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Trivia Questions for Adults with Answers
Here are 153 trivia questions for adults with answers, from easy to impossible, and every answer stays hidden until you tap it.
The list has 3 easy, 62 medium, 64 hard, and 24 impossible questions, so it works for adults, office quizzes, dinner parties and trivia teams. They were written and fact-checked by the Quiz Zoomies team in the same easy-to-impossible format as the Quiz Zoomies videos. Tap Reveal all answers to check everything at once, print the page for a game night, or play the questions as a scored quiz.
153 trivia questions for adults
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Which bird is most often roasted for Christmas dinner in the UK today?
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Turkey Easy question
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What is a promise to improve yourself in the new year called?
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A resolution Easy question
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What is the big shopping day after US Thanksgiving called?
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Black Friday Easy question
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What do musicians call the speed of a piece of music?
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Tempo Medium question
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Which vegetable is fermented to make sauerkraut?
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Cabbage Medium question
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Eggnog is mostly made from which ingredients?
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Milk, eggs and sugar Medium question
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What do we call a stage work that tells a story mostly through singing with an orchestra?
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Opera Medium question
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What does CGI stand for in movies?
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Computer-generated imagery Medium question
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Which element is a diamond made of?
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Carbon Medium question
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Which space telescope, launched in 1990, is named after an American astronomer?
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Hubble Medium question
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What is the main ingredient of hummus?
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Chickpeas Medium question
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Which food is made by curdling milk and pressing the curds together?
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Cheese Medium question
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Which shiny decoration was first made from thin strips of real silver?
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Tinsel Medium question
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Which composer lost his hearing but kept composing, finishing his Ninth Symphony in 1824?
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Ludwig van Beethoven Medium question
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Which Venetian traveler wrote about his journey to China in the 1200s?
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Marco Polo Medium question
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The International Date Line runs mostly through which ocean?
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Pacific Medium question
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Which instrument did Frédéric Chopin write most of his music for?
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The piano Medium question
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Which 1997 film about a famous ocean liner won 11 Oscars?
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Titanic Medium question
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Which river carved the Grand Canyon?
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Colorado River Medium question
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Which calendar, used by most of the world today, starts the year on January 1?
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Gregorian calendar Medium question
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How many different notes are in a major scale, not counting the repeated top note?
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7 Medium question
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Which Charles Dickens story features Ebenezer Scrooge?
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A Christmas Carol Medium question
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What is hot liquid rock under Earth's surface called?
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Magma Medium question
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Which simple machine is basically a ramp?
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Inclined plane Medium question
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Who invented the World Wide Web in 1989?
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Tim Berners-Lee Medium question
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Which band's 1964 arrival in the United States kicked off the British Invasion?
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The Beatles Medium question
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Who composed the music for the ballet The Nutcracker?
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Tchaikovsky Medium question
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Which body system is made up of the brain, the spinal cord and the nerves?
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The nervous system Medium question
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Which country gives a Christmas tree to London's Trafalgar Square every year?
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Norway Medium question
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Which scientist described the three laws of motion?
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Isaac Newton Medium question
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What is the scientific study of plants called?
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Botany Medium question
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Which large keyboard instrument has pedals and pipes and is often found in concert halls?
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Pipe organ Medium question
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Wild turkeys are native to which continent?
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North America Medium question
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Which director made Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Jurassic Park?
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Steven Spielberg Medium question
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What is a cornucopia also called?
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Horn of plenty Medium question
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What are the giant stone statues on Easter Island called?
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Moai Medium question
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Which wall was built across a German city in 1961 and opened in 1989?
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The Berlin Wall Medium question
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Which is the highest standard female singing voice?
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Soprano Medium question
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What is a series of drawings that plans each shot of a film called?
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A storyboard Medium question
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The 1621 harvest feast was shared by the Pilgrims and which Native American people?
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The Wampanoag Medium question
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Which red-leaved Christmas plant is named after a US ambassador to Mexico?
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Poinsettia Medium question
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In which decade did rock and roll first become popular?
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1950s Medium question
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What is tofu made from?
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Soybeans Medium question
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In which country is the Cannes Film Festival held?
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France Medium question
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What is the smallest unit of a chemical element?
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An atom Medium question
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Which metal is the main ingredient of steel?
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Iron Medium question
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Who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection in 1859?
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Charles Darwin Medium question
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Which instrument family includes the oboe and the bassoon?
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Woodwind Medium question
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What is the word for the main character of a story?
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The protagonist Medium question
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Who built Europe's first printing press with movable type around 1440?
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Johannes Gutenberg Medium question
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There are 153 trivia questions for adults in this list (3 easy, 62 medium, 64 hard, and 24 impossible), spread over 3 pages. Every question has its answer right below it, hidden until you tap Show answer.
Can you give me 50 trivia questions for adults?
Yes. Page 1 of this list is 50 trivia questions for adults with answers, and the next pages add more. They are family-friendly: adult here means harder thinking, not mature content.
What are 10 good adult trivia questions?
1) Which bird is most often roasted for Christmas dinner in the UK today? Turkey. 2) The International Date Line runs mostly through which ocean? Pacific. 3) What is the scientific study of plants called? Botany. 4) Which metal is the main ingredient of steel? Iron. 5) What is the imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude called? The Prime Meridian. 6) Which Scottish inventor greatly improved the steam engine in the 1760s? James Watt. 7) Which part of the eye contains the cells that sense light? The retina. 8) What are Ukrainian Easter eggs decorated with wax and dye called? Pysanky. 9) Which part of an atom has no electric charge? Neutron. 10) Which composer wrote Peter and the Wolf to introduce children to the instruments of the orchestra? Sergei Prokofiev.
What is the hardest adult trivia question here?
One of the hardest is: Which NASA rover landed on Mars in 2021 carrying a small helicopter? The answer is Perseverance. 24 questions in this list are rated impossible, the top level in the Quiz Zoomies videos.
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