Test your basic knowledge |

Big Trivia Test

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?






2. What would you find between the scute-covered carapace and the plastron?






3. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?






4. Give the missing last member: duty - honor - and...






5. What airport was first to introduce a two-way moving sidewalk?






6. Which company merged with Viacom?






7. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?






8. What Law & Order: CI regular wrote and starred in the play Talk Radio?






9. Who was Mayberry's gas station attendant until he got his own sitcom in 1964?






10. Into how many numbered sections is a dartboard divided?






11. Excepting Alaska and Louisiana - what U.S. state is divided into the fewest counties - with only three?






12. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?






13. What event inspired Herbert Morrison's famous quote - 'Oh - the humanity!'?






14. First Best Picture Oscar?






15. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?






16. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?






17. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?






18. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






19. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...






20. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?






21. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?






22. A bronze statue of whom stands at the foot of the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum?






23. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Nala






24. What did Colonel Potter typically call Father Mulcahy on MASH?






25. What movie is narrated by Jack Nicholson's 'Dear Ndugu' letters to a Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring






26. Last names instead of first names: Shanowski & Fairfield






27. What two US states border Mexico's largest state - Chihuahua?






28. Which artist had the double album Self Portrait?






29. Of the three substances that make up your teeth - enamel - dentin - and pulp - which is elephant ivory made of?






30. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower - Wyoming - in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?






31. What philosophical belief - from the Latin for 'only the self -' holds that the external world doesn't exist at all?






32. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?






33. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?






34. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'






35. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?






36. What Hershey's candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn't produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?






37. First film in CinemaScope?






38. According to 'Michael - Row the Boat Ashore -' where is Michael rowing?






39. What issue was addressed by congressmen Robert Taft and Fred A. Hartley's namesake Act?






40. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?






41. What holy day celebrates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?






42. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970's Woodstock?






43. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?






44. What proper name is spelled unusually - with a single 'n' both on the Liberty Bell and in the US Constitution?






45. What is the only song to ever top the Hot 100 twice?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


46. What's made from beets - carrots - celery - lettuce - parsley - spinach - tomatoes - and watercress?






47. What was the first expansion team to win a World Series?






48. Give the missing last member: Luciano Pavarotti - Placido Domingo - and...






49. What fruit comes in these varieties: Chubby Gray and Jubilee?






50. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer







Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?


Let me suggest you:

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests



Major Subjects

Tests & Exams


AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests