Trivia of the Day Questions and Answers

1) Granite may metamorphose into
Answer: Gneiss.

2) Which type of glass is used for making glass reinforced plastic?
Answer: Quartz glass.

3) What is the chemical symbol of gold?
Answer: Au.

4) What do you call a grouping of crocodiles?
Answer: A float of crocodiles.

5) Due to bite of mad dog the disease hydrophobia is caused by which virus?
Answer: Rabies virus.

6) What is Dick Grayson better known as?
Answer: Robin (Batman and Robin).

7) Where is The Trossachs?
Answer: Scotland.

8) Which rocks is transformed into marble?
Answer: Limestone.

9) What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
Answer: Mercury.

10) Which period of music, dating approximately from 1800 – 1910, is exemplified by composers such as Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Wagner, and saw symphonic boundaries extended and even obliterated?
Answer: The Romantic Period.

11) By which number the quality of gasoline’ sample is determined?
Answer: By its octane number.

12) What was given on the fourth day of Christmas?
Answer: Calling birds.

13) Which former Reuters’ employee went on to create one of the world’s most famous secret agents?
Answer: Ian Fleming.

14) Who said “I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had”?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi.

15) The Atoms are most stable when their outer shells are full. True or False?
Answer: True.

16) Who was the youngest Nobel Prize winner?
Answer: Sir William Lawrence Bragg.

17) A temperature at which both the Fahrenheit and the centigrade scales have the same value?
Answer: -40°

18) What was Skippy ( on TV )?
Answer: The bush kangaroo.

19) What goes after ‘People’s’, ‘Atlantic’ and ‘Citizen’s’ for three documents drawn up in 1837, 1941 and 1991 respectively?
Answer: Charter.

20) Where is the Sargasso sea located?
Answer: North Atlantic Ocean.

21) In which town was Jesus born?
Answer: Bethlehem.

22) Holguin, Camaguey, and Matanzas are provinces of which country?
Answer: Cuba.

23) With which country is “Orange’ Revolution” associated?
Answer: Ukraine.

24) What does a funambulist do?
Answer: Tightrope walker.

25) What is the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
Answer: 93 million miles.

Trivia of the Day Questions and Answers Par 2

26) Which country has the briefest Constitution in the world?
Answer: USA.

27) What does Hydrometer measure?
Answer: Specific gravity (or relative density) of liquids.

28) In which European country is it illegal to slam a car door?
Answer: Switzerland.

29) Which is the country with the highest density of population in Europe?
Answer: Netherlands.

30) What is the name of Dennis the Menace’s dog?
Answer: Gnasher.

31) Faraday is the charge on one mole of _____
Answer: Electrons.

32) Who was the first person to cross the Alps with army?
Answer: Hannibal.

33) What sport is played at Wimbledon?
Answer: Tennis.

34) Which country is home to the highest percentage of ethnic Russians?
Answer: Kazakhstan.

35) What is the mean of Invisible Export?
Answer: Export Services.

36) What are bactrians and dromedaries?
Answer: Camels (one hump or two).

37) Who was the only president to serve as the director of the CIA?
Answer: George Herbert Walker Bush.

38) What percentage of water is lost during transpiration?
Answer: 99%.

39) Filtration separates mixtures based upon their particle size. True or False?
Answer: True.

40) In 14 A.D., Augustus Caesar died. Who succeeded him?
Answer: Tiberius.

41) Which foreign country is closest to Andarnan Islands?
Answer: Myanmar.

42) Who played The Fugitive?
Answer: David Jason.

43) Thermal decomposition of alkanes is known as which name?
Answer: Cracking.

44) Where did Olympic Games originate?
Answer: Greece.

45) What do you call a grouping of crows?
Answer: A murder of crows.

46) The unidirectional property of a pn-junction is useful for its use as which thing?
Answer: Rectifier.

47) Who sailed in the Nina – Pinta and Santa Maria?
Answer: Christopher Columbus.

48) The island of Vis is just off the coast of which country?
Answer: Croatia.

49) How much of earth surface is covered by the forests?
Answer: 30 percent.

50) Atomic bombs work by atomic fission. True or False?
Answer: True.

Trivia of the Day Questions and Answers Par 3

51) Which period of music made use of musical textures, colors and imagery to evoke phenomenons of nature, and though lasting only fifty years (from about 1875 – 1925) still has great influence today?
Answer: The Impressionist Period.

52) What are female elephants called?
Answer: Cows.

53) Which energy of the electron at absolute zero is called?
Answer: Fermi energy.

54) Which leader died in St Helena?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte.

55) Who was the long-range World War I German cannon Big Bertha named for?
Answer: Bertha Krupp.

56) What is the characteristic odour of garlic?
Answer: A sulphur compound.

57) What is the name of an adult female horse?
Answer: Mare.

58)Who was known as the “Sultan of Swat”?
Answer: “Babe” Ruth.

59) What can be the maximum duration of totality for a solar eclipse?
Answer: 7 minutes 40 seconds.

60) Who wrote Gone with the Wind?
Answer: Margaret Mitchell.

61) What Nobel Prize laureate in Physics linked the tragic 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger to frozen O-rings?
Answer: Richard P. Feynman.

62) Which is the vitamin that is most readily manufactured in our bodies?
Answer: Vitamin D.

63) What does Anemometer measure?
Answer: Speed of wind.

64) What is the unit used for measuring the fineness of yarn, especially in stockings and tights?
Answer: Denier.

65) The celebrated novel ‘The Godfather’ was authored by which author?
Answer: Mario Puzo.

66) What does ring a ring a roses refer to?
Answer: The Black Death.

67) Which Polish city lies on the coast?
Answer: Gdansk.

68) What is the total surface area of earth?
Answer: 510 million sq km.

69) How many bases are there on a baseball field?
Answer: 4.

70) When the solar wind collides with the earth’s magnetic field, we observe this:
Answer: Aurora Borealis.

71) What is an essential attribute of inflation?
Answer: Increase in prices.

72) Whose nose grew when he told a lie?
Answer: Pinocchio.

73) What is the length of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun?
Answer: 584 million miles.

74) In human body, which are the leg bones?
Answer: Humerus and Femur.

75) What is the most recognizable physical feature of the male lion?
Answer: Its mane.

Trivia of the Day Questions and Answers Par 4

76) In which European country is Martin the most common surname?
Answer: France.

77) Which book is entitled as ‘Bible of Communism’ ?
Answer: Das Kapital.

78) Who has won the most Oscars?
Answer: Walt Disney.

79) Electrons move into a higher-energy orbital when it is in the …
Answer: Excited state.

80) Which is the essential element in all organic compounds?
Answer: Carbon.

81) What was the popular name of Edson Arantes do Nascimento?
Answer: Pele.

82) Duluth, Minnesota is adjacent to which Great Lake?
Answer: Superior.

83) What are the ‘Temperate lows’?
Answer: Sub-polar low pressure belts.

84) What would a Scotsman do with a spurtle?
Answer: Eat porridge (it’s a spoon).

85)Which Boer statesman became president of the Transvaal in 1883?
Answer: Paul Kruger.

86) In metabolism, how enzymes act?
Answer: As catalyst.

87) Identify the sport: Two teams of 6 players each try to ground a ball into the opposing zone, over a net, by hitting it with their hands?
Answer: Volley Ball.

88) Who was the only president to serve in the House of Representatives after his presidency?
Answer: John Quincy Adams.

89) If it is 4 P.M. on Monday at 150°W, what will be the time at 150°E ?
Answer: 12 Noon on Tuesday.

90) Which award has the words for valour on it?
Answer: Victoria Cross.

91) What did the Chinese refine the making of in 105 A.D.? (used for writing)
Answer: Paper.

92) By which plants is the maximum fixation of solar energy done?
Answer: Green plants.

93) Carl and the Passions changed band name to what
Answer: Beach Boys.

94) In what year was the United States Secret Service founded?
Answer: 1865.

95) You should be most concerned about a dog attacking when it is:
Answer: Silently aggressive.

96) Who was the first U.S. president to make an official visit outside the country while in office?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt.

97) Who did colonial poet Barron Field refer to as “our Columbus of the South”?
Answer: Captain James Cook.

98) Which is not a fruit?
Answer: Rhubarb.

99) In architectural speak, what is the front of a building called?
Answer: Facade (or face).