1252 World Trivia Questions with Answers
1252 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world?
Answer
Angel Falls
What is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth?
Answer
Mariana Trench
What is the largest island in the world (excluding continents)?
Answer
Greenland
What is the largest tropical rainforest in the world?
Answer
Amazon rainforest
The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of which country?
Answer
Australia
On which continent is the Sahara Desert located?
Answer
Africa
Which country has the largest land area in the world?
Answer
Russia
What is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level?
Answer
Mount Everest
You can get a fabulous view of what city from Mount Victoria?
Answer
Wellington
Whose famous tomb was opened in Egypt in 1922?
Answer
King Tut's
Whom did Britain's Prince Charles marry on July 29, 1981?
Answer
Diana Spencer
Who wrote the 95 theses against the Catholic Church?
Answer
Martin Luther
Who won the Spanish-American War?
Answer
United States
Who will replace the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf when he dies or resign?
Answer
Princess Victoria
Who were the two leaders of Chile's Independence movement from 1810 until 1818?
Answer
Bernardo O'Higgins And Jose De San Martin
Who went on a six-day "fast to the death" to protest British actions in 1932?
Answer
Mohandas Gandhi
Who was the WWI soldier that was also a poet?
Answer
Wilfred Owen
Who was the top Australian flying ace in WWI?
Answer
Robert Little
Who was the Russian czar assassinated in 1881?
Answer
Alexander II
Who was the Roman guardian of entrances and exits?
Answer
Janus
Who was the only U.S. Marine ace of the Korean War?
Answer
John Bolt
Who was the only ace from the U.S. Navy in the Korean War?
Answer
Guy Bordelon
Who was the most famous female pilot of the early 20th century?
Answer
Amelia Earhart
Who was the leading ace for Norway in WWII?
Answer
Svein Heglund
Who was the last Filipino general to surrender to the Americans during the Filipino-American war?
Answer
General Miguel Malvar
Who was the last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
Answer
Karl I
Who was the Israeli Prime Minister during the 1973 war?
Answer
Golda Meir
Who was the Greek God of Love?
Answer
Eros
Who was the grandson of Genghis Khan?
Answer
Kublai Khan
Who was the first to be Governor of Hong Kong?
Answer
Sir Henry Pottinger
Who was the first supreme ruler of Norway?
Answer
Harald Fairhair
Who was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Answer
Robert Walpole
Who was the first Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer
Edmund Barton
Who was the first Pharaoh of Egypt?
Answer
Menes
Who was the first European to sail into New York Harbor?
Answer
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Who was the first Chinese leader to use the term "Emperor" or "Huang Ti"?
Answer
Chin Shih Huang
Who was the famous botanist who traveled with Captain Cook on his first voyage?
Answer
Joseph Banks
Who was the creator of the Mongol empire?
Answer
Genghis Khan
Who was the Confederate spy who became a bodyguard for the Pope at the Vatican?
Answer
John Surratt
Who was the captain of the "Pinta" on Christopher Columbus' voyage in 1492?
Answer
Martin Alonso Pinzon
Who was the British Navy Minister during WW1?
Answer
Winston Churchill
Who was Prime Minister of Canada during World War II?
Answer
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Who was Odette Sansom in World War II?
Answer
Female British Spy
Who was nicknamed the "Iron Chancellor" and known as the unifier of Germany?
Answer
Otto Von Bismarck
Who was known as the "Mad Monarch"?
Answer
George III