General knowledge Quiz questions (2024 update)
On this page, you will find a selection of general knowledge Quiz questions. To test your general knowledge. Or for that quiz you’re going to make. Use them however you want ;).
This page was last updated on: January 2, 2024
General knowledge questions
Below you’ll find a selection of general knowledge questions. Click on the question to see the answer. Can’t get enough? Check out our brand new General Pub Quiz 2024 #2 with 9 rounds in the shop.
Question: Which planet in our solar system is closest to the sun?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which famous painting is also called La Jocombe?
Answer: The Mona Lisa
Question: What does the abbreviation cc stand for in emails?
Answer: Carbon Copy (or also called Copie Conforme)
Question: what is the Pythagorean theorem?
Answer: a2 + b2 = c2
Question: What are the first three letters of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Alpha, beta, gamma
Question: Which Chinese city is considered the origin of the Coronavirus?
Answer: Wuhan
Question: Which popular social media app has a ghost in its logo?
Answer: Snapchat
Question: Which Dutch city is also called the key city (Sleutelstad)?
Answer: Leiden
Question: What is the name of the process by which plants convert sunlight into food?
Answer: Photosynthesis
Question: This direct train between Amsterdam and London will not run for six months in 2024. What is the name of the train?
Answer: Eurostar
Question: What is Breda called during Carnival?
Answer: Kielegat
Question: Which Swiss scientist discovered the hallucinogenic substance lsd in 1938?
Answer: Albert Hofmann
Question: Which country is commonly called "the land of the rising sun"?
Answer: Japan
Question: What does the abbreviation BOB stand for when talking about someone who does not drink?
Answer: Bewust Onbeschonken Bestuurder
Question: The TV show De Rijdende Rechter will have a new presenter in 2024. What is the name of the presenter saying goodbye?
Answer: Jetske van den Elsen
Question: What does the abbreviation WiFi stand for?
Answer: Wireless Fidelity
Question: In which country can you find world wonder Rock City of Petra?
Answer: Jordan
Question: Which country has the largest population in Europe?
Answer: Russia
Question: How many colors are in a rainbow?
Answer: Seven
Question: In how many days does the Earth completely revolve around the sun once?
Answer: 365 days
Question: Which water barrier between the provinces of North Holland and Friesland is 32.5 km long?
Answer: Afsluitdijk
Question: What is the in currency in Iraq?
Answer: The Dinar
Question: What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Omega
Question: What word does the letter T in the NATO spelling alphabet refer to?
Answer: Tango
Question: What is the symbol for the chemical element silver?
Answer: Ag
Question: By which phobia is agoraphobia meant?
Answer: Agoraphobia
Question: Which river flows through Amsterdam?
Answer: The Amstel
Question: In what city was John F Kennedy assassinated?
Answer: Dallas
Question: What does the acronym NASA stand for?
Answer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Question: Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Question: What is the name of the SNCF flagship French high-speed train?
Answer: TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse)
Question: What is the highest possible score in a game of bowling?
Answer: 300 points
Question: Who played the role of James Bond in the 2006 film Casino Royale?
Answer: Daniel Craig
Question: What new wonder of the world do you find in Mexico?
Answer: Chichén Itzá
Question: What do you call a group of owls together?
Answer: A parliament of owls
Question: Amsterdam's canals are on UNESCO's World Heritage List, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Which nut is also called Para nut?
Answer: Brazil nut
Question: Which river flows through Berlin?
Answer: The Spree
Question: How many members comprised the boy band Backstreet Boys?
Answer: Five
Question: What is the best combination of five cards in a game of poker?
Answer: The Royal Flush
Question: Which animal is known as the King of the jungle?
Answer: The Lion
Question: What is the tallest building in the world?
Answer: Burj Khalifa
Question: What is the capital of Iran?
Answer: Tehran
Question: What is the name of the largest volcano in Italy?
Answer: Mount Etna
Question: Which two chemical elements make up water?
Answer: Oxygen (O) and Hydrogen (H)
Question: What kind of fruit do you have Fuji, Jazz and Kanzi from?
Answer: Apple
Question: Between which 2 cities ran the first railroad in the Netherlands?
Answer: Amsterdam and Haarlem
Question: Where was Napoleon finally defeated in 1815?
Answer: Waterloo
Question: What is the name of the building where the U.S. president works?
Answer: The White House
Question: Which social media app challenges you to share your "real" life and sends a notification at a random time every day, then gives you two minutes to take a picture?
Answer: BeReal
Question: What does the abbreviation LCD stand for when talking about displays?
Answer: Liquid-crystal display
Question: Which country is also called The land of fire and ice?
Answer: Iceland
Question: In what city can you find the Teylers Museum?
Answer: Haarlem
Question: What word does the letter R in the NATO spelling alphabet refer to?
Answer: Romeo
Question: Who was the first president of the United States?
Answer: George Washington
Question: In what year was the United Nations founded?
Answer: 1945
Question: Which US state was Arnold Schwarzenegger governor of from 2003 to 2011?
Answer: California
Question: What is the name of the 16th century forecaster who, according to his followers, predicted the World Wars, Hitler and communism, among other things?
Answer: Nostradamus
Question: Which blood group may receive blood transfusions of any blood group?
Answer: AB+
Question: What number does the Roman numeral C stand for?
Answer: 100
Question: What is the name of the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world?
Answer: Mensa
Question: What colors are the rings in the Olympic Games symbol?
Answer: The Olympic rings are blue, yellow, black, green and red
Question: Which continent is sometimes called "the dark continent"?
Answer: Africa
Question: Which American holiday is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of November?
Answer: Thanksgiving Day
Question: How long is an Olympic-size pool in meters?
Answer: 50 meters
Question: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903)?
Answer: Marie Curie
Question: What is the capital of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa
Question: Who wrote the book 1984?
Answer: George Orwell
Question: How many strings does a ukulele usually have?
Answer: Four
Question: What are the official residents of Dubai called?
Answer: Emirati
Question: Who wrote the books Sonny Boy, Leon and Juliette, Fortuna's children?
Answer: Annejet van der Zijl
Question: Who discovered penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
Question: The Dutch soccer team won the World Cup, true or false?
Answer: Not true
Question: How many keys does a classical piano have?
Answer: 88 keys
Question: What is the name of the traditional Hindu festival of colors?
Answer: Theholi festival
Question: In which prison was Nelson Mandela incarcerated the longest?
Answer: Robben Island
Question: What plant is Tequila made from?
Answer: Agave
Question: In Roman mythology, which brothers are the founders of Rome?
Answer: Romulus and Remus
Question: What was the name of the first dog in space?
Answer: Laika
Question: On which island was napoleon bonaparte born?
Answer: Corsica
Question: In terms of area, what is the largest state in the U.S.?
Answer: Alaska
Question: Who wrote the book Don Quixote?
Answer: Miguel de Cervantes
Question: After Neil Armstrong, who was the second person to step on the moon?
Answer: Buzz Aldrin
Question: What scale is often mentioned in the media when it comes to determining the strength of earthquakes?
Answer: the Richter scale (seismologists use the instant magnitude scale)
Question: Who patented the first telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
Question: Which country donated the Statue of Liberty to the U.S.?
Answer: France
Question: Which Dutch province has the most inhabitants?
Answer: South Holland (Zuid-Holland)
Question: Which Dutch singer do we know from the songs Testament and Het Land van Maas en Waal?
Answer: Boudewijn De Groot
Question: Who designed the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam?
Answer: Pierre Cuypers
Question: What is the name of the largest dam in the world, located in China?
Answer: The Three Gorges Dam
Question: Which Fleming portrayed the role of Bob Lemmens in the Netflix series Undercover?
Answer: Tom Waes
Question: How many letters does the Latin alphabet consist of?
Answer: 26
Question: Which country is famous for its fjords, vikings and the Northern Lights?
Answer: Norway
Question: Which Dutch architectural masterpiece is a series of windmills and is included on UNESCO's World Heritage List?
Answer: Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout
Question: Who directed the Godfather films?
Answer: Francis Ford Coppola
Question: Before Mark Rutte, who was the prime minister of The Netherlands?
Answer: Jan Peter Balkenende
Question: Which Spanish city did BLØF and George Ezra both sing a song about?
Answer: Barcelona
Question: How many centimeters is 1 inch?
Answer: 2.54 cm
Question: Which American directed the movie Pulp Fiction?
Answer: Quentin Tarantino
Question: Which country does the drink ouzo come from?
Answer: Greece
Question: In which village is Efteling amusement park located?
Answer: Kaatsheuvel
Question: What does the abbreviation toilet stand for when talking about a toilet?
Answer: Water closet
Question: What is someone afraid of when they suffer from cynophobia?
Answer: Dogs or rabies
Question: What is the capital of the province of Gelderland?
Answer: Arnhem
Question: What is the name of the Amsterdam pop temple where Prince and Amy Winehouse, among others, performed?
Answer: Paradiso
Question: Which major city in India is known for its Taj Mahal?
Answer: Agra
Question: What is the symbol for the chemical element mercury?
Answer: Hg
Question: What is the in currency in Vietnam?
Answer: The Vietnamese dong
Question: Which French station is the starting and ending point of the Thalys?
Answer: Gare Du Nord (Paris North)
Question: What does the abbreviation YMCA stand for?
Answer: Young Men’s Christian Association
Question: What does www stand for in a website browser?
Answer: World wide web
Question: What are the first names of the two men in the band ABBA?
Answer: Björn and Benny
Question: Who painted the famous painting The Scream?
Answer: Edvard Munch
Question: In which city can you find the Kröller-Müller Museum?
Answer: Otterlo
Question: How many dozen fit into a grosse?
Answer: 12
Question: In which African country is Timbuktu located?
Answer: Mali
Question: Which Bulgarian artist was known for wrapping buildings, such as The Reichstag in Berlin?
Answer: Christo
Question: Who played the mob boss Tony Soprano in the series The Sopranos?
Answer: Jim (James) Gandolfini
Question: Which Dutch poet created the famous poem Remembrance of Holland?
Answer: Hendrik Marsman
Question: What is the name of the science that studies the stars and planets?
Answer: Astronomy
Question: Using a French term, what do you call placing a pan or bowl of food in a water bath to lower or raise the temperature?
Answer: Au bain-marie
Question: Who was the first astronaut of Dutch nationality to go into space?
Answer: Wubbo Ockels
Question: In which Flemish city can you find the Manneken Pis statue?
Answer: Brussels
Question: How many seats does the Senate consist of?
Answer: 75 seats
Question: From what year will the €500 bill no longer be circulated?
Answer: 2019
Question: Which comedian was the 'Slimste Mens' 2022 in the Netherlands?
Answer: Jasper van Kuijk
Question: What are the official residents of Dubai called?
Answer: Emirati
Question: Which country has the Acropolis?
Answer: Greece
Question: In what country was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?
Answer: Austria
Question: What is the name of Mickey Mouse's girlfriend?
Answer: Minnie Mouse
Question: In which century did the so-called Rampjaar take place in the Netherlands?
Answer: 17th century (1672)
Bonus general knowledge questions
Question: What do Frisians call the sport in which an athlete tries to cross a ditch as far as possible using a pole pole?
Answer: fierljeppen
Question: In which city were the first modern Olympic Games held in 1896?
Answer: Athens
Questions specific to 2024 (to be added regularly)
2024 quiz questions
How is your 2023 knowledge doing? Click on the question to see the answer.
Question: Where will the 2024 Olympics take place?
Answer: Paris
Question: Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris and Avril Lavigne will be at this major Dutch festival in 2024
Answer: Pinkpop
Question: KNMI issued code orange in early January 2023 for the provinces of North Holland and Friesland, the Wadden Islands and the IJsselmeer due to this storm....
Answer: Storm Henk
Question: What type of cups will be prohibited in the workplace as of Jan. 1, 2024?
Answer: disposable plastic cups
Question: As of Jan. 1, 2024, what should not be taken into the classroom in high schools?
Answer: Cell phones
Question: Israel killed this key Hamas leader in early January 2024 in a drone attack in the Lebanese capital Beirut
Answer: (Saleh) Al Arouri
Question: From Jan. 1, 2024, what toll-free number can you call if you experience or report discrimination?
Answer: 0800-0880
Question: From when can you no longer buy tobacco in supermarkets in the Netherlands?
Answer: As of July 1, 2024
Question: An addition to a law facilitates the trial of doxing in 2024. What is doxing?
Answer: intentionally sharing personal data to harm someone
Question: Which well-known cartoon character's copyright expired in the United States on Jan. 1, 2024?
Answer: Mickey Mouse
Question: Which well-known rapper will report on the 2024 Olympics for NBC?
Answer: Snoop Dogg
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