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 Briton was honored by a 1994 50 pence coin depicting a pair of running legs and a stop watch?






2. What was the first food ever frozen by Clarence Birdseye - the inventor of frozen food?






3. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?






4. What's the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!?






5. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Andorra and Portugal?






6. Why have owners of the phone number 776-2323 received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God?


7. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate president on the steps of what city's state capitol?






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






9. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?






10. Which company merged with Chevron?






11. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit 'Brown Sugar'?






12. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?






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






14. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?






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






16. Who both married and directed Giulietta Masina?






17. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?






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






19. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?






20. How many band members were there in Broken Social Scene?






21. How many 'fab' makeover artists hosted Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?






22. Which core Flintstones cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?






23. What port's name comes from the Cantonese for 'fragrant harbor'?






24. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?






25. What Jim Carrey movie featured the screen debut of Cheri Oteri?






26. Name the two-time number one song sung by both The Marvelettes and the Carpenters






27. Who is Martha talking about when she tells Jesus - 'Lord - by this time he stinketh -' in John 11?






28. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?






29. Who is worshiped in the 'Temple of Doom' discovered byIndiana Jones?






30. 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?






31. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?






32. Who set most of his most famous book in the year 802 -701 AD? (Two initial names)






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






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






35. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?






36. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?






37. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'






38. Which artist had the double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?






39. Where will I 'fear no evil -' according to Psalm 23 - the 'Shepherd Psalm'?






40. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?






41. What semolina product is used to make the Moroccan dessert seffa?






42. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?






43. Give the missing last member:Athos - Porthos - and...






44. What term did journalist Don Hoefler coin in 1971 in reference to Santa Clara Valley?






45. What A-list movie star was a pallbearer at his aunt Rosemary's 2002 funeral?






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






47. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?






48. According to his best seller - what word inspired Chris Gardner when he saw it misspelled in a Bay Area day care center in 1981






49. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?






50. First film to sweep the five major Oscars?