Did you know that the famous Hollywood Horror movie Director Alfred Hitchcock is afraid of eggs? Did you know one species of jellyfish is immortal? It can revert to its child state after having become sexually mature, and therefore never dies. Another unique animal, the Octopus, has three hearts. Did you know honeybees can flap their wings 200 times per second? Aren’t these facts amazing? Don’t they make good trivia night questions? Well, sure they do.
In this article, we are looking at how to host an online trivia night and provide you with some fun game night ideas.
How To Host an Online Trivia Night?
Trivia nights, also known as quiz nights, are fun activities to indulge in with your friends and family.
If you are planning a trivia event, you should invite as many people as you can. The more people you have in your live events, the more fun it will be.
If you are a restaurant owner, you want to print out pamphlets of the event and put them up on the tabletop stands. You can ask your wait-staff to spread the word too.
If you have regular customers visiting your bar or restaurant, you can encourage them to participate in the event with their friends. Will a simple invite suffice?
Well, some of your customers will be happy to participate without any incentives. On the other hand, you will have a customer who looks for incentives in everything they do. To attract them, you can offer free drinks in the house.
Trivia is also a great way to get family together while doing some fun-friendly competition. They can be popular, especially during family gatherings.
Using fun trivia questions, you can get all family members from the youngest to the oldest involved in the game.
Rules for a good quiz:
Every trivia night has some ground rules. If you do not have rules, you will end up hosting a disorganized party, and no one likes that.
· The pre-determined time limit should be 1 minute and do not go below this limit. To keep the people entertained, you can play some suspense music while the participant struggles to answer the question.
· The following guide should be on how participants can submit their answers. There are a few options. You can allow participants to use sticky notes, and participants are required to hold up the cards once they write their answers down.
· The MC should be the judge and jury for the event.
· Participants cannot ask their friends or bring out their phones to search on Google for the answers.
Be sure to calculate the score at the end of each round.
Trivia Night Ideas
The MC in trivia plays an important role. If you can manage a good host, your trivia night will be full of fun and interactive. When picking a host, make sure they have a strong voice. It is required that the host must have a quick wit and the skill of improvising in real-time.
If you pick a nervous host, he might stumble his words, which kills the game’s overall vibe.
Now you should shift your focus on picking good questions for the trivia night. There are a lot of resources you can select the questions, and there are many quiz books published to conduct trivia nights.
Internet might be another type of resource for picking questions for your trivia night.
The next aspect of a trivia night is the prize money. You can also have other non-monetary rewards. Mugs, T-Shirts, Fountain Pens, Movie Tickets are good options for trivia night prizes. Incorporate scope for bonus points wherever possible.
Funny Trivia Night Questions and Answers
Below are some funny and easy trivia questions :
- Question: What is the most common color of toilet paper in France?
Answer: Pink!
2. Question: What is the cross between a donkey and a zebra known as?
Answer: Zeedonk
3. Question: If you dug a hole through the center of the Earth starting from Wellington in New Zealand, which European country would you end up in?
Answer: Spain
4. Question: What is the correct term for a question mark immediately followed by an exclamation mark?
Answer: Interrobang
5. Question: Coprastastaphobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Constipation
6. Question: The average person does what thirteen times a day?
Answer: Laughs
7. Question: What were the first ice hockey pucks made out of?
Answer: Frozen cow dung
8. Question: It’s illegal in Texas to put what on your neighbor’s cow?
Answer: Grafitti
9. Question: Who entered a contest to find his look-alike and came 3rd?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin
10. Question: Which bird is nicknamed The Laughing Jackass?
Answer: Kookaburra
11. Question: In 1978, an Iowa judge dismissed a drink driving charge for what obscure reason?
Answer: Too drunk to sample
12. Question: French artist Aquabouse paints cows with what material?
Answer: Cow dung
13. Question: Native to the Caribbean, what sort of animal is the mountain chicken?
Answer: Frog
14. Question: In which country are there six villages called Silly, 12 called Billy, and two called Pratt?
Answer: France
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15. Question: What nickname was Rembrandt’s The Night Watch after being over-restored in the 1940s?
Answer: The Day Watch
16. Question: The UK’s Dyslexia Research Trust is based in which British
Answer: The Reading
17. Question: True or false: You can sneeze in your sleep.
Answer: False
18. Question: Who invented the word vomit?
Answer: William Shakespeare
19. Question: Which European country has 158 verses to its national anthem?
Answer: Greece
20. Question: Which country has the most tornadoes by area?
Answer: England
21. Question: What does “www” stand for in a website browser?
Answer: World Wide Web
22. Question: How long is an Olympic swimming pool (in meters)?
Answer: 50 meters
23. Question: Which country do the cities of Perth, Adelaide & Brisbane belong to?
Answer: Australia
24. Question: What countries made up the original Axis powers in World War II?
Answer: Germany, Italy, and Japan
25. Question: Which country do the cities of Perth, Adelaide & Brisbane belong to?
Answer: Australia
26. Question: What is “cynophobia”?
Answer: Fear of dogs
27. Question: Who named the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
28. Question: What punctuation mark ends an imperative sentence?
Answer: A period or exclamation point
29. Question: How many languages are written from right to left?
Answer: 12
30. Question: What is the name of the man who launched eBay back in 1995?
Answer: Pierre Omidyar
31. Question: How many countries still have shilling as currency? Bonus point: Which countries?
Answer: Four, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Somalia
General Knowledge Trivia Night Questions
In the below list, you will see general trivia questions, sports trivia questions, random trivia questions, music trivia questions, and history trivia questions.
32. Question: What is the name of the biggest technology company in South Korea?
Answer: Samsung
33. Question: Which monarch officially made Valentine’s Day a holiday in 1537?
Answer: Henry VIII
34. Question: Which animal can be seen on the Porsche logo?
Answer: Horse
35. Question: The first dictionary was written by?
Answer: Robert Cawdrey
36. Question: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903)?
Answer: Marie Curie
37. Questions: Worship of Krishna is observed by which Religious Faith?
Answer: Hinduism
38. Question: Demolition of the Berlin wall separating East and West Germany began in what year?
Answer: 1989
39. Question: Who was the first woman pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic?
Answer: Amelia Earhart
40. Question: What is the romanized Arabic word for “moon”?
Answer: Qamar
41. Question: What is the common name for dried plums?
Answer: Prunes
42. Question: What is the rarest M&M color?
Answer: Brown
43. Question: Which country consumes the most chocolate per capita?
Answer: Switzerland
44. Question: What was the first soft drink in space?
Answer: Coca Cola
45. Question: What is the name of Indian food cooked over charcoal in a clay oven?
Answer: Tandoori
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46. Question: What is the most consumed manufactured drink in the world?
Answer: Tea
47. Question: Which country invented ice cream?
Answer: China
48. Question: From which country does Gouda cheese originate?
Answer: Netherlands
49. Question: What TV series showed the first interracial kiss on American network television?
Answer: Star Trek
50. Question: What was the first toy to be advertised on television?
Answer: Mr. Potato Head
51. Question: What was the first feature-length animated movie ever released?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
52. Question: Who created Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
53. Question: What were the four main characters’ names in the “Golden Girls” TV series that ran from 1985-1992?
Answer: Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia
54. Question: What awards has an EGOT winner won?
Answer: An Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony
55. Question: Which member of the Beatles married Yoko Ono?
Answer: John Lennon
56. Question: The biggest selling music single of all time is?
Answer: Candle in the Wind (1997)
Unusual Trivia Questions
Asking unusual questions is a fun way to get all participants involved especially when hosting online trivia games. We all know it can be difficult for everyone to focus during a virtual trivia night. But the questions below will capture everyone’s attention.
57. Question: Which two countries have not missed one of the modern-day Olympics?
Answer: Greece and Australia
58. Question: Which is the only American Football team to go a whole season undefeated, including the Super Bowl?
Answer: The Miami Dolphins(1972)
59. Question: Who has won more tennis grand slam titles, Venus Williams or Serena Williams?
Answer: Serena Williams
60. Question: What sport is known as the “king of sports”?
Answer: Soccer
61. Question: Which country won the first-ever soccer World Cup in 1930?
Answer: Uruguay
62. Question: Which Former NBA Player nicknamed “Agent Zero”?
Answer: Gilbert Arenas
63. Question: What is the name of the professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Canada?
Answer: Toronto Maple Leafs
64. Question: Who was the first gymnast to score a perfect ten score?
Answer: Nadia Comaneci
65. Question: Who was the first female driver to score points in a Grand Prix?
Answer: Lella Lombardi (1975 Spanish Grand Prix)
66. Question: Dump, floater, and wipe are terms used in which team sport?
Answer: Volleyball
So far, we have looked at challenging trivia questions, geography trivia questions, hard trivia questions, popular trivia questions, and many more complex questions.
Trivia Night Questions for Kids
The list below contains some fun quiz questions for kids.
67. Question: On the farm, what is a kid?
Answer: A baby goat
68. Question: In little red riding hood, who does the wolf dress up as?
Answer: Grandmother
69. Question: “Stars and Stripes” is the nickname of the flag of which country?
Answer: United States of America
70. Question: Who is the patron saint of Ireland?
Answer: St. Patrick
71. Question: How many colors are there in the rainbow?
Answer: Seven
72. Question: What color is a ruby?
Answer: Red
73. Question: In the poem Humpty Dumpty, where was Humpty when he fell?
Answer: The wall
74. Question: Who was the first president of the United States?
Answer: George Washington
75. Question: What were Jack and Jill going up the hill to fetch?
Answer: A pale of water
76. Question: What country is responsible for creating the Olympic Games?
Answer: Greece
Popular Trivia Night Questions
Now it is time for us to look at some popular trivia night questions.
77. Question: What country touches the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal?
Answer: India
78. Question: The ancient Phoenician city of Constantine is located in what modern-day Arab country?
Answer: Algeria
79. Question: Which country borders 14 nations and crosses eight time zones?
Answer: Russia
80. Question: Havana is the capital of what country?
Answer: Cuba
81. Question: What country has the most natural lakes?
Answer: Canada
82. Question: Riyadh is the capital of this Middle-Eastern country.
Answer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
83. Question: Which Central American country has a name that translates to English as “The Saviour”?
Answer: El Salvador
84. Question: In what country would you find Lake Bled?
Answer: Slovenia
85. Questions: What is the loudest animal on Earth?
Answer: Sperm Whale
86. Questions: How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: 3
87. Questions: The unicorn is the national animal of which country?
Answer: Scotland
88. Questions: What are the folds of skin on a cat’s ears called?
Answer: “Henry’s pockets” or marginal cutaneous pouches
89. Questions: A group of ravens is known as?
Answer: Unkindness
90. Questions: How many legs does a spider have?
Answer: 8
91. Questions: How long do elephant pregnancies last?
Answer: 22 months
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92. Questions: What mammals lay eggs?
Answer: Spiny anteater and the duck-billed platypus
93. Questions: What type of animal is a Flemish giant?
Answer: Rabbit
94. Questions: The name of which African animal means “river horse”?
Answer: Hippopotamus
95. Question: A human’s thumb is as long as their nose.
Answer: True.
96. Question: A sneeze occurs at about 100 miles an hour.
Answer: True.
97. Question: What is the capital of the United Kingdom?
Answer: London.
98. Question: What is the population of the United Kingdom?
Answer: 65,105,246 people.
99. Question: In Game of Thrones, which name is given to the bastards of The Reach?
Answer: Flowers
100. Question: In Game of Thrones, At Hoster Tully’s funeral, who shot the burning arrow that hit its mark?
Answer: Brynden Tully
101. Question: In Game of Thrones, who said the following line, “I always hated crossbows. Take too long to load!”
Answer: Yoren
102. Question: How many fingertips did Stannis Baratheon chop off of Davos’ hand(s)?
Answer: Four
103. Question: Who is the king of Westeros when the series begins?
Answer: Robert Baratheon
Challenging Trivia Quiz:
Challenging trivia night questions is a great way to test participants on their general knowledge. Use the tough questions below and see how many correct answers the participants get.
105. Question: In what type of matter are atoms most tightly packed?
Answer: Solids
106. Question: What is the hottest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Venus, with a temperature of 460 °C
107. Question: What is the opposite of matter?
Answer: Antimatter
108. Question: Which of Newton’s Laws states that ‘for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction?
Answer: The third law of motion
109. Question: In 2004, what was discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesia?
Answer: Remains of a hobbit-sized human
110. Question: What is the nearest planet to the sun?
Answer: Mercury
111. Question: What color is your blood when it’s inside your body?
Answer: Red, the blood contains hemoglobin, which is a red protein.
112. Question: Is Pluto a planet?
Answer: Not anymore; it is a dwarf planet.
113. Question: How many teeth does an adult human have?
Answer: 32
114. Question: What tissues connect the muscles to the bones?
Answer: Tendons
115. Question: How many legs do the Legs of Man have? Answer: Three.
116. Question: How many tails does a Manx cat have?
Answer: None.
117. Question: How many teeth does an aardvark have?
Answer: None.
118. Question: Which sea creature has three hearts?
Answer: Octopus.
119. Question: Which instrument has forty-seven strings and seven pedals?
Answer: Harp.
120. Question: Whose face was said to have launched 1,000 ships?
Answer: Helen of Troy.
121. Question: In the traditional rhyme, how many mice were blind?
Answer: Three.
122. Question: How many bones does an adult human have?
Answer: Two hundred and six.
123. Question: How many pedals do most modern pianos have?
Answer: Three.
124. Question: When did Julius Caesar die?
Answer: He was murdered by some nobles on March 15th, 44 BCE.
125. Question: What percentage of the human body is water?
Answer: 66%.
126. Question: Water boils at 212 degrees on which temperature scale?
Answer: Fahrenheit.
127. Question: Who went to school with a lamb?
Answer: Mary.
128. Question: Who sat in a corner eating a Christmas pie?
Answer: Little Jack Horner.
129. Question: Where did the lady wearing rings on her fingers and bells on her toes ride to?
Answer: Banbury Cross.
130. Question: Which item of nursery furniture was set on top of a tree?
Answer: Cradle.
131. Question: When did Julius Caesar bear?
Answer: July 12/13, 100? BCE
132. Question: Name the once-popular boy’s building game aimed at developing an understanding of mechanics and electronics.
Answer: Mechano
133. Question: Name the doll which was famous for crying.
Response: Tiny Tears.
134. Question: Which furry creatures lived on Wimbledon Common?
Answer: Wombles.
135. Question: If you rode a Chopper, what was this?
Answer: Bicycle.
136. Question: What was soaked in vinegar then hung on a string?
Answer: Conker.
Conclusion
In the above article, you have the best trivia about sports, entertainment, geography, and many others. We hope now you know everything about hosting a successful trivia night.
You can also check out the trivia murder party app when hosting an online trivia night.
Good Luck with your trivia tight. Do leave a comment below if you have any further queries.
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