3394 World Trivia Questions with Answers
3394 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which desert contains the world's largest hot-sand desert, the Rub' al Khali?
Answer
Arabian Desert
Which expedition was the first to complete a circumnavigation of Earth?
Answer
Magellan expedition
Which river flows through London and empties into the North Sea?
Answer
River Thames
Which empire commissioned the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople in the sixth century?
Answer
Byzantine Empire
Which continent is the driest on average?
Answer
Antarctica
Which scientist won Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry?
Answer
Marie Curie
What is the approximate total length of China’s Great Wall system?
Answer
21,196 kilometers
Which structure is the longest man-made monument in the world?
Answer
Great Wall of China
What is the world’s most widely spoken first language by number of native speakers?
Answer
Mandarin Chinese
Which explorer’s expedition was the first to circumnavigate Earth?
Answer
Ferdinand Magellan
Which ocean is the smallest of the world’s five oceans?
Answer
Arctic Ocean
Which ancient wonder stood in Alexandria and was traditionally built on the island of Pharos?
Answer
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Which scientist proposed the three laws of motion in his 1687 work Principia?
Answer
Isaac Newton
Which city hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Answer
Beijing
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City?
Answer
Michelangelo
Who commanded Apollo 11’s first crewed landing on the Moon in 1969?
Answer
Neil Armstrong
Which explorer led the expedition that first circumnavigated Earth, although he died before it ended?
Answer
Ferdinand Magellan
What is the only sea with no land coastline?
Answer
Sargasso Sea
Which treaty, signed in 1648, is commonly associated with ending the Thirty Years’ War?
Answer
Peace of Westphalia
Which country was formerly known as Ceylon until 1972?
Answer
Sri Lanka
Which 1969 event first put humans on the Moon?
Answer
Apollo 11
Which river flows through both Vienna and Budapest?
Answer
Danube
Which ancient device is often called the world’s first analog computer?
Answer
Antikythera mechanism
Which sea separates Europe from Africa at the Strait of Gibraltar?
Answer
Mediterranean Sea
Which ancient civilization built the city of Teotihuacan near modern Mexico City?
Answer
Unknown; not definitively identified
Which 1648 peace settlement ended the Thirty Years' War in Europe?
Answer
Peace of Westphalia