round of golf?
10. How long is a marathon?

Answers:

1. 4 years
2. Turkey
3. 336
4. Jake LaMotta
5. Romania
6. Liechtenstein
7. The Masters
8. National Basketball Association
9. 18
10. 26.2 miles

Entertainment Trivia Questions

1. Who played Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate?
2. In The Matrix, does Neo take the blue pill or the red pill?
3. What 1927 musical was the first “talkie”?
4. What flavor of Pop Tarts does Buddy the Elf use in his spaghetti in Elf? 
5. What pop vocal group performs at the wedding in Bridesmaids?
6. What American writer/director starred in several iconic European-produced “Spaghetti Westerns“?
7. The head of what kind of animal is front-and-center in an infamous scene from The Godfather?
8. What critically panned 1984 country-musical comedy starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone eventually became a cult classic?
9. In what 1976 thriller does Robert De Niro famously say “You talkin’ to me?”
10. For what movie did Steven Spielberg win his first Oscar for Best Director?

Answers:

1. Anne Bancroft
2. Red
3. The Jazz Singer 
4. Chocolate
5. Wilson Phillips
6. Clint Eastwood
7. A horse
8. Rhinestone 
9. Taxi Driver 
10. Schindler’s List

Music Trivia Questions

1. What was Freddie Mercury‘s real name?
2. Which member of the Avengers had a brief stint as a pop star?
3. Before Bleachers and fun., Jack Antonoff fronted what band?
4. Which artist’s entire 1985 Live Aid set consisted of just a single cover song?
5. Keith Moon and John Entwistle of The Who are said to have inspired the name of which other classic rock band?
6. Who founded Motown Records?
7. What was Madonna‘s first top 10 hit?
8. What film did The Clash’s Joe Strummer direct starring some of his bandmates?
9. Who was Marvin Gaye‘s duet partner?
10. Paul McCartney credits which artist with teaching him everything he knows?

Answers:

1. Farrokh Bulsara
2. Brie Larson
3. Steel Train
4. Elvis Costello
5. Led Zeppelin
6. Berry Gordy
7. “Holiday”
8. Cops and Robbers
9. Tammi Terrell
10. Little Richard