Trivia quizzes can be really fun: Test your players’ general knowledge. Provide a wide range of questions about anything, and then your players will enjoy competing. In this article, I give you 20 trivia
Trivia #01 Dinosaurs still exist!
Nowadays, dinosaurs are still living on our planet. But they have a different name. What animals are they?
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Birds. They are direct descendants of dinosaurs.
Trivia #02 Planets
How many planets does the Solar System have?
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8. Pluto was dismissed as a planet in 2006.
Trivia #03 Timed sport
Basketball, Football, Handball, Baseball, Hockey… Only one of these sports is not timed. Which one?
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Baseball. Each game last 9 innings, but the game can extend to 20 innings if needed.
Trivia #04 Most spoken language
The Chinese language is the most widely spoken language in the world. Which one comes second?
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Spanish. English comes third.
Trivia #05 Young Newton
How old was Isaac Newton when he established the law of universal gravitation?
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He was 23 years old when he first established them. Then he was 44 years old when he officially published them.
Trivia #06 27
What is the 27 club?
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The 27 club is made of artists who passed away at this young age. Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse for example are part of this group.
Trivia #07 First car
What was the brand of the first-ever car sold? This brand still exists nowadays.
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Mercedes. In 1885, they sold the Mercedes Patent; a 3-wheeled car with a 2/3 bhp engine.
Trivia #08 Hot and Cold
A phenomenon makes Europe warmer despite its high latitude and eastern American colder despite its low latitude. What is this phenomenon?
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The Gulf Stream. It’s a current that transports warm temperatures from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe, then brings colder temperatures back toward North America.
Trivia #09 A square with 2 faces
A polygon is defined as “a closed figure made up of line segments (not curves)”. How can you make a 2 faced polygon?
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Draw it on a sphere like this:
Source: Chalkdust magazine
Trivia #10 Radioactivity
You walk into a luxury hotel, and its lobby room is (slightly) radioactive. Why so?
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The marble is (sightly) radioactive. It’s equivalent to standing 30 km from the hearth of Chornobyl (0.1–0.3 µSv/h)
Trivia #11 Border
With which country does France share the largest border with?
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Brazil. Through French Guyana, France shares 730 km with Brazil.
Trivia #12 What we eat
What’s the common point between maize, chocolate, tomatoes, avocados, potatoes, sunflower?
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They all come from the pre-Colombian civilizations (Maya, Aztecs).
Trivia #13 Old kitty
Who is the oldest cat every existing?
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Creme Puff, a cat from Texas. He lived 38 years old.
Trivia #14 Internet browser
Among all the current existing internet browsers, Edge, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, etc , which one is the oldest?
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Opera. The Norwegian browser was first available in 1996
Trivia #15 Empires
What was the largest empire in history?
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The British empire was the largest in history: 15.5 million km square. The second was the Mongol empire, 9.27 million km square.
Trivia #16 3 flags
What countries are these flags?
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From left to right Monaco; Poland; Indonesia
Trivia #17 Pineapple pizza
In which country was the pineapple pizza (also known as Hawaiian pizza)?
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Canada. Sam Panopoulos invented this recipe back in 1962
Trivia #18 Sleepy month
In which month do we sleep the least?
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February, because it’s also the shortest month of the year.
Trivia #19 Cleopatra
Cleopatra wasn’t born Egyptian… What were her origins?
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Cleopatra was born Greek-Macedonian.
Trivia #20 A cat video
In which year was the first cat video ever recorded?
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In 1899. The Lumière brothers recorded a video of a small girl giving treats to a cat.
Trivia #21 Guitarra
Where was the guitar first invented?
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In Spain around the 15th century. of a small girl giving treats to a cat.
Trivia #22 On your plate
What’s the common point between potato, maize, avocado, chocolate, and tomato?
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They are all originated from the pre-Colombian civilization: Aztecs, Incas, Mayas. Before the 16th century, European didn’t eat any of these! of a small girl giving treats to a cat.
Trivia #23 A big flower
What’s the function of a flower on a plant?
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The flower serves as the reproductive organ of a plant.
Trivia #24 Old history
What sport was displayed on the very first video game existing?
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Ping Pong. The first video game was Pong. It was released in 1972.
Trivia #25 Oz Snow
In the movie “Wizard of Oz” (1939), what was the fake snow made of?
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Asbestos.
Trivia #26 Hot sun
Where’s the hottest place recorded: Sun’s surface or Earth’s surface?
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Earth’s surface. The sun surface is at around 1 million degrees. On Earth’s surface, the hotest laser was measured at 2 million degrees.
Trivia #27 Anatidaephobia
What’s the anatidaephobia?
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Fear that somewhere, a duck is watching you.
Trivia #28 The biggest.
What’s the biggest entity that lives (or lived) on Earth? A dinosaur, a whale, a sequoia tree, or a mushroom?
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A mushroom. In an Oregon forest, one mushroom has a large network of mycellium taking over 890 hectare (or 2200 acre).
Trivia #29 We’re strong
If we stitched all our muscles together and we made them lift one item, what weight could they pull?
200 kg (440 lbs)? 600 kg (1320 lbs)? 2 tons?
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2 metric tons.
Trivia #30 The fastest
What’s the fastest human vehicle ever made?
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The Parker Solar Probe (NASA) Top speed: about 635 000 kph (around 394 000 mph)
Some other riddles
This article showed you 20 trivia quizzes. I’ve also written several other articles with many different types of riddles. Check them out!
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