General Knowledge50 randomly selected General Knowledge questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 2nd June 2025 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | What 'P' described the best-selling game of the 1990s played using cardboard discs? |
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Pogs | |
| 2. | Domenico and Stefano founded a luxury fashion house in 1985. What are their surnames? |
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Dolce & Gabbana (Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana) | |
| 3. | How old was Princess Diana when she died in 1997? |
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36 (1st July 1961 to 31st August 1997) | |
| 4. | Name either one of the twin cruise ships that currently hold the record as the largest passenger ships ever constructed. |
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MS Allure of the Seas / MS Oasis of the Seas (Royal Caribbean International) | |
| 5. | Which country comes last in the world alphabetically? |
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Zimbabwe | |
| 6. | What six letter word can describe a car manufacturer, a river in Sweden or an island in Papua New Guinea? |
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Nissan | |
| 7. | On a ship, what objects usually hang from the davits? |
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Lifeboats | |
| 8. | Operation Unicorn deals with transporting the Queen's coffin from Scotland to London. Operation Marquee covers the four days of the Queen's lying-in-state. First devised in the 1960s, what is the code name for the principal operation handling all aspects of the death of Queen Elizabeth II? |
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Operation London Bridge | |
| 9. | Who is famously quoted as saying that in bed she wore only Chanel N°5, and nothing else? |
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Marilyn Monroe | |
| 10. | What country has the world's largest Muslim population? |
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Indonesia | |
| 11. | In what field is the prestigious annual Pritzker Prize awarded? |
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Architecture | |
| 12. | Who is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation? |
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Aphrodite (Equivalent to the Roman goddess Venus) | |
| 13. | What German word is often used in the English language to describe a look-alike? |
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Doppelgänger | |
| 14. | How many times do the minute and hour hands of a clock overlap in 24 hours? |
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22 | |
| 15. | In the original (Genus & Genus II) editions of Trivial Pursuit, what colour represents Geography? |
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Blue | |
| 16. | Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, is the incumbent president of what Southeast Asian country? |
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Indonesia | |
| 17. | What 'R' describes a revolving disk with radiating points attached to a cowboy's spur? |
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Rowel | |
| 18. | Paul is half his father David's age. In 10 years time, Paul will be three-fifths David's age. Ten years ago, Paul was one-third David's age. How old are Paul and David now? |
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20 and 40 | |
| 19. | What expression, referring to a lack of viable options, derives from a 16th-century livery stable owner in Cambridge who offered customers the horse nearest the stable door, or none at all? |
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Hobson's choice (said to have originated with Thomas Hobson (1544–1631)) | |
| 20. | Since 1965, what former U.S. President has featured on the face of a 10¢ coin (dime)? |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| 21. | What star sign comes after Cancer and before Virgo? |
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Leo | |
| 22. | What Latin term meaning "at first sight" is used in modern legal English to signify that upon initial examination, sufficient corroborating evidence appears to exist to support a case? |
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Prima facie | |
| 23. | According to the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, when two power-driven vessels are meeting head-on, in what direction must they both alter course, port or starboard? |
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Starboard (Right) | |
| 24. | What 7-letter word describes the language that is a fusion of High German, Hebrew, and Aramaic? |
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Yiddish | |
| 25. | What 'K' describes a collective community in Israel? |
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Kibbutz | |
| 26. | On a standard clock face with Roman numerals, what do all the numbers add up to? (answer in Roman numerals) |
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LXXVIII (78) | |
| 27. | How many prime numbers are there between 1 and 100? |
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25 (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97) | |
| 28. | Which part of your anatomy is also the currency of Costa Rica? |
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Colon (Costa Rican colón) | |
| 29. | What Latin derived word describes the minimum number of members of a parliament or assembly that must be present in order to make the proceedings of their meeting valid? |
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Quorum | |
| 30. | How is the number 555 represented in Roman numerals? |
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DLV (D=500, L=50, V=5 ) | |
| 31. | Meaning "instrument of thought" in sanskrit, what 'M' is the term used in Hinduism and Buddhism to describe a repeated word or sound used as an aid to concentration? |
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Mantra | |
| 32. | How many dice are used in a game of Yahtzee? |
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5 | |
| 33. | The brightest star in the night sky; by what colloquial name is Sirius often called? |
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Dog Star | |
| 34. | In astrology, what sign of the zodiac is represented by a crab? |
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Cancer | |
| 35. | What term was coined after the Norrmalmstorg bank robbery of 1973, in which employees were held hostage for six days and became emotionally attached to their captors, and even defended them after they were freed from their ordeal? |
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Stockholm Syndrome (Norrmalmstorg is a square in central Stockholm) | |
| 36. | In bygone times, malachite was commonly used as a natural source of what colour pigment? |
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Green | |
| 37. | What letter of the Greek alphabet is this? |
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Psi | |
| 38. | What is the largest number on a standard backgammon doubling cube? |
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64 (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64) | |
| 39. | What Caribbean country has the Gourde as its currency? |
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Haiti | |
| 40. | Harald V is the reigning King of what country? |
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Norway | |
| 41. | 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) | |
| 42. | The French word for the Italian city of Genoa is thought to lend its name to what type of clothing? |
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Jeans (Gênes) | |
| 43. | In the suburbs of what American city are the headquarters of McDonalds? |
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Chicago (Oak Brook, Illinois) | |
| 44. | Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda all have independent currencies bearing what common name? |
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Shilling | |
| 45. | What country has the international vehicle registration code ZA? |
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South Africa (from Dutch Zuid-Afrika) | |
| 46. | Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa is the longest-serving current prime minister in the world, having been in office since 1970 in which country? |
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Bahrain | |
| 47. | An etymologist is a person who studies the origin and history of what? |
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Words | |
| 48. | If a right angled triangle has one side 5cm long and a hypotenuse 13cm long, what is the length of the third side? |
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12cm (132 - 52 = 122 .. 169-25=144) | |
| 49. | One of the earliest arcade video games, in what year was 'Pong' released? |
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1972 | |
| 50. | France's high-speed rail service is known by what three-letter initials? |
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TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) | |
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