Random Trivia Questions and Answers
A grab bag of random trivia questions spanning every topic — science, history, pop culture, geography, sports, and the just-plain-weird. No theme and no warning, which is exactly the point. Tap any question to reveal the answer.
1 Question: What's the national sport of Japan?
Answer: Sumo wrestling
2 Question: How many time zones does Russia span?
Answer: 11
3 Question: What's the world's most-produced fruit crop — bananas, apples, or tomatoes?
Answer: Tomatoes
4 Question: In Morse code, what letter is a single dot?
Answer: E
5 Question: What's the largest landlocked country in the world?
Answer: Kazakhstan
6 Question: What color is the 'black box' flight recorder on a plane?
Answer: Orange
7 Question: How many keys does a standard piano have?
Answer: 88
8 Question: What's the only continent where coffee grows wild?
Answer: Africa (Ethiopia)
9 Question: What's the longest-running Broadway show of all time?
Answer: The Phantom of the Opera
10 Question: How many dots are on a standard pair of dice?
Answer: 42
11 Question: What's the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country?
Answer: Brazil
12 Question: What's the tallest building in the world (as of the mid-2020s)?
Answer: The Burj Khalifa in Dubai
13 Question: What two-word Latin phrase on US currency means 'out of many, one'?
Answer: E pluribus unum
14 Question: What's the strongest muscle in the human body relative to its size?
Answer: The masseter (jaw muscle)
15 Question: Which chess piece can only move diagonally?
Answer: The bishop
16 Question: What country has the most islands in the world — over 260,000?
Answer: Sweden
17 Question: What's the most commonly used letter in the English language?
Answer: E
18 Question: How many minutes are in a full week?
Answer: 10,080
19 Question: What's the world's saltiest large body of water, 9x saltier than the ocean?
Answer: The Dead Sea
20 Question: In poker, what hand beats a full house but loses to a straight flush?
Answer: Four of a kind
21 Question: What's the only US state with a one-syllable name?
Answer: Maine
22 Question: What's the currency of South Korea?
Answer: The won
23 Question: A standard wine bottle holds how many milliliters?
Answer: 750
24 Question: What's the most abundant metal in Earth's crust?
Answer: Aluminum
25 Question: Which zodiac sign is represented by scales?
Answer: Libra
26 Question: What's the minimum age to be US President?
Answer: 35
27 Question: How many squares are on a chessboard (the small ones)?
Answer: 64
28 Question: What fictional detective lives at 221B Baker Street?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes
29 Question: What's the deepest lake in the world?
Answer: Lake Baikal
30 Question: What's the international radio code word for the letter 'A'?
Answer: Alfa
31 Question: How many bones are babies born with — more or fewer than adults' 206?
Answer: More (about 300; they fuse)
32 Question: What's the best-selling book genre in the world?
Answer: Romance
33 Question: Which country invented tea drinking?
Answer: China
34 Question: What's the loudest animal on Earth for its size — heard 100 miles away underwater?
Answer: The sperm whale (blue whale also accepted)
35 Question: What's the square footage term for 43,560 square feet?
Answer: An acre
36 Question: What game's highest-scoring standard tile letters are Q and Z?
Answer: Scrabble (10 points each)
37 Question: What's the driest place on Earth — a desert in Chile?
Answer: The Atacama Desert
38 Question: How many stars are on the flag of China?
Answer: Five
39 Question: What was the first toy advertised on television (1952)?
Answer: Mr. Potato Head
40 Question: What's the medical name for the voice box?
Answer: The larynx
41 Question: Which planet has the shortest day — under 10 hours?
Answer: Jupiter
42 Question: What's the world's busiest airport by passengers (most years)?
Answer: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
43 Question: What card game's name is Spanish/Italian for 'one'?
Answer: Uno
44 Question: What's the rarest naturally occurring blood type?
Answer: AB negative
45 Question: How many Great Lakes are there — and name the biggest.
Answer: Five; Lake Superior
46 Question: What's the fastest fish in the ocean?
Answer: The sailfish
47 Question: What's the term for a baby kangaroo?
Answer: A joey
48 Question: Which amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery?
Answer: The 13th
49 Question: What's the largest internal organ in the human body?
Answer: The liver
50 Question: How many players are on the field per side in cricket?
Answer: 11
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