Random Trivia Questions

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The fastest runners in the world, people who can run 100 yards in about 10 seconds, are moving at how many miles per hour?

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What does the acronym VPN stand for?

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Britain's highest military award, given for conspicuous valor, is named after a queen. What is it?

8

This island was controlled by many different countries from the 8th century B.C. until 1860 A.D., when Giuseppe Garibaldi conquered it and made it an official part of its current country. Which island?

13

What is the term for a government ruled by a small group of powerful people?

7

Which day of the week is named for the Scandinavian god of wisdom, poetry, farming, and war?

5

The Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack in December 2025 was carried out by what relation?

5

What percentage of the observable universe's ordinary matter is hydrogen?

14

Believe it or not, Michael Jackson's first #1 solo record was the title song from a 1972 film about a trained rat. What was the title?

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Which 2025 slasher horror film, a remake/expansion of a 2023 short, features a notorious scarecrow-masked killer named Benny who escapes an asylum on Halloween night to terrorize 1980s Seattle?

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The 1975 film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won the four major Oscars: Actor, Actress, Director and Film. Can you name the Oscar-winning actor, actress, and director?

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In 1963 a British sex scandal almost brought down Harold MacMillan's government when the Secretary of War resigned after a relationship with an expensive call girl who may have passed on British secrets to a Russian secret agent. Name these two people.

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In 1781, eight years before Washington was elected President, which man was elected 1st "President of the United States in Congress assembled."

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Which game is played on a marked board divided into two halves, each side containing 12 alternately colored points?

5

Set in Baltimore, this critically acclaimed HBO crime drama explores the drug trade through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement officers, with each season focusing on a different city institution like the port system, city government, or the school system.