3394 World Trivia Questions with Answers
3394 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which empire built the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople?
Answer
Byzantine Empire
Which explorer’s expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
Answer
Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition
Which country contains Mount Fuji?
Answer
Japan
Which ocean does the Panama Canal connect to the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer
Pacific Ocean
Which scientist proposed the theory of general relativity in 1915?
Answer
Albert Einstein
What is the name of the narrow strait separating Asia from North America?
Answer
Bering Strait
In which city was the ancient Olympic Games’ sanctuary of Olympia located?
Answer
Olympia, Greece
What is the name of the giant statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro from Mount Corcovado?
Answer
Christ the Redeemer
Which 1884 conference established the rules that accelerated the European partition of Africa?
Answer
Berlin Conference
Which nation has the world’s largest land area?
Answer
Russia
What is the official currency of Japan, used by the yen symbol ¥?
Answer
Japanese yen
Which ancient object helped scholars decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs?
Answer
Rosetta Stone
Which ancient wonder stood in Alexandria and was used as a lighthouse?
Answer
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Which major city lies on both sides of the Bosporus?
Answer
Istanbul
What waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea?
Answer
Suez Canal
Which ancient wonder is the oldest of the Seven Wonders?
Answer
Great Pyramid of Giza
Which ancient Inca citadel stands high in Peru’s Andes Mountains?
Answer
Machu Picchu
Which ocean does the Nile River flow into?
Answer
Mediterranean Sea
Which continent contains the world’s driest non-polar desert, the Atacama Desert?
Answer
South America
Which building is the world’s tallest skyscraper as of 2026?
Answer
Burj Khalifa
Which monument is often called the world’s largest religious structure?
Answer
Angkor Wat
Which explorer completed the first circumnavigation of Earth’s oceans after departing with Magellan’s fleet?
Answer
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Which ancient civilization created the city of Machu Picchu?
Answer
Inca civilization
Which ancient wonder was located in Alexandria, Egypt, and guided ships into its harbor?
Answer
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Which sea is the only sea on Earth without a coastline?
Answer
Sargasso Sea
What ancient device, found in a Greek shipwreck, is often called the world’s first analogue computer?
Answer
Antikythera mechanism
Who created the first widely recognised periodic table of the chemical elements?
Answer
Dmitri Mendeleev
Who wrote the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Answer
Gabriel García Márquez