Trivia Puzzles

By William F. Bultas

See how many of the following 20 trivia questions you can answer correctly. Guess on those trivia puzzles you're not sure of. The answers & a ranking scale are linked at the end of the questions.

1. By what name is the famous 15th Century Italian painter Antonio Pisano also known?

Raphael Pisanello Donatello Antonano Pasan Lareo

2. What did the Knights of the Round Table quest for?

ring sword shield crown dragon grail

3. Who starred in the movie Twelve Monkeys?

Willis Ford Washington Smith Gibson Davis

4. In what year did the Titanic sink?

1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916

5. Who wrote A Clockwork Orange?

Steinbeck Burgess Donaldson Golden King Lewis

6. What is a parallelepiped?

bong conduit polyhedron bomb tool racket

7. What was L.L. Cool J's 1984 debut single?

I'm Bad, I Need Love, Flava in Ya Ear, Make It Hot, Hey Lover, I Need a Beat

8. The Declaration of Paris was issued in

1846 1856 1866 1876 1886 1896

9. Thus Spoke Zarathustra was written by

Thomas Camus Kant Bacon Nietzsche Zoroaster

10. Who was the first female vice-presidential nominee of a major U.S. party?

O'Connor Reno Moseley-Braun Rodham Ferraro Kirkpatrick

11. The State University of Utrecht was founded in which century?

15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th

12. Which volcano erupted in 1980?

Vesuvius, Mount Saint Helens, Krakatau, El Chichón, Crater Lake, Mount Hood

13. Which of the following families is the radish a member of?

Fagaceae Rutaceae Tamaricaceae Mustard Lycopodiaceae Aphidae

14. What is the first name of the individual the Pulitzer Prizes are named for?

Marcus Joseph Archibald Theodore Margaret Rutheford

15. Who conceived the social philosophy of objectivism?

Marx Pierce Garfield Rand Spencer Carlton

16. A Leyden Jar is an early form of

refrigerator capacitor urn lamp explosive grenade

17. Duke Ellington is best known as a

writer musician painter leader scientist sculptor

18. Chinese Boxing is better known as

Tae Kwon Do, Karate, Jujitsu, Kendo, Jeet Kune Do, Kung Fu

19. What was Mozart's first name?

Ludwig Walter George Isaac Wolfgang Amadeus

20. What fictional detective talked about the "little gray cells"?

Holmes Poirot Brown Spade Gideon Wimsey

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