222 Incredibly Fun and Challenging Trivia Night Questions

Need some question fodder for your next trivia night? Lucky for you, we at Trivia Bliss have just the thing for you: an epic compilation of incredibly fun and challenging trivia night questions spanning every niche topic you could think of!

These questions will help you start your trivia night on the right foot. They aren’t sorted by category; we’ve mixed things up to keep that randomized, drawn-out-of-a-hat feeling for every clue. If you’re looking for trivia from one specific category, feel free to consult our trivia database or our themed quizzes instead. For now, we’re giving you grab-bag trivia questions—222 of them, to be exact.

That’s right, we have 222 trivia night questions in one handy list! That’s enough to last you more than one trivia night, at the very least. With the help of our trivia questions, you’re sure to throw a fantastic trivia night. Let’s get to the questions, shall we?

1. Question: Who designed St. Paul’s Cathedral in England?

2. Question: Which actor appeared opposite Emma Stone in the 2016 film La La Land?

3. Question: What period in Japanese history took place between 14,000 and 300 B.C.?

4. Question: Approximately how many known species of cacti are there?

5. Question: Rank the following food items from highest to lowest potassium content per serving: bananas, soybeans, prunes, potatoes.

6. Question: Who were the original two members of the band Barenaked Ladies?

7. Question: Bees can lift much more than they themselves weigh. How much can a bee lift compared to its own weight?

8. Question: Which Broadway musical features the songs “Dancing Through Life”, “As Long as You’re Mine”, and “For Good”?

9. Question: Dopiaza is a traditional Shirazi dish. What does “dopiaza” translate to in English?

10. Question: Who is the only member of the College Football Hall of Fame to receive an Oscar? (Bonus: what university did he attend and what film did he win an Oscar for?)

11. Question: Which famous song by Bob Dylan begins with the lyrics “come gather ‘round people wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown”?

12. Question: Which warm-blooded animal has more neck vertebrae than any other warm-blooded animal? (Bonus: how many neck vertebrae does it have?)

13. Question: What muscles lie between a human’s ribs?

14. Question: The movie Braveheart is set in Scotland, but where was it actually filmed?

15. Question: Who was the first woman to go to space, and in which year did she go to space?

16. Question: Which of the following animals does not have a tusk or tusks: walrus, babirusa, water deer, or platypus?

17. Question: We know farfalle as bowtie pasta, but what does “farfalle” translate to from Italian?

18. Question: Which classic 1970s band is known for its songs “You Should Be Dancing” and “Stayin’ Alive”?

19. Question: Which artist painted the iconic The Scream painting?

20. Question: Which two ingredients make up the bulk of cottage pie?

21. Question: Which film contains the iconic line “if I’m not me, who the hell am I?”?

22. Question: How many Spanish provinces lie on a coastline?

23. Question: What arm bone has the funniest name?

24. Question: How many points is the brown ball worth in a game of snooker?

25. Question: What is the capital city of Macedonia?

26. Question: What role does James McAvoy play in Atonement?

27. Question: Who is Aphrodite’s Roman counterpart, and what are the two of them the goddess of?

28. Question: What is the most expensive oil paint pigment?

29. Question: Which country hosted the World Cup in 1986?

30. Question: What was Michelangelo’s last name?

31. Question: Which English word can be spelled without repeating any of its fifteen letters?

32. Question: Which two European countries does Mont Blanc lie between?

33. Question: How many cantons is Switzerland divided into?

34. Question: Which country has the highest Japanese population outside of Japan itself?

35. Question: What was the first elementary particle to be discovered?

36. Question: What is the name of the scientist who discovered penicillin? (Bonus: when did they discover it?)

37. Question: When a musical note is raised by a half step, it is called a sharp. What is it called when it is lowered by a half step?

38. Question: Who was the first person to institute the naming of hurricanes?

39. Question: Who is the lead singer of the band Big Thief?

40. Question: Which 20th century icon once said “if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar in the Harvard Medical School”?

41. Question: What is the scientific name for the study of very low temperatures?

42. Question: What is the epidermis?

43. Question: What fabric is named after the capital of Syria?

44. Question: What body part do butterflies use to taste?

45. Question: What school in California has the largest student body in the state?

46. Question: Which expensive spice is derived from the crocus?

47. Question: Which coffee drink contains more milk, a latte or a macchiato?

48. Question: What does having polymastia or polythelia mean?

49. Question: What is a term for the opposite of phallic?

50. Question: What is the main difference between moss and lichen?

51. Question: Who illustrated Dante’s Inferno?

52. Question: What is the highest possible final score in a traditional game of darts?

53. Question: How many operettas did John Philip Sousa write?

54. Question: Which sea is Sudan’s only coastline on?

55. Question: What is the name of Winnie the Pooh’s human friend?

56. Question: What does an eolic power station use for energy?

57. Question: What 1970s pop song contains the lyrics “yeah, they were dancing and singing and moving to the grooving”?

58. Question: How old was Charles Dickens when he passed away?

59. Question: Which is longer on a clock, the hour hand or the minute hand?

60. Question: What is the given name of Ginger Spice from the Spice Girls?

61. Question: In which movie does Antonio Banderas play Tom Hanks’s lover?

62. Question: When was Sir Charles Darwin’s The Origin of the Species published?

63. Question: In which film does Judy Garland sing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”?

64. Question: What’s the name of the son of a famous soccer star who came under fire for his critically slammed photography book? (Bonus: what is the name of the book?)

65. Question: Which ex-president died shortly after the death of Harry S. Truman?

66. Question: What grocery retailer is known for their Unexpected Cheddar cheese, frozen Mandarin Orange Chicken, Everything but the Bagel seasoning, and Hold The Cone ice cream?

67. Question: Which online thrift shop alternative is geared towards younger buyers looking for trendy vintage clothing?

68. Question: What river does the Russian city of Astrakhan lie on?

69. Question: Before “Call Me Maybe”, what was Carly Rae Jepsen known for?

70. Question: Who are the members of indie rock band Boygenius?

71. Question: What do you call a group of larks?

72. Question: When did Xi Jinping become the president of the People’s Republic of China?

73. Question: What is the only chemical element that begins with the letter K?

74. Question: Which British choreographer created the dances for the 1970 film The Tales of Beatrix Potter?

75. Question: Where was former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger born?

76. Question: How many hours behind Eastern Standard Time is Hawaii?

77. Question: Which two instruments was Sidney Bechet famous for playing?

78. Question: Who played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1984 film Amadeus?

79. Question: Who first extracted morphine from opium to use as a painkiller?

80. Question: What system do most libraries use to organize their books?

81. Question: What unique profession did the father of 18th century painter Jean Siméon Chardin practice?

82. Question: In which film does Mickey Mouse appear as the Sorceror’s Apprentice?

83. Question: Which album does New Order’s hit song “Age of Consent” appear on?

84. Question: How many number one songs were there in 1996?

85. Question: To avoid scurvy, which vitamin should you consume?

86. Question: Before he was president, what was Bill Clinton’s job?

87. Question: What 1997 tune features the baffling lyrics “I am taken to a place where your crystal mind and magenta feelings take up shelter in the base of my spine, sweet like a chic-a-cherry cola”?

88. Question: A Pentland Dell is a type of what?

89. Question: What time frame did the Baroque period take place during?

90. Question: What is Lady Gaga’s given name?

91. Question: What Australian music duo is known for the songs “Walking on a Dream,” “High and Low,” and “We Are the People”?

92. Question: During which year did the iTunes store open?

93. Question: In which country is Kronoberg County located?

94. Question: What is Foley in filmmaking?

95. Question: How many rooms can be found in the Royal Palace of Madrid?

96. Question: Who played Morpheus in the original The Matrix trilogy?

97. Question: Women’s History Month originally began as a local celebration. Where was it first celebrated?

98. Question: What is the largest bone in the human body?

99. Question: Which rapper was born Shawn Corey Carter?

100. Question: In Disney’s The Lion King, who is Simba’s childhood friend turned adult love interest?

101. Question: Which SNL star is known for the following Weekend Update characters: The Iceberg that sank the Titanic, Jafar, an Oompa Loompa, and Chinese trade representative Chen Biao?

102. Question: Berwick upon Tweed is the northernmost town in which country?

103. Question: Freed of London, Nikolay, Suffolk, and Capezio are all producers of which niche dance shoe?

104. Question: Who discovered the laws of planetary motion? (Bonus: when did they discover them?)

105. Question: During which year was Taylor Swift’s reputation album released?

106. Question: At what height above ground is wind speed measured at by meteorologists?

107. Question: What type of mineral is amethyst made out of?

108. Question: Where does American rock band Cage the Elephant hail from?

109. Question: What is Charli XCX’s real name?

110. Question: Which photo messaging app encourages users to keep up a “streak” by sending a picture to a single user every day?

111. Question: Which British songstress released “Chasing Pavements”, “Right as Rain”, and “Hometown Glory” on her first studio album 19?

112. Question: During which year was eBay launched?

113. Question: Approximately what percentage of the global population has red hair?

114. Question: Why are polka dots called polka dots?

115. Question: What word for a robot comes from the Greek word for “male”?

116. Question: Where was Charles V born?

117. Question: Who plays the lead role in the 1993 movie Groundhog Day?

118. Question: When did David Bowie’s song “Ashes to Ashes” become a number one hit in the U.K.?

119. Question: What unit of volume is equivalent to a single cubic decimeter?

120. Question: What is a formicary?

121. Question: How much caffeine must be removed from coffee for it to be labeled as decaffeinated?

122. Question: In July 1848, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized which historically important convention in Seneca Falls, New York?

123. Question: What speed were the first records played at?

124. Question: What is the name of Barbie’s first sister?

125. Question: If you are an arachnophobe, what are you afraid of?

126. Question: Which Japanese-British songstress is known for her pop hits “Comme Des Garçons”, “This Hell”, and “XS”?

127. Question: On which river is the Hoover Dam located?

128. Question: What does LED stand for?

129. Question: Who played Mother Nature in a famous Chiffon Margarine commercial?

130. Question: What were Hérman Cortés and Francisco Pizarro known for?

131. Question: When did business operations for the now-defunct Borders Group bookstores end?

132. Question: Who is the fashion expert on Netflix’s reboot of Queer Eye?

133. Question: In which U.S. state was the television series Bonanza set?

134. Question: When was Campbell’s condensed soup first on the market?

135. Question: What do you call a place were crude material is purified?

136. Question: Which band recorded the album On the Threshold of a Dream?

137. Question: In tons, how much does the average adult elephant weight?

138. Question: Where are the hammer and anvil located inside the human body?

139. Question: Which Shakespearean character was the first to use the term “salad days”

140. Question: What is a billet doux in English?

141. Question: How many Nightmare on Elm Street movies were made in the 1980s?

142. Question: What type of sports game begins with a tip off?

143. Question: What B-52’s music video is credited with bringing RuPaul into the mainstream?

144. Question: What is a virgin soil epidemic?

145. Question: What is Ronald McDonald called in Japan?

146. Question: What is “eudaimonia”?

147. Question: What song is featured at the end of The Breakfast Club?

148. Question: What is the name for a Russian grandmother?

149. Question: Which music producer did Lorde begin working with while making her second album Melodrama?

150. Question: What type of animal is a mouthbrooder?

151. Question: Which U.S. state was the 19th to officially become a state.

152. Question: Where is Canary Wharf located?

153. Question: Which movie contains the line “my first day as a woman and I am already having hot flashes”?

154. Question: Before he was an actor, what did Clark Gable do for a living?

155. Question: Where is the only place that the American flag is never raised and never lowered?

156. Question: Who is the lead singer of the band U2?

157. Question: In which country did the Inca civilization originate?

158. Question: In which year did the Boston Tea Party occur?

159. Question: How does typhus spread?

160. Question: How many square meters are in a hectare?

161. Question: What is the maximum average monthly temperature of a tundra climate?

162. Question: What was Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s first film together?

163. Question: Who played the two lead roles in Mad Max: Fury Road?

164. Question: What are the constituent countries of the United Kingdom?

165. Question: At the beginning of The Office, what is the name of Pam’s fiancé?

166. Question: What is limerence?

167. Question: Where did denim get its name?

168. Question: Which actress plays the lead role in the sitcom Insecure?

169. Question: What was the first original Netflix series?

170. Question: Who is the author of the children’s book series A Series of Unfortunate Events?

171. Question: What was the name of Anne Frank’s older sister?

172. Question: What position does Megan Rapinoe play for OL Reign?

173. Question: When did Neil Patrick Harris first host the Tony Awards?

174. Question: What does the word “immiscible” mean?

175. Question: What do you call a group of ducks?

176. Question: What substance does natural wine contain very little or none of compared to conventional wine.

177. Question: Which member of Fleetwood Mac was the band named for?

178. Question: Who voiced Mrs. Potts in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast?

179. Question: Where is the world’s oldest tennis court located?

180. Question: In which musical do characters Sky Masterson, Nathan Detroit, Sarah Brown, and Miss Adelaide appear?

181. Question: One U.S. state is home to both the lowest and highest zip codes (00001 and 99950, respectively). Which U.S. state is it?

182. Question: What color is the “2” ball in a nine-ball pool set

183. Question: When did Rod Stewart release “Maggie May”?

184. Question: What was the lead single from Harry Styles’s third album, “Harry’s House”?

185. Question: Who voiced John Smith in Disney’s Pocahontas?

186. Question: Which British band released the album Zenyatta Mondatta in 1980?

187. Question: How many languages have more than one million speakers in Africa?

188. Question: What are the three acts of George Balanchine’s Jewels?

189. Question: Which Taylor Swift album was announced on July 23, 2020, one day before its release?

190. Question: When did the Stonewall Uprising take place?

191. Question: Which R&B star sang “Just Be a Man About It”, “Un-break My Heart”, and “I Love Me Some Him”?

192. Question: What plant was historically used as an alternative to Indigo?

193. Question: Scuba is an acronym. What does it stand for?

194. Question: What is the Pantone Color of the Year for 2023?

195. Question: How many languages did Benjamin Franklin speak?

196. Question: When was Kenny Rogers inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame?

197. Question: What is the most collected item in the United States?

198. Question: What is different about the way that Venus spins from the way that other planets spin?

199. Question: What is the name of the first dog to go to space?

200. Question: What is mycology the science of?

201. Question: What substance do strings players apply to their horsehair bows before playing?

202. Question: Who was Canaan’s grandfather in the Bible?

203. Question: Before the Euro, what was the unit of currency used in the Netherlands?

204. Question: What is a slang word for using proper manners online?

205. Question: What continent are llamas native to?

206. Question: What year is the novel A Brave New World set in?

207. Question: Which Britain’s Got Talent contestant became famous for her rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream”?

208. Question: Which two languages does Timothée Chalamet speak?

209. Question: What was the first movie that Greta Gerwig solo directed?

210. Question: In which U.S. state can you find Arches National Park?

211. Question: Who played Tina Turner in the 1993 film What’s Love Got To Do With It?

212. Question: What city is the capital of Québec?

213. Question: What American city is nicknamed Naptown and the Circle City?

214. Question: What type of meat is traditionally used in charcuterie?

215. Question: Which vocalist sings on “Heaven is a Place on Earth”?

216. Question: What was the Tin Man in search of in The Wizard of Oz?

217. Question: Where is Lindberg Airport located?

218. Question: What do you call the set of fans that lie at the front of a jet engine?

219. Question: Which nation was the first to use frogmen in warfare, and when did it do so?

220. Question: Who plays Gwyneth Paltrow’s husband in the movie Seven?

221. Question: Who directed The Silence of the Lambs and Stop Making Sense?

222. Question: What is the longest river in the United States?

Final Words

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