General Knowledge50 randomly selected General Knowledge questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 16th November 2026 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | The small world theory that everyone is, on average, only a few steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth is described as "____ degrees of separation". |
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Six | |
| 2. | Popular in the first half of the twentieth century, what 'H' describes this type of hat? |
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Homburg | |
| 3. | Name the 36-year-old British-Lebanese human rights lawyer who married George Clooney on 29th September 2014. |
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Amal Alamuddin | |
| 4. | How many sides has a dodecagon? |
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12 | |
| 5. | What letter comes next in this sequence? |
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J (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges) | |
| 6. | What name is given to the cosmological event thought to have taken place around 13.7 billion years ago? |
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Big Bang | |
| 7. | The Lockheed C-5 had its maiden flight on 30th June 1968 and is still in service today. By what name is it better known? |
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Galaxy | |
| 8. | "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog". What 'P' describes that sentence? |
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Palindrome (It reads the same backward as forward) | |
| 9. | What is the national airline and flag carrier for Spain? |
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Iberia | |
| 10. | What American federal holiday is celebrated on the third Monday in January? |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | |
| 11. | What two letters come next in the following sequence: SC, RM, GL, TD, PB, __? |
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DC (Sean Connery, Roger Moore, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig) | |
| 12. | The title Duke or Duchess of Brabant is given to the heir to the throne of what European country? |
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Belgium (currently Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant) | |
| 13. | Friday takes its name from what Norse goddess? |
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Frigg (Frija, Frea, or Frige) | |
| 14. | Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tommy Lee Jones. Rearrange them in order, oldest first. |
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Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones (1940, 1943, 1946) | |
| 15. | What 'H' describes the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, a duty that must be carried out by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so at least once in his or her lifetime. |
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Hajj | |
| 16. | What is the English language equivalent of a German Rathaus? |
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Town Hall / City Hall | |
| 17. | Variously defined as a cult, a business, or a religious movement; David Miscavige is the current leader of what organisation? |
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Church of Scientology | |
| 18. | In Greek mythology, Bellerophon rode what horse? |
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Pegasus | |
| 19. | What language is this? |
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Burmese / Myanmar language (Myăma Nainngandaw - Myanmar State) | |
| 20. | A Sinophobe is someone with a feeling of antipathy toward the people or culture of what nation? |
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China | |
| 21. | President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah are the current leaders of what country? |
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Afghanistan | |
| 22. | The Huracán is a 5.2 L V10 sports car produced by what company? |
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Lamborghini | |
| 23. | If you ask for directions in South Africa you may be told to "turn right at the robot". What is a 'robot'? |
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Traffic lights (a contraction for the words 'robot policemen') | |
| 24. | What does the acronym ANZAC stand for? |
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Australian and New Zealand Army Corps | |
| 25. | What name is given to this, the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet? |
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Lambda | |
| 26. | GBZ is the international vehicle registration code for what British Overseas Territory? |
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Gibraltar (Z was assigned because G was already used for Guernsey) | |
| 27. | In millimetres, what is the length of the long side of a piece of A4 paper? |
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297 (210x297) | |
| 28. | Which European country switched from driving on the left to driving on the right in September 1967? |
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Sweden | |
| 29. | Replace these initials with words to make a true statement: |
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8 Sides on a Stop Sign | |
| 30. | What letter is represented by a single dot in Morse code? |
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E | |
| 31. | What name is given to the SI derived unit of length equal to one-thousanth of a millimetre? |
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Micrometre / Micron | |
| 32. | Based on those mentioned in the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, how many of Santa's reindeer have names ending with the letters "ER"? |
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4 (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Donner) | |
| 33. | In France you may see a sign saying "SORTIE". What is the English equivalent? |
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EXIT | |
| 34. | Seven hours ahead of GMT, the time zone in Cambodia, Western Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam is called ICT. What does ICT stand for? |
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Indochina Time (UTC+07:00) | |
| 35. | In Roman numerals, what does the letter 'L' represent? |
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50 | |
| 36. | Operation Unicorn deals with transporting the Queen's coffin from Scotland to London. Operation Marquee covers the four days of the Queen's lying-in-state. First devised in the 1960s, what is the code name for the principal operation handling all aspects of the death of Queen Elizabeth II? |
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Operation London Bridge | |
| 37. | In Greek and Roman mythology, with how many heads was the "hellhound" Cerberus most often depicted? |
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3 | |
| 38. | If a thousand billion is a trillion, what is a thousand trillion? |
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Quadrillion (1015 - 1,000,000,000,000,000) | |
| 39. | Fitzgerald, Baines, Milhous, Rudolph, Earl, ______. What's next in the sequence? |
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Wilson (John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Gerald Rudolph Ford, James Earl Carter, Ronald Wilson Reagan) | |
| 40. | Formerly known as MSN Search, Live Search, and Windows Live Search; by what name has Microsoft's internet search engine been known since June 2009? |
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Bing | |
| 41. | By what name are "full-scale anthropomorphic test devices" better known? |
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Crash Test Dummies | |
| 42. | What was Princess Diana's maiden name? |
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Spencer (Diana Frances Spencer) | |
| 43. | What country has the international vehicle registration code CH? |
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Switzerland (from Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica) | |
| 44. | What European cathedral houses a 24-ton bell nicknamed "Fat Peter"? |
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Cologne Cathedral (Saint Peter's bell - German: St. Petersglocke) | |
| 45. | Born in 1977, Victoria is Crown Princess, and heir apparent to the throne, of what European country? |
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Sweden | |
| 46. | How many cards are there in a standard tarot pack? |
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78 | |
| 47. | What nationality was psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud? |
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Austrian | |
| 48. | According to the latest figures from the United Nations World Tourism Organization, which European country is the top international tourist destination in the world? |
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France (74.2 million international tourist arrivals in 2009) | |
| 49. | This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so atypical about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. So, what is uncommon about it? |
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No letter E (the most common letter used in the English language) | |
| 50. | From what material is parchment made? |
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Hide / Animal skin (usually calfskin, sheepskin or goatskin) | |
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