Sitemap
You can find the questions, answers and explanations in QuizStone here. Click on a subpage or an question link, when you have found what you are looking for.
Categories
- Trivia Quiz
- Geography Quiz
- History Quiz
- Literature Quiz
- Movie Quiz
-
Music Quiz
00's Music 10's Music 20s Music 50's Music 60's Music 70's Music 80's Music 90's Music Alternative Rock Blues Brit Pop Classic Rock Classical Music Country Music Dance Music Dansband Disco Doo Wop Electronic Eurovision Folk Folk Rock Funk Grunge Hard Rock Heavy Metal Hip Hop Indie Pop Indie Rock Jazz Music Trivia New Age New Wave Old Music Pop Music Pop Rock Progg Punk Rock R&B Rap Reggae Rock and Roll Rock Music Rockabilly Soul Soundtrack Swing Synthpop Techno World Music
-
Sports Quiz
American Football American Major League Soccer Argentina Primera Liga Athletics Baseball Basketball Boxing Champions League Club Football Cycling Dutch Eredivisie English Premier League FA Cup Facts FIFA World Cup Footballers French Ligue 1 Game On Game Over Games German Bundesliga Golf Handball Ice Hockey Incidents Italian Serie A Leisure Liga Do Brasil Liga Portuguese Motorsport Names National Football Leagues National Team Soccer Numbers Other sport Poker Russian Premier League Sailing Scandals Scottish Premier League Skiing Spanish La Liga Teams Tennis UEFA European Championship Victories Volleyball Water Sport Winter Sports Years
- Nature and Biology Quiz
- Technology Quiz
- Information Technology Quiz
- Natural Science Quiz
- Words and Languages Quiz
- Art and Culture Quiz
- Gastronomy Quiz
- Society Quiz
- Politics Quiz
- Business Quiz
- Architecture Quiz
- Design and Fashion Quiz
- The Human Quiz
- Religion, Culture and Tradition Quiz
- TV and Radio Quiz
- Gossip Quiz
- Travel and Holidays Quiz
Themes
- The Denmark Quiz
- Football Quiz
- World Cup Football
- Tour de France Quiz
- Globetrotter Quiz
- The Royal Quiz
- Fictitious Characters Quiz
- World History Quiz
- Sweden Quiz
- Christmas Quiz
- Eurovision Song Contest Quiz
- Fun Facts Quiz
- Flora and Fauna Quiz
- Greatest Hits
- Kids Trivia
- Justin Bieber Quiz
- 80s Tunes
- 90's Tunes
- Celebrity Faces
- Spot the Tune
- One Direction Quiz
- Michael Jackson Quiz
- Lord of the Rings Quiz
- Danish Music
- Champions League
- James Bond Quiz
- Halloween
- Daredevil Quiz
- Historical Freedom Fighters
- Year 2013
- Tank Recognition
- Aircraft Recognition
Questions
- Several individuals in Ronald Reagan's administration were implicated in giving money obtained through selling arms to Iran to the revolutionary Contras in which country?
- Since 1972, the caucuses in which US state have been the first major electoral event of the nominating process for President of the United States?
- The "Luftwaffe" was the name given to the air force of which country during World War II?
- The ancient city of Babylon was located in which of these current countries?
- The Ancient Greeks and Romans used a word to describe Arabs and in the Middle Ages, the same word was used by Europeans during the crusades to describe Muslims. What word?
- The appointed length of a secretary general with the United Nations is how many years?
- The sea astrolabe is an ancient invention that was used for what purpose?
- The Australian Flag also contains the flag of which other country?
- The Battle of El Alamein was a hugely important battle in the Second World War and took place in which of these African countries?
- The Bay of Pigs invasion was an unsuccessful attempt to invade which country just three months into John F. Kennedy's presidency?
- The Bosnia-Herzegovina Peace Accord was signed in 1995 in which of these European cities?
- Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh's grandfather is King George I of which of these countries?
- The English monk Nicholas Breakspear was appointed to what position in 1154?
- The famous philosopher Aristotle founded and taught in which Athnian gymnasium and garden?
- The first local anaesthetic synthesised in 1905 was procaine but what is its trade name?
- The former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped and killed in 1978 by what terrorist group?
- The Hindenburg Disaster took place during whose presidency?
- The inventor of the electric vacum cleaner was Hubert Booth but which country was he from?
- Electrical engineer George de Mestral, the inventor of Velcro is from what country?
- Until the election of Donald Trump, the oldest President ever elected was Ronald Reagan. At what age did the 40th President take office?
- The oldest President ever elected was Donald Trump. At what age did the 45th President take office?
- "The Painted Desert" (1931) was the first movie to feature a talking version of which cinema icon?
- The phonograph and the electric light bulb were both invented by which of these inventors?
- The Secure Fence Act of 2006 authorized 700 miles of fence along what US border ?
- The spinning jenny was invented by which of these people?
- The United Kingdom is made up of which nations?
- The Whiskey Ring involved diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy and was a scandal, exposed in 1875 during whose presidency?
- The year 1992 featured the first debate involving both major-party candidates and a third-party candidate, a billionaire named who?
- Theodore Roosevelt was known as the Great what?
- Thought to have been invented by Archimedes, what is the name of one of the earliest pumps invented?
- To become president of the United States of America you must be at least how many years old?
- To become president of the USA you must have been resident for at least how many years?
- To what British politician was Princess Diana directly related?
- Under the presidency of Jimmy Carter American Airline flight 191 crashed after take off from which airport, killing all 271 on board?
- What 1854 invention was credited with making skyscrapers viable?
- What African state fought a thirty-year war for independence from Ethiopia?
- What Apple debut was announced by the now famous $1.5 million television commercial "1984" directed by Ridley Scott?
- What color dresses do Chinese women traditionally wear on their wedding day as the color is believed to symbolise happiness?
- What company did Steve Jobs work for before founding Apple?
- What company produces the most microprocessors for Windows computers?
- What country did King Hussein rule from August 1952 until his death in 1999?
- What country does Alaska border?
- What country lost the most people in WWII?
- What did the United States develop with the "Manhattan Project"?
- What does "DOS" stand for in computer jargon?
- What does the computer term RAM stand for?
- What element's symbol is W?
- What famous physicist contracted Lou Gehrig's disease?
- What is the name for March 6, 2012, the day on which the largest simultaneous number of state presidential primary elections was held in the US?
- What is a spin called in ballet?
- What is any helicopter that the president flies on called?
- What is the biggest island in the world?
- What is the capital city of Pakistan?
- What is the capital of Hawaii?
- What is the capital of Indiana
- What is the capital of New York?
- What is the capital of Texas?
- What is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta?
- What is the chemical symbol for helium?
- What is the chemical symbol for lead?
- What is the chemical symbol for Lithium?
- What is the deepest lake in North America?
- What is the formula for ammonium?
- What is the general formula for finding the area of a triangle?
- What is the green pigment found in photosynthetic organisms?
- What is the highest Non Commissioned rank in the British Army?
- What is the largest city in North Carolina?
- What is the name of a proposed system to reorganize the state presidential primary elections amongst the 50 states and the several territories of the USA into four groups based on size?
- What is the name of Austria's capital city?
- What is the name of the founding patriarch of Saudi Arabia, who was born in 1875 in Riyadh?
- What is the period from 1799 to 1814 in France called?
- What is the real name of Yugoslavia President Tito?
- What is the scientific notation for lead?
- What is the scientific symbol for mercury?
- What is the term for a baby duck billed platypus?
- What natural resource, considered the world’s fifth-largest reserve is drilled for in Iraq?
- What new tech device was released in April 2010?
- What deceased philosopher/scientist was confined to a wheelchair and unable to speak with his own voice?
- What political party would win control of Congress in 2006?
- What power did Babylonians believe their priests possessed?
- What rank in the Household Cavalry is the equivalent of a Corporal?
- What theme song for Sarah Palin was first played at the Republican Convention?
- What was a Spanish representative of the monarch called?
- What was Alexander Graham Bell trying to do when he invented the telephone?
- What was Apple's first foray into the PDA markets?
- What was put in a window during the Victorian era to symbolize warmth?
- What was the given name of Pope John Paul II?
- What was the head of state in Iran called before the revolution of 1979?
- What was the name of the electric rotor cipher machine that the Germans used during WWII?
- What was the name of the rebellion which attempted to overthrow Emperor Justinian?
- What was the name of the space station launched under Richard Nixon's presidency in 1973?
- What was the name of the woman known as "The Black Dahlia"?
- What was the Opium War between China and Britain fought over?
- What was the original purpose of the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
- What water animal has whiskers?
- What were the series of wars by European Christians to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims called?
- What year was the first general-purpose computer made?
- What's the nationality of Erno Rubik, inventor of Rubik's Cube?
- When did Adolf Hitler combine the offices of President and chancellor, assuming the title of "Führer"?
- When was the first pair of survived octuplets born?
- Where in New York City is the General Grant National Memorial located?
- Where is John F. Kennedy buried?
- Where is the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame located?
- Where is the Mall of America located?
- Where was George W. Bush when he was informed about the September 11th attacks?
- Where was George Washington inaugurated?
- Where was Hitler when he wrote "Mein Kampf"?
- Which 2000 TV Movie was a dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton?
- Which ancient Greek is considered to have invented tragedy?
- Which Ancient Mexican civilization developed a symbol for "zero"?
- Which animated comedy debuted in 1987 under George H. W. Bush's presidency?
- Which country did the U.N. agree to sanction over its first nuclear test in 2006?
- Which first lady had a center for substance abuse and addiction named after her?
- Which first lady got known for loving state visits, extravagant parties, and shopping sprees using state money leading to among others her immense shoe collection?
- Which First Lady's book published in 1989 was entitled "My Turn" and gave her own account of her life in the White House?
- Which First Lady's opening line to her future husband was apparently "If you're going to keep staring at me, I might as well introduce myself"?
- Which First Lady of the United States has run for the presidency?
- Which former Arkansas state employee sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment?
- Which French king built the palace at Versailles?
- Which German heavy fighter and ground-attack WWII aircraft was considered a failure due to poor flight characteristics and design flaws?
- Which monarch in English history had served the longest by the time prior to Queen Elizabeth II?
- Which monarch in English history has served the longest time?
- Which nation was not an original member of NATO in 1949?
- Which nordic nation is not a member of NATO?
- Which of the following individuals is not associated with the development of home computers?
- Which of the following is NOT a computer programming language?
- Which of the following was not a Greek writer of plays?
- Which of these sets of two scientists worked on the Manhattan Project?
- Which of these US authors is often credited with inventing the modern day crime novel?
- Which Presidents chose not to seek re-election?
- Which president claimed "We did not—repeat—did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages. Nor will we"?
- Which president was known as a collecter of Spiderman and Conan the Barbarian comic books?
- Which president excelled as a saxophone player and once considered becoming a professional musician?
- Which president said "Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease" in relation to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
- Which president sent in American troops when Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, then threatened to move into Saudi Arabia?
- Which President of the United States was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth?
- Which President of the United States was known as the "Father of the Constitution"?
- Which President of the United States was nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready"?
- At the age of 42, who was the youngest person to become President of the United States?
- Which presidential monument was sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln?
- Which president's Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country"?
- Which president's national memorial is located on an island in the Potomac River?
- Which president's nickname as a child was Bubba?
- Which Roman emperor is on differing accounts blamed for setting Rome on fire?
- Which song includes the line "JFK blown away, what else do I have to say"?
- Which species of shark are believed to be responsible for the 1916 Jersey Shore attacks that inspired the movie Jaws?
- In which town was the naturalist Charles Darwin born and raised?
- Which two of the primary colours red, yellow, and blue make the colour green?
- Which US businessman who ran for presidency twice founded Electronic Data Systems?
- Which later US President survived four plane crashes as a navy pilot during World War II?
- Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
- Who assassinated Archduke Ferdinand and his wife on June 28, 1914, to precipitate World War I?
- Who assassinated the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Laurent Kabila, in 2001?
- Who did George H. W. Bush successfully defeat in 1988 to succeed Ronald Reagan as president?
- Who did Monica Lewinski confide in about her affair with Bill Clinton?
- Who did the Emancipation Edict, issued by Czar Alexander II, free?
- Who discovered the X-Ray?
- Who has been the only Roman Catholic president to date?
- Who interrupted Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech of the award for best female video on the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards?
- Who cointed the term, invented, and with more or less success sold the torpedo?
- Who invented both the alcohol and mercury-in-glass thermometers?
- Who began his work on differential calculus in 1666, beaten by Leibniz publishing his first paper in 1684, resulting in both men claiming that the other plagiarized their respective works?
- Who invented the first fully synthetic plastic, bakelite?
- Who is known for developing an all-electronic television and later invented a small nuclear fusion device?
- Who invented the flat disc record also called a "gramophone record"?
- Who patented the first aerosol spray can in Oslo in 1927 and then in 1931 in USA?
- Who is the author of the Harry Potter books?
- Who is the Greek God of War?
- Who is the richest person in Mexico and was from 2010 to 2013 ranked as the richest person in the world?
- Who said "George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise"?
- Who swears in the new President during inauguration?
- Who was credited with inventing the Aqua-Lung together with Émile Gagnan ?
- Who was Emperor Justinian's wife, who helped improve the status of women?
- Who was president at the time of the first moon landing?
- Who was president when the Korean War started and initially described the war as a "police action"?
- Who was president when the Vietnam war ended with the collapse of South Vietnam nine months into his presidency?
- Who was sentenced to 150 years in prison for 11 federal fraud crimes?
- Who was sworn in for a second term as minister of Pakistan in 1993 after having a break from the seat?
- Who was the first vice-president of the United States?
- Who was the god of the Hebrews in the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah?
- Who was the intended target of the 2007 Taliban bombing of Bagram airfield?
- Who was the most famous of John F. Kennedy's affairs?
- Who was the only man to serve as both President of the United States and Vice President who was NEVER elected to either position?
- Who wrote a weekly newspaper column entitled "Talking It Over," which focused on her experiences as First Lady and her observations of women, children, and families she has met around the world?
- Why does time dilation occur when accelerating near massive astronomical bodies at relativistic speeds?
- The famous birds nest soup, containing the saliva of a swiftlet, is a dish native to which country?
- All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others is a famous line by which author?
- To be or not to be, that is the question is a line from which Shakespeare play?
- "Zip me up before you go go" was a 1998 famous newspaper headline referring to the lewd behaviour of which pop star?
- As of May 2016, 5 countries are permanent members of the UN Security Council. Russia, USA, France, the UK and which other nation?
- Black Pudding is made from the blood of which animal?
- Bollywood is the national film industry of which country?
- Branches of which tree appear on the UN flag?
- Brent, Barnacle and Canadian are all types of which bird?
- Brussels is the capital of which major European Nation?
- Chris Martin is the lead singer with which band?
- Christiania is the former name of which European Capital City?
- Complete the title of a famous opera by Franz Lehar "The Merry ____"?
- Eyes Wide Shut was the last film to made by which director?
- For which sport is Billie Jean King famous?