General Knowledge50 randomly selected General Knowledge questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 12th January 2026 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Which country has the letter C as its international car registration? |
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Cuba | |
| 2. | After how many years would you celebrate a diamond anniversary? |
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60 | |
| 3. | What is the combined total of rings in: the Audi logo, the Twelve Days of Christmas, and the Olympic logo? |
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14 (4+5+5) | |
| 4. | What 'M' describes a form of textile-making using knotting rather than weaving or knitting? |
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Macramé | |
| 5. | According to Christian ethics, how many deadly sins are there? |
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7 (Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, and Gluttony) | |
| 6. | What 'L' describes the short or knee-length leather breeches worn as traditional garments in German-speaking countries? |
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Lederhosen | |
| 7. | Who is also known as Siddhārtha Gautama? |
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Buddha | |
| 8. | Astraphobia is the abnormal fear of what natural phenomenon? |
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Thunder and lightning
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| 9. | What 'T' is a modern day term from the Latin word for "three roads"? |
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Trivia (the "three roads" represent the three lower Artes Liberales, i.e. grammar, logic, and rhetoric) | |
| 10. | How many living former Presidents of the United States are there? |
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4 (George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter) | |
| 11. | Lust, Gluttony, Greed; what four others complete the seven deadly sins? |
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Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride | |
| 12. | Traditionally, how many Pillars of Faith are there in Islam? |
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5 (Shahadah, Salat, Sawm, Zakat, Hajj) | |
| 13. | What single word is a capital city, a 1966 film starring Charlton Heston, and Jack Woltz's horse in The Godfather? |
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Khartoum | |
| 14. | Which religion celebrates the festival of Vesak or Vesākha? |
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Buddhism (The birth, enlightenment, and passing away of Gautama Buddha) | |
| 15. | "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog". What 'P' describes that sentence? |
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Palindrome (It reads the same backward as forward) | |
| 16. | How many faces does a hexagonal prism have? |
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8 (two hexagonal 'ends' and six rectangular 'sides') | |
| 17. | A farmer owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies its fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has 12 boughs and each bough has 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver? |
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None (He has 1728 pears, he doesn't have any plums) | |
| 18. | LOT is the national airline of what country? |
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Poland (LOT Polish Airlines) | |
| 19. | Spell correctly the plural of 'axis'. |
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Axes | |
| 20. | The second child and only son of 10th president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and former first lady Imelda Marcos, what is the nickname of the current president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr.? |
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Bongbong | |
| 21. | What 'G' describes this Hindu deity? |
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Ganesh / Ganesha / Ganapati (गणेश / गणपति) | |
| 22. | How many cards are there altogether in a standard version of the board game Cluedo (Clue)? |
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21 (6 suspects, 6 weapons, 9 rooms) | |
| 23. | In Greek mythology, who was the father of Zeus? |
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Cronus / Kronos (Greek: Κρόνος) | |
| 24. | What is the colloquial English name for the Japanese Shinkansen |
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Bullet train | |
| 25. | How many candle holders does a Jewish Hanukkah menorah have in total? |
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9 (8 + 1 shamash / servant) | |
| 26. | What number should replace the question mark? 24 → 12 45 → 19 84 → 32 15 → 9 102 → ? |
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38 (Divide by 3, then add 4) | |
| 27. | To the nearest 1%, what was the percentage "No" vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum? |
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55 (55.3) | |
| 28. | ASITG is a treacherous person, especially one who feigns friendship. Expand those initials.
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A snake in the grass | |
| 29. | GBZ is the international vehicle registration code for what British Overseas Territory? |
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Gibraltar (Z was assigned because G was already used for Guernsey) | |
| 30. | Hiver is French for what season? |
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Winter | |
| 31. | In the Catholic Church, what 'C' means to declare someone a saint? |
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Canonisation | |
| 32. | How many playing blocks are there in a game of Jenga? |
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54 (18x3) | |
| 33. | France's high-speed rail service is known by what three-letter initials? |
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TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) | |
| 34. | Of the 26 words in the NATO phonetic alphabet, which two are types of dance? |
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Foxtrot and Tango | |
| 35. | How many title deed cards are there in a standard game of Monopoly? |
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28 (22 streets, 4 railways, 2 utilities) | |
| 36. | Sometimes incorrectly referred to as "babushka dolls", what 'M' describes these Russian nested dolls? |
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Matryoshka (Russian: матрёшка) | |
| 37. | Bokmål is the most widely used language in which European country? |
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Norway | |
| 38. | How many X's are there on a regular clock face with Roman numerals? |
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4 (IX, X, XI, XII) | |
| 39. | On a ship, what objects usually hang from the davits? |
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Lifeboats | |
| 40. | Which country has the largest population of native Puerto Ricans? |
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United States (4.8 million compared to 3.5 million in Puerto Rico) | |
| 41. | A common response to a sneeze in German, what does Gesundheit translate to in English? |
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Health | |
| 42. | Who split up with Ken Carson between 2004 and 2006, during which time she dated Blaine, an Australian surfer? |
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Barbie | |
| 43. | To what country's stock exchange does the DAX index belong? |
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Germany (Deutscher Aktienindex) | |
| 44. | In Monopoly, what square precedes Pacific Avenue (US), Regent Street (UK), Castlereagh Street (AU) and Dee Street (NZ)? |
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Go To Jail | |
| 45. | What four-letter acronym describes the automated system that determines the eligibility of visitors to travel to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program? |
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ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) | |
| 46. | Who is the reigning Queen of Denmark? |
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Margrethe II | |
| 47. | What is the meaning of the small arrow next to the fuel pump symbol on a vehicle's fuel gauge? |
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Indicates which side of the car the fuel filler cap is on | |
| 48. | Of what country is Avianca the flag-carrying airline? |
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Colombia | |
| 49. | What one word can describe a part of the digestive system, a punctuation mark, and the currency of Costa Rica? |
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Colon | |
| 50. | Mooban หมู่บ้าน .. Tambon ตำบล .. Amphoe อำเภอ .. what comes next? |
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Changwat or Jangwat จังหวัด (Village, Sub-District, District, Province) | |
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