223 General Knowledge & Trivia Questions That Are Actually Interesting

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23. What was the first book published by Jane Austen?

Answer: Sense and Sensibility

24. Which two countries have the longest shared international border?

Answer: Canada and the U.S.

25. What city hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics?

Answer: Sochi, Russia

26. What is the longest-running Broadway show?

Answer: The Phantom of the Opera

27. What is the human body’s largest organ?

Answer: Skin

28. What year was the first iPhone released?

Answer: 2007

29. What’s the (extremely metal) name for a group of crows?

Answer: A murder of crows

30. What are the first names of the four main characters in Golden Girls?

Answer: Sophia, Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche

31. What is the longest above-water mountain range?

The Andes

32. What year did Netflix, previously a DVD rental business, introduce streaming services?

Answer: 2007

33. How many feet are in a yard?

Answer: Three

34. How many bones do sharks have?

Answer: Zero!

35. What is the deadliest mammal?

Answer: The hippo

36. What is the deadliest insect?

Answer: The mosquito

37. What country was the Marxist revolutionary figure Che Guevara born in?

Answer: Argentina

38. What is the capital of Singapore?

Answer: Singapore (it’s an island city-state)

39. What is the word for the weather event also called a winter hurricane?

Answer: A bomb cyclone

40. What was the first country to give women the right to vote?

Answer: New Zealand (in 1893)

41. What year was the landmark civil and LGBTQ+ rights case Obergefell v. Hodges ruled on?

Answer: 2015

42. The Hawaiian Islands archipelago is made up of what number of major islands?

Answer: Eight major islands (plus a bunch of smaller islands and islets for a total of 137 islands!)

43. What are the names of the four March sisters in Little Women?

Answer: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy

44. What chewy dessert topping is made from tartar and egg whites and often found on pie?

Answer: Meringue

45. In Greek mythology, who was known as the messenger of the gods?

Answer: Hermes

46. What was Eleanor Roosevelt’s maiden name before marrying FDR?

Answer: Roosevelt (she and Franklin were fifth cousins once removed!)

47. What was the birth name of boxing legend Muhammad Ali?

Answer: Cassius Clay

48. In what city were the first infections of COVID-19 discovered?

Wuhan, China

49. In chess, what direction can a bishop move?

Answer: Diagonally

50. Who was the world’s first cloned animal, a sheep, named after in 1996?

Answer: Dolly Parton

51. What is the name for the equinox that occurs on March 20th or 21st of each year?

Answer: The Vernal Equinox

52. What’s the shortcut for the paste function on most computers?

Answer: Ctrl+V

53. What river runs through Paris?

Answer: The Seine

54. What kind of flower was once used as money?

Answer: Tulips, whose bulbs were once used as a form of currency in Holland!

55. What is the capital of Iowa?

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