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Easy General Knowledge24 Trivia Quiz

25 easy general knowledge questions which progressively increase in difficulty. Good luck and have fun.

A multiple-choice quiz by Inquizition. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Inquizition

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
105,654

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
13 / 25

Plays
4104

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 25

1. In which novel by Boris Pasternak features the doomed lovers of Lara and Yury? Hint

Doctor Who

Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Kildare

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Question 2 of 25

2. Which is NOT the name of one of the 'Powerpuff Girls' featured in the hit animated TV series? Hint

Blossom

Bubbles

Buttercup

Bluebell

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Question 3 of 25

3. Which is the largest of the Canary Islands? Hint

Lanzarote

Fuerteventura

Gran Canaria

Tenerife

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Question 4 of 25

4. Which country has demanded that the name of the world's highest mountain be changed from Everest to Mount Qomolangma which means 'God's mother of the mountain snows'? Hint

Mexico

Qatar

Mongolia

China

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Question 5 of 25

5. How many legs has the dipterous fly which is known by the British as a crane fly or daddy longlegs? Hint

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Question 6 of 25

6. Which of the following Shakespearean plays is NOT regarded as a tragedy? Hint

Hamlet (1600-01)

The Tempest (1613)

King Lear (1605-06)

Othello (1604)

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Question 7 of 25

7. Which UK shopping chain was founded by Jack Cohen in 1919? Hint

W H Smith

Netto

Tesco

Woolworths

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Question 8 of 25

8. Name the evil character in the Disney movie 'Pinocchio' who plans to use Pinocchio as a sideshow freak? Hint

Naples

Etna

Stromboli

Vesuvius

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Question 9 of 25

9. Name the port in central Vietnam? Hint

Cry

Hue

Colour

Crimson

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Question 10 of 25

10. Name the sport in which a person is harnessed inside a small ball which is inside a 3 metre inflatable ball then launched off a ramp to roll downhill? Hint

Street luging

Zorbing

Free riding

Aerial ballet

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Question 11 of 25

11. Fill in the missing name: Giovanni Jacopo _______ de Seingalt? Hint

Rasputin

Garibaldi

Verdi

Casanova

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Question 12 of 25

12. Which pianist has the real forenames of Julian Miles? Hint

Dizzy Gillespie

Miles Davis

Jools Holland

Thelonious Sphere Monk

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Question 13 of 25

13. What is the diameter of a compact disc? Hint

12 centimetres (about 4.5 inches)

16 centimetres (about 6.5 inches)

14 centimetres (about 5.5 inches)

20 centimetres (about 8 inches)

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Question 14 of 25

14. Who was the hero of Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Jane Eyre' : Edward _______ ? Hint

Rochester

Manchester

Winchester

Colchester

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Question 15 of 25

15. What is the name of the cheese which has veins of blue cheese running through it and made from alternative layers of double Gloucester and Stilton? Hint

Dupont

Tioxide

Huntsman

Glaxo

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Question 16 of 25

16. What was the forename of the piano manufacturer Mr Steinway? Hint

Frankie

Alphonse

Jacob

Heinrich

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Question 17 of 25

17. Name the bone located in the wrist? Hint

Trapezium

Hyperbola

Rhombus

Spheroid

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Question 18 of 25

18. Who married photographer David Bailey and had her oldest child fathered by movie director Roger Vadim? Hint

Catherine Zeta Jones

Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Cookson

Katharine Hepburn

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Question 19 of 25

19. What was the occupation of Hungarian Laszlo Biro who invented the mass produced ballpoint pen? Hint

Lawyer

Calligrapher

Magician

Journalist

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Question 20 of 25

20. Who is the only leading lady to play two major roles, in two different "James Bond" movies? Hint

Jill St John

Britt Ekland

Claudine Auger

Maud Adams

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Question 21 of 25

21. Name the man who created Brut aftershave, who died in 2002 at the age of 90 from pneumonia? Hint

John Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie

Michael Barrie

George Barrie

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Question 22 of 25

22. How many cantons does Switzerland have? Hint

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Question 23 of 25

23. For how long was actress Uma Thurman married to British tough guy actor Gary Oldman? Hint

19 weeks

19 months

19 days

19 hours

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Question 24 of 25

24. Which country changed the following movie titles: 'Jaws' to 'The White Shark', 'The Full Monty' to 'Six Stripped Pigs' and 'K9' to 'My Partner With The Cold Snout'? Hint

Singapore

France

China

Germany

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Question 25 of 25

25. How did comic genius Kenneth Williams of 'Carry-On' movies fame, die? Hint

Car crash

Drowning

Coronary thrombosis

Overdose of barbiturates

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In which novel by Boris Pasternak features the doomed lovers of Lara and Yury?

Answer: Doctor Zhivago

He began work on Dr Zhivago after the death of Stalin but its themes offended officials. After this epic novel's publication in Italy in 1957 it became an international best seller. He was compelled to retract his acceptance of the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature by official pressure.

2. Which is NOT the name of one of the 'Powerpuff Girls' featured in the hit animated TV series?

Answer: Bluebell

In the movie 'The Powerpuff Girls' the three girls join forces to battle an evil mutant monkey called Mojo Jojo.

3. Which is the largest of the Canary Islands?

Answer: Tenerife

This Spanish island is located in the Atlantic Ocean and its Pico de Teide mountain is the highest in Spain at 12,198 feet tall.

4. Which country has demanded that the name of the world's highest mountain be changed from Everest to Mount Qomolangma which means 'God's mother of the mountain snows'?

Answer: China

Britain named the 29,028 feet peak after Sir George Everest, the first surveyor-general of India, who mapped it in 1852. Mount Everest is located in part of Tibet and Nepal and is known as 'Chomolangma' in Tibet and 'Sagarmatha' or 'Goddess of the Sky' in Nepal.

5. How many legs has the dipterous fly which is known by the British as a crane fly or daddy longlegs?

Answer: 6

The cranefly is a flying insect therefore has 6 legs.

6. Which of the following Shakespearean plays is NOT regarded as a tragedy?

Answer: The Tempest (1613)

'Romeo and Juliet' (1595-96) and 'Macbeth' (1605-06) are also tragedy plays. 'The Tempest' (1613), 'Pericles' (1607-08), 'Cymbeline' (1609-10) and 'The Winter's Tale' (1611) are all classified as Late Romances.

7. Which UK shopping chain was founded by Jack Cohen in 1919?

Answer: Tesco

T E Stockwell was the tea supplier. TES and (CO)hen unite to produce Tesco. Another British supermarket chain 'ASDA' is the abbreviation of (As)sociated (Da)iries'.

8. Name the evil character in the Disney movie 'Pinocchio' who plans to use Pinocchio as a sideshow freak?

Answer: Stromboli

On his way to school Pinocchio encounters a sly fox named J. Worthington Foulfellow and his feline sidekick Gideon who dissuades Pinocchio from going to school. After singing 'An Actor's Life For Me' he ends up at Stromboli's puppet show singing 'I've Got No Strings' with a group of marionettes.

9. Name the port in central Vietnam?

Answer: Hue

Pronounced 'hway', Hue suffered heavily during the Vietnam War losing many historic buildings and treasures of the imperial citadel.

10. Name the sport in which a person is harnessed inside a small ball which is inside a 3 metre inflatable ball then launched off a ramp to roll downhill?

Answer: Zorbing

The smaller ball is suspended by thousands of nylon threads. Aerial ballet is synchronised sky-diving. Free-riding is snowboarders hurling themselves off vertical drops and the sport is often blamed for causing avalanches. Street luging is skateboarders lying on their boards and launching themselves downhill. Nah, think I'll stick to quiz making.

11. Fill in the missing name: Giovanni Jacopo _______ de Seingalt?

Answer: Casanova

This Venetian adventurer was a secret agent in the services of King Louis XV of France. Accused in Venice of being a magician in 1755, he spent 5 years in prison. After he escaped from prison he went to Paris where he introduced the lottery and made a fortune.

12. Which pianist has the real forenames of Julian Miles?

Answer: Jools Holland

Julian Miles Holland was born on 24th Jan 1958. He formed the group 'Squeeze' at the age of 15 with Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook who had hits with 'Cool For Cats' and 'Up The Junction'.

13. What is the diameter of a compact disc?

Answer: 12 centimetres (about 4.5 inches)

Brilliant, now put that ruler away lol.

14. Who was the hero of Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Jane Eyre' : Edward _______ ?

Answer: Rochester

Mr Rochester first meets Jane when he is thrown from his horse. He was a dark, brooding man in his late thirties with an abrupt manner.

15. What is the name of the cheese which has veins of blue cheese running through it and made from alternative layers of double Gloucester and Stilton?

Answer: Huntsman

Huntsman combines both delicious British double Gloucester and Blue Stilton via a complex layering process. Creamy Stilton is sandwiched between an exterior of yellow double Gloucester.

16. What was the forename of the piano manufacturer Mr Steinway?

Answer: Heinrich

Henry Engelhard Steinway was born Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (1797-1871). The German piano builder moved from Hamburg to New York in 1851.

17. Name the bone located in the wrist?

Answer: Trapezium

All the incorrect answers are geometric figures and curves. The trapezium is a small bone of the wrist near the base of the thumb.

18. Who married photographer David Bailey and had her oldest child fathered by movie director Roger Vadim?

Answer: Catherine Deneuve

She became France's best known actress with fantastic roles in over 100 movies. She won an Academy Award nomination in 1992 for 'Indochine'.

19. What was the occupation of Hungarian Laszlo Biro who invented the mass produced ballpoint pen?

Answer: Journalist

John T. Loud is credited with inventing the ball-point pen in 1888 and Laszlo Biro is associated with its mass production in 1938.

20. Who is the only leading lady to play two major roles, in two different "James Bond" movies?

Answer: Maud Adams

Maud Adams featured as 'Octopussy' in the Bond movie of the same name and as Andrea Anders in 'The Man With the Golden Gun'. Britt Ekland played 'Mary Goodnight' in 'The Man With the Golden Gun'(1974). Jill St John played 'Tiffany Case' in 'Diamonds are Forever' (1971) and Claudine Auger as 'Domino Derval' in 'Thunderball' (1965).

21. Name the man who created Brut aftershave, who died in 2002 at the age of 90 from pneumonia?

Answer: George Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie wrote Peter Pan. New York-born George Barrie was the chief executive at Faberge for 20 years. Brut was the biggest selling aftershave in the world and was aimed at sportsmen with stars such as Henry Cooper, Kevin Keegan and Barry Sheen urging Brits to 'splash it all over'.

22. How many cantons does Switzerland have?

Answer: 26

A canton is a unit of government and administration that makes up the Swiss Confederation of Switzerland. Berne, Geneva, Jura, Lucerne, Zurich and Zug are some of the 26 cantons of Switzerland.

23. For how long was actress Uma Thurman married to British tough guy actor Gary Oldman?

Answer: 19 months

Julia Roberts left country star Lyle Lovett after just 18 months of marriage and Billy-Bob Thornton split from Angelina Jolie after 21 months of marriage. Katharine Hepburn is said to have split from her insurance broker husband after 3 weeks of marriage in 1933.

24. Which country changed the following movie titles: 'Jaws' to 'The White Shark', 'The Full Monty' to 'Six Stripped Pigs' and 'K9' to 'My Partner With The Cold Snout'?

Answer: Germany

Others include France who changed 'From Russia With Love' to 'Nice Kisses From Russia', China who altered 'The Blair Witch Project' to 'Night in The Cramped Forest' and Singapore who changed 'Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me' to 'Austin Powers, The Spy Who Treated Me Nicely'.

25. How did comic genius Kenneth Williams of 'Carry-On' movies fame, die?

Answer: Overdose of barbiturates

He constantly battled back pain, stomach cramps and feelings of self loathing. Hope you enjoyed the challenge.

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