Trivia General 1

Question 1

How many throwing events are there in a decathlon? Three

Accepted Answer

Three

Question 2

What geographic term describes a hill with sharply sloping sides and a flat top?

Accepted Answer

A Butte

Question 3

Who is the inventor of the cash register?

Accepted Answer

James Ritty

Question 4

Who was the Greek God of Love?

Accepted Answer

ERos

Question 5

Which grow faster - fingernails or toenails?

Accepted Answer

Fingernails

Question 6

What is the name for the sun's outer atmosphere?

Accepted Answer

The Corona

Question 7

What country hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics?

Accepted Answer

Brazil

Question 8

What musical is set at Rydell High?

Accepted Answer

Grease

Question 9

What nation's legislative body is named The Great Khural?

Accepted Answer

Mongolia

Question 10

Who was the US president at the end of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 11

Who succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party?

Accepted Answer

Leonid Brezhnev

Question 12

A myomancer predicts the future by studying what?

Accepted Answer

The behaviour of rats and mice

Question 13

What is a wallaby?

Accepted Answer

A kangaroo

Question 14

What is 400 in Roman numerals?

Accepted Answer

CD

Question 15

Which continent is home to the Tasmanian Devil?

Accepted Answer

Australia

Question 16

In what modern day country was Dalmatia located?

Accepted Answer

Croatia

Question 17

What stopper, necessary for champagne, did medieval monks invent?

Accepted Answer

The cork

Question 18

What Caribbean island did Columbus originally name Juana?

Accepted Answer

Cuba

Question 19

What is the name of Earth's first artificial satellite?

Accepted Answer

Sputnik

Question 20

What are Tom and Jerry?

Accepted Answer

A mouse and Cat

Questions 20