Multiple-choice trivia gives every player a fighting chance, even when the answer is hiding just out of reach.
Each of these 120 questions offers four plausible options, one clear winner, and a balanced trip through eight crowd-friendly categories.
World Geography Choices
Pick your way around the map, then travel farther with our geography trivia.
- Which city is the capital of Australia?
A) Sydney
B) Canberra
C) Melbourne
D) Perth
Answer: B) Canberra - Which river flows through Paris?
A) Rhine
B) Thames
C) Seine
D) Danube
Answer: C) Seine - Mount Kilimanjaro is in which country?
A) Tanzania
B) Kenya
C) Ethiopia
D) Uganda
Answer: A) Tanzania - Which country has the city of Porto?
A) Spain
B) Italy
C) Greece
D) Portugal
Answer: D) Portugal - Which continent contains the Atacama Desert?
A) Africa
B) South America
C) Asia
D) Australia
Answer: B) South America - Which U.S. state is nicknamed the Aloha State?
A) Florida
B) California
C) Hawaii
D) Alaska
Answer: C) Hawaii - What is the capital of Kenya?
A) Nairobi
B) Lagos
C) Accra
D) Cairo
Answer: A) Nairobi - Which sea separates Europe from Africa?
A) Baltic Sea
B) Caribbean Sea
C) Arabian Sea
D) Mediterranean Sea
Answer: D) Mediterranean Sea - Which country is shaped like a boot?
A) Croatia
B) Italy
C) Chile
D) Norway
Answer: B) Italy - Which Canadian province includes Vancouver?
A) Alberta
B) Ontario
C) British Columbia
D) Quebec
Answer: C) British Columbia - Which capital city stands on the River Liffey?
A) Dublin
B) Brussels
C) Vienna
D) Prague
Answer: A) Dublin - Which island nation lies southeast of India?
A) Cyprus
B) Malta
C) Iceland
D) Sri Lanka
Answer: D) Sri Lanka - Which mountain range separates France and Spain?
A) Alps
B) Pyrenees
C) Andes
D) Carpathians
Answer: B) Pyrenees - What is the largest Great Lake by surface area?
A) Lake Erie
B) Lake Michigan
C) Lake Superior
D) Lake Ontario
Answer: C) Lake Superior - Which country uses the yen?
A) Japan
B) China
C) Thailand
D) India
Answer: A) Japan
History With Four Doors
Only one doorway leads to the past you want, and our history trivia has many more eras to explore.
- Which civilization built the city of Petra?
A) Romans
B) Maya
C) Nabataeans
D) Vikings
Answer: C) Nabataeans - The Magna Carta was sealed in which century?
A) 11th century
B) 13th century
C) 15th century
D) 17th century
Answer: B) 13th century - Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?
A) Bessie Coleman
B) Harriet Quimby
C) Jacqueline Cochran
D) Amelia Earhart
Answer: D) Amelia Earhart - Which empire used Constantinople as its capital?
A) Byzantine Empire
B) Aztec Empire
C) Inca Empire
D) Mali Empire
Answer: A) Byzantine Empire - Which document begins with the words “We the People”?
A) Declaration of Independence
B) Bill of Rights
C) U.S. Constitution
D) Gettysburg Address
Answer: C) U.S. Constitution - Who became South Africa’s president in 1994?
A) Desmond Tutu
B) Nelson Mandela
C) F. W. de Klerk
D) Thabo Mbeki
Answer: B) Nelson Mandela - Which ancient people developed democracy in Athens?
A) Phoenicians
B) Persians
C) Egyptians
D) Greeks
Answer: D) Greeks - The Rosetta Stone helped scholars decipher which script?
A) Egyptian hieroglyphs
B) Linear B
C) Cuneiform
D) Sanskrit
Answer: A) Egyptian hieroglyphs - Which U.S. purchase doubled the nation’s territory in 1803?
A) Alaska Purchase
B) Gadsden Purchase
C) Louisiana Purchase
D) Florida Purchase
Answer: C) Louisiana Purchase - Who was known as the Maid of Orléans?
A) Marie Curie
B) Joan of Arc
C) Eleanor of Aquitaine
D) Catherine de' Medici
Answer: B) Joan of Arc - Which city was buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE?
A) Carthage
B) Sparta
C) Troy
D) Pompeii
Answer: D) Pompeii - What trade route linked China with the Mediterranean world?
A) Silk Road
B) Oregon Trail
C) Amber Road
D) Royal Road
Answer: A) Silk Road - Which dynasty built much of the present Great Wall of China?
A) Han
B) Tang
C) Ming
D) Qing
Answer: C) Ming - Which nurse became known as the Lady with the Lamp?
A) Clara Barton
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Mary Seacole
D) Edith Cavell
Answer: B) Florence Nightingale - The Renaissance began in which modern country?
A) Germany
B) England
C) France
D) Italy
Answer: D) Italy
Science in A, B, C, or D
Put on your imaginary goggles for a lab round that stays lively, not lecture-y, with more in our science trivia.
- Which planet has the shortest year?
A) Mercury
B) Venus
C) Mars
D) Jupiter
Answer: A) Mercury - What is the chemical symbol for gold?
A) Ag
B) Go
C) Au
D) Gd
Answer: C) Au - Which part of a cell contains most of its genetic material?
A) Cell wall
B) Nucleus
C) Cytoplasm
D) Ribosome
Answer: B) Nucleus - What instrument measures atmospheric pressure?
A) Thermometer
B) Hygrometer
C) Seismometer
D) Barometer
Answer: D) Barometer - Which blood cells help fight infection?
A) White blood cells
B) Red blood cells
C) Platelets
D) Plasma cells only
Answer: A) White blood cells - What is the hardest natural mineral?
A) Quartz
B) Topaz
C) Diamond
D) Granite
Answer: C) Diamond - Which gas makes up most of Earth’s atmosphere?
A) Oxygen
B) Nitrogen
C) Carbon dioxide
D) Hydrogen
Answer: B) Nitrogen - What type of energy is stored in food?
A) Sound energy
B) Nuclear energy
C) Light energy
D) Chemical energy
Answer: D) Chemical energy - Which scientist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Charles Darwin
C) Louis Pasteur
D) Niels Bohr
Answer: A) Isaac Newton - What is the center of an atom called?
A) Orbit
B) Shell
C) Nucleus
D) Ion
Answer: C) Nucleus - Which organ filters waste from the blood to make urine?
A) Lungs
B) Kidneys
C) Stomach
D) Pancreas
Answer: B) Kidneys - What kind of rock forms when magma or lava cools?
A) Sedimentary
B) Metamorphic
C) Fossiliferous
D) Igneous
Answer: D) Igneous - Which scale is traditionally used to rank mineral hardness?
A) Mohs scale
B) Beaufort scale
C) Richter scale
D) pH scale
Answer: A) Mohs scale - Which process allows plants to convert light energy into chemical energy?
A) Respiration
B) Fermentation
C) Photosynthesis
D) Transpiration
Answer: C) Photosynthesis - Which electromagnetic waves have the longest wavelengths?
A) X-rays
B) Radio waves
C) Ultraviolet rays
D) Gamma rays
Answer: B) Radio waves
Movies and Television Picks
Cue the theme music and choose carefully before the imaginary credits roll.
- Which film features the line “There’s no place like home”?
A) Casablanca
B) Mary Poppins
C) Singin' in the Rain
D) The Wizard of Oz
Answer: D) The Wizard of Oz - Who directed Jaws?
A) George Lucas
B) Steven Spielberg
C) Francis Ford Coppola
D) Martin Scorsese
Answer: B) Steven Spielberg - Which sitcom follows six friends living in New York City?
A) Friends
B) Cheers
C) Frasier
D) Seinfeld
Answer: A) Friends - What is the name of the kingdom in Frozen?
A) Agrabah
B) Corona
C) Arendelle
D) DunBroch
Answer: C) Arendelle - Which actor played T'Challa in Black Panther?
A) Michael B. Jordan
B) Daniel Kaluuya
C) Winston Duke
D) Chadwick Boseman
Answer: D) Chadwick Boseman - What kind of fish is Dory in Finding Nemo?
A) Clownfish
B) Blue tang
C) Angelfish
D) Pufferfish
Answer: B) Blue tang - Which television series is set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana?
A) Stranger Things
B) Riverdale
C) Twin Peaks
D) Wednesday
Answer: A) Stranger Things - Which movie franchise features a park filled with cloned dinosaurs?
A) Planet of the Apes
B) Indiana Jones
C) Jurassic Park
D) Transformers
Answer: C) Jurassic Park - Who voices Woody in the Toy Story films?
A) Tim Allen
B) Billy Crystal
C) Robin Williams
D) Tom Hanks
Answer: D) Tom Hanks - Which animated family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace?
A) The Griffins
B) The Simpsons
C) The Belchers
D) The Flintstones
Answer: B) The Simpsons - What is Indiana Jones’s profession?
A) Archaeologist
B) Journalist
C) Detective
D) Architect
Answer: A) Archaeologist - Which film won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature?
A) Toy Story 2
B) Monsters, Inc.
C) Shrek
D) Spirited Away
Answer: C) Shrek - Which Doctor Who machine looks like a British police box?
A) DeLorean
B) TARDIS
C) Serenity
D) Discovery One
Answer: B) TARDIS - Who is the villain in Disney’s 101 Dalmatians?
A) Ursula
B) Maleficent
C) Lady Tremaine
D) Cruella de Vil
Answer: D) Cruella de Vil - Which movie musical features the song “Do-Re-Mi”?
A) The Sound of Music
B) West Side Story
C) Chicago
D) Oliver!
Answer: A) The Sound of Music
Music Across the Playlist
Every option sounds tempting, but only one belongs at the top of this playlist, and our music trivia keeps the encore going.
- Which band recorded “Hey Jude”?
A) The Rolling Stones
B) The Who
C) The Beatles
D) The Kinks
Answer: C) The Beatles - Which singer is known as the Queen of Pop?
A) Madonna
B) Cher
C) Adele
D) Dolly Parton
Answer: A) Madonna - How many strings does a standard violin have?
A) Three
B) Five
C) Six
D) Four
Answer: D) Four - Which composer wrote The Four Seasons?
A) Johann Sebastian Bach
B) Antonio Vivaldi
C) Franz Schubert
D) George Frideric Handel
Answer: B) Antonio Vivaldi - Which artist released the album Purple Rain?
A) David Bowie
B) Michael Jackson
C) Prince
D) Lionel Richie
Answer: C) Prince - Which instrument did Louis Armstrong famously play?
A) Trumpet
B) Clarinet
C) Trombone
D) Saxophone
Answer: A) Trumpet - Which group had members nicknamed Scary, Sporty, Baby, Ginger, and Posh?
A) TLC
B) Bananarama
C) Little Mix
D) Spice Girls
Answer: D) Spice Girls - What musical term means gradually getting louder?
A) Allegro
B) Crescendo
C) Staccato
D) Largo
Answer: B) Crescendo - Which singer released “Rolling in the Deep”?
A) Pink
B) Beyoncé
C) Adele
D) Sia
Answer: C) Adele - Which American city is associated with the birth of jazz?
A) New Orleans
B) Nashville
C) Seattle
D) Detroit
Answer: A) New Orleans - Which instrument has 88 keys on a standard modern version?
A) Accordion
B) Organ
C) Harpsichord
D) Piano
Answer: D) Piano - Which singer’s fans are called Swifties?
A) Ariana Grande
B) Taylor Swift
C) Billie Eilish
D) Selena Gomez
Answer: B) Taylor Swift - Reggae music is strongly associated with which country?
A) Cuba
B) Brazil
C) Jamaica
D) Ghana
Answer: C) Jamaica - Who composed the Moonlight Sonata?
A) Ludwig van Beethoven
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C) Frédéric Chopin
D) Joseph Haydn
Answer: A) Ludwig van Beethoven - Which band’s lead singer was Freddie Mercury?
A) Journey
B) Genesis
C) Foreigner
D) Queen
Answer: D) Queen
Sports and Games Selection
Choose the winning play, the right piece, or the correct number before the buzzer.
- How many players from one team are on the court in basketball?
A) Four
B) Five
C) Six
D) Seven
Answer: B) Five - Which country hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Greece
D) Brazil
Answer: D) Brazil - What is the maximum score with one dart in standard darts?
A) 20
B) 50
C) 60
D) 100
Answer: C) 60 - Which Grand Slam tennis tournament is played on clay?
A) French Open
B) Wimbledon
C) US Open
D) Australian Open
Answer: A) French Open - In chess, which piece begins beside the king and queen?
A) Knight
B) Bishop
C) Rook
D) Pawn
Answer: B) Bishop - How long is an Olympic swimming pool?
A) 25 meters
B) 40 meters
C) 75 meters
D) 50 meters
Answer: D) 50 meters - Which sport awards the Stanley Cup?
A) Baseball
B) Basketball
C) Ice hockey
D) American football
Answer: C) Ice hockey - In Scrabble, which letter is worth 10 points in English-language play?
A) Q
B) K
C) F
D) V
Answer: A) Q - Which combat sport uses the terms ippon and judogi?
A) Boxing
B) Judo
C) Fencing
D) Wrestling
Answer: B) Judo - What is three strikes in a row called in bowling?
A) Eagle
B) Hat trick
C) Triple
D) Turkey
Answer: D) Turkey - Which nation won the first men’s FIFA World Cup in 1930?
A) Brazil
B) Argentina
C) Uruguay
D) Italy
Answer: C) Uruguay - In golf, one stroke under par on a hole is called what?
A) Birdie
B) Eagle
C) Bogey
D) Ace
Answer: A) Birdie - Which board game uses rooms such as the library and conservatory?
A) Risk
B) Clue
C) Sorry!
D) Life
Answer: B) Clue - How many points is a touchdown worth before the conversion attempt?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Five
D) Six
Answer: D) Six - Which gymnastics apparatus is used only in men’s artistic competition?
A) Balance beam
B) Uneven bars
C) Pommel horse
D) Ribbon
Answer: C) Pommel horse
Books, Words, and Art
Read the clues closely because one letter, author, or brushstroke can change the whole answer.
- Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
A) Jane Austen
B) Charlotte Brontë
C) George Eliot
D) Mary Shelley
Answer: A) Jane Austen - Which artist painted The Starry Night?
A) Claude Monet
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Salvador Dalí
Answer: C) Vincent van Gogh - What is a word with the opposite meaning of another word?
A) Synonym
B) Antonym
C) Homonym
D) Acronym
Answer: B) Antonym - Which novel begins with the character Bilbo Baggins?
A) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
B) Treasure Island
C) Peter Pan
D) The Hobbit
Answer: D) The Hobbit - Which punctuation mark can show possession?
A) Apostrophe
B) Semicolon
C) Hyphen
D) Colon
Answer: A) Apostrophe - Who created the detective Hercule Poirot?
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Dorothy L. Sayers
C) Agatha Christie
D) Wilkie Collins
Answer: C) Agatha Christie - What is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding?
A) Ikebana
B) Origami
C) Bonsai
D) Kabuki
Answer: B) Origami - Which Shakespeare play features the families Montague and Capulet?
A) Macbeth
B) Hamlet
C) Othello
D) Romeo and Juliet
Answer: D) Romeo and Juliet - Which word is a pronoun?
A) They
B) Quickly
C) Bright
D) Garden
Answer: A) They - Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
A) Raphael
B) Donatello
C) Michelangelo
D) Botticelli
Answer: C) Michelangelo - Which book series features Katniss Everdeen?
A) Divergent
B) The Hunger Games
C) Twilight
D) The Maze Runner
Answer: B) The Hunger Games - What do we call the person who tells a story?
A) Editor
B) Publisher
C) Reader
D) Narrator
Answer: D) Narrator - Which primary colors are mixed to make green paint?
A) Blue and yellow
B) Red and blue
C) Red and yellow
D) Black and white
Answer: A) Blue and yellow - Who wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
A) Dr. Seuss
B) Maurice Sendak
C) Eric Carle
D) E. B. White
Answer: C) Eric Carle - A traditional haiku has how many syllables in English-language classroom convention?
A) 14
B) 17
C) 20
D) 24
Answer: B) 17
Food, Nature, and Everyday Life
The final choices move from the kitchen to the garden and back home again.
- Which nut is used to make marzipan?
A) Walnut
B) Pecan
C) Almond
D) Cashew
Answer: C) Almond - What is the main ingredient in hummus?
A) Chickpeas
B) Lentils
C) Potatoes
D) Rice
Answer: A) Chickpeas - Which layer of a tree transports sugars from the leaves?
A) Heartwood
B) Bark only
C) Xylem
D) Phloem
Answer: D) Phloem - Which vitamin is produced in human skin with help from sunlight?
A) Vitamin C
B) Vitamin D
C) Vitamin K
D) Vitamin B12
Answer: B) Vitamin D - Which spice comes from the dried stigma of a crocus?
A) Cinnamon
B) Turmeric
C) Saffron
D) Cumin
Answer: C) Saffron - What kind of animal is a Komodo dragon?
A) Lizard
B) Snake
C) Crocodile
D) Salamander
Answer: A) Lizard - Which grain is traditionally used in risotto?
A) Barley
B) Corn
C) Quinoa
D) Arborio rice
Answer: D) Arborio rice - Which cloud type is tall and commonly associated with thunderstorms?
A) Cirrus
B) Cumulonimbus
C) Stratus
D) Altocumulus
Answer: B) Cumulonimbus - What is tofu mainly made from?
A) Chickpeas
B) Almonds
C) Soybeans
D) Wheat
Answer: C) Soybeans - Which device detects smoke in a home?
A) Smoke alarm
B) Thermostat
C) Doorbell
D) Humidifier
Answer: A) Smoke alarm - Which flower is associated with the Netherlands?
A) Orchid
B) Lotus
C) Daffodil
D) Tulip
Answer: D) Tulip - What is the cooking method of slowly cooking food in liquid below a boil?
A) Broiling
B) Simmering
C) Grilling
D) Searing
Answer: B) Simmering - Which mammal is capable of sustained flight?
A) Flying squirrel
B) Sugar glider
C) Bat
D) Colugo
Answer: C) Bat - What tool measures body temperature?
A) Thermometer
B) Barometer
C) Compass
D) Caliper
Answer: A) Thermometer - Which fruit has varieties called Granny Smith and Honeycrisp?
A) Pear
B) Peach
C) Plum
D) Apple
Answer: D) Apple
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