General Knowledge Quiz: 50 Questions and Answers
Think you're smart? This quiz puts that to the test with 50 genuinely challenging trivia questions across eight different subjects. The questions are harder than standard pub quiz fare: you need to know the exact freezing point of water in Fahrenheit, which scientist proposed continental drift, the name of Moby-Dick's narrator, who taught Aristotle, how many semitones are in an octave and what the University of Bologna has to do with anything. If you score 35 or above, you are doing exceptionally well.
Each question has four options and the correct answer is revealed as soon as you select yours. Your score and percentage appear at the end.
FAQ
How many questions are there?
50 multiple choice questions across science, history, geography, literature, mathematics, art and nature.
How hard is the quiz?
Genuinely hard. These are not standard pub quiz questions. Scoring above 35/50 puts you in the top tier of general knowledge. A perfect score of 50 is extremely rare.
What subjects does the quiz cover?
Science (speed of light, tungsten, continental drift, the ear, perihelion, Richter scale, haemoglobin, Fahrenheit), history (Berlin Wall, Magna Carta, Thermopylae, Sputnik, women's suffrage, Treaty of Versailles, Ides of March), geography (Russia, Canada, Hormuz, Vatican City, Lake Baikal, Arctic Ocean), literature (Austen, Orwell, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare, Melville), mathematics (pi, Pythagoras, prime numbers, Fibonacci), art (Sistine Chapel, The Scream, semitones, Elgin Marbles, Dali, Uffizi), and nature and general knowledge (skin, sharks, bats, Earth's water, Saturn's moons, HTML, Mandela, University of Bologna, Italy's UNESCO sites).
Does the quiz shuffle the answer options?
Yes. The four options randomise on every play.