Famous Sevens
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50 free Famous Sevens trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Seven turns up wherever people have made lists. There are seven wonders of the ancient world, seven deadly sins, seven days in a week, seven colours in a rainbow and seven dwarfs in one of the best-loved animated films ever made. Some of these sets are thousands of years old, and others come from cinema, television and pop music. This quiz collects the famous groups of seven in one place. The questions ask you to pick out one member of a set, name the person behind it, or spot the surprising fact attached to it, across history, geography, science, religion, literature, film, sport and music. It works as a themed pub quiz round, a classroom warm-up or a quick test for anyone who enjoys general knowledge with a twist. The questions run from household names to a few deep cuts, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which of the Seven Dwarfs never speaks in Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Dopey
Dopey was first written as a talkative character, but no suitable voice could be found, so he was made mute. He gets by on sounds and pantomime.
Q 02Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the only one still standing today?
Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza is by far the oldest of the seven, yet it is the only one that survives. The other six were destroyed over the centuries.
Q 03Which colour did Isaac Newton place between blue and violet when he divided the rainbow into seven?
Indigo
Indigo and orange were late additions that brought the count to seven, which Newton wanted so the colours would match the notes of a musical scale.
Q 04Which Japanese car maker is named after the Pleiades, the star cluster known as the Seven Sisters?
Subaru
Subaru is the Japanese name for the cluster. The badge shows only six stars because, by tradition, one of the seven sisters is invisible.
Q 05Which long-necked animal has only seven neck vertebrae, the same number as a human being?
Giraffe
A giraffe has the same seven neck bones as nearly every mammal, each one more than 28 cm long. Long-necked birds went the other way: some swans have as many as 25.
Q 06Which of the seven days of the week is named in English after the Germanic god of thunder?
Thursday
Thursday comes from the Old English for Thunor's day, Thunor being the English form of Thor. In most Romance languages the same day is named after Jupiter, Rome's thunder god.
Q 07Which monument wears a crown of seven rays, popularly said to evoke the seven seas and the seven continents?
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty's seven rays form a halo around the head. The link to the seas and continents is a popular belief that research has never confirmed.
Q 08Which of the seven deadly sins is considered the original and worst on almost every list?
Pride
Pride is also thought to be the source of the other six. The list took its familiar form under Pope Gregory I in AD 590.
Q 09Which puzzle game by Soviet engineer Alexey Pajitnov uses seven falling shapes of four squares each?
Tetris
Tetris has seven shapes because Pajitnov scaled the idea down from pentominoes, whose twelve five-square pieces he felt would make the game needlessly complicated.
Q 10Which week-long holiday created by Maulana Karenga has seven principles and a seven-branched candleholder?
Kwanzaa
Kwanzaa takes its name from a Swahili phrase meaning first fruits, and was first celebrated in 1966. Each of its seven days is given to one of the principles.
Q 11Which of the seven traditional continents is the smallest by land area and also the flattest?
Australia
Australia is the smallest, lowest and flattest of the seven, and the second-driest after Antarctica. Some lists call the same continent Oceania or Australasia.
Q 12In Harry Potter's sport of Quidditch, which of a team's seven players must catch the Golden Snitch?
The Seeker
The Seeker ends the match by making the catch, which is worth 150 points. The other six players are three Chasers, two Beaters and a Keeper.
Q 13Which Japanese director made the 1954 film Seven Samurai, later remade as the Western The Magnificent Seven?
Akira Kurosawa
Q 21Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the only one whose location has never been firmly established?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon have left no archaeological trace at the site. One Oxford scholar argues they were really the gardens of an Assyrian ruler's palace at Nineveh.
Q 22Which Greek sun god was portrayed by the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Helios
Helios was the patron god of the Rhodians, who paid for the giant figure by selling siege equipment a defeated enemy left behind. An earthquake brought it down after 54 years.
Q 23On which of the seven hills of Rome did Romulus found the city, according to Roman legend?
The Palatine
Akira Kurosawa's film first opened in New York under the title The Magnificent Seven. It took back its original name once the 1960 remake arrived.
Q 14Which member of NASA's Mercury Seven became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962?
John Glenn
John Glenn went back to space in 1998 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. At 77, he became the oldest person to have flown in space at that time.
Q 15Which country was suspended from the G8 in 2014, turning the group back into the G7?
Russia
Russia had been brought into the club in 1997 and was suspended after its annexation of Crimea. The summit it was due to host in Sochi was cancelled.
Q 16Which of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates is the largest, covering 87% of the land?
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi also gives its name to the federal capital, a city chosen as only a temporary seat of government when the union formed in 1971.
Q 17Which rock-cut city in Jordan, nicknamed the Rose City, was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World?
Petra
Petra was the capital of the Nabataeans, a nomadic Arab people who grew rich on the incense trade. The nickname comes from the colour of the sandstone it is carved from.
Q 18Which English author created the Secret Seven, a society of child detectives, as well as the Famous Five?
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton based the Secret Seven on her publisher's own children. The first story appeared in 1948, after she had written to the real-life Peter.
Q 19Which Olympic athletics contest for women is made up of seven events held over two days?
Heptathlon
Heptathlon joins the Greek words for seven and competition. The women's contest first appeared at the Olympics in 1984, while a separate men's version is held indoors.
Q 20Which hero from Baghdad recounts seven fantastic voyages in the One Thousand and One Nights?
Sinbad
Sinbad was a late arrival in the collection. His tales are missing from the early Arabic manuscripts and seem to have begun as a separate cycle of stories.
The Palatine later became the site of the emperors' residences, beginning with Augustus. Its name is the origin of the word palace.
Q 24Which Argentine mountain, one of the Seven Summits, is the highest peak anywhere outside Asia?
Aconcagua
Aconcagua can be climbed by its normal route without ropes or specialised equipment. That makes it, by many accounts, the highest non-technical mountain in the world.
Q 25In Game of Thrones, which continent is home to the Seven Kingdoms and the Iron Throne that rules them?
Westeros
Westeros holds the Seven Kingdoms south of a vast wall of ice. Despite the name, those kingdoms are spread across nine regions, from the North to Dorne.
Q 26Which seven-member South Korean group was the first all-Korean act to top the US Billboard Hot 100?
BTS
BTS got there in 2020 with the single Dynamite, which also earned a Grammy nomination. The seven members co-write or co-produce much of their own material.
Q 27Which court sport, born from a misreading of basketball's early rules, is played by teams of seven?
Netball
Netball began when New Orleans sports teacher Clara Baer misinterpreted the rules James Naismith had sent her. Each player's bib carries letters that show their position.
Q 28The seven bright stars of the Big Dipper, known in Britain as the Plough, belong to which constellation?
Ursa Major
Ursa Major means the Greater Bear. The Romans knew its seven brightest stars as the Seven Oxen, and other cultures have seen a wagon or a ladle.
Q 29Which of the seven SI base units, the unit of temperature, is named after a 19th-century British scientist?
Kelvin
The kelvin honours Lord Kelvin, who proposed a scale starting from absolute zero in 1848. He calculated that point to lie at about −273 °C.
Q 30The Group of Seven were landscape painters who launched the first national art movement of which country?
Canada
Canada's Group of Seven believed a distinct national art could grow from direct contact with nature. Tom Thomson, a strong influence on them, died before the group formed.