General Knowledge Night
A crowd-pleasing mix of numbers, animals, famous firsts, wordplay, and calendar trivia.
- 5 categories
- Final round
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Preview · 25 questions
Category 1By the Numbers
- 100 pts Typed answer
How many sides does a hexagon have?
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- 200 pts Typed answer
How many keys are on a standard modern piano?
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- 300 pts Typed answer
How many squares are on a standard chessboard?
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- 400 pts Multiple choice
How many bones are in a typical adult human skeleton?
- A.156
- B.186
- C.206
- D.256
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- 500 pts Typed answer
A sesquicentennial celebrates an anniversary of how many years?
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Category 2Animal Instincts
- 100 pts Typed answer
What ocean giant is the largest animal known to have ever lived?
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- 200 pts Multiple choice
What is the name for a group of lions?
- A.Herd
- B.Pack
- C.Flock
- D.Pride
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- 300 pts Multiple choice
How many hearts does an octopus have?
- A.2
- B.3
- C.4
- D.8
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- 400 pts Typed answer
What is the only group of mammals capable of true, sustained flight?
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- 500 pts Typed answer
What small, flightless New Zealand bird lays an egg that is enormous compared with its own body?
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Category 3Famous Firsts
- 100 pts Typed answer
Who was the first person to walk on the Moon, in July 1969?
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- 200 pts Multiple choice
In which country were the first modern Olympic Games held in 1896?
- A.France
- B.England
- C.Italy
- D.Greece
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- 300 pts Typed answer
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, sharing the physics prize in 1903?
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- 400 pts Typed answer
Which pair of Ohio brothers made the first controlled, powered airplane flights near Kitty Hawk in 1903?
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- 500 pts Typed answer
In 1932, which American aviator became the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean?
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Category 4Word Play
- 100 pts Multiple choice
Which of these words is a palindrome, reading the same forward and backward?
- A.Rotor
- B.Motor
- C.Robot
- D.Rover
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- 200 pts Typed answer
What is the term for a word made by rearranging all the letters of another, as with listen and silent?
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- 300 pts Typed answer
In American English, what is the name of the punctuation mark that the British call a full stop?
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- 400 pts Typed answer
What is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any U.S. state?
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- 500 pts Typed answer
What is the term for a word that imitates the sound it describes, such as buzz or sizzle?
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Category 5Time Will Tell
- 100 pts Typed answer
How many days are in a leap year?
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- 200 pts Multiple choice
Which month of the year was named in honor of Julius Caesar?
- A.March
- B.July
- C.August
- D.June
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- 300 pts Typed answer
What word names a span of 1,000 years?
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- 400 pts Multiple choice
True or false: under the Gregorian calendar, the year 2000 was a leap year.
- A.True
- B.False
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- 500 pts Typed answer
The Gregorian calendar, used by most of the world today, was introduced in what year?
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Final round · U.S. States
Say the names of all 50 U.S. states out loud and only one of them has a single syllable. Which state is it?
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