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. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...






2. What two Republicans are the only US presidents ever to serve a full eight years as vice president as well?






3. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?






4. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?






5. In what movie does Carol Kane play a ghost?






6. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?






7. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'






8. What magazine gives out the 'Golden Calipers' to its Car of the Year winner?






9. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?






10. In what city would you find the famous black stone called the al-Hajar-ul-Asward?






11. Which company merged with Hewlett-Packard?






12. For evidentiary reasons - who sued to prevent the demolition of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel in 2004?






13. What was the only children's story ever published by James Bond creator Ian Fleming?






14. Who's the younger sister of Lindsay Lohan?






15. Last names instead of first names: Jones 'n' Brown

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


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






17. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Little Eva and Grand Funk






18. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?






19. What peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and theAtlantic Ocean?






20. Which SEC college football team uses an elephant as its mascot?






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






22. What's the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?






23. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?






24. What nation's dyslexic king Carl XVI Gustaf misspelled his own name on the accession document that gave him the throne?






25. Who got his beloved New Mexico ranch in exchange for the original manuscript of his novel Sons and Lovers?






26. What novel begins 'Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted... persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot'?






27. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Shocking Blue and Bananarama






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






29. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?

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


30. Who wears an alb and a chasuble over his street clothes?






31. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore






32. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?

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


33. Ironically - German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?






34. What president does the nutty middle brother in Arsenic and Old Lace believe himself to be?






35. JJ Hunsecker - Burt Lancaster's unscrupulous character in Sweet Smell of Success - is a thinly veiled caricature of whom?






36. Who has performed marriages for both Corey Feldman and Vince Neil? (Two initial names)






37. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Italy and Slovakia?






38. What director's last film was 1976's Family Plot?






39. What composer of Symphonie Fantastique made his living as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire?






40. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?






41. What French philosopher invented a namesake system of plotting points on two axes labeled x and y?






42. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J - Dominique - and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest?






43. What did 'Kristin Shepard' do on March 21 - 1980 that sealed her TV fame?






44. What English word comes from the name of a hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley?






45. Who 'discovered' The mouth of the Amazon (and the Pacific Ocean)?






46. What author's Jamaican estate was called Goldeneye?






47. What two-word term is the top speed reached by a free-falling object?






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






49. 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


50. First film edited digitally - via Avid?