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🟢 Easy Level General Knowledge Questions
Perfect for elementary students, beginners, and warm-up rounds. These easy GK questions cover basic facts that everyone should know.
Geography Trivia Trivia – Easy Level
1
What is the capital of France?
Answer: Paris
2
Which is the largest ocean in the world?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
3
How many continents are there?
Answer: Seven
4
Which country has the most natural lakes?
Answer: Canada
5
What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer: Vatican City
Science Trivia – Easy Level
6
What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
7
How many legs does a spider have?
Answer: Eight
8
What is the center of an atom called?
Answer: Nucleus
9
Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars
10
What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?
Answer: Diamond
History Trivia – Easy Level
11
Who was the first President of the United States?
Answer: George Washington
12
In which year did World War II end?
Answer: 1945
13
Which ancient wonder of the world was located in Egypt?
Answer: The Great Pyramid of Giza
14
Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
15
Which ship sank in 1912?
Answer: Titanic
Sports Trivia – Easy Level
16
How many players are on a basketball team on the court at one
time?
Answer: Five
17
Which sport is known as “the beautiful game”?
Answer: Soccer (Football)
18
How often are the Summer Olympic Games held?
Answer: Every four years
19
In which sport would you perform a slam dunk?
Answer: Basketball
20
What is the maximum score possible in ten-pin bowling?
Answer: 300
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Literature & Arts Trivia – Easy Level
21
Who wrote “Romeo and Juliet”?
Answer: William Shakespeare
22
What is the first book in the Harry Potter series?
Answer: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or Sorcerer’s Stone in the US)
23
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
24
How many strings does a standard guitar have?
Answer: Six
25
Which Disney movie features the song “Let It Go”?
Answer: Frozen
Animals & Nature Trivia – Easy Level
26
What is the largest mammal in the world?
Answer: Blue whale
27
Which animal is known as the King of the Jungle?
Answer: Lion
28
How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: Three
29
What do pandas mainly eat?
Answer: Bamboo
30
Which bird is unable to fly?
Answer: Penguin (also ostrich, emu, etc.)
Food & Culture Trivia – Easy Level
31
What is the main ingredient in guacamole?
Answer: Avocado
32
Which country is famous for pizza?
Answer: Italy
33
What spice is derived from the Crocus flower?
Answer: Saffron
34
Which drink is made from fermented grapes?
Answer: Wine
35
What is the most consumed beverage in the world after water?
Answer: Tea
Technology & Modern World Trivia – Easy Level
36
What does “WWW” stand for?
Answer: World Wide Web
37
Which company created the iPhone?
Answer: Apple
38
What does “USB” stand for?
Answer: Universal Serial Bus
39
What does “AI” stand for in technology?
Answer: Artificial Intelligence
40
Which programming language is named after a type of coffee?
Answer: Java
Mathematics Trivia – Easy Level
41
What is 15% of 200?
Answer: 30
42
What is the value of Pi to two decimal places?
Answer: 3.14
43
How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer: Six
44
What is 12 x 12?
Answer: 144
45
What is the square root of 64?
Answer: 8
General Facts Trivia – Easy Level
46
How many days are there in a leap year?
Answer: 366
47
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au
48
Which vitamin is produced when skin is exposed to sunlight?
Answer: Vitamin D
49
What is the longest river in the world?
Answer: Nile River
50
How many minutes are in a full day?
Answer: 1,440 minutes
🟡 Medium Level General Knowledge Questions
Great for middle school students, high schoolers, and those looking for a moderate challenge. These medium difficulty GK questions require more specific knowledge and thinking.
Geography Trivia Trivia – Medium Level
51
Which African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Answer: Ethiopia
52
What is the capital of New Zealand?
Answer: Wellington
53
Which mountain range contains Mount Everest?
Answer: Himalayas
54
What is the deepest point in Earth’s oceans?
Answer: Mariana Trench
55
Which two countries share the longest international border?
Answer: Canada and the United States
56
Which European country has the most time zones?
Answer: France (12 time zones including overseas territories)
57
What is the capital of Kazakhstan?
Answer: Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana)
58
Which desert is the largest in Asia?
Answer: Gobi Desert
59
Which strait separates Europe and Asia?
Answer: Bosphorus Strait
60
What is the driest place on Earth?
Answer: Atacama Desert in Chile
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Science Trivia – Medium Level
61
What is the study of earthquakes called?
Answer: Seismology
62
Which element has the chemical symbol ‘Fe’?
Answer: Iron
63
What is the name of the process by which plants make their food?
Answer: Photosynthesis
64
How many chambers does a human heart have?
Answer: Four
65
What is the speed of light in a vacuum?
Answer: 299,792,458 meters per second (approximately 300,000 km/s)
66
What is the chemical formula for water?
Answer: H₂O
67
Which blood type is known as the universal donor?
Answer: O-negative
68
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
Answer: Mitochondria
69
Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Answer: Mercury
70
What is the study of fungi called?
Answer: Mycology
History Trivia – Medium Level
71
In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
Answer: 1989
72
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
73
Which empire was ruled by Julius Caesar?
Answer: Roman Empire
74
In which year did India gain independence?
Answer: 1947
75
Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
Answer: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
76
Which war was fought between 1914-1918?
Answer: World War I
77
Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
78
Which ancient civilization built Machu Picchu?
Answer: Inca
79
In which year did the American Civil War end?
Answer: 1865
80
Who was known as the “Iron Lady”?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Sports Trivia – Medium Level
81
Which country has won the most FIFA World Cups?
Answer: Brazil (5 times)
82
In which sport would you perform a slam, block, and spike?
Answer: Volleyball
83
How many Grand Slam tournaments are there in tennis?
Answer: Four (Wimbledon, US Open, French Open, Australian Open)
84
Which athlete has won the most Olympic gold medals?
Answer: Michael Phelps (23 gold medals)
85
In which sport is the term “love” used to mean zero?
Answer: Tennis
86
Which sport is played at Wimbledon?
Answer: Tennis
87
How many players are on a hockey team on the ice at one time?
Answer: Six
88
In which sport would you use a shuttlecock?
Answer: Badminton
89
Which country hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
90
What is the maximum break in snooker?
Answer: 147
Literature & Arts Trivia – Medium Level
91
Who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
Answer: Harper Lee
92
Which artist cut off his own ear?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh
93
What is the first line of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”?
Answer: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
94
Which composer wrote “The Four Seasons”?
Answer: Antonio Vivaldi
95
In which museum would you find the Mona Lisa?
Answer: The Louvre Museum, Paris
96
Who wrote “1984”?
Answer: George Orwell
97
Which period of art is characterized by distorted figures and
abstract forms?
Answer: Cubism
98
Who composed “The Magic Flute”?
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
99
Which novel begins with “Call me Ishmael”?
Answer: Moby Dick
100
Who painted “The Starry Night”?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh
Animals & Nature Trivia – Medium Level
101
What is a group of lions called?
Answer: A pride
102
Which mammal is known to have the most powerful bite?
Answer: Hippopotamus
103
What is the largest species of shark?
Answer: Whale shark
104
How long is the gestation period of an elephant?
Answer: 22 months
105
Which bird is the symbol of peace?
Answer: Dove
106
What is the fastest land animal?
Answer: Cheetah
107
Which animal has the longest lifespan?
Answer: Bowhead whale (can live over 200 years)
108
What is the only mammal capable of true flight?
Answer: Bat
109
Which snake is the longest in the world?
Answer: Reticulated python
110
What is a group of wolves called?
Answer: A pack
Food & Culture Trivia – Medium Level
111
What is the main ingredient in traditional Japanese miso soup?
Answer: Soybean paste (miso)
112
Which country invented ice cream?
Answer: China (though the modern version is often attributed to Italy or France)
113
What does the term “al dente” mean in cooking?
Answer: Cooked to be firm to the bite
114
Which spice is the most expensive by weight?
Answer: Saffron
115
What is the traditional Scottish dish made from sheep’s organs?
Answer: Haggis
116
Which country is famous for inventing chocolate?
Answer: Mexico (by the Mayans and Aztecs)
117
What is the main ingredient in hummus?
Answer: Chickpeas
118
Which country is the largest producer of coffee?
Answer: Brazil
119
What type of pastry is used to make profiteroles?
Answer: Choux pastry
120
Which fruit is known as the “king of fruits”?
Answer: Durian
Technology & Modern World Trivia – Medium Level
121
Who founded Microsoft?
Answer: Bill Gates and Paul Allen
122
What does “HTTP” stand for?
Answer: HyperText Transfer Protocol
123
Which social media platform was originally called “The Facebook”?
Answer: Facebook
124
What does “GPU” stand for?
Answer: Graphics Processing Unit
125
Which company developed the Android operating system?
Answer: Google
126
What is the maximum number of characters in a traditional SMS text
message?
Answer: 160 characters
127
Which technology company has the stock ticker symbol “AAPL”?
Answer: Apple
128
What does “VPN” stand for?
Answer: Virtual Private Network
129
Which programming language is known for its use in data science
and machine learning?
Answer: Python
130
What is the term for malicious software designed to damage
computers?
Answer: Malware
Mathematics Trivia – Medium Level
131
What is the next prime number after 7?
Answer: 11
132
What is 25% of 80?
Answer: 20
133
What is the area of a circle with radius 5?
Answer: 25π (approximately 78.54)
134
What is the sum of interior angles in a triangle?
Answer: 180 degrees
135
If x = 3, what is 2x² + 5x – 1?
Answer: 32
136
What is the square root of 144?
Answer: 12
137
What is 7 factorial (7!)?
Answer: 5,040
138
What is the perimeter of a rectangle with length 8 and width 5?
Answer: 26
139
What is 3/4 expressed as a decimal?
Answer: 0.75
140
How many sides does a dodecagon have?
Answer: 12
General Facts Trivia – Medium Level
141
What is the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen (about 78%)
142
Which organ in the human body produces insulin?
Answer: Pancreas
143
What is the currency of Japan?
Answer: Yen
144
How many bones are in an adult human body?
Answer: 206
145
Which planet is the hottest in our solar system?
Answer: Venus
146
What is the hardest rock?
Answer: Diamond
147
Which blood cells help fight infection?
Answer: White blood cells
148
What is the study of weather called?
Answer: Meteorology
149
Which metal is liquid at room temperature?
Answer: Mercury
150
What is the most spoken language in the world?
Answer: Mandarin Chinese
🔴 Hard Level General Knowledge Questions
Challenging questions for advanced students, adults, and quiz experts. These hard GK questions test deeper knowledge and analytical thinking.
Geography Trivia Trivia – Hard Level
151
Which country has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites?
Answer: Italy (58 sites as of 2023)
152
What is the smallest independent nation in the world by land area?
Answer: Vatican City (0.17 square miles)
153
Which African country was never colonized by European powers?
Answer: Ethiopia (except for a brief Italian occupation 1936-1941)
154
What is the deepest lake in the world?
Answer: Lake Baikal in Russia (1,642 meters deep)
155
Which city is known as the “Pearl of the Orient”?
Answer: Manila, Philippines
156
What is the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea and the
Persian Gulf?
Answer: Iran
157
Which strait connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara?
Answer: Bosphorus Strait
158
What is the highest waterfall in the world?
Answer: Angel Falls in Venezuela (979 meters)
159
Which country has the most active volcanoes?
Answer: Indonesia
160
What is the name of the supercontinent that existed 300 million
years ago?
Answer: Pangaea
Science Trivia – Hard Level
161
What is the most abundant element in the universe?
Answer: Hydrogen
162
What is the study of the structure and function of cells called?
Answer: Cytology
163
Which physicist developed the theory of relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein
164
What is the smallest unit of matter that retains the properties of
an element?
Answer: Atom
165
What is the process by which plants convert light energy into
chemical energy?
Answer: Photosynthesis
166
Which subatomic particle has a negative charge?
Answer: Electron
167
What is the term for the change of state from gas to liquid?
Answer: Condensation
168
Which planet has the most moons?
Answer: Saturn (146 confirmed moons as of 2023)
169
What is the chemical symbol for potassium?
Answer: K
170
What is the study of heredity called?
Answer: Genetics
History Trivia – Hard Level
171
Which treaty ended World War I?
Answer: Treaty of Versailles
172
Who was the last Tsar of Russia?
Answer: Nicholas II
173
In which year did the French Revolution begin?
Answer: 1789
174
Which empire was known as the “Sick Man of Europe”?
Answer: Ottoman Empire
175
Who wrote “The Art of War”?
Answer: Sun Tzu
176
Which ancient wonder of the world was located in Alexandria?
Answer: Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos of Alexandria)
177
Which battle marked the end of Napoleon’s Hundred Days?
Answer: Battle of Waterloo
178
What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin made his
famous voyage?
Answer: HMS Beagle
179
Which dynasty ruled China during the construction of the Forbidden
City?
Answer: Ming Dynasty
180
What was the code name for the D-Day landings in World War II?
Answer: Operation Overlord
Sports Trivia – Hard Level
181
Which golfer has won the most major championships?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus (18 majors)
182
In which sport is the Vince Lombardi Trophy awarded?
Answer: American Football (NFL Super Bowl)
183
Which athlete is known as “The Flying Finn”?
Answer: Paavo Nurmi
184
What is the oldest tennis tournament in the world?
Answer: Wimbledon (1877)
185
Which Formula 1 driver has won the most world championships?
Answer: Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher (7 each)
186
In cricket, what does LBW stand for?
Answer: Leg Before Wicket
187
Which basketball player scored 100 points in a single NBA game?
Answer: Wilt Chamberlain
188
What is the length of a marathon race?
Answer: 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers)
189
Which country has won the most Olympic gold medals in ice hockey?
Answer: Canada
190
In which year were the first modern Olympic Games held?
Answer: 1896 (Athens, Greece)
Literature & Arts Trivia – Hard Level
191
Who wrote “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?
Answer: Gabriel García Márquez
192
Which painting is also known as “La Gioconda”?
Answer: Mona Lisa
193
Who composed “The Ring of the Nibelung”?
Answer: Richard Wagner
194
Which novel begins with “In a hole in the ground there lived a
hobbit”?
Answer: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
195
Who painted “Guernica”?
Answer: Pablo Picasso
196
Which poet wrote “The Waste Land”?
Answer: T.S. Eliot
Philosophy & Religion Trivia – Hard Level
197
Who wrote “Being and Nothingness”?
Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre
198
Which philosopher is known for the concept of the “Übermensch”
(Superman)?
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
199
What is the oldest monotheistic religion?
Answer: Judaism
200
Who founded the school of thought known as Stoicism?
Answer: Zeno of Citium
201
Which Greek philosopher was the teacher of Alexander the Great?
Answer: Aristotle
202
What are the Four Noble Truths in Buddhism?
Answer: The truth of suffering, the cause of suffering, the end of suffering, and the path to
end suffering
203
Who wrote “Critique of Pure Reason”?
Answer: Immanuel Kant
204
What is the sacred text of Hinduism?
Answer: The Vedas
205
Which philosopher proposed the theory of the “social contract”?
Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (also Thomas Hobbes and John Locke)
206
What is the name of the Chinese philosophy emphasizing harmony
with the Tao?
Answer: Taoism
Technology & Innovation Trivia – Hard Level
207
Who is considered the father of artificial intelligence?
Answer: Alan Turing
208
What programming language was developed at Bell Labs in 1972 and
is still widely used today?
Answer: C
209
Which company developed the first commercially available
transistor?
Answer: Bell Laboratories
210
What was the name of the first successful high-level programming
language?
Answer: FORTRAN
211
Who invented the World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
212
What does CRISPR stand for in gene editing technology?
Answer: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
213
Which company created the first commercial microprocessor?
Answer: Intel
214
What is quantum entanglement?
Answer: A phenomenon where pairs of particles remain connected even when separated by large
distances
215
What does API stand for in computing?
Answer: Application Programming Interface
216
Who co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne?
Answer: Steve Wozniak
Business & Economics Trivia – Hard Level
217
Who wrote “The Wealth of Nations”?
Answer: Adam Smith
218
What economic system is based on the principle “from each
according to his ability, to each according to his needs”?
Answer: Communism
219
What is the term for the total value of goods and services
produced within a country in a year?
Answer: Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
220
Which economist proposed the theory of comparative advantage?
Answer: David Ricardo
221
What financial institution is known as the “lender of last resort”
in the United States?
Answer: The Federal Reserve (Fed)
222
What is the term for a market where there are only a few sellers?
Answer: Oligopoly
223
Which British economist authored “The General Theory of
Employment, Interest and Money”?
Answer: John Maynard Keynes
224
What is the term for a sustained period of declining prices?
Answer: Deflation
225
Who is considered the father of modern management theory?
Answer: Peter Drucker
226
What stock market crash occurred on October 29, 1929, leading to
the Great Depression?
Answer: Black Tuesday
Movies & Entertainment Trivia – Hard Level
227
Which film won the first Academy Award for Best Picture in 1929?
Answer: Wings
228
Who directed the 1941 film “Citizen Kane”?
Answer: Orson Welles
229
Which actor has received the most Oscar nominations without
winning?
Answer: Peter O’Toole (8 nominations)
230
What is the highest-grossing film of all time (not adjusted for
inflation)?
Answer: Avatar (as of 2023)
231
Which director made the “Three Colors” trilogy?
Answer: Krzysztof Kieślowski
232
In what year was the first television broadcast made?
Answer: 1927
233
Which actor played the role of Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of
the Lambs”?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins
234
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Answer: Hattie McDaniel
235
Which film features the character HAL 9000?
Answer: 2001: A Space Odyssey
236
What was the first feature-length animated film?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Music & Performing Arts Trivia – Hard Level
237
Which composer was deaf when he completed his Ninth Symphony?
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven
238
Which musical instrument has 88 keys?
Answer: Piano
239
Which rock band released the album “The Dark Side of the Moon”?
Answer: Pink Floyd
240
Who is known as the “King of Pop”?
Answer: Michael Jackson
241
Which musical composition by Ravel was originally commissioned as
a ballet?
Answer: Boléro
242
Which famous playwright wrote “Romeo and Juliet”?
Answer: William Shakespeare
243
Who composed the opera “The Magic Flute”?
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
244
Which ballet is based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann?
Answer: The Nutcracker
245
Which band’s original members included John Lennon, Paul
McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr?
Answer: The Beatles
246
Who is considered the “Father of Classical Music”?
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Famous People & World Leaders Trivia – Hard Level
247
Who was the first female Prime Minister of India?
Answer: Indira Gandhi
248
Which US President appeared on the television show “Laugh-In”?
Answer: Richard Nixon
249
Who was known as the “Iron Lady” of British politics?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
250
Which revolutionary led the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s?
Answer: Fidel Castro
251
Who was the first human to journey into outer space?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin
252
Which South African activist spent 27 years in prison before
becoming president?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
253
Who was the founder of Microsoft?
Answer: Bill Gates
254
Which physicist developed the theory of general relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein
255
Who was the longest-reigning British monarch?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth II
256
Which civil rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech?
Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.
Astronomy & Space Trivia – Hard Level
257
What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system?
Answer: Milky Way Galaxy
258
Which planet has the Great Red Spot?
Answer: Jupiter
259
What is the name of the force that binds particles together to
form the nucleus of an atom?
Answer: Strong nuclear force
260
What is the largest moon in our solar system?
Answer: Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter)
261
What was the name of the first human-made satellite launched into
orbit?
Answer: Sputnik 1
262
What is the phenomenon where nothing, not even light, can escape a
region of space?
Answer: Black hole
263
Which space probe visited all four gas giant planets in our solar
system?
Answer: Voyager 2
264
What is the name of the closest star to our solar system?
Answer: Proxima Centauri
265
Which spacecraft carried the first humans to land on the Moon?
Answer: Apollo 11
266
What is the name of the theory describing the origin of the
universe?
Answer: The Big Bang Theory
Language & Linguistics Trivia – Hard Level
267
What is the most widely spoken language in the world by total
number of speakers?
Answer: English
268
Which language has the largest vocabulary?
Answer: English
269
What is the term for a word that reads the same backward as
forward?
Answer: Palindrome
270
Which writing system consists of characters that represent
syllables?
Answer: Syllabary (examples include Japanese Hiragana and Katakana)
271
What is the language family that includes Hindi, Bengali, and
Persian?
Answer: Indo-European
272
What is the term for a word formed by combining parts of two or
more existing words?
Answer: Portmanteau
273
What is the oldest known written language?
Answer: Sumerian cuneiform
274
Which language has the most native speakers in the world?
Answer: Mandarin Chinese
275
What term describes the systematic study of meaning in language?
Answer: Semantics
276
What is the artificial language created for international
communication by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887?
Answer: Esperanto
Geography & World Landmarks Trivia Trivia – Hard Level
277
Which European country is known as “the Land of Fire and Ice”?
Answer: Iceland
278
What is the ancient city carved into rose-colored stone in Jordan?
Answer: Petra
279
Which Scandinavian city is built across 14 islands?
Answer: Stockholm, Sweden
280
Which mountain range separates Europe from Asia?
Answer: Ural Mountains
281
What is the largest coral reef system in the world?
Answer: Great Barrier Reef, Australia
282
Which waterfall is known as “the Smoke that Thunders” in local
language?
Answer: Victoria Falls
283
Which river runs through Budapest, dividing the city into Buda and
Pest?
Answer: Danube River
284
What is the highest waterfall in the world?
Answer: Angel Falls, Venezuela
285
Which desert covers most of northern Africa?
Answer: Sahara Desert
286
Which ancient temple complex in Cambodia is the largest religious
monument in the world?
Answer: Angkor Wat
Science & Inventions Trivia – Hard Level
287
Who invented the World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
288
What scientific principle states that energy cannot be created or
destroyed, only transformed?
Answer: The First Law of Thermodynamics (Law of Conservation of Energy)
289
Who is credited with inventing the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
290
What is the term for the rate of change of velocity with respect
to time?
Answer: Acceleration
291
Which scientist developed the theory of evolution by natural
selection?
Answer: Charles Darwin
292
What is the name of the process by which plants convert light
energy to chemical energy?
Answer: Photosynthesis
293
Who invented dynamite?
Answer: Alfred Nobel
294
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au (from the Latin ‘aurum’)
295
Who is known as the “father of modern chemistry”?
Answer: Antoine Lavoisier
296
What is the process of splitting an atomic nucleus called?
Answer: Nuclear fission
Literature & Mythology Trivia – Hard Level
297
Who wrote “War and Peace”?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
298
In Norse mythology, what is the name of Thor’s hammer?
Answer: Mjölnir
299
Who wrote “Pride and Prejudice”?
Answer: Jane Austen
300
In Greek mythology, who was the messenger of the gods?
Answer: Hermes
301
Which literary work begins with the line “Call me Ishmael”?
Answer: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
302
Who wrote “The Divine Comedy”?
Answer: Dante Alighieri
303
In Egyptian mythology, who is the god of the dead?
Answer: Osiris
304
Which ancient Greek epic poem tells the story of Odysseus’s
journey home after the Trojan War?
Answer: The Odyssey
305
Who is the author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?
Answer: Gabriel García Márquez
306
In Hindu mythology, who is the destroyer god in the Trimurti?
Answer: Shiva
Food & Cuisine Trivia – Hard Level
307
What is the national dish of Spain?
Answer: Paella
308
Which type of pasta’s name means “little worms” in Italian?
Answer: Vermicelli
309
What is the main ingredient in traditional mole sauce from Mexico?
Answer: Chocolate
310
Which French wine region is known for producing Chardonnay and
Pinot Noir?
Answer: Burgundy
311
What is the name of the Japanese rice wine?
Answer: Sake
312
What cheese is traditionally used in a classic Greek Moussaka?
Answer: Kefalotiri (or Parmesan as a substitute)
313
Which herb is the main flavor in pesto sauce?
Answer: Basil
314
What is the primary ingredient in traditional Scottish haggis?
Answer: Sheep’s heart, liver, and lungs
315
Which country is credited with inventing ice cream?
Answer: China
316
What is the fermented cabbage dish that is a staple in Korean
cuisine?
Answer: Kimchi
Art & Architecture Trivia – Hard Level
317
Who designed the Sydney Opera House?
Answer: Jørn Utzon
318
Which artist painted “Starry Night”?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh
319
Who designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain?
Answer: Frank Gehry
320
Which Renaissance artist sculpted the statue of David?
Answer: Michelangelo
321
What architectural style is the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris?
Answer: French Gothic
322
Which Spanish artist is known for his surrealist works and melting
clocks?
Answer: Salvador Dalí
323
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Answer: Michelangelo
324
Which architect is known for designing the Fallingwater house?
Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright
325
What art movement is characterized by bold colors and distorted
forms to evoke emotional response?
Answer: Expressionism
326
Who painted “The Persistence of Memory”?
Answer: Salvador Dalí
Sports & Athletics Trivia – Hard Level
327
Which country has won the most FIFA World Cup tournaments?
Answer: Brazil (5 times)
328
In which city were the first modern Olympic Games held?
Answer: Athens, Greece (1896)
329
Who holds the record for the most Grand Slam tennis titles?
Answer: Novak Djokovic (24 as of 2024)
330
Which boxer was known as “The Greatest” and “The Louisville Lip”?
Answer: Muhammad Ali
331
How many players are on a standard water polo team?
Answer: 7 players
332
In which sport would you perform a Fosbury Flop?
Answer: High jump
333
Which country invented table tennis (ping pong)?
Answer: England
334
What is the distance of a full marathon race?
Answer: 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers)
335
Which horse has won the most Kentucky Derby races?
Answer: No horse has won more than one; Eddie Arcaro and Bill Hartack are the leading jockeys
with 5 wins each
336
Who holds the world record for the men’s 100m sprint?
Answer: Usain Bolt (9.58 seconds)
World History & Civilizations Trivia – Hard Level
337
Which treaty ended World War I?
Answer: Treaty of Versailles
338
Who was the first Emperor of China?
Answer: Qin Shi Huang
339
In which year did the Russian Revolution take place?
Answer: 1917
340
What was the name of the ancient trade route connecting the East
and West?
Answer: The Silk Road
341
Which civilization built the ancient city of Machu Picchu?
Answer: Inca
342
Who was the female Pharaoh of Egypt who ruled for more than two
decades?
Answer: Hatshepsut
343
Which year is known as the “Year of Revolutions” in European
history?
Answer: 1848
344
What was the name of the first successful British colony in North
America?
Answer: Jamestown
345
Which battle marked the end of Napoleon’s rule in 1815?
Answer: Battle of Waterloo
346
Who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against
British rule?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Law & Politics Trivia – Hard Level
347
How many amendments are there in the United States Constitution?
Answer: 27
348
What is the term for a legal document that protects an invention?
Answer: Patent
349
Which political philosopher wrote “The Social Contract”?
Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
350
What is the highest court in the United Kingdom?
Answer: The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
351
What document began with “When in the Course of human events…”?
Answer: The United States Declaration of Independence
352
Which city houses the International Court of Justice?
Answer: The Hague, Netherlands
353
What is the term for a legal prohibition against the publication
or distribution of material?
Answer: Injunction
354
Who wrote “The Prince,” a treatise on political power?
Answer: Niccolò Machiavelli
355
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “cruel and
unusual punishments”?
Answer: Eighth Amendment
356
What is the oldest written constitution still in use today?
Answer: The Constitution of San Marino (1600)
Technology & Computing Trivia – Hard Level
357
Who is considered the father of modern computer science?
Answer: Alan Turing
358
What does the acronym “HTTPS” stand for?
Answer: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
359
In what year was Bitcoin created?
Answer: 2009
360
Which programming language was developed at Google and announced
in 2009?
Answer: Go (Golang)
361
What is the name of the first electronic general-purpose computer?
Answer: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
362
Which technology company was originally called
“Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company”?
Answer: IBM
363
What does the acronym “CAPTCHA” stand for in computing?
Answer: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
364
Who founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985?
Answer: Richard Stallman
365
What is the name of the quantum computing concept where qubits
exist in multiple states simultaneously?
Answer: Superposition
366
Which company developed the first commercially available mouse?
Answer: Apple
367
What is the term for a security vulnerability that exists from the
day a system is released?
Answer: Zero-day vulnerability
368
Which famous equation is fundamental to information theory?
Answer: Shannon’s entropy equation
369
What was the first web browser called?
Answer: WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus)
370
What encryption algorithm is widely used for securing internet
communications?
Answer: AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
371
Which company released the first commercial transistor in 1948?
Answer: Bell Laboratories
Business & Economics Trivia – Hard Level
372
What economic theory suggests that government spending is
necessary to maintain full employment?
Answer: Keynesian economics
373
Who is known as the father of modern economics?
Answer: Adam Smith
374
What is the economic term for when a company is the only seller in
a market?
Answer: Monopoly
375
Which financial index tracks 30 large, publicly traded companies
on the New York Stock Exchange?
Answer: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
376
What economic concept describes the total market value of all
goods and services produced within a country’s borders in a specific time period?
Answer: Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
377
Which economist proposed the theory of “creative destruction”?
Answer: Joseph Schumpeter
378
What is the name for the economic situation when prices are rising
while economic growth is slowing?
Answer: Stagflation
379
Which organization sets international trade rules and mediates
trade disputes between nations?
Answer: World Trade Organization (WTO)
380
What economic theory suggests that tax cuts for businesses and the
wealthy will benefit everyone through increased investment and job creation?
Answer: Supply-side economics (or trickle-down economics)
381
Which famous business book by Dale Carnegie was published in 1936?
Answer: How to Win Friends and Influence People
382
What is the term for the measure of income inequality within a
nation?
Answer: Gini coefficient
383
Which economist’s name is associated with the “invisible hand”
concept?
Answer: Adam Smith
384
What is the economic term for when a company can decrease its
production costs by increasing its output?
Answer: Economies of scale
385
Which financial crisis began in 2007 due to the collapse of the
subprime mortgage market in the US?
Answer: The Great Recession
386
What is the term for the economic situation where there is a
decrease in the general price level of goods and services?
Answer: Deflation
Environmental Science & Ecology Trivia – Hard Level
387
Which gas is responsible for the largest percentage of the
greenhouse effect?
Answer: Water vapor
388
What is the term for the layer in the atmosphere that absorbs most
of the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation?
Answer: Ozone layer
389
What is the most abundant greenhouse gas in Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Water vapor
390
Which marine ecosystem is often referred to as the “rainforest of
the sea” due to its biodiversity?
Answer: Coral reefs
391
What is the name of the environmental disaster that occurred in
Bhopal, India in 1984?
Answer: Bhopal gas tragedy (Union Carbide gas leak)
392
Which biome has the highest biodiversity?
Answer: Tropical rainforest
393
What is the name for the process by which plants convert light
energy into chemical energy?
Answer: Photosynthesis
394
Which international treaty, signed in 1987, aimed to protect the
ozone layer?
Answer: Montreal Protocol
395
What is the term for species that have a disproportionately large
effect on their environment relative to their abundance?
Answer: Keystone species
396
Which book, published in 1962, is credited with launching the
modern environmental movement?
Answer: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
397
What is the term for the process by which chemicals are
concentrated in increasing amounts at higher trophic levels in a food chain?
Answer: Biomagnification
398
What term describes the formation of a lake or pond through the
process of plant succession?
Answer: Ecological succession
399
Which environmental phenomenon causes the death of aquatic life
due to a reduction in dissolved oxygen in the water?
Answer: Eutrophication
400
What is the name of the theory that states that large continents
have drifted apart over millions of years?
Answer: Continental drift theory
401
Which type of cloud forms at the highest altitude?
Answer: Cirrus clouds
Health & Medicine Trivia – Hard Level
402
Which hormone regulates blood glucose levels and is deficient in
type 1 diabetes?
Answer: Insulin
403
What is the medical term for high blood pressure?
Answer: Hypertension
404
Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for coordinating
voluntary movement?
Answer: Cerebellum
405
What is the largest gland in the human body?
Answer: Liver
406
What is the medical term for inflammation of the liver?
Answer: Hepatitis
407
Which vitamin is produced when skin is exposed to sunlight?
Answer: Vitamin D
408
What is the medical term for a heart attack?
Answer: Myocardial infarction
409
Which disease was declared eradicated worldwide in 1980 by the
World Health Organization?
Answer: Smallpox
410
What is the technical name for the kneecap?
Answer: Patella
411
Which scientist discovered penicillin in 1928?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
412
What is the longest bone in the human body?
Answer: Femur (thigh bone)
413
Which medical procedure involves removing a section of tissue for
examination?
Answer: Biopsy
414
What is the medical term for a stroke?
Answer: Cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
415
Which blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?
Answer: Arteries
416
What is the name of the protein responsible for carrying oxygen in
red blood cells?
Answer: Hemoglobin
Animals & Wildlife Trivia – Hard Level
417
Which is the only mammal capable of true flight?
Answer: Bat
418
What is the scientific name for the largest species of big cat?
Answer: Panthera tigris altaica (Siberian tiger)
419
Which bird has the largest wingspan of any living bird?
Answer: Wandering albatross
420
What is the only venomous snake native to the UK?
Answer: Adder (Vipera berus)
421
What is the collective noun for a group of ravens?
Answer: An unkindness
422
Which animal has the longest gestation period?
Answer: African elephant (22 months)
423
What is the only marsupial native to North America?
Answer: Virginia opossum
424
Which sea creature has three hearts?
Answer: Octopus
425
What is the fastest land animal?
Answer: Cheetah
426
Which animal never sleeps?
Answer: Bullfrog
427
What is the only mammal that can’t jump?
Answer: Elephant
428
Which insect has the most complex eyes?
Answer: Dragonfly
429
What is the largest living arthropod?
Answer: Japanese spider crab
430
Which animal has the largest brain relative to body size?
Answer: Ant
431
What is the only bird known to fly backwards?
Answer: Hummingbird
Mathematics & Logic Trivia – Hard Level
432
What is the name of the famous unsolved mathematical problem
related to prime numbers?
Answer: Riemann Hypothesis
433
In mathematics, what is the value of the golden ratio (φ) to two
decimal places?
Answer: 1.62
434
Which mathematician formulated the concept of “Game Theory”?
Answer: John von Neumann
435
What is the name of the sequence where each number is the sum of
the two preceding ones?
Answer: Fibonacci sequence
436
Who is known for the famous incompleteness theorems in
mathematical logic?
Answer: Kurt Gödel
437
What is the name of the problem involving the optimal route for
visiting multiple cities?
Answer: Traveling Salesman Problem
438
In calculus, what does the fundamental theorem relate?
Answer: Derivatives and integrals
439
What is Fermat’s Last Theorem?
Answer: No three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for any
integer value of n greater than 2
440
Which mathematical principle states that among competing
hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected?
Answer: Occam’s Razor
441
What is the name of the curved surface that can be formed by
folding a rectangular piece of paper?
Answer: Developable surface
442
What is the term for a number that can be expressed as a fraction
of two integers?
Answer: Rational number
443
Which famous mathematician is known for his work on prime numbers
and the Zeta function?
Answer: Bernhard Riemann
444
What is the name of the problem that asks whether a certain class
of algorithms can solve all problems they are designed to solve?
Answer: P versus NP problem
445
What is the name of the paradox concerning a set that contains all
sets that do not contain themselves?
Answer: Russell’s paradox
446
Which mathematical constant is defined as the ratio of a circle’s
circumference to its diameter?
Answer: Pi (π)
Movies & Entertainment Trivia – Hard Level
447
Who directed the 1941 film “Citizen Kane”?
Answer: Orson Welles
448
Which actor has received the most Academy Award nominations
without winning?
Answer: Peter O’Toole (8 nominations)
449
Which film holds the record for winning the most Academy Awards?
Answer: Titanic (tied with Ben-Hur and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King at 11)
450
Who was the first African American to win the Academy Award for
Best Actor?
Answer: Sidney Poitier (for “Lilies of the Field” in 1964)
451
Which famous director is known for films like “Psycho,” “Vertigo,”
and “The Birds”?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock
452
What was the first feature-length animated film ever released?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
453
Which actress has won the most Academy Awards for acting?
Answer: Katharine Hepburn (4 Oscars)
454
What was the first foreign-language film to win the Academy Award
for Best Picture?
Answer: Parasite (2019)
455
Who composed the iconic theme music for the James Bond films?
Answer: John Barry
456
Which 1972 film’s production was plagued with problems including
typhoons, heart attacks, and the lead actor’s breakdown?
Answer: Apocalypse Now
457
Who was the first female director to win the Academy Award for
Best Director?
Answer: Kathryn Bigelow (for “The Hurt Locker” in 2010)
458
Which 1998 film holds the record for the most weeks at #1 at the
box office?
Answer: Titanic
459
Which actor has portrayed James Bond in the most films?
Answer: Roger Moore (7 films)
460
What was the first film to be released in the Marvel Cinematic
Universe?
Answer: Iron Man (2008)
461
Which legendary film director was known as “The Master of
Suspense”?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock
Philosophy & Ethics Trivia – Hard Level
462
Which ancient Greek philosopher is known for his theory of forms?
Answer: Plato
463
Who is the author of “Beyond Good and Evil” and “Thus Spoke
Zarathustra”?
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
464
Which philosophical concept is described as “I think, therefore I
am”?
Answer: Cogito, ergo sum (by René Descartes)
465
Which ancient Chinese philosopher is known for his work “Tao Te
Ching”?
Answer: Laozi (Lao Tzu)
466
Who developed the concept of the “Übermensch” (Superman)?
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
467
Which philosopher wrote “The Republic,” describing an ideal
society ruled by philosopher-kings?
Answer: Plato
468
What philosophical concept refers to the inherent lack of meaning
in life?
Answer: Nihilism
469
Which philosopher proposed the concept of “the categorical
imperative”?
Answer: Immanuel Kant
470
Who coined the term “existentialism”?
Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre
471
Which ancient Greek philosopher was the teacher of Alexander the
Great?
Answer: Aristotle
472
Which philosopher is associated with the utilitarian concept “the
greatest happiness for the greatest number”?
Answer: Jeremy Bentham
473
Which philosophy advocates that the highest good is pleasure and
the absence of pain?
Answer: Epicureanism
474
Who wrote the philosophical work “Being and Nothingness”?
Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre
475
Which school of philosophy emphasizes endurance of pain and
hardship without complaint?
Answer: Stoicism
476
Who is known for his statement “God is dead” in his work “The Gay
Science”?
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
Fashion & Design Trivia – Hard Level
477
Which famous fashion designer was known as “The Kaiser” in the
fashion industry?
Answer: Karl Lagerfeld
478
Which design movement emerged in the 1920s and emphasized
geometric shapes and bright colors?
Answer: Art Deco
479
Who designed the iconic “Little Black Dress”?
Answer: Coco Chanel
480
Which fashion house was the first to use the interlocking “CC”
logo?
Answer: Chanel
481
What design movement began in the 1950s and featured clean lines
and organic forms?
Answer: Mid-century modern
482
Which Italian fashion designer was killed outside his Miami Beach
home in 1997?
Answer: Gianni Versace
483
What type of textile printing technique uses wax to resist dye and
create patterns?
Answer: Batik
484
Which designer is credited with inventing the miniskirt in the
1960s?
Answer: Mary Quant
485
What is the term for the design principle that states form should
follow function?
Answer: Functionalism
486
Which German design school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 had a
profound influence on modern design?
Answer: Bauhaus
487
Which fashion designer is famous for his red-soled shoes?
Answer: Christian Louboutin
488
What is the Japanese art of paper folding called?
Answer: Origami
489
Which French fashion designer is known for pioneering the “New
Look” in 1947?
Answer: Christian Dior
490
What is the traditional artistic printing technique where ink is
applied to a block and transferred to paper?
Answer: Woodblock printing
491
Which fashion magazine was first published in 1892 and is
considered one of the world’s most influential?
Answer: Vogue
Transportation & Vehicles Trivia – Hard Level
492
Who is credited with inventing the first practical automobile
powered by an internal combustion engine?
Answer: Karl Benz
493
Which aircraft manufacturer produced the first commercial
jetliner?
Answer: De Havilland (Comet)
494
What was the name of the first spacecraft to land humans on the
Moon?
Answer: Eagle (Apollo 11 Lunar Module)
495
Which car manufacturer created the first mass-produced hybrid
vehicle?
Answer: Toyota (Prius)
496
What was the first passenger ocean liner to be built with a steel
hull?
Answer: SS Inman (or City of Paris)
497
Which high-speed passenger train holds the world rail speed
record?
Answer: TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse)
498
What was the name of the first nuclear-powered submarine?
Answer: USS Nautilus
499
Who invented the modern helicopter and successfully flew it in
1939?
Answer: Igor Sikorsky
500
Which iconic Italian car was originally designed for racing but
became a popular luxury sports car?
Answer: Ferrari
501
What was the first successfully mass-produced American automobile?
Answer: Oldsmobile Curved Dash
502
Which aerospace company built the Saturn V rocket used in the
Apollo missions?
Answer: Boeing (with North American Aviation)
503
What was the first supersonic passenger airliner?
Answer: Concorde
504
Which German engineer invented the diesel engine?
Answer: Rudolf Diesel
505
What was the name of the first orbital space station?
Answer: Salyut 1
506
Which automobile manufacturer was the first to use an assembly
line for mass production?
Answer: Ford Motor Company
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507
In quantum physics, what principle states that it is impossible to
know both the position and momentum of a particle with perfect accuracy?
Answer: Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
508
Which art movement that originated in early 20th century Italy
emphasized speed, technology, youth, and violence?
Answer: Futurism
509
In literature, who is the only author to have won the Booker Prize
three times?
Answer: J.M. Coetzee
510
Which chemical element was discovered in the mineral samarsite and
named after a Russian mining engineer?
Answer: Samarium
511
In classical music, what is the term for a six-voice fugue?
Answer: Hexafugue
512
What mathematical phenomenon describes when seemingly random data
exhibits striking patterns?
Answer: Benford’s Law
513
Which historical battle of 1575 is considered one of the greatest
Ottoman naval victories?
Answer: Battle of Lepanto
514
In botany, what is the technical term for plants that complete
their lifecycle in two growing seasons?
Answer: Biennials