200 GENERAL CULTURE QUESTIONS with Answers

Do you remember the Trivial? It is one of the favorite table games among adults. And it is a competition between two teams that have to test your knowledge of general culture and that concern topics as diverse as history, geography, arts, sports, science, and so on.

But it is not necessary that you have this game physically to be able to organize this fun game at home. You only need to organize two teams and take these into account basic rules:

• Create two teams with the same number of people (team A and B)
• To find out who starts you can roll a dice or play “Rock, paper and scissors”
• A player from team A will throw a question at all the players from team B. They will have 1 minute to answer the question. With the change of shift, the role of the teams will be changed.
• With each success, points are added and with each mistake, they are subtracted!
• You will have to ask 15 questions, 5 of each subject and they have to be asked by chance, that is, you cannot select the question you will ask but the one that touches you.

Trivia games are a hilarious challenge for any group of friends, especially if they have a great competitive spirit. At oneHOWTO we have more games for you to have a great time:

There are many topics that can be included in this general culture quiz game with answers. However, the general thing is that you include topics that everyone, more or less, masters: history, geography, culture and sport. If you want, you can also add some science or nature although they can be more complicated to answer for the general public.

On the subject of history, we leave you here some good ideas of questions you can ask. The vast majority are easy to answer and who else and who less knows the answer or can easily remember it. However, remember that ALL the players on the team can answer but, yes, they have to agree on what the final answer is to see if points are added or subtracted.

The history and geography questions and answers are as follows:

1. What country is Hawaii part of? (From the United States)
2. How many states does the United States have integrated? (50 states)
3. What year is the Spanish Constitution? (From 1978)
4. What is the longest river in Spain? (The Ebro river)
5. What is the largest ocean in the world? (The Pacific Ocean)
6. What is the capital of Laos called? (Vientiane)
7. On what date did the first Spanish Republic begin? (February 11, 1873)
8. Where was the first atomic bomb used in an armed conflict? (In Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II)
9. When did World War II end? (In 1945)
10. How did Hitler die? (He committed suicide in his bunker)
11. Where are the ruins of Angkor located? (In Siem Reap, Cambodia)
12. When did the first man get to the moon? (In the year 1969)
13. Who Invented the Airplane? (The Wright brothers)
14. What language is spoken in Switzerland? (French, Italian, German and Romansh)
15. In what year was the discovery of America? (In 1492)
16. In what year did the Arab invasion begin in Spain? (In the year 711)
17. What is the country with the largest population in the world? (China, has more than 1,350,000,000 inhabitants)
18. What is the most spoken language in the world? (Mandarin Chinese)
19. Where is the Gobi desert located? (In Asia)
20. In what year was the United Nations (UN) created? (In the year 1945)
21. Which powers faced each other in the Punic Wars? (Rome and Carthage)
22. What is the largest island in the world? (Greenland)
23. What war did Joan of Arc participate in? (The 100 years war)
24. What was the capital of the Inca empire? (Cuzco)
25. In what year was John F. Kennedy assassinated? (1963)
26. The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain from which country? (Morocco)
27. How did Louis XVI of France die? (Beheaded)
28. In which countries is Everest found? (China and Nepal)
29. Who was Cleopatra’s last husband? (Marco Antonio)
30. What were the main countries of the Axis Alliance during World War II? (Germany, Japan, Italy)
31. What was the name of the sun god in Ancient Egypt? (Ra)
32. What is the ancient city of Stalingrad currently called? (Volgograd)
33. In what year was the World Wide Web created? (1991)
34. How did Julius Caesar die? (Killed by members of the Senate)
35. Who was the first president of the United States? (George Washington)
36. What is the name of the famous battle in which Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated? (The Battle of Waterloo)
37. How was the library of Alexandria destroyed? (It was looted)
38. Who wrote “The Republic”? (Plato)
39. In what year was the Soviet Union dissolved? (In 1991)
40. Who was the father of the atomic bomb? (Robert Oppenheimer)
41. How many years did the 100 years war last? (116 years)
42. What was the second American country to become independent? (Haiti)
43. What conflict ended after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles? (World War I)
44. Who won the Vietnam War? (North Vietnam)
45. In what year did the Rwandan Genocide occur? (1994)
46. What is the capital of the Philippines? (Manila)
47. In what ocean is the island of Guam? (Pacific Ocean)
48. What Soviet president established Perestroika? (Mikhail Gorbachev)
49. What is the highest mountain in Europe and where is it located? (Mount Elbrús, Russia)
50. What was the first country to approve women’s suffrage? (New Zealand)

In this game, the ideal is to intersperse questions on each topic so that everyone can take advantage of their knowledge and answer the topics they master best. In any gathering of friends there is always someone more knowledgeable in artistic matters that concern both the literature, music, cinema, and so on.

Here we leave you a good selection of general culture questions with answers that are set in the artistic world. They are not difficult to answer but some of them are specially designed for the most “freaked” people in this universe. Here they go!

1. What was the first Disney movie to appear? (Snow White, which was released in 1937)
2. Who wrote “One Hundred Years of Solitude”? (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
3. Who is the author of “The Odyssey”? (Homer)
4. What group is the song “Let It Be” from? (The Beatles)
5. Who sang the song “Candle In The Wind” to Princess Diana? (British singer-songwriter Elton John)
6. By which painter is the work “The Scream”? (From Edvard Munch)
7. Whose philosopher is the idea of ​​the myth of the cave? (From Plato)
8. Who is the author of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”? (William Shakespeare)
9. Where was the writer Julio Cortázar born? (In Argentina)
10. What is the most famous literary work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? (The little Prince)
11. What is the original language of Spanish? (The Latin)
12. Five years how old are they? (It’s 5 years)
13. Who is the director of the movie Big Fish? (Tim Burton)
14. Who is the composer of the soundtrack of the movie Amélie? (Yann tiersen)
15. To which singer does the song “Volando voy” belong? (Island Shrimp)
16. Who is considered the King of Rock? (Elvis Presley)
17. What is the origin of rock music? (The blues)
18. In what year was the Woodstock festival held? (1969)
19. Who directed the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”? (Stanley Kubrick)
20. What is the most famous work of the writer Albert Camus? (Abroad)
21. Who is the author of the celebrated Mafalda comic strip? (Cinchona)
22. For which movie did actress Angelina Jolie win the Oscar? (Interrupted innocence)
23. What genre did the famous television series Bonanza belong to? (Cowboys)
24. Who wrote the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy? (JRR Tolkien)
25. What style does Francisco de Goya’s work “El aquelarre” belong to? (Romanticism)
26. How did Vincent Van Gogh die? (Suicide)
27. Who played Chandler on the hit series “Friends”? (Matthew Perry)
28. What is the name of the director of the animated movie “Princess Mononoke”? (Hayao Miyazaki)
29. What was director Orson Welles’s debut feature? (Citizen Kane)
30. What year was Harry Potter born? (1980)
31. How tall is Michelangelo’s David? (More than 5 meters high)
32. In which museum is Picasso’s Guernica found? (Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid)
33. Who wrote “The Metamorphosis”? (Franz Kafka)
34. What is the name of the protagonist of “Crime and Punishment”? (Rodia)
35. What is the name of the literary trend to which Gabriel García Márquez belonged? (Magical realism)
36. In what year was the final episode of the series “The Office” released? (2013)
37. What is the name of the most famous literary work of Charles Dickens? (Oliver …