Fun World Trivia Questions and Facts
Fun world trivia questions and facts with answers.
What was an official language in 87 nations and territories, by 1994?
A: English.
What's the third-largest continent in square miles?
A: North America.
What is the capital of Kuwait?
A: Kuwait City. World trivia questions.
"What town name did residents of a Florida retirement community switch to because they found Sunset Depressing?
A: Sunrise.
What's the second most populous continent?
A: Europe.
What finally went out of fashion in ancient Rome, prompting people to begin wearing short pants called feminalia?
A: The Toga.
What southwestern U.S. state has the highest percentage of non-English speakers?
A: New Mexico.
What M-word did Texas citizens choose as a town name that would "attract" folks?
A: Magnet.
What state leads the U.S. with 15 tons of solid waste per citizen each year?
A: California.
Which is further from the equator, Tasmania, Tanzania, or Transylvania?
A: Transylvania.
What eastern town is home for a service academy and the U.S. Sliver Depository?
A: West Point.
What's the University of Paris more commonly called?
A: The Sorbonne.
What two French cities are connected by the planet's fastest passenger train?
A: Paris and Lyons.
What religion has the most adherent, Buddhism, Christianity or Islam?
A; Christianity.
What U.S. state boasts a town called Captain Cook?
A: Hawaii.
What's the Greek name for hell?
A: Hades.
What European country does Aruba maintain the strongest ties to?
A: The Netherlands.
What do the Chinese call kwai-tsze, or "quick little fellows"?
A: Chopsticks.
What European country uses its Latin name, Helvetia, on its stamps?
A: Switzerland.
What British university boasts and endowment called the Jackie Mason Lectureship in Contemporary Judaism?
A: Oxford.
What country did Greek historian Herodotus dub "the gift of the Nile"?
A: Egypt.
What country is only bordered by Spain?
A: Portugal.
What's the flattest U.S. state?
A: Florida.
What U.S. state, after much debate, made the bizcochito the official state cookie?
A: New Mexico.
What Australian city boasts the largest Greek population in the world outside of Greece?
A: Melbourne.
What U.S. state boasts the towns of Gulf Stream, Lakebreeze and Frostproof?
A: Florida.
What country has bee the planet's largest aid donor since 1991?
A: Japan.
What island nation is a must for anyone wishing to see 40 species of lemours?
A: Madagascar.
What country is almost twice as large as either the U.S. or China?
A: Russia.
What South Asian city is the planet's biggest feature film producer?
A: Bombay.
How many Great Lakes do not border Michigan?
A: One.
What cowboy tune is the official song of Kansas?
A: Home on the Range.
What continent boasts the most telephone lines?
A: Europe.
What do Texas beef partisans call "wool on a stick"?
A: Lamb.
What South American country was home to the early human 'Patagnian giants"?
A: Argentina.
What Western Hemisphere people spoke Nahuatl?
A: The Aztecs.
What New Orleans soup has a name derived from the Bantu word for okra?
A: Gumbo.
What Pacific atoll got its name from its location between the Americas and Asia?
A: The Midway Islands.
What state volunteered to drop the moniker Hog and Hominy State?
A: Tennessee.
What regional accent did Americans deem sexiest, most liked and most recognizable?
A: Southern.
What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?
A: I-90.
Math trivia questions and answers.
Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a transcendental number in 1882?
A: Pi.
Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
A: Obtuse.
Q: What's the top number of a fraction called?
A: The numerator.
Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?
A: Pythagoras.
Q: What's a polygon with four unequal sides called?
A: A quadrilateral.
Q: What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?
A: A hologram.
Q: What number does "giga" stand for?
A: One billion.
Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?
A: Zero.
Q: What word describes a number system with a base of two?
A: Binary.
Q: How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
A: Twenty.
Q: What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides?
A: An octagon.
Q: What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it"?
A: Tangent.
Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
A: The hexagon.
Q: What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
A: One.
Q: What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?
A: K and M.
Q: What's short for "binary digit"?
A: Bit.
Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.
Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?
A: Googol.
Q: What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when the pocket calculator made the scene in the 1970s?
A: The Slide rule's.
