Movie trivia — the questions that separate casual fans from true buffs
Cinema trivia is the gateway drug of trivia. Everyone has watched a movie this year. Not everyone remembers what Ross's monkey was called or who played the chancellor before Palpatine. Below are 5 movie questions our players got wrong the most — and the explanations that made them remember.
Q1.Which restaurant's mascot is a clown?Tap to reveal
Answer: McDonald's
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Q2.What is the name of the Jewish New Year?Tap to reveal
Answer: Rosh Hashanah
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Q3.To which language family does Kazakh belong?Tap to reveal
Answer: Turkic
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Q4.What is the Portuguese word for "Brazil"?Tap to reveal
Answer: Brasil
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Q5.What alcoholic drink is mainly made from juniper berries?Tap to reveal
Answer: Gin
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Q6.Which of these is NOT considered to be a colour that makes up the rainbow?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pink
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Q7.Out of these four buildings, which one is the tallest, with a height of 1,250 ft (381 m)?Tap to reveal
Answer: Empire State Building, United States
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Q8.A doctor with a PhD is a doctor of what?Tap to reveal
Answer: Philosophy
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Q9.How long did it take the motorized window washers of the original World Trade Center to clean the entire exterior of the building?Tap to reveal
Answer: 1 Month
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Q10.According to the 2014-2015 Australian Bureau of Statistics, what percentage of Australians were born overseas?Tap to reveal
Answer: 28%
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Q11.Which is the second largest native language spoken in Spain by numbers of speakers?Tap to reveal
Answer: Catalan
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Q12.Which sign of the zodiac comes between Virgo and Scorpio?Tap to reveal
Answer: Libra
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Q13.The Mexican Beer "Corona" is what type of beer?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pale Lager
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Q14.Who is the origin of the quote "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"?Tap to reveal
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Q15.The term "scientist" was coined in which year?Tap to reveal
Answer: 1833
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Q16.Out of these four buildings, which one is the tallest, with a height of 1,483 ft (451.9 m)?Tap to reveal
Answer: Petronas Twin Towers, Malaysia
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Q17.What is the name of the currency used in Ethiopia?Tap to reveal
Answer: Birr
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Q18.What is the full meaning of RAM?Tap to reveal
Answer: Random Access Memory
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Q19.In the video-game franchise Kingdom Hearts, the main protagonist, carries a weapon with what shape?Tap to reveal
Answer: Key
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Q20.Which mountain has the highest peak in Australia?Tap to reveal
Answer: Mount Kosciuszko, New South Wales
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Q21.According to the BBPA, what is the most common pub name in the UK?Tap to reveal
Answer: Red Lion
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Q22.Roughly how many ingested apple seeds would it take to receive a fatal dose of cyanide?Tap to reveal
Answer: 200
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Q23.The website "Shut Up & Sit Down" reviews which form of media?Tap to reveal
Answer: Board Games
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Music trivia — from Motown to one-hit wonders
Music questions hit two ways: nostalgia (remember when this was on the radio?) and obscurity (who recorded what when?). Here are 5 we tested across age groups — the misses were funnier than the hits.
Q1.What is the Zodiac symbol for Gemini?Tap to reveal
Answer: Twins
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Q2.What direction does the Statue of Liberty face?Tap to reveal
Answer: Southeast
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Q3.In "Battle Cats", what is Moneko / MISS Moneko's critical percentage rate?Tap to reveal
Answer: 15%
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Q4.The tale of Robin Hood originates from which country?Tap to reveal
Answer: England
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Q5.What does VR stand for?Tap to reveal
Answer: Virtual Reality
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Q6.What nation produces roughly 40% of the world’s vanilla?Tap to reveal
Answer: Madagascar
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Q7.What is the famous Papa John's last name?Tap to reveal
Answer: Schnatter
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Q8.The “fairy” type made it’s debut in which generation of the Pokemon core series games?Tap to reveal
Answer: 6th
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Q9.Who is the youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize?Tap to reveal
Answer: Malala Yousafzai
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Q10.Which church's interior in Vatican City was designed in 1503 by renaissance architects including Bramante, Michelangelo and Bernini?Tap to reveal
Answer: St. Peter's Basilica
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Q11.Which of the following is not the host of a program on NPR?Tap to reveal
Answer: Ben Shapiro
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Q12.A statue of Charles Darwin sits in what London museum?Tap to reveal
Answer: Natural History Museum
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Q13.Who founded the Khan Academy?Tap to reveal
Answer: Sal Khan
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Q14.What is the official language in Barcelona beside Spanish?Tap to reveal
Answer: Catalan
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Q15.The drug cartel run by Pablo Escobar originated in which South American city?Tap to reveal
Answer: Medellín
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Q16.What is a "dakimakura"?Tap to reveal
Answer: A body pillow
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Q17.What does the Latin phrase "Veni, vidi, vici" translate into English?Tap to reveal
Answer: I came, I saw, I conquered
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Q18.Which of the following buildings is example of a structure primarily built in the Art Deco architectural style?Tap to reveal
Answer: Niagara Mohawk Building
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Q19.This field is sometimes known as “The Dismal Science.”Tap to reveal
Answer: Economics
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Q20.Which American-owned brewery led the country in sales by volume in 2015?Tap to reveal
Answer: D. G. Yuengling and Son, Inc
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Q21.De Eemhof, Port Zelande and Het Heijderbos are holiday villas owned by what company?Tap to reveal
Answer: Center Parcs
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Q22.What is a dead mall?Tap to reveal
Answer: A mall with high vacancy rates or low consumer foot traffic
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Q23.What do the Dutch call their language?Tap to reveal
Answer: Nederlands
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Geography trivia — flags, capitals and the "I knew that"
Geography trivia exposes the gaps in everyone's mental map. We picked questions where the answer is more interesting than the question — the kind that change how you think about a place.
Q1.Why is the night sky dark?Tap to reveal
Answer: The universe is finite in age and size
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Q2.According to the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, how many days did it take God to create the world?Tap to reveal
Answer: Six
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Q3.What do sailors call the back of a boat?Tap to reveal
Answer: Stern
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Q4.In what year did Canada stop producing the penny?Tap to reveal
Answer: 2012
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Q5.Which one of these is not a typical European sword design?Tap to reveal
Answer: Scimitar
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Q6.Which of the following blood component forms a plug at the site of injuries?Tap to reveal
Answer: Platelets
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Q7.What year was Apple Inc. founded?Tap to reveal
Answer: 1976
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Q8.When one is "envious", they are said to be what color?Tap to reveal
Answer: Green
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Q9.Of the following months, which has the most amount of days?Tap to reveal
Answer: December
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Q10.This Ghanaian entrepreneur is a pioneer of microlending.Tap to reveal
Answer: Esther Afua Ocloo
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Q11.Out of these four buildings, which one is the tallest, with a height of 1,776 ft (541.3 m)?Tap to reveal
Answer: One World Trade Center, United States
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Q12.Which one of these Swedish companies was founded in 1943?Tap to reveal
Answer: IKEA
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Q13.What was the first ever London Underground line to be built?Tap to reveal
Answer: Metropolitan Line
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Q14.The Hyundai Motor Company was founded in which country?Tap to reveal
Answer: South Korea
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Q15.Located in Chile, El Teniente is the world's largest underground mine for what metal?Tap to reveal
Answer: Copper
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Q16.The architect known as Le Corbusier was an important figure in what style of architecture?Tap to reveal
Answer: Modernism
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Q17.Rolex is a company that specializes in what type of product?Tap to reveal
Answer: Watches
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Q18.Coleslaw originated from which European country?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Netherlands
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Q19.According to Sherlock Holmes, "If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the..."Tap to reveal
Answer: Truth
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Q20.The Canadian $1 coin is colloquially known as a what?Tap to reveal
Answer: Loonie
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Q21.Which sign of the zodiac is represented by the Crab?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cancer
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Q22.In flight systems, what does the initialism "TCAS" stand for?Tap to reveal
Answer: Traffic Collision Avoidance System
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Q23.Which of these companies does NOT manufacture automobiles?Tap to reveal
Answer: Ducati
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Science trivia — the answers that make you say "wait, really?"
Science questions are best when the answer feels counterintuitive. Below are 5 that surprise even people who studied biology in high school.
Q1.The American company "Campbell's" is most well known for making what food product?Tap to reveal
Answer: Canned soups
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Q2.In blood typing, the (+) and (-) marker after an A, B, AB, or O is called Rh factor. Which of the following is the source of its discovery?Tap to reveal
Answer: Rhesus Monkeys
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Q3.What is the name of the poker hand containing three of a kind and a pair?Tap to reveal
Answer: Full House
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Q4.What do sailors call the right side of a boat?Tap to reveal
Answer: Starboard
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Q5.What type of dog is 'Handsome Dan', the mascot of Yale University?Tap to reveal
Answer: Bulldog
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Q6.What was the name of Sqiudward's bad painting in the Spongebob episode "Artist Unknown?"Tap to reveal
Answer: Bold and Brash
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Q7.Where does water from Poland Spring water bottles come from?Tap to reveal
Answer: Maine, United States
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Q8.What is the defining characteristic of someone who is described as hirsute?Tap to reveal
Answer: Hairy
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Q9.In Half-Life, what is the name of the alien that attaches to heads?Tap to reveal
Answer: Headcrab
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Q10.What is the unit of currency in Laos?Tap to reveal
Answer: Kip
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Q11.Which language is most widely spoken in Switzerland?Tap to reveal
Answer: German
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Q12.What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?Tap to reveal
Answer: 24 MPH
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Q13.When someone is inexperienced they are said to be what color?Tap to reveal
Answer: Green
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Q14.Macintosh has named six of its operating systems after big cats. What big cat did Macintosh name their 2007 release after?Tap to reveal
Answer: Leopard
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Q15.What element has the chemical symbol Kr?Tap to reveal
Answer: Krypton
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Q16.In linguistics, which of the following is not one of the Gricean Maxims under the Cooperative Principal?Tap to reveal
Answer: Length
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Q17.What was the name given to Japanese military dictators who ruled the country through the 12th and 19th Century?Tap to reveal
Answer: Shogun
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Q18.Disney's Haunted Mansion is home to a trio of Hitchhiking Ghosts. Which of these is NOT one of them?Tap to reveal
Answer: Harry
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Q19.All Souls and Merton are constituent colleges of what university?Tap to reveal
Answer: Oxford
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Q20.What machine element is located in the center of fidget spinners?Tap to reveal
Answer: Bearings
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Q21.What planet is not named after a Greek or Roman god?Tap to reveal
Answer: Earth
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Q22.Who is considered the "Father of Modern Philosophy"?Tap to reveal
Answer: René Descartes
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