50461 Hard Trivia Questions
50461 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which technology accelerated automated selling during the 1987 Black Monday stock-market crash?
Answer
Portfolio insurance
What event began the long global market downturn known as the Panic of 1873?
Answer
The Vienna Stock Exchange crash
What walking automaton did Leonardo da Vinci design with humanlike movements and a suit of armor?
Answer
Mechanical knight
Why was Brighton & Hove Albion’s 2026–27 Premier League opener scheduled for Sunday rather than Saturday?
Answer
UEFA Conference League qualification play-offs
Which two Metallica members wrote most of the songs on the 1991 album commonly called The Black Album?
Answer
James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich
Which C.S. Lewis book argues that modern society can undermine human nature through technological control?
Answer
The Abolition of Man
What was Dragon's Den investor Peter Jones's first business venture?
Answer
A tennis academy
Which dragon left Dragon's Den after series 12 and was replaced by Nick Jenkins?
Answer
Duncan Bannatyne
Which McDonald's mascot debuted in 1980 as the company's first major female character?
Answer
Birdie the Early Bird
Which New Mexico church did Georgia O'Keeffe paint repeatedly at Ranchos de Taos?
Answer
San Francisco de Asís Mission Church
What Oxford academic chair did J.R.R. Tolkien hold from 1925?
Answer
Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What is the name of the Assassin's Creed game released in 2009 that introduced Ezio Auditore?
Answer
Assassin's Creed II
Which Harry Potter book was the first published under J.K. Rowling’s full professional name with the initial K?
Answer
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Which fictional detective inspired many elements of Gregory House in House M.D.?
Answer
Sherlock Holmes
In Pixar's Cars, which real car model is the character Ramone based on?
Answer
1959 Chevrolet Impala
In Pixar's Cars 2, which character is the main villainous scientist behind the spy plot?
Answer
Professor Zündapp
Which independent film distributor released the 2006 movie Quinceañera in the United States?
Answer
Sony Pictures Classics
What was Beyoncé’s 2016 daughter-themed clothing line called?
Answer
Ivy Park
Which 1869 U.S. gold-market panic became known as Black Friday?
Answer
The Fisk–Gould gold scandal
Which U.S. stock exchange temporarily closed after the 1873 financial panic began?
Answer
New York Stock Exchange
What was the name of the 1987 crash day when the Dow fell 22.6 percent?
Answer
Black Monday
Which 1941 radio talks by C.S. Lewis were later revised as Mere Christianity?
Answer
Broadcast Talks
What chair did C.S. Lewis take at Cambridge University in 1954?
Answer
Medieval and Renaissance English
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s final completed novel, published in 1945?
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That Hideous Strength
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published 2013 poem about King Arthur?
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The Fall of Arthur
What was Oracle's original corporate name when the future software giant was founded in 1977?
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Software Development Laboratories