Trivia quiz
- 1. Trivia quiz 1. What does ET stand for? Stands for the Extra-Terrestrial. 2. How do you call your wife’s brother? Brother-in-law 3. What’s the best known artificial international language? Esperanto. 4. Who painted the Mona Lisa? Was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. 5. Who wrote Lazarillo de Tormes? Was written by an unknown person. 6. What did the crocodile swallow in Peter Pan? A clock. 7. What did the 7 dwarves do for a job? They were miners. 8. Who painted the Sistine Chapel? Miquel Angelo. 9. Name a famous detective who smoked a pipe and played the violin? It was Sherlock Holmes. 10. What’s the most important book in the Moslem religion? Al-Koran. 11. In which city is Hollywood? Is in LA. 12. Where are the Dolomites? They are in northern Italy. 13. What’s the capital of Kenya? Nairobi. 14. What’s the smallest country in the world? The city of the Vatican. 15. Which river goes through London? The river Thames. 16. What’s the highest mountain in Africa? Is the Kilimanjaro. 17. What’s 15 meters high, 8 meters wide and 240Km long? Chinese wall. 18. What’s the capital of Scotland? The capital of Scotland is Edinburgh. 19. Where are the Luxembourg Gardens? Is in Paris. 20. How many wives did Henry the Eighth had? He had 7 wives. 21. Where did the first atomic bomb explode for first time in Japan? It exploded in Hiroshima. 22. What’s the name of the famous big clock in London? Big Beng. 23. What country gave Florida to the USA in 1891? Spain. 24. What did the Montgolfier brothers invent? They invent the balloon. 25. What money do they use in Japan? They use the Yen. 26. Who is the Prime Minister of Britain? David Cameron. 27. How many months have 31 days? 7 months. 28. In what language does “obrigado” mean “thanks”? In Portuguese. 29. How many players are there in a volleyball team? There are 6. 30. What horoscope sign has a crab? Cancer. 31. In what shop can you buy books in England? In the bookstore. 32. What does the female praying mantis do after she’s made love? She kills and eats the male. 33. What are the three primary colors? The red, green and blue in the light 34. What temperature does water boil at? In normal condition boils at 100 Celsius degrees. 35. Who discovered penicillin? Alexander Fleming. 36. Which is the only mammal that can’t jump? The bat. 37. What’s the smallest type of tree in the world? 1,5m. 38. What colors make purple? Blue and red. 39. Which is the largest state in the USA? Alaska. 40. Which company is the largest producer of computer software for personal computers? Microsoft.
- 2. 41. Sony: Play station. Microsoft: X-box. 42. Earth is located in which galaxy? In the Milky Way. 43. What is the name of NASA’s most famous space telescope? Hubble. 44. What is the hottest planet in our solar system? Mercury. 45. What is the main gas found in the air we breathe? Nitrogen. 46. Atoms of the same chemical element that have different atomic mass are known as? Isotopes. 47. What is the name of the substance that gives skin and hair its pigment? Melamine. 48. The solid state of water is as? Ice. 49. What is the longest river on Earth? The Nile River. 50. What food is used as the base of guacamole? Avocado. 51. What is the popular food used to carve jack-o-lanterns during Halloween? Pumpkin. 52. What famous islands west of Ecuador were extensively studied by Charles Darwin? Galapagos Islands. 53. What is the next prime number after 7? 11 54. What food makes up nearly all of a Giant Panda’s diet? Bamboo 55. Botany is the study of? The plants. 56. Bacterial infections in humans can be treated with? Antibiotics 57. A change of the DNA in an organism that results in a new trait is known as? A mutation. 58. The most recognized model of how the universe begun is known as? The big bang theory. 59. Which is the only planet in our solar system that rotates in a different direction from the other planets? None. 60. The capital of Austria? Vienna. 61. Transylvania, is located in which country? Romania. 62. Visitors to Rome can visit this ancient sports arena? The Coliseum. 63. Monet, Renoir and Degas all contributed to the art of movement known as? Impressionism. 64. Peter Parker is better known by his superhero name. Spiderman. 65. In which country would you find the Leading Tower of Pisa? In Pisa.