100 free Trivia Questions and Answers trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This is our flagship set of trivia questions and answers: 100 multiple-choice miscellaneous trivia questions spread across history, geography, science, sport, film and TV, music, food and drink, animals, literature, pop culture and technology. They start with easy warm-ups everyone at the table can get, move through solid pub-quiz territory, and finish with a run of questions that will separate the trivia nerds from the casual players. Every question has one right answer, three plausible wrong ones and a short explanation that adds something you did not know. Nothing is filler: each fact was checked against an encyclopaedia or primary source before it went in, and every question shows its source. Use the set as a solo quiz, screen it for a family game night, lift ten trivia questions for your bar round, or keep it open as dinner trivia questions between courses. If you finish all 100, the daily challenge is new every day.
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Q 01Which continent is, on average, the coldest, driest and windiest on Earth?
Antarctica
It is technically a polar desert: some inland spots get only 1 to 3 cm of precipitation a year.
Q 02What is the chemical formula of ordinary table salt?
NaCl
Around 250 million tonnes of it are produced each year, most for the chemical industry and de-icing roads rather than for the table.
Q 03How many squares are there on a standard chessboard?
64
The Libro de los juegos of 1283 already judged 8 by 8 ideal, calling 10 by 10 too tiresome and 6 by 6 too quick.
Q 04Which fashion doll did Ruth Handler introduce in March 1959?
Barbie
Handler got the idea from a German doll called Bild Lilli that she spotted on a trip to Switzerland in 1956.
Q 05Which land animal is the fastest, reaching around 93 to 104 km/h?
Cheetah
An often-quoted 114 km/h figure has been discredited because of a faulty measurement method.
Q 06What is the capital city of Australia?
Canberra
It was purpose-built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne, the country's two largest cities.
Q 07Who directed the 1975 shark thriller Jaws?
Steven Spielberg
Because the mechanical sharks kept breaking, the film mostly suggests the shark with John Williams's two-note theme instead of showing it.
Q 08Which Swedish group won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo"?
ABBA
In 2005 the song was voted the best in the contest's history at its 50th anniversary celebration.
Q 09What gas makes up about 78 percent of dry air by volume?
Nitrogen
Oxygen is a distant second at just under 21 percent, and argon third at less than one percent.
Q 10Which mineral is a crystalline form of the element carbon?
Diamond
Graphite is actually the stable form of carbon at room conditions; diamond only survives because it converts to graphite at a negligible rate.
Q 11Which sport awards the Stanley Cup?
Ice hockey
The trophy was commissioned in 1892 as the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup and first awarded to Canada's amateur champion in 1893.
Q 12What is the largest organ of the human body?
Skin
It accounts for roughly 16 percent of your total body mass.
Q 13In which fictional town do the Simpsons live?
Springfield
The show is the longest-running American animated series, sitcom and scripted primetime series all at once.
Q 14Which superhero first appeared in Action Comics #1 in April 1938?
Q 21Which strait runs through Istanbul and separates Europe from Asia?
Bosporus
The name was folk-etymologised in Ancient Greek as "cattle crossing".
Q 22What is the name of the coffee shop where the six friends hang out in Friends?
Central Perk
The sitcom was developed under the working title Insomnia Cafe before it aired on NBC from 1994 to 2004.
Q 23Which Beatles album, released in September 1969, was the last one the band recorded?
Abbey Road
Let It Be came out later but had been recorded earlier and was delayed by production problems.
Superman
Creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster met at Glenville High School in Cleveland in 1932.
Q 15Which mammals are the only ones capable of true, sustained flight?
Bats
They make up about 20 percent of all mammal species, with at least 1,500 species known.
Q 16Which nut-based confection is made mainly from sugar and ground almonds?
Marzipan
In Toledo, Spain, it is shaped into little animals and sometimes filled with sweetened egg yolk.
Q 17What is the smallest sovereign state in the world by both area and population?
Vatican City
It is the only country on Earth with fewer than 1,000 residents.
Q 18Which Tom Hanks film of 1994 was directed by Robert Zemeckis?
Forrest Gump
Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson and Sally Field filled out the lead cast.
Q 19How many keys does a standard modern piano have?
88
A few makers, notably Bösendorfer and Stuart & Sons, build pianos with extra keys beyond the standard set.
Q 20Which sparkling wine may only be produced in one designated wine region under strict AOC rules?
Champagne
Despite the legend, Dom Perignon did not invent sparkling wine, though he did improve how it was made.
Q 24Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature for 'new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'?
Bob Dylan
He had already received a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2008.
Q 25What did Alexander Fleming discover in 1928 in a mould called Penicillium?
Penicillin
He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain for the discovery.
Q 26Which mammal may be the longest-lived of all, with some individuals passing 200 years?
Bowhead whale
A newborn calf is already about 4 metres long and weighs roughly a tonne.
Q 27Which national team won the FIFA World Cup in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002?
Brazil
It is the only side to have played at every World Cup and to have won on four different continents.
Q 28Which detective created by Agatha Christie is a retired Belgian police officer?
Hercule Poirot
He appears in 33 novels, two plays and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
Q 29The Divine Comedy is divided into three parts. Inferno and Paradiso are two; what is the third?
Purgatorio
Dante travels through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven, guided first by the Roman poet Virgil.
Q 30Which country leads the world in cocoa bean production, supplying about 38 percent of the crop in 2024?
Ivory Coast
Cacao trees are actually native to the Amazon rainforest and were first domesticated in South America over 5,000 years ago.