General Knowledge Quiz Questions

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General knowledge quiz questions usually pertain to information that is obtained from general conversations or at least light reading. Some of the questions may have been asked on a test in grade school or even on a computer game. Other general knowledge quiz questions or even, truth or dare questions, may have been asked at a party or social gathering.

Contents 1 General Knowledge Quiz Questions and Answers 1.1 History Questions 1.2 General Knowledge Quiz Questions about Literature 1.3 Grammar and Vocabulary 1.4 Math and Science 1.5 Technology 1.6 Pop Culture 2 Too Easy?

General Knowledge Quiz Questions and Answers

Below are some questions you may come across during a conversation or fun quiz game. Now you can spout some general knowledge that some people may not know.

History Questions

1. The first British colony in America was where? (Roanoke Island, 1585)
2. In the Navajo language, ‘Anasazi’ means what? (Ancient Ones)
3. Ronald Reagan’s economic policy was dubbed what? (Reaganomics)
4. The letter H in ‘H-bomb’ stands for what? (Hydrogen)
5. Who was the first country to send a man into space? (Soviet Union)
6. Who is the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence? (John Hancock, the president of Congress)
7. The world’s first postage stamp featured what figure from Great Britian? (Queen Victoria)
8. When did Boris Yeltsin announce his resignation from being the President of Russia? (December 31, 1999)
9. The 100 Years War lasted how long? (116 years)
10. The Battle of Wavre was a battle in what war? (Napoleonic Wars)

General Knowledge Quiz Questions about Literature

1. What is Walt Whitman’s famous book of poetry called? (Leaves of Grass)
2. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales? (Geoffrey Chaucer)
3. What is the first line of Moby Dick? (Call me Ishmael)
4. What is the main character’s name in The Catcher in the Rye? (Holden Caulfield)
5. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven references what other person, who has an entire poem by the same author? (Annabel Lee)
6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is famous for what character? (Sherlock Holmes)
7. Many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed in which famous theatre? (Globe theatre)
8. Who controlled everything in George Orwell’s book, 1984? (Big Brother)
9. Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey? (Homer)
10. What was the name of the first American novel, which was published in 1789? (The Power of Sympathy)

Grammar and Vocabulary

1. Name the three articles of the English language. (A, An, The)
2. What two general words can’t be rhymed? (Month, Orange)
3. What is the first word in the dictionary (no letters or abbreviations)? (Aardvark)
4. An adjective describes what? (Noun or Pronoun)
5. Pick out the proper noun from the following: widget, Alabama, xylophone, statehood, ocean. (Alabama)
6. A word or sentence is the same when read backwards and forwards is called what? (Palindrome)

Math and Science

1. A triangle with two equal sides is what kind of triangle? (Isosceles)
2. Gatorade was invented to curb dehydration for what sports team? (Florida Gators)
3. What planet was taken away from the planetary listing in 2005? (Pluto)
4. What was the first computer named? (ENIAC)
5. True or False: When you divide by zero, the answer is always zero. (F, you can’t divide by zero)
6. What is the next number is the following Fibinoci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89? (144)
7. Of the following, which body part never grows: nose, eyes, ears? (eyes)
8. What is the only rock that humans eat? (Salt)

Technology

1. CD stands for what? (Compact Disc)
2. What number system is the basis for computers? (Binary)
3. Nintendo originally used to sell what product? (Playing cards)
4. Of the following, who was founded first: HITACHI, SONY, KLIPSCH, TOSHIBA, HEWLETT-PACKARD? (Hitachi, 1920)
5. What was Google originally going to be named before they settled on Google? (Backrub)
6. How many points of reference do you need to triangulate a cell phone position? (3)
7. South Korea set up this kind of hotline to help addicts. (Video game)

Pop Culture

1. How many books are in the Harry Potter series? (7)
2. Who won the first American Idol? (Kelly Clarkson)
3. What cartoon is the longest running series ever? (The Simpsons)
4. ‘Can you hear me now’ is the advertising campaign for what company? (Verizon)
5. Who founded the Apple company? (Steve Jobs)
6. Dance Dance Revolution is made by what company? (Konami)

Too Easy?

How did you do? While most of the questions are very familiar, you probably gave your trivia recipient some information they may not have known. Try some of these questions on kids, as well as hard to answer riddles and see what kind of knowledge they have.