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Best general trivia questions
1. In what country did the first Starbucks open outside of North America?
Answer: Japan
2. What does CODA stand for?
Answer: Child of Deaf Adults
3. In a website browser address bar, what does “www” stand for?
Answer: World Wide Web
4. Where were the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights stored during World War II?
Answer: Fort Knox
5. What is the tiny piece at the end of a shoelace called?
Answer: An aglet
6. Which company’s slogan is “You’re in good hands?”
Answer: Allstate
7. Who was the first televised President?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt
8. Pocahontas was baptized and given what English name?
Answer: Rebecca
9. Originally, Amazon only sold what kind of product?
Answer: Books
10. In 2009, what became the first Morse code character to be added since WWII?
Answer: The “@” symbol
11. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
12. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Marie Curie (1903)
13. Which kind of bulbs were once exchanged as a form of currency?
Answer: Tulips
14. What was the original purpose of the tiny pocket in jeans?
Answer: To store pocket watches.
15. What does SPF in sunscreen stand for?
Answer: Sun Protection Factor
16. Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Explorer are different types of what?
Answer: Web browsers
17. In what year was the internet opened to the public?
Answer: 1993
18. Who is often credited with creating the world’s first car?
Answer: Karl Benz
19. Demolition of the Berlin wall separating East and West Germany began in what year?
Answer: 1989
20. Who was the first woman pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic?
Answer: Amelia Earhart
21. When did Facebook first launch?
Answer: 2004
22. “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” were the first words spoken on what cable channel that launched at 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981?
Answer: MTV
23. A 401(k) is a type of tax-advantaged defined-contribution account designed to help you save for what withdrawal from working life?
Answer: Retirement
24. What is the last name of the business tycoon behind the “No. 5” perfume?
Answer: Chanel
25. Some of our favorite collective nouns for animals include a congregation of alligators, a business of ferrets, an ostentation of peacocks, and a gaggle of what other fowl?
Answer: Geese
26. The digital yuan is giving Alipay a run for its money as the largest mobile payment network based in what country?
Answer: China
27. What food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan, uses several animal mascots to sell its cereals, such as Newton the Owl, Tony the Tiger, and a rooster named Cornelius?
Answer: The Kellogg Company (Kellogg’s)
28. In the insurance business, what is the name of a person whose job it is to analyze statistics to calculate risks and price premiums accordingly?
Answer: Actuary
29. An important ratio that helps home buyers determine how much house they can afford, DTI, stands for what in real-estate parlance?
Answer: Debt to Income
30. In the Catholic Church, the Bishop of Rome is a title more commonly known as what?
Answer: Pope
31. Known mainly for spreading a specific type of food, what Massachusetts-born 19th-century man was also fond of spreading religion throughout the country on his journeys?
Answer: Johnny Appleseed
32. From 1944 to 1945, the Germans increased their troops surrounding the Ardennes Forest for what World War II Battle and major counteroffensive? It gets its name from the rounded swelling of German troops in the region.
Answer: Battle of the Bulge
33. Michael Joseph Blassie, who died in the Vietnam War, was identified through DNA testing in 1998 and was reinterred after having been buried in what specific location for the previous 26 years?
Answer: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Entertainment trivia questions
1. In which city the famous film Lady Bird took place?
Answer: Sacramento (California)
2. Who provided the voice of Groot in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies?
Answer: Vin Diesel
3. Who directed the ultimate Marvel movie Avengers: End Game?
Answer: Joe & Anthony Russo
4. Which is the highest-grossing R-rated film in North America?
Answer: The Passion of the Christ
5. In which city is Studio 54 located?
Answer: New York
6. In the horror film Alien what was the name of the spaceship?
Answer: USCSS Nostromo
7. This singer is famously called the “Material Girl”?
Answer: Madonna
8. Who is the famous pop band that was called “Kara’s Flowers” up until 2001?
Answer: Maroon 5
9. What was the coffee shop named in the hit TV show Friends?
Answer: Central Perk
10. How old was Rose in the Titanic movie when she was recounting her story
Answer: 100 years old
11. What was the first Disney animated feature movie that was not based on an already existing story?
Answer: The Lion King
12. How many Harry Potter books and movies are there? (Hint: They are not the same number!)
Answer: 7 books & 8 movies
13. What is the longest-running Broadway show?
Answer: The Phantom of the Opera
14. What is Rihanna’s real name?
Answer: Robin Fenty
15. Mickey Mouse almost went by a different name. What was it?
Answer: Mortimer Mouse
16. What day is known as Star Wars Day?
Answer: May 4th (May the 4th be with you!)
17. Directing Schindler’s List gave who their first Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Steven Spielberg
18. What magic duo performed at the Mirage casino in Las Vagas from 1990 – 2003?
Answer: Siegfried & Roy
19. How many Star Wars movies are there (not including spin-offs like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Solo)?
Answer: 9
20. Who was Walt Disney‘s favorite princess?
Answer: Cinderella
21. Who was the actor to first portray James Bond?
Answer: Barry Nelson
22. What is the highest-grossing romantic comedy movie?
Answer: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
23. What was the first cable television series to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series?
Answer: The Sopranos
24. In which country did the first season of Survivor take place?
Answer: Malaysia
25. Who won the first season of American Idol?
Answer: Kelly Clarkson
26. Before he was the frontman for Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl was the drummer for which band?
Answer: Nirvana
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27. Which duo won the first Grammy for Best Rap Performance?
Answer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
28. What singer holds the most Grammy nominations?
Answer: Beyoncé (88 nominations, including the 9 with Destiny’s Child)
29. Who is the most recent person to achieve EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) status?
Answer: Viola Davis
30. What animal did Britney Spears famously carry on her shoulders during a performance?
Answer: A snake
31. How many years have passed between the release of Avatar and its sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water?
Answer: 13 years
32. On The Mandalorian, what is Baby Yoda‘s real name?
Answer: Grogu
33. Before Mike Myers was selected to perform Shrek’s voice, who was the other Saturday Night Live performer initially cast as Shrek?
Answer: Chris Farley
34. Actor Tom Holland lip-synced what song on the show Lip Sync Battle?
Answer: “Umbrella”
Sports trivia questions
1. Which NFL player spent two years in prison for being one of the chief operators of Bad News Kennels?
Answer: Michael Vick
2. Which country originated the sport of curling?
Answer: Scotland
3. What is the national sport of Canada?
Answer: Lacrosse
4. In what year were the first Air Jordan sneakers released?
Answer: 1984
5. What US city hosted the 1994 World Cup final?
Answer: Pasadena (California)
6. What sporting event is held every Memorial Day?
Answer: The Indy 500
7. Which athlete has won the most Olympic medals?
Answer: Michael Phelps (28 medals)
8. What is the national sport of Japan?
Answer: Sumo wrestling
9. Where is the largest bowling center located?
Answer: Japan
10. What is the signature food dish served at Wimbledon?
Answer: Strawberries and cream
11. Which NFL player has scored the most touchdowns?
Answer: Tom Brady
12. Who is the all-time leading NBA scorer?
Answer: LeBron James
13. The first sport invented was what?
Answer: Wrestling
14. How long is a marathon?
Answer: 26.2 miles
15. What is Muhammad Ali’s real name?
Answer: Cassius Clay
16. Which country has the most Olympic medals in swimming?
Answer: The USA
17. In bowling, three strikes in a row is called?
Answer: A turkey
18. Bruce Lee was famous in what sport?
Answer: Wushu
19. How many players are on each side of the net in beach volleyball?
Answer: 2 players
20. Which athlete won the Tour de France every year from 1999 – 2005?
Answer: Lance Armstrong
21. Who is the youngest golfer ever to win the U.S. Junior Amateur title?
Answer: Tiger Woods
22. Ping-pong is an alternative name for which sport?
Answer: Table tennis
23. In which sport can you win the Davis Cup?
Answer: Tennis
24. How old are the horses that run in the Kentucky Derby?
Answer: Three years old
25. What was Wilt Chamberlain’s record for most points in a single game?
Answer: 100 points
26. Who is the all-time home run leader?
Answer: Barry Bonds (762)
27. What is the only country to have played in every single soccer World Cup?
Answer: Brazil
28. What sport were women allowed to play in the Olympics for the first time?
Answer: Tennis
29. What six-letter word names both a seed company and an exercise that combines a squat, a pushup and a jump in the air?
Answer: Burpee
30. Celebrated for its ability to improve athletic capacity and glucose metabolism, HIIT is typically a cardiovascular exercise strategy alternating periods of intense exercise with recovery. What does HIIT stand for?
Answer: High-Intensity Interval Training
31. Greg Lemond, who won the Tour de France three times in the late 1980s, was the first cyclist to appear on the cover of which American sports magazine?
Answer: Sports Illustrated
32. It can be played indoors or outdoors. It’s notable for attracting a wide range of ages and fitness levels. It combines elements of tennis, badminton and ping-pong. Its highest governing body is the IFP. What sport is it?
Answer: Pickleball
33. Since he pitched 749 games in his 22-year career (including a perfect game in 1904), which MLB player has an award for great pitchers named after him?
Answer: Cy Young
34. Mount Whitney is the finish line for the ultramarathon race that starts 135 miles earlier at Badwater, the scorching basin of what national park?
Answer: Death Valley
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Animal trivia questions
1. What is the loudest animal on Earth?
Answer: The sperm whale
2. What is the tallest breed of dog?
Answer: Great Dane
3. How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: Three
4. What are the only two mammals that lay eggs?
Answer: Echidna and platypus
5. What color is a giraffe’s tongue?
Answer: Black
6. How many bones do sharks have?
Answer: Zero!
7. What is the fear of spiders called?
Answer: Arachnophobia
8. What is the largest animal on the planet?
Answer: Antarctic Blue Whale
9. Which animal is the fastest on land?
Answer: Cheetah
10. While often confused with llamas, what breed of camelid is used for fleece production, while its cousin the llama is not?
Answer: Alpaca
11. What creature with an equine name has no teeth or stomach, mates for life, and is the only species on Earth where the male carries the unborn offspring?
Answer: Seahorse
12. What is the name of the second tallest (standing) bird on the planet? This animal is found only in Australia and is related to the ostrich.
Answer: Emu
13. The largest living lizard can’t breathe fire, but it does have a venomous bite that inhibits blood clotting. What creature is this?
Answer: Komodo dragon
14. The Sumatran species of what famously horned mammal officially went extinct in Malaysia in November 2019? The animal is not yet extinct globally as a few dozen live in Indonesia.
Answer: Rhino
15. What does the bat use to navigate and locate its prey?
Answer: Echolocation
16. What is the fastest fish in the ocean that can reach up to 68 MPH?
Answer: Sailfish
17. What is the color of the most poisonous frog in the world?
Answer: Yellow
18. What are male honeybees called?
Answer: Drones
19. How many compartments do cows have in their stomach?
Answer: Four
20. What are the only birds that can fly backward?
Answer: Hummingbirds
21. What do you call animals that eat everything (meat, plants and fish)?
Answer: Omnivores
22. What shark is thought to be the largest to have ever lived on Earth?
Answer: Megalodon
23. Besides elephants and rhinoceroses, what other animals are considered pachyderms?
Answer: Hippopotamuses
24. What is the largest land predator?
Answer: Polar bear
25. What fish is known as a poor man’s lobster?
Answer: Monkfish
26. What is a rhinoceros horn made of?
Answer: Hair
27. This is the only snake that builds a nest.
Answer: King cobra
28. Which bird has the largest wingspan?
Answer: Albatross
29. What was the first animal placed on the endangered species list?
Answer: Peregrine falcon
30. What are rhinoceros horns made of?
Answer: Hair
31. The age of a lion can be determined by its?
Answer: Nose
32. What bird cannot move their eyeballs?
Answer: Owls
33. A group of crows is called what?
Answer: Murder
34. What kind of creature is a Portuguese Man O’ War?
Answer: Jellyfish
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Food and drink trivia questions
1. How many herbs and spices are in Colonel Sanders’ original KFC recipe?
Answer: 11
2. Which fast food restaurant still boards the slogan “Have it your way”?
Answer: Burger King
3. What is the oldest soft drink in America?
Answer: Dr. Pepper
4. Which fruit is used to flavor the liqueur, Southern Comfort?
Answer: Peach
5. Which U.S. state is the only state to grow coffee beans?
Answer: Hawaii
6. In 1929 what ingredient was removed from Coca-Cola?
Answer: Cocaine
7. What is the world’s most expensive spice?
Answer: Saffron
8. This is used to measure the spicy heat of peppers.
Answer: The Scoville scale
9. Which condiment was used as medicine during the 1830s?
Answer: Ketchup
10. In 1974, what was the first product scanned by a UPC scanner?
Answer: Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum
11. In a pinch, this can be used as a substitute for blood plasma?
Answer: Coconut water
12. Which food is known to be the most stolen in the world?
Answer: Cheese
13. Which is the only edible food that never expires?
Answer: Honey
14. How is white sugar converted into brown sugar?
Answer: By adding molasses
15. Which state consumes the most turkeys on Thanksgiving Day?
Answer: California
16. Scurvy is caused by a lack of this vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin C
17. Which vegetable was the first to be grown in space?
Answer: Potato
18. The small, edible pieces of a pomegranate are known as what?
Answer: Arils
19. What is the segment inside an orange called?
Answer: Carpel
20. What is considered to be the oldest vegetable?
Answer: Pea
21. Vodka is made from which vegetable?
Answer: Potato
22. In Middle Eastern cuisine, what is Hummus made from?
Answer: Chickpeas
23. What is the most popular carbonated beverage?
Answer: Coca-Cola
24. In which American state was the first McDonald’s opened?
Answer: California
25. What British chocolate company produces creme-filled chocolate eggs known for simulating the texture and appearance of a soft-boiled chicken’s egg?
Answer: Cadbury
26. What is the colloquial term for a rotating tray often placed on a table to aid in distributing food?
Answer: Lazy Susan
27. Name the Italian dessert that contains ladyfingers, mascarpone, and a secret pick-me-up ingredient.
Answer: Tiramisu
28. Somewhere between a coffee and a dessert, an ‘affogato’ contains espresso poured over what other ingredient?
Answer: Gelato
29. The “Cutie” brand of produce primarily focuses on what miniature cousin of the orange?
Answer: Clementine
30. Sometimes called “the green fairy,” what anise-flavored spirit is used as a rinse in a classic New Orleans Sazerac cocktail?
Answer: Absinthe
31. The orange and blue packaging of what Nestle candy bar proclaims that it is “crispety, crunchety and peanut-buttery”?
Answer: Butterfinger
32. Coffee was the first food to undergo what process for cold-temperature long-term preservation?
Answer: Freeze-dried
33. “Peasant’s cabbage” was an early term used for what cruciferous plant that spiked in popularity in the 2000s?
Answer: Kale
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Kid-friendly trivia questions
1. What was the first toy to be advertised on television?
Answer: Mr. Potato Head
2. In Cinderella, what are the names of Cinderella’s two step-sisters?
Answer: Anastasia and Drizella
3. In Back to the Future, what type of car is the time machine?
Answer: A DeLorean
4. Where does the Wizard live in The Wizard of Oz?
Answer: The Emerald City
5. Which breakfast cereal is advertised with the slogan “Snap, crackle and pop”?
Answer: Rice Krispies
6. How many colors are in a rainbow?
Answer: 7 (Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)
7. Who was the first president of the United States of America?
Answer: George Washington
8. This man is regarded as the one who invented the telephone.
Answer: Alexandar Graham Bell
9. A person who studies fossils and prehistoric life, such as dinosaurs, is known as what?
Answer: Paleontologist
10. What type of fish is Nemo?
Answer: Clownfish
11. A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children’s book-turned-movie, by Chris Van Allsburg?
Answer: The Polar Express
12. Where is Big Ben located?
Answer: London, England
13. Who gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
Answer: France
14. What are the Olympic medals made from?
Answer: Gold, silver & bronze
15. How many teeth does an adult human have?
Answer: 32
16. How many elements are in the periodic table?
Answer: 118
17. What animal is considered to be the symbol of America?
Answer: Bald eagle
18. Which Disney princess is inspired by a real person?
Answer: Pocahontas
19. What is the hardest (and longest) bone in your body?
Answer: Femur (thigh bone)
20. What U.S. state is only two miles away from Russia?
Answer: Alaska
21. How old has the oldest person lived to be?
Answer: 122 years old
22. What singer produced such a high demand for concert ticket sales that the Ticketmaster website temporarily shut down?
Answer: Taylor Swift
23. Who is the author of the Harry Potter book series?
Answer: J.K. Rowling
24. What Olympic gymnast voluntarily dropped out of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics?
Answer: Simone Biles
25. Where did the Olympic Games originate?
Answer: Greece
26. Who was the 16th president of the United States?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
27. Where is the highest building in the world?
Answer: In Dubai (2,722 ft. tall)
28. Name the seven dwarves in Snow White.
Answer: Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc and Bashful
29. Which month only has 28 days?
Answer: February
30. How many years are there in a millennium?
Answer: 1000 years
31. What famous ship sank in the year 1912?
Answer: Titanic
32. The ancient Egyptians are known for the making of what monuments?
Answer: Pyramids
33. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
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Geography trivia questions
1. What is the name of the largest ocean?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean
2. What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer: Vatican City
3. What is the majority of the earth covered by?
Answer: Oceans
4. What is the largest continent?
Answer: Asia
5. What is the name of the longest mountain range? (Hint: it is under the Atlantic Ocean)
Answer: The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
6. The destruction of Pompeii in 79 A.D. was done by what volcano?
Answer: Mt. Vesuvius
7. What is the world’s longest river?
Answer: Amazon River
8. What is the only continent without an active volcano?
Answer: Australia
9. Which is the world’s most earthquake-prone country?
Answer: Japan
10. Name the three countries that do not use the metric system?
Answer: U.S., Myanmar, Liberia
11. What is the deepest part in all of the world’s oceans called?
Answer: The Mariana Trench
12. Where is the Golden Gate Bridge located?
Answer: San Fransico, California
13. This large tower is known for its “tilt.”
Answer: Pisa
14. What are the Northern Lights also known as?
Answer: Aurora Borealis
15. Which continent is in all four hemispheres?
Answer: Africa
16. 77% of the world’s maple syrup is made in this Canadian province.
Answer: Quebec
17. Africa is home to how many deserts?
Answer: Three
18. What is the name of the large river that flows through London?
Answer: The Thames River
19. Which is colder the North Pole or the South Pole?
Answer: South Pole
20. What are the imaginary horizontal and vertical lines around the Earth called?
Answer: Longitude and latitude lines
21. What body of water separates Australia and New Zealand?
Answer: The Tasman Sea
22. Where are 75% of the world’s pineapples grown?
Answer: Hawaii
23. Which Colorado mountain range contains The Continental Divide?
Answer: The Rockies
24. Name the largest volcano in the world.
Answer: Mouna Loa
25. Which Italian city is known for its canals?
Answer: Venice
26. This country has the largest number of pyramids.
Answer: Sudan
27. Which country has the most natural lakes?
Answer: Canada
28. Where is the driest place on Earth?
Answer: Antarctica
29. Which continent is also an island?
Answer: Australia
30. The world’s largest fish market is located in what capital city?
Answer: Tokyo, Japan
31. Which major city is located on two continents?
Answer: Istanbul, Turkey
32. Where would you find “The Valley of the Kings?”
Answer: Egypt
33. In what state is the Grand Canyon located?
Answer: Arizona
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Science trivia questions
1. Which of the planets in our solar system is the hottest?
Answer: Venus
2. What is the universal donor blood type?
Answer: O negative
3. How many people have walked on the moon?
Answer: 12
4. Who was the first American in space?
Answer: Alan Shephard
5. What is the most common eye color in humans?
Answer: Brown
6. Which galaxy is closest to the Milky Way Galaxy?
Answer: Andromeda Galaxy
7. What are the three layers of the planet?
Answer: Crust, mantle & core
8. How many bones are in the human body?
Answer: 206
9. Which part of the brain deals with hearing and language?
Answer: Temporal lobe
10. Who was the scientist that filed 1,093 patents alone?
Answer: Thomas Edison
11. End the debate…is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
Answer: Fruit
12. Which is the only metal to be in liquid form at room temperature?
Answer: Mercury
13. What is the cause of a tsunami?
Answer: Tsunami is caused by the displacement of water due to an earthquake or landslide under the sea or ocean.
14. What is the oldest living thing on Earth?
Answer: Bristlecone Pine
15. What is the shape of the human DNA called?
Answer: Double helix
16. The chemical equation for water?
Answer: H2O
17. Who invented the airplane?
Answer: The Wright Brothers
18. What is the largest reef system called?
Answer: The Great Barrier Reef
19. Which islands west of Ecuador were studied by Charles Darwin to increase his knowledge?
Answer: Galapagos Islands
20. Igneous rocks are normally associated with what natural phenomenon?
Answer: Volcano
21. These trees are known as the tallest in the world.
Answer: Giant Sequoia
22. What is the human body’s largest organ?
Answer: The skin
23. What was the first satellite to enter space called?
Answer: Sputnik
24. Seismology is the study of what?
Answer: Earthquakes
25. When a gas changes into a liquid, it is called what?
Answer: Condensation
26. At what temperature is Fahrenheit equal to Centigrade?
Answer: -40 degrees
27. The movement of pollen from the male anther to a flower’s female stigma is known as what?
Answer: Pollination
28. How long is an eon?
Answer: A billion years
29. What is the scientific word for push or pull?
Answer: Force
30. Which person is known for publishing “The Interpretation of Dreams”?
Answer: Sigmund Freud
31. What is the splitting of atomic nuclei called?
Answer: Nuclear fission
32. The process of weathered material moving due to gravity is called what?
Answer: Erosion
33. What is the quality of an object that allows it to float on water?
Answer: Buoyancy
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Funny trivia questions
1. The ancient Romans boiled vinegar and what else together to make their version of an energy drink?
Answer: Goat poop
2. What is the main ingredient in Bombay Duck?
Answer: Fish
3. Name one of the two countries that do not allow tattoos.
Answer: Japan or Iran
4. What were the first hockey pucks made out of?
Answer: Frozen cow dung
5. When held to an ultra-violet ray, which animal’s urine glows?
Answer: Cat
6. What mythical creature is Scotland’s national animal?
Answer: Unicorn
7. Who invented the word “vomit”?
Answer: Shakespeare
8. Native to the Carribean, what kind of animal is a Mountain Chicken?
Answer: Frog
9. Why did pirates wear earrings?
Answer: They believed it improved eyesight.
10. What is the longest movie ever made?
Answer: The Cure for Insomnia (85 hours)
11. What is the hottest pepper in the world?
Answer: Carolina Reaper
12. Name one of the two countries that allow you to take a nap during work hours?
Answer: Italy or Spain
13. When do babies get their fingerprints?
Answer: 21 weeks (fetus)
14. What bird has eyes bigger than its brain?
Answer: Ostrich
15. What reptile cannot stick its tongue out?
Answer: Crocodile
16. In the U.S., someone does ‘this’ every 12 seconds at a Holiday Inn. (Keep your mind out of the gutter!)
Answer: Steals a towel
17. What color is an airplane’s black box?
Answer: Orange
18. What is a pupu platter?
Answer: It is a tray of American Chinese or Hawaiian food consisting of an assortment of small meat and seafood appetizers.
19. It is illegal to wrestle a bear in which country?
Answer: South Africa
20. You cannot be overweight in what country?
Answer: Japan
21. What are sweetbreads?
Answer: Sweetbreads is a culinary name for the thymus or pancreas, typically from calf and lamb.
22. You cannot purchase items using too many coins in which country?
Answer: Canada
23. Which U.S. state has a law preventing your chicken from crossing the road?
Answer: Georgia
24. You will get picked up by the law for peeing in the ocean in which country?
Answer: Portugal
25. Which animal can hold its pee for up to eight months?
Answer: Wood frog
26. This English word has the most “definitions.”
Answer: Set
27. Napoleon Bonaparte was once attacked by what kind of animals?
Answer: Rabbits
28. How many times zones are located in France?
Answer: 12
29. What part of the human body can regrow itself in three weeks?
Answer: Liver
30. What is occasionally used to enhance vanilla flavorings?
Answer: Beaver bum goo
31. What is the oldest toy in the world?
Answer: A stick
32. What animal did Edison film with while experimenting with moving images with his Kinetograph invention in 1892?
Answer: Cat
33. By law every citizen of Kentucky must do what annually?
Answer: Take a bath
What are some fun, surprising trivia questions?
Besides all of the options already on this list(!), here are some other ideas for fun, surprising trivia questions.
Try niche celebrity trivia diving deep into questions on subjects like Taylor Swift, The Bachelor and more. Here are some examples…
1. What is Taylor Swift’s longest song title?
2. Who was The Bachelor for season 7?
Try sticking with super recent history by asking trivia questions focused entirely on current events from the past week or two. Here some examples…
1. What was the most popular Google search over the past seven days?
2. What were at least two of the Wordle answers this week?
Get quizzed on something that your partner or BFF is absolutely obsessed with to see how much you’ve picked up on thanks to your proximity to their fandom. For example…
1. What is Travis Kelce‘s brother’s name?
2. What’s the name of Beyoncé’s 2023 world tour?.
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