![Andrew Cotter's viral videos](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-olive-and-mabel.jpg)
Trivia Question
BBC sports commentator Andrew Cotter has made popular home videos featuring contests between whom?
![Andrew Cotter's dogs, Olive and Mabel](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-olive-and-mabel-answer.jpg)
Answer: His two dogs, Olive and Mabel
The videos, which went viral during the COVID-19 lockdown, have amassed more than 50 million views on YouTube!
![Name the sport](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-skateboarding.jpg)
Trivia Question
The 2020 winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary (Short Subject) features Afghan girls performing what sport?
![Skateistan](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-skateboarding-answer.jpg)
Answer: Skateboarding
The Oscar-winning doc is titled Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl).
![Geographic features](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-scandinavian-bodies-of-water.jpg)
Trivia Question
What geographic features does IKEA usually name its bathroom products after?
![Name the demo](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-young-children.jpg)
Trivia Question
According to a 2013 survey, what demographic asks nearly 300 questions per day?
![Name the board game](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-monolopy.jpg)
Trivia Question
What board game is purportedly not played by the British royal family because it makes the players too vicious?
![Lush "naked" products](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-lush-naked-products.jpg)
Trivia Question
The international cosmetics retailer Lush sells “naked” products, which don’t include what?
![Lush store](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-lush-naked-products-answer.jpg)
Answer: Packaging
Thirty-five per cent of Lush’s products are package-free! “Naked” items include solid shampoo bars, conditioners and bath oils.
![Name the rock star](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-little-richard.jpg)
Trivia Question
After a hiatus in gospel, who returned to rock ’n’ roll in the early 1960s, with The Beatles as his opening act?
![Little Richard in concert in 2007](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-little-richard-answer.jpg)
Answer: Little Richard
During this time, Richard reportedly taught Beatles frontman Paul McCartney his distinctive singing style.
![Name the province or territory](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-northwest-territories.jpg)
Trivia Question
Which Canadian province or territory has the highest proportion of elected female legislators?
![Yellowknife, Northwest Territories](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-northwest-territories-answer.jpg)
Answer: The Northwest Territories
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![South Korea sends 10,000 face masks to...](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-navajo-nation.jpg)
Trivia Question
Where did South Korea recently send coronavirus-protection gear, out of gratitude to Korean War veterans?
![Navajo veterans of the Korean War](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-navajo-nation-answer.jpg)
Answer: The Navajo Nation
The U.S. supported South Korea during the Korean War—members of the Navajo Nation used their language as an unbreakable code for radio messages.
![Name the historical figure](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-martin-luther-king-jr.jpg)
Trivia Question
Who said: “A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true”?
![Martin Luther King Jr.](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-martin-luther-king-jr-answer.jpg)
Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.
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![Name the city](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-copenhagen.jpg)
Trivia Question
In which city can you ski down the sloped roof of an electricity-producing incinerator?
![CopenHill in Copenhagen, Denmark](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-copenhagen-answer.jpg)
Answer: Copenhagen
First conceived in 2011, the CopenHill boasts an impressive 450-metre ski slope.
![Name the planet](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-mars.jpg)
Trivia Question
NASA has tested equipment in Chile’s Atacama Desert, because it’s similar to which planet?
![Atacama Desert, Chile](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-mars-answer.jpg)
Answer: Mars
Fun fact: the Atacama is 50 times more arid than California’s Death Valley!
![Name the threat](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-fishing-boats.jpg)
Trivia Question
Which poses a greater threat to undersea fibre-optic cables: sharks or fishing boats?
![Two fishermen on a fishing trawler](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-fishing-boats-answer.jpg)
Answer: Fishing boats
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![Name the country](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-new-zealand.jpg)
Trivia Question
Which country called its 2019 national budget “The Wellbeing Budget” because it focused on areas such as mental health?
![Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-new-zealand-answer.jpg)
Answer: New Zealand
The budget has also committed billions to tackling child poverty and family violence.
![Name the cartoon character](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/general-knowledge-quiz-questions-mickey-mouse.jpg)
Trivia Question
What cartoon character drew inspiration from Charlie Chaplin and turns 92 this November?
![Name the phenomenon](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-retreating-glaciers-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Moraines, eskers and drumlins are all landforms that were created by what phenomenon?
![View of glaciers from drone](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-retreating-glaciers-answer.jpg)
Answer: Retreating glaciers
Fun fact: Antarctica’s Lambert glacier is the largest in the world. It measures 96 kilometres wide and 434 kilometres long.
![Name the food](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-impossible-burger-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
What vegetarian product is known for “bleeding” meat-like juices?
![Impossible Burger](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-impossible-burger-answer.jpg)
Answer: The Impossible Burger
The Impossible Burger first launched in 2016.
![Name the show](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-good-omens-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
David Tennant and Michael Sheen starred in what recent TV release about the antics of demons and angels?
![Good Omens on Amazon Prime Video](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/underrated-shows-on-amazon-prime-good-omens.jpg)
Answer: Good Omens
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![Name the organization](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-red-cross-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Henry Dunant shared the first Nobel Peace Prize, in 1901, for founding what life-saving organization?
![International Committee of the Red Cross](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-red-cross-answer.jpg)
Answer: The International Committee of the Red Cross
Dunant shared the prize with Frédéric Passy, a French economist and founding member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
![Name the lunar event](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-full-moon-questions.jpg)
Trivia Question
What lunar event promises to make 2020’s Halloween especially spooky?
![Name the prize](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-stanley-cup-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
What prize is so revered by hockey fans that it has its own “keeper,” responsible for safeguarding it wherever it goes?
![Stanley Cup](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-stanley-cup-answer.jpg)
Answer: The Stanley Cup
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![Name the painter](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-leonardo-da-vinci-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Han van Meegeren was a Dutch art forger. One of his successes, The Supper at Emmaus, was proclaimed by scholars to be a masterpiece by whom?
![Hans van Meegeren](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-joannes-vermeer-answer.jpg)
Answer: Johannes Vermeer
It’s estimated that van Meegeren (pictured above) duped buyers out of more than US $30 million in 1967’s money.
![Name the objects](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-splinters-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
As late as the 1930s, what unwelcome objects were sometimes found in toilet paper?
![Splinters from a tree stump](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-splinters-answer.jpg)
Answer: Splinters
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![Name the actor](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-scarlett-johansson-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Michael Myers’s mask from Halloween is based on the face of what Canadian actor of Star Trek fame?
![Name the link](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-misere-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Misère versions of games such as nim, sprouts and poker have what in common?
![Four cards showing Aces](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/self-quarantine-activities-deal-me-in.jpg)
Answer: The players try to lose
Lowball, for example, is a type of poker in which one’s lowest-scoring hand wins.
![Name the painting](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-banksy-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
What did the graffiti artist Banksy paint on his own bathroom walls during the COVID-19 lockdown?
![Name the light](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-neon-lights-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
The glow called St. Elmo’s Fire appears when electrical voltage affects gases in the sky. What do we call it when we purposely make the same thing happen inside glass tubes?
![Neon lights](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-neon-lights-answer.jpg)
Answer: Neon lights
The first neon lights were made in 1911 by French chemist Georges Claude.
![Name the book](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-roald-dahl-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
A childhood candy-tasting job inspired what book by Roald Dahl?
![Classic movies on Netflix - Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/classic-movies-on-netflix-willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory.jpg)
Answer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
There are two film versions of Dahl’s novel: the first released in 1971 (starring Gene Wilder), and the second released in 2005 (starring Johnny Depp).
![Name the traits](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-aloha-spirit-law-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Hawaii has a statute called the Aloha Spirit law, which encourages public officials to contemplate which character traits?
![Hawaii beachfront](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-aloha-spirit-law-answer.jpg)
Answer: Kindness, unity, agreeableness, humility and patience
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![Name the vegetable](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-turnips-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
What were the original jack-o’-lanterns carved from in Ireland and Scotland, before those places started importing pumpkins?
![General knowledge quiz - Name that toy](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-lego-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) is a very sturdy plastic. That’s why it hurts to step on what Danish-designed ABS toys?
![General knowledge quiz - Name the nurse](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-florence-nightingale-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
You may know her better as a nurse, but who became the first female member of the U.K.’s Royal Statistical Society in 1858?
![Florence Nightingale](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-florence-nightingale-answer.jpg)
Answer: Florence Nightingale
Other famous members included English polymath Charles Babbage and Belgian astronomer Adolphe Quetelet.
![General knowledge quiz - Name the political theorist](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-karl-max-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Who described Simon Bolivar as “the dastardly, most miserable and meanest of blackguards”?
![Name the movie star](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-will-smith-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
What movie star’s first claim to fame was being part of a hip-hop duo called DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince?
![Will Smith at the Cannes Film Festival](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-will-smith-answer.jpg)
Answer: Will Smith
The duo’s most successful single was 1991’s “Summertime,” which peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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![Name the colour](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-red-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
According to peer-reviewed research, wearing what colour might give an advantage to boxers?
![Name the painter](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-leonardo-da-vinci-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Besides his most famous portrait, what artist also painted others that included Lady With an Ermine and Ginevra de’ Benci?
![Illustration of Leonardo da Vinci](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-leonardo-da-vinci-answer.jpg)
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
If you share this one trait with Leonardo da Vinci, you might be a genius.
![Name the event](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-eurovision-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Greta Thunberg’s mother, Malena Ernman, represented Sweden at what event in 2009?
![Malena Ernman at Eurovision](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-eurovision-answer.jpg)
Answer: The Eurovision Song Contest
Her song, “La Voix,” was the first Swedish entry to contain lyrics in French.
![Name the chancellor](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-helmut-kohl-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
What former German chancellor gave Angela Merkel her first cabinet position—and the rather patronizing nickname “mein Mädchen” (my girl)?
![Helmut Kohl](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-helmut-kohl-answer.jpg)
Answer: Helmut Kohl
Kohl served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998.
These funny political insults are guaranteed to make you laugh!
![Name the topping](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-pepperoni-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Not counting cheese or tomato sauce, what is by far the most popular pizza topping among Americans?
![Pepperoni pizza](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-pepperoni-answer.jpg)
Answer: Pepperoni
You won’t believe some of the stuff you’ve been swallowing! Read these food facts from our experts before you take another bite.
![Name the animal](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-lazarus-animals-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Omura’s whale, the Lord Howe stick insect and the New Zealand storm petrel are all examples of what kind of animal?
![New Zealand Storm Petrel](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-lazarus-animals-answer.jpg)
Answer: They’re “Lazarus animals”
Meaning, they were thought to be extinct only to be rediscovered.
![Name the TV show](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-golden-girls-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Although Bea Arthur hated cheesecake, what TV show’s cast ate some 100 of them on camera?
![The Golden Girls](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-golden-girls-answer.jpg)
Answer: The Golden Girls
In 2014, the Writers Guild of America ranked The Golden Girls at number 69 on their list of the “101 Best Written TV Series of All Time.”
![Name the Disney character](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-mulan-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Which Disney character’s family name is Fa, even though it was Hua in the source material?
![Name the prize](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-nobel-prize-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
By what name is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences better known?
![Economics Joseph E. Stiglitz](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-nobel-prize-answer.jpg)
Answer: The Nobel Prize for Economics
American economist Joseph E. Stiglitz (pictured above) was awarded the prize in 2001.
![What did the armed robbers steal?](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-toilet-paper-heist-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
In early 2020 in Hong Kong, armed men stole 600 of what coveted item?
![Name the Grammy winner](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-steve-martin-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Who’s won two Grammys for comedy recordings and three for playing the banjo?
![Steve Martin performing in concert](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-steve-martin-answer.jpg)
Answer: Steve Martin
These funny song titles may not have appeared on any top 40 hit list, but they’re sure to put a smile on your face!
![Name the language](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-maltese-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
What’s the only Semitic language that’s also an official European Union language?
![Name the actor](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-martin-freeman-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
What actor has played friends to Ford Prefect, Gandalf, Sherlock Holmes and the Black Panther?
![Martin Freeman](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-martin-freeman-answer.jpg)
Answer: Martin Freeman
Freeman first became known to audiences while starring in the UK version of The Office.
![Name the Swede](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-greta-garbo-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
During the Second World War, double agent Juan Pujol García was nicknamed after what Swede?
![Greta Garbo](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-greta-garbo-answer.jpg)
Answer: Greta Garbo
The reason? Because he could give a convincing performance.
![Name the novel](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-the-murder-of-stephen-king-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
What novel did James Patterson write about a detective named Jamie Patterson, who tries to solve the murder of a horror writer?
![Stephen King](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-the-murder-of-stephen-king-answer.jpg)
Answer: The Murder of Stephen King
Patterson ultimately decided not to publish it.
![Name the treat](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-fortune-cookie-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Sometimes called a “good luck sweet cookie” in China, what treat was likely invented in the U.S.?
![Fortune cookies](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-fortune-cookie-answer.jpg)
Answer: The fortune cookie
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![Name the planet](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-uranus-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Not counting the earth, which is the only planet whose largest moon is named after a female figure?
![Uranus](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-uranus-answer.jpg)
Answer: Uranus
The moon is named for the Shakespearean character Titania.
![Name the Nordic country](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-annika-sorenstam-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Golfer Annika Sörenstam hails from what Nordic country?
![Name the inventor](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-rudolf-diesel-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Whose unsolved 1913 death prompted headlines such as “Murdered by Agents From Big Oil Trusts,” because he’d invented a more fuel-efficient engine?
![Name the singer-songwriter](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-sara-bareilles-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Who supplied the music for the musical-theatre version of the film Waitress?
![Sara Bareilles](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-sara-bareilles-answer.jpg)
Answer: Sara Bareilles
Her 2007 hit single, “Love Song,” reached fourth on the Billboard Hot 100.
![Name the country](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-eswatini-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
What African kingdom lists Coca-Cola concentrate among its main exports?
![Eswatini](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-eswatini-answer.jpg)
Answer: Eswatini
With a total land area of just 17,364 square kilometres, Eswatini is the seventh smallest country in Africa.
![Name the comic strip](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-little-orphan-annie-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
In 2010, the last panel of what long-running comic strip saw the title character kidnapped by a war criminal?
![Little Orphan Annie](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-little-orphan-annie-answer.jpg)
Answer: Little Orphan Annie
Created by cartoonist Harold Gray, the comic made its debut on August 5, 1924.
![Name the actor](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-scarlett-johansson-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Who is the highest grossing female actor of all time?
![Scarlett Johansson](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-scarlett-johansson-answer.jpg)
Answer: Scarlett Johansson
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![Name the language](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-polish-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
W and Z are worth a lot in many versions of Scrabble, but in which language are they worth only a single point each?
![Scrabble tiles](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-polish-answer.jpg)
Answer: Polish
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![Name the board game](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-settlers-of-catan-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Klaus Teuber was a dental technician until he created which blockbuster board game?
![The Settlers of Catan](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-settlers-of-catan-answer.jpg)
Answer: The Settlers of Catan
First published in 1995, the multiplayer game had sold more than 22 million copies by 2015.
![True or false?](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-pirate-treasure-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Historical pirates often buried their treasure. True or false?
![What was their surname?](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-wright-brothers-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
While her brothers were inventing the airplane, Katharine kept their bicycle shop afloat. What was their surname?
![Wright brothers flight](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-wright-brothers-answer.jpg)
Answer: Wright
A graduate of Oberlin College, Katharine also taught Latin in high school.
![Name the layer](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-mantle-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Which layer of the earth, normally found between the crust and core, occasionally pushes up to the surface?
![Earth's mantle](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-mantle-answer.jpg)
Answer: The mantle
These eye-opening Canadian geography facts will have you seeing our country’s landscapes in a new light.
![Name the sharpshooter](https://www.readersdigest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/general-knowledge-quiz-annie-oakley-question.jpg)
Trivia Question
Who starred in Thomas Edison’s 1894 short film, The “Little Sure Shot of the ‘Wild West.” Exhibition of Rifle Shooting at Glass Balls, etc.?
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In Louise Fitzhugh’s classic 1964 novel, who was the titular spy?
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What city’s historic Imperial Hotel is on its Ringstrasse (ring road)?
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Trivia Question
Which country’s flag used to include an orange stripe, for the House of Orange?
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Answer: The Netherlands
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Trivia Question
The title character in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou was likely modelled on what real French oceanographer?
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Answer: Jacques Cousteau
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Trivia Question
Since 2016, the letters A, B and O are sometimes missing from various signs and company logos around the world. Why?
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Answer: To promote blood donation
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Trivia Question
What rocker revealed in January 2020 that he has Parkinson’s?
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Trivia Question
Conch, helix, tragus and rook are all ways of piercing which body part?
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Trivia Question
What person’s last words, uttered on August 31, 1997, were purportedly, “My God, what’s happened?”
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Fujian, Taiwan and Guangdong are all known for what product, whose name means “black dragon”?
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Trivia Question
The Cervantes Prize is awarded to people writing in what language?
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Answer: Spanish
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Trivia Question
Which country has been experiencing a tourism boom because of the Frozen movies?
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Trivia Question
In 1972, the International Tennis Federation authorized what TV-friendly colour for tennis balls?
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Answer: Yellow
According to Tennis365, the switch to yellow tennis balls was the idea of David Attenborough, who was a controller at BBC2 in the 1960s.
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Trivia Question
Kannada is a language with at least 43 million native speakers, most of whom live in which Asian country?
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Trivia Question
Now very rare, thanks to vaccines, what infectious disease is the reason why Spain remembers 1613 as “the year of the strangulations”?
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Answer: Diphtheria
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Trivia Question
Before humans risked flying in a hot-air balloon themselves, they sent up which three animals?
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Answer: A sheep, a rooster and a duck
Good news: they landed safely!
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Trivia Question
Late blight, the plant disease that caused Ireland’s Great Famine, no longer threatens potato crops. True or false?
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Trivia Question
On average, Danes cycle 1.6 kilometres per day. Roughly what percentage of them own a bike?
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Answer: 90 per cent
According to the Cycling Embassy of Denmark, approximately half of all children aged 11 to 15 also cycle to school.
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Trivia Question
What actor topped the 2019 Forbes list of the most influential Chinese celebrities?
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Answer: Actor Wu Jing
Wu starred in the 2019 film The Wandering Earth—China’s third highest-grossing film ever.
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Trivia Question
In what resort can one race in a Star Wars-themed half marathon?
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Trivia Question
Who wrote the following? “Is there meaning to music? … Yes. And can you state in so many words what the meaning is? … No.”
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Answer: The composer Aaron Copland
Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 14, 1900, Copland was referred to as “the Dean of American Composers” during his lifetime.
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Trivia Question
How old was Greta Thunberg when she first became an activist?
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Answer: 15 years old
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Trivia Question
The record for the fastest non-tornado wind gust was set during tropical cyclone Olivia in which country?
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Trivia Question
In 2019, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan taped what item of fruit to a wall and sold it for US$120,000?
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Trivia Question
What kills more people worldwide: road accidents or homicide (including war and capital punishment)?
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Answer: Road accidents
Road accidents are to blame for around one in 40 human deaths.
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Trivia Question
The person who was born Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark would now be the queen of which country had it not abolished its monarchy in 1973?
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Trivia Question
What sport, invented in Amsterdam in 1901, requires four men and four women on each team?
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Trivia Question
The ancient Egyptian god Khepri was portrayed as what insect, or sometimes as a man with that insect for a head?
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Trivia Question
What plant is a symbol of nuclear disarmament because it can absorb radioactive cesium?
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Answer: The sunflower
Fun fact: sunflowers were planted at the sites of the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear disasters to help absorb radiation from the soil.
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Trivia Question
In 2019, what Canadian singer released her first Billboard No. 1 album in more than 17 years?
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Trivia Question
Which two independent states are entirely surrounded by Italy?
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Answer: San Marino and Vatican City
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Trivia Question
In Peanuts, what character was fiercely dedicated to Beethoven?
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Answer: Schroeder
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Trivia Question
Which is the only country to have won both the women’s and the men’s FIFA World Cups?
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Trivia Question
What Dutch master produced more than 142 paintings while he was staying at a psychiatric hospital?
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Trivia Question
Which “timely” Nicole Kidman film was based on the novel that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction?
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Answer: The Hours
These romantic movies on Netflix Canada should be viewed with a box of tissues nearby.
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Trivia Question
What Disney movie features a castle inspired by the Chateau de Chambord in France?
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Trivia Question
The square root of two is a constant named after what mathematician and philosopher?
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Answer: Pythagoras
It takes a genius to solve these tricky math riddles—are you up to the challenge?
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Trivia Question
Japan’s southernmost prefecture is the birthplace of karate and is called what?
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Trivia Question
What American actor goes by the stage name “Childish Gambino” when he’s performing music?
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Answer: Donald Glover
Glover also created and stars in the Emmy Award-winning comedy-drama, Atlanta.
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Trivia Question
Which country has coastlines on the Caspian Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf?
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Answer: Iran
Iran is the second-largest country in the Middle East, after Saudi Arabia.
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Trivia Question
Until he passed away at age 98 in 2018, Jerry Maren was the last survivor of the 124 actors who played Munchkins in what movie?
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Trivia Question
According to Nigella Lawson, what’s the “best meal in the world”?
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Trivia Question
Golf returned to the Olympics in 2016. Who won the first men’s gold medal in 112 years and hit the first Olympic hole in one?