General Trivia Questions and Answers

Q. By what name was William F. Cody better known? A. Buffalo Bill.

Q. What is the capital city of Peru? A. Lima.

Q. What is the third sign of the Zodiac? A. Gemini.

Q. Which author wrote "Our Man in Havana"? A. Graham Greene.
Q. Who was the first baseball player to have his number retired? A. Lou Gehrig.
Q. What is the largest bone in the human body? A. The femur.
Q. Who wrote the musical Oklahoma? A. Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Q. In which year did the Bay of Pigs invasion take place? A. 1961.
Q. What is the largest two digit prime number? A. 97.

Q. Who wrote Das Kapital? A. Karl Marx.

Q. How many track events are there in a decathlon? A. Four. (100-meter dash, long jump, shot put, high
jump, 400-meter dash, 110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, and 1,500-meter run).
Q. What type of animal is a "sugar glider"? A. A possum belonging to the marsupial family.
Q. Who was the Greek god of dreams? A. Morpheus.
Q. What is the square root of 256? A. 16.
Q. Entomology is the branch of science that studies what? A. Insects.
Q. Which is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea? A. Sicily.
Q. Which U.S. president served the shortest time in office? A. William Henry Harrison - he served as
president for just 32 days in 1841.
Q. Which pop album is the bestselling of all time? A. Thriller by Michael Jackson.
Q. Which novel begins with the line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"? A. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.
Q. Who was the first man to reach the South Pole? A. Roald Amundsen.
Q. Which is the most populous U.S. state? A. California.
Q. Who was the first American to go into space? A. Alan Shephard.
Q. Which is the largest of the Canary Islands? A. Tenerife.