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. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?






2. What nation's only female leader has been Chandrika Kumaratunga?






3. First all-sound film?






4. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?






5. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?






6. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?






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






8. What placekicker's famous 'gaffe' kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?






9. In what country was the last original Volkswagen Beetle produced - in July 2003?






10. First Best Picture Oscar?






11. Surus ('the Syrian') - who had a broken tusk - was the standout among whose elephants?






12. In Airplane! - Barbara 'June Cleaver' Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?






13. What Devon town - named for a Charles Kingsley novel - is the only place in Britain that ends with an exclamation point?






14. According to the popular 1970s ad jingle - what are 'ooey - gooey - rich and chew inside - tender flaky golden cakey outside'?






15. Of all the teams in the four major North American sports leagues - which team has retired more jersey numbers than any other?






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






17. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?






18. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?






19. What nation's only female leader has been Michelle Bachelet?






20. Who killed the literary character Uncle Tom?






21. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?






22. Us unveiled by the Department of Agriculture in 2005 - what now was eight vertical division and a figure climbing the stairs on the left hand side?

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


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






24. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?






25. What 1992 TV revival featured a duck wearing a Temple University sweatshirt?






26. Who opened his first restaurant in the front room of his Corbin - KY service station in 1930?






27. What process is divided into four parts: prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase?






28. Though he lived almost forty more years - Giaochino Rossini never composed another opera after what 1829 work - rarely performed today due to its six-hour length?






29. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer protocol in 1901?






30. Which company merged with SBC?






31. Which Flintstones character apparently possessed superhuman strength as a toddler but never as an adult?






32. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?






33. Who has been called the first victim of the 'Madden curse -' due to his abrupt 1999 retirement?






34. Last names instead of first names: Hopkins and Leplastrier






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






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






37. From 1995 almost until it was discontinued in 2004 - what was the only US car model to share its name with an element of the periodic table?






38. In what movie does Paul Scofield play a ghost?






39. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...






40. First all-sound film?






41. What's the name for the diamond-shaped 'soft spots' on the skull of a newborn?






42. H. L. Mencken coined the word 'ecdysiast' to describe whose famous stage act?






43. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for 'with sweetness'?






44. Whom did unknown golfer Jack Fleck beat in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955 US Open?






45. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Pakistan and Bangladesh?






46. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?






47. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...






48. What is believed to have received its name from the Portuguese word for 'simpleton?'






49. Who 'discovered' New York Harbor?






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