World Trivia Night

Question 1

What European country uses its Latin name, Helvetia, on its stamps?

Accepted Answer

Switzerland

Question 2

What country has the most volcanoes in the world?

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 3

Where is Isle Jean Charles?

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 4

During what years was the Third French Republic?

Accepted Answer

1870-1940

Question 5

What does Adele name her albums after?

Accepted Answer

Her age

Question 6

How many states are members of the European Union?

Accepted Answer

28

Question 7

What country has the highest alcohol consumption per capita?

Accepted Answer

Belarus

Question 8

What is the Capital of Northern Ireland?

Accepted Answer

Belfast

Question 9

What country has the most sheep per capita?

Accepted Answer

Mongolia

Question 10

What country's flag consists of a single solid color?

Accepted Answer

Libya

Question 11

Where is the 1,300 mile-long Orange River?

Accepted Answer

South Africa

Question 12

Irish Maxim: "Only two things in this world are too serious to be jested on: ____and____"?

Accepted Answer

Potatoes and Matrimony

Question 13

What country scores highest on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index?

Accepted Answer

Norway

Question 14

What is the official national language of the United States?

Accepted Answer

There is none.

Question 15

Urdu is mutually intelligible (verbally) with what other language?

Accepted Answer

Hindi

Question 16

What is the most populous island (other than the Americas and Afro-Eurasia)?

Accepted Answer

Java (Indonesia)

Question 17

Where were the 1998 Winter Olympics held?

Accepted Answer

Nagano, Japan

Question 18

How often is the Eiffel Tower painted?

Accepted Answer

every 7 years

Question 19

What is the largest lake in the world?

Accepted Answer

Caspian Sea

Question 20

What is the name of the prophet Muhammad’s wife?

Accepted Answer

Khadija

Question 21

What nation has the highest percentage of women in its’ Parliament?

Accepted Answer

Rwanda

Question 22

Calliope is the Ancient Greek Muse of what art form?

Accepted Answer

Poetry

Question 23

What point in the world is closest to the moon?

Accepted Answer

Mount Chimbarazo

Question 24

What South Asian city is the planet's biggest feature film producer?

Accepted Answer

Mumbai

Question 25

Where is curry from?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 26

The House of Windsor rules England. What house rules the Netherlands?

Accepted Answer

The House of Orange

Question 27

What famous monument in New York has a sibling located in France?

Accepted Answer

The Statue of Liberty

Question 28

How many rooms are there in Buckingham Palace?

Accepted Answer

775

Question 29

Where is the deepest lake in the world?

Accepted Answer

Siberia

Question 30

What country is only bordered by Spain?

Accepted Answer

Portugal

Question 31

What European nation has the lowest percentage of women in its’ Parliament?

Accepted Answer

Hungary

Question 32

What is the diameter of the earth at the equator?

Accepted Answer

7,926 miles

Question 33

Where is the longest beach in the world?

Accepted Answer

Brazil

Question 34

How many kangaroos live in Australia?

Accepted Answer

45 million

Question 35

How many time zones does the Trans Siberian Railway span?

Accepted Answer

8

Question 36

What is the busiest cruise port in the world?

Accepted Answer

Port Miami

Question 37

What’s the richest nation in the world per capita?

Accepted Answer

Qatar

Question 38

What country has won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film the most times?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 39

What language was Thomas Jefferson not able to speak?

Accepted Answer

Spanish

Question 40

How many nations are members of the World Trade Organization?

Accepted Answer

164

Question 41

How many languages are currently spoken in India?

Accepted Answer

780

Question 42

Who proposed the League of Nations?

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 43

What country had the most recent coup d’etat?

Accepted Answer

Zimbabwe

Question 44

Which British band just released their 7th album in December 2015?

Accepted Answer

Coldplay

Question 45

What percent of the world’s water is in the Pacific Ocean?

Accepted Answer

46%

Question 46

What is the real-life location of King’s Landing from Game of Thrones (filming location)?

Accepted Answer

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Question 47

What is the world’s most widely viewed televised sports event?

Accepted Answer

FIFA World Cup

Question 48

What is the largest music festival in the world in terms of attendance?

Accepted Answer

Donauinselfest (Austria)

Question 49

What country with a population of 1,000,000 or more, is closest to the South Pole?

Accepted Answer

Chile

Question 50

What crop is native to the United States and Asia?

Accepted Answer

Chesnuts

Question 51

What natural phenomenon did the ancient Egyptians use to mark the start of their New Year?

Accepted Answer

The annual flooding of the Nile River

Question 52

What is the famous statue that is "half-lion".

Accepted Answer

The Great Sphinx of Giza

Question 53

What are the four Sundays of the Advent?

Accepted Answer

Hope, Peace, Love, and Joy

Question 54

During what years was Germany’s Third Reich in Power?

Accepted Answer

1933-1945

Question 55

Which of the following languages does not belong in the Indo-European Language Family?

Accepted Answer

Indonesian

Question 56

What country introduced the world to orange chicken?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 57

Where did the potato famine of the mid-1800s take place?

Accepted Answer

Ireland

Question 58

What is the currency of Mongolia?

Accepted Answer

Tugrik

Question 59

What is the newest member of the United Nations?

Accepted Answer

South Sudan

Question 60

Where are potatoes originally from?

Accepted Answer

Peru

Question 61

What are the ancient statue is in Chile?

Accepted Answer

Easter Island Moai

Question 62

What Western Hemisphere people spoke Nahuatl?

Accepted Answer

The Aztecs

Question 63

How many countries joined the United Nations when it was formed in 1945?

Accepted Answer

51

Question 64

What is the world’s largest stadium and what city houses it?

Accepted Answer

Rungrado 1st of May Stadium

World Trivia Night

Questions 75

World Trivia Night

Questions 75