Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #86 - World Trivia Topics

Fun world trivia questions and facts with answers.

1. What was an official language in 87 nations and territories, by
   1994?
    
2. What's the third-largest continent in square miles?
    
3. What is the capital of Kuwait?
    
4. What town name did residents of a Florida retirement
   community switch to because they found Sunset Depressing?
    
5. What's the second most populous continent?
    
6. What finally went out of fashion in ancient Rome, prompting people
   to begin wearing short pants called feminalia?
    
7. What southwestern U.S. state has the highest percentage of
   non-English speakers?
    
8. What M-word did Texas citizens choose as a town name that would
   "attract" folks?
    
9. What state leads the U.S. with 15 tons of solid waste per citizen
   each year?
    
10. Which is further from the equator, Tasmania, Tanzania, or
    Transylvania?
     
11. What eastern town is home for a service academy and the U.S. Sliver
    Depository?
     
12. What's the University of Paris more commonly called?
     
13. What two French cities are connected by the planet's fastest
    passenger train?
     
14. What religion has the most adherent, Buddhism, Christianity or Islam?
     
15. What U.S. state boasts a town called Captain Cook?
     
16. What's the Greek name for hell?
     
17. What European country does Aruba maintain the strongest ties to?
     
18. What do the Chinese call kwai-tsze, or "quick little
    fellows"?
     
19. What European country uses its Latin name, Helvetia, on its stamps?
     
20. What British university boasts and endowment called the Jackie
    Mason Lectureship in Contemporary Judaism?
     
21. What country did Greek historian Herodotus dub "the gift of
    the Nile"?
     
22. What country is only bordered by Spain?
     
23. What's the flattest U.S. state?
     
24. What U.S. state, after much debate, made the bizcochito the
    official state cookie?
     
25. What Australian city boasts the largest Greek population in the
    world outside of Greece?
     
26. What U.S. state boasts the towns of Gulf Stream, Lakebreeze and
    Frostproof?
     
27. What country has bee the planet's largest aid donor since 1991?
     
28. What island nation is a must for anyone wishing to see 40 species
    of lemours?
     
29. What country is almost twice as large as either the U.S. or China?
     
30. What South Asian city is the planet's biggest feature film producer?
     
31. How many Great Lakes do not border Michigan?
     
32. What cowboy tune is the official song of Kansas?
     
33. What continent boasts the most telephone lines?
     
34. What do Texas beef partisans call "wool on a stick"?
     
35. What South American country was home to the early human 'Patagnian
    giants"?
     
36. What Western Hemisphere people spoke Nahuatl?
     
37. What New Orleans soup has a name derived from the Bantu word for
    okra?
     
38. What Pacific atoll got its name from its location between the Americas and Asia?
     
39. What state volunteered to drop the moniker Hog and Hominy State?
     
40. What regional accent did Americans deem sexiest, most liked and
    most recognizable?
     
41. What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?
     

 

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 85

1. English.
2. North America.
3. Kuwait City. World trivia questions.
4. Sunrise.
5. Europe.
6. The Toga.
7. New Mexico.
8. Magnet.
9. California.
10. Transylvania.
11. West Point.
12. The Sorbonne.
13. Paris and Lyons.
14. Christianity.
15. Hawaii.
16. Hades.
17. The Netherlands.
18. Chopsticks.
19. Switzerland.
20. Oxford.
21. Egypt.
22. Portugal.
23. Florida.
24. New Mexico.
25. Melbourne.
26. Florida.
27. Japan.
28. Madagascar.
29. Russia.
30. Bombay.
31. One.
32. Home on the Range.
33. Europe.
34. Lamb.
35. Argentina.
36. The Aztecs.
37. Gumbo.
38. The Midway Islands.
39. Tennessee.
40. Southern.
41. I-90.