General Knowledge50 randomly selected General Knowledge questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 14th April 2025 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | To be President or Vice President of the United States, a person must be at least what age? |
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35 | |
| 2. | What is the second-largest stock exchange in the world after the NYSE? |
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NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations - also in New York) | |
| 3. | When can you add 'two' to 'eleven' and get 'one' as the correct answer? |
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Time / Clock (Add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one o'clock) | |
| 4. | What 'C' describes a small bouquet of flowers worn on a woman's dress or around her wrist for a formal occasion? |
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Corsage | |
| 5. | Which of these is the odd one out? Aunt, Brother, Cousin, Father, Mother, Niece, Sister, Uncle |
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Cousin (All the rest are gender specific) | |
| 6. | Relating to boats and ships, what does the acronym RORO stand for? |
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Roll-on/roll-off | |
| 7. | What does a milliner make? |
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Hats | |
| 8. | Complete this proverb: When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks |
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... like a nail | |
| 9. | Relating to financial affairs, what non-hyphenated word in the English language contains three consecutive double letters? |
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Bookkeeper / Bookkeeping | |
| 10. | What four-letter word is German for train or railway? |
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Bahn | |
| 11. | What single word can describe a group of native Americans, a large Pacific salmon, or a type of helicopter? |
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Chinook | |
| 12. | Fitzgerald, Baines, Milhous, Rudolph, Earl, ______. What's next in the sequence? |
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Wilson (John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Gerald Rudolph Ford, James Earl Carter, Ronald Wilson Reagan) | |
| 13. | 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 | |
| 14. | Which letter of the Greek alphabet is this? |
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Theta | |
| 15. | In what field is the prestigious annual Pritzker Prize awarded? |
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Architecture | |
| 16. | In the First Feeding Miracle, how many small barley loaves and how many small fish did Jesus use to feed the 5,000? |
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5 loaves and 2 fish (7 loaves and a few small fish in the Second Miracle, feeding 4,000) | |
| 17. | Carl XVI Gustaf is the reigning king of which country? |
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Sweden | |
| 18. | Divided into 100 stotinki (стотинки), the lev (лев) is the currency of what European country? |
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Bulgaria | |
| 19. | Dame Nellie Melba and Sir John Monash appear on what denomination of Australian banknote? |
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AU$100 | |
| 20. | A caterpillar covers its outward journey to a vegetable patch at a speed of 114 metres per hour. After filling up with his favourite foods the caterpillar returns, over exactly the same distance, at 38 metres per hour. What is the caterpillar’s average speed over the entire journey? |
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57 metres per hour (38m/h takes 3 times longer than 114m/h, so (114+38+38+38)/4) | |
| 21. | The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising the United States and what four other countries? |
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Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom | |
| 22. | Which member of the cat family is a term used to describe an older woman who is attracted to, and often has sex with, much younger men? |
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Cougar | |
| 23. | "Shepherd One" is the international call sign given to any aircraft carrying who? |
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The Pope | |
| 24. | How many calendar months have eight letters in their name? |
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3 (February, November, December) | |
| 25. | In Portuguese, how is Brazil spelt? |
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Brasil | |
| 26. | What 'D' describes any of various crane-like devices used on a ship for supporting, raising, and lowering equipment such as boats and anchors? |
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Davit | |
| 27. | In Greek mythology, who was the father of Zeus? |
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Cronus / Kronos (Greek: Κρόνος) | |
| 28. | What 'S' describes bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ? |
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Stigma / Stigmata | |
| 29. | Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom (deceased), and Little Pixie are the daughters of what former couple? |
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Bob Geldof & Paula Yates | |
| 30. | An internationally recognised business management degree, what does the 'A' in MBA stand for? |
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Administration (Master of Business Administration) | |
| 31. | Acrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of what? |
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Heights | |
| 32. | What does the pencil classification 'HB' stand for? |
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Hard Black | |
| 33. | How many tiles are there in a standard 'Double-6' set of dominoes? |
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28 | |
| 34. | What is your star sign if you were born on Christmas Day? |
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Capricorn (December 22 - January 20) | |
| 35. | Which famous building has the address 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? |
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White House (Washington, D.C.) | |
| 36. | Excluding plural words, name two of the four Modern English dictionary words made up of six consonants and no vowels? |
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Rhythm, Spryly, Sylphy, Syzygy | |
| 37. | In Greek mythology, what is the name of the winged horse? |
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Pegasus | |
| 38. | How many cubic centimetres are there in a cubic metre? |
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1 million | |
| 39. | Name the South African-born Canadian-American business magnate best known as the founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla Motors. |
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Elon Musk | |
| 40. | Seamaster and Speedmaster are two lines of watches by what manufacturer? |
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Omega | |
| 41. | What 'F' is the name of the prefecture in Honshu, Japan that gives its name to the nuclear disaster following the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011? |
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Fukushima | |
| 42. | If you were shoving an aglet through an eyelet, what are you most likely to be doing? |
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Tying shoelaces | |
| 43. | MI is the postal abbreviation for what U.S. state? |
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Michigan (Mississippi is MS, Minnesota is MN, Missouri is MO) | |
| 44. | Who, in Roman mythology, are the parents of Cupid? |
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Mars and Venus | |
| 45. | What 'B' describes the width of a ship at its widest point on the waterline? |
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Beam | |
| 46. | According to the latest figures from the United Nations World Tourism Organization, which European country is the top international tourist destination in the world? |
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France (74.2 million international tourist arrivals in 2009) | |
| 47. | What three letter word describes both an adult male swan and a small horse? |
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Cob | |
| 48. | Widely used since the late 1980s by Pepsico to promote some of their products, what is the name of this cartoon character? |
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Fido Dido | |
| 49. | What name is given to the cabin below an airship? |
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Gondola | |
| 50. | Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are also known as what? |
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Mormons | |
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