Do your friends always want you on their trivia team? Have you cleared all the cards in Trivial Pursuit? Do you eat, sleep, and dream trivia? Then this quiz is for you! Having a good base of common knowledge is important for a variety of reasons, including being able to follow current events in the news, impressing a potential employer at a job interview, and simply participating in lively conversations with your friends.
This quiz is for the knowledge buffs, those who love the act of learning so much that it transcends subject matter. To do well on this trivia quiz, you have to be the kind of person who can retain large amounts of information about a wide variety of subjects. If you would like to find out if you have just a little or a lot of knowledge in that noggin' of yours, then take this quiz and brush up on your trivia skills at the same time!
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This 25-Question General Knowledge Quiz Will Reveal If You Know a Little or a Lot Questions
True or false: Rembrandt's 1642 painting, "The Night Watch", is the most looked-at painting in the Louvre.
True
False
True or false: Diamond is the hardest naturally-occurring substance on earth.
True
False
What's the name of this animal known to be one of Canada's big cats?
Lynx
Mountain lion
Cougar
Panther
What sport is played by the teams Manchester United, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain?
Cricket
Rugby
Basketball
Soccer
With half its population born outside the country, what multicultural city has the world's longest main street?
Toronto
London
Casablanca
Chicago
Susan has $100 to split evenly among herself and three of her friends. How much money should each person get?
$25
$20
$15
$10
True or false: Raw vegetables and fruits are always better for you.
False
True
When you say something is or was "a piece of cake," what are you saying?
You're referring to a piece of cake.
It was someone's birthday.
You are saying you need extra frosting (or money) to do the task.
You are saying a task was easy.
True or false: 50 Cent and Charlie Chaplin were alive at the same time.
True
False
What is the freezing point of water?
0 degrees Fahrenheit
212 degrees Fahrenheit
100 degrees Fahrenheit
32 degrees Fahrenheit
In the Peanuts cartoons, what is the dog's name?
Woodstock
Linus
Lassie
Snoopy
True or false: The only even prime number is 2.
True
False
This early device for playing back sound used wax cylinders as a recording medium. Can you identify it?
Phonograph
Gramophone
Graphophone
Xylophone
The numerator is the top or bottom number on a fraction?
Top
Bottom
Which part of the kale plant do we actually eat?
The flowers
The roots
The seeds
The leaves
Which of these creatures is a Greek monster with lion's head?
Centaur
Gremlin
Chimera
Troll
True or false: Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird".
True
False
Complete the well-known phrase: "A leopard never changes its ___"?
Spots
Stripes
Teeth
Fur
After duke, what is the highest-ranked title in the British peerage?
Viscount
Earl
Baron
Marquess
Which of these rockers is in the band Kiss?
Axl Rose
Alice Cooper
David Lee Roth
Gene Simmons
When which English monarch died did both an era and a dynasty end?
Queen Mary I
King George I
Queen Victoria
Queen Elizabeth I
This nation is one of the few in the world to have all of its land in use in one form or another. Which of the following was such a model society that it was called the "Switzerland of South America" until the 1950s?
Peru
Chile
Uruguay
Ecuador
The French sandwich named croque monsieur is a toasted sandwich containing ham and cheese. What name is given to the version topped with a fried or poached egg?
Croque madame
Croque femme
Croque mademoiselle
Croque fille
What is the name of the fictional land where the movie Frozen takes place?
Arendelle
Neverland
Hogsmeade
Naples
Which of these colleges is not considered an "Ivy League" school?
Cornell
Brown
Dartmouth
Stanford
2 Comments
I got 11 out of 25!
Yikes! While this score might not make it on the fridge, there is always a sunny tomorrow filled with fresh possibilities. I suggest you take more trivia quizzes ’cause I’m worried about your score a bit…
25/25!!!