Easy Trivia

100 Easiest Trivia Questions & Answers [Ranked]

Mike Oberman

Updated: October 9th, 2024

Check out this ultimate collection of easy and fun trivia questions and answers designed to light up your trivia nights! In this collection, you'll find questions from categories such as general knowledge questions, the United States, Harry Potter, the solar system, and more. Perfect for trivia games and making your trivia nights memorable.

Easy General Knowledge Trivia

Question: What is the term for the process where plants make their food?

Answer: Photosynthesis

Question: Which country did Ikea originate in?

Answer: Sweden

Question: What is the French name for Santa Claus?

Answer: Pere Noel

Question: What is the chemical symbol for sodium?

Answer: Na

Question: What is the smallest unit of life?

Answer: Cell

Question: What is the rarest blood type?

Answer: AB-Negative

Question: What's Peppa Pig's nationality?

Answer: British

Question: What are the five senses?

Answer: Sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch

Question: What is the French word for "Hello"?

Answer: Bonjour

Question: What vegetable is known to help you see in the dark?

Answer: Carrot

Question: How many colors are in a rainbow?

Answer: Seven

Question: What are the colors of the rainbow?

Answer: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet

Question: Which country was the first man in space from?

Answer: Russia

Question: Where was William Shakespeare born?

Answer: Stratford-Upon-Avon

Effortless Geography Trivia

Question: What is the largest desert in the world?

Answer: Antarctica

Question: What's the largest ocean in the world?

Answer: The Pacific Ocean

Question: In which mountain range would you find the Matterhorn?

Answer: The Alps

Question: What country occupies half of South America’s western coast?

Answer: Chile

Question: Where is the Great Pyramid of Giza?

Answer: Egypt

Question: Where can you find the Great Wall?

Answer: China

Question: What is the name of the longest river in South America?

Answer: Amazon River

Question: In which city would you find the Eiffel Tower?

Answer: Paris

Question: What is the capital of China?

Answer: Beijing

Question: What is the capital of Brazil?

Answer: Brasília

Question: What is the world's longest river?

Answer: The Nile

Question: In which US state can you find the Grand Canyon?

Answer: Arizona

Question: What is the world's deepest trench?

Answer: Mariana Trench

Simple Science and Math Trivia

Question: What is the periodic symbol for oxygen?

Answer: O

Question: What is the chemical symbol for gold?

Answer: Au

Question: What gives plants their color?

Answer: Chlorophyll

Question: What temperature does water boil at?

Answer: 212 degrees F / 100 degrees C

Question: What is the chemical symbol for potassium?

Answer: K

Question: What is the term for a lie detector?

Answer: Polygraph

Question: How many meters are in a kilometer?

Answer: 1,000

Question: What planet is closest to the sun?

Answer: Mercury

Question: What is the largest planet in our solar system?

Answer: Jupiter

Question: What is the name of the galaxy we live in?

Answer: The Milky Way

Question: What percentage of the human body is made up of water?

Answer: 60%

Question: How many bones are in the human body?

Answer: 206

Question: What is the distance around a circle called?

Answer: Circumference

Question: What do you call a shape with five sides?

Answer: Pentagon

Question: How many sides does a triangle have?

Answer: Three

Question: How many planets are in our solar system?

Answer: Eight

Question: What is the technical term for a flowering plant that has seeds enclosed within a fruit?

Answer: Angiosperm

Question: What is the study of fossils called?

Answer: Paleontology

Question: What is the chemical formula for salt?

Answer: NaCl

Question: What is the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere?

Answer: Nitrogen

Question: How many elements are on the periodic table?

Answer: 118

Basic Animals Trivia

Question: What is the fastest land animal?

Answer: Cheetah

Question: What kind of animal is an albatross?

Answer: A bird

Question: What is the largest reptile in the world?

Answer: The saltwater crocodile

Question: What type of whale is actually a dolphin?

Answer: Orca

Question: What type of animal is a platypus?

Answer: Mammal

Question: What is the world's smallest bird?

Answer: Bee Hummingbird

Question: What is a group of crows called?

Answer: A murder

Question: What is the term for a species so important to the ecosystem that its removal would cause major changes?

Answer: Keystone species

Elementary Entertainment Trivia

Question: What is the name of the musical artist who sings the song “Watermelon Sugar”?

Answer: Harry Styles

Question: What actor starred alongside Julia Roberts in the 2022 film Ticket to Paradise?

Answer: George Clooney

Question: What is the name of the main character in the film "Pirates of the Caribbean"?

Answer: Captain Jack Sparrow

Question: What year did the film "Titanic" come out?

Answer: 1997

Question: What is the name of the TV show where contestants are stranded on an island?

Answer: Survivor

Question: Who plays Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean?

Answer: Johnny Depp

Question: What are the names of the three fairy godmothers in "Sleeping Beauty"?

Answer: Flora, Fauna, Merryweather

Question: Who was the lead singer of the band Queen?

Answer: Freddie Mercury

Undemanding Book and Movies Trivia

Question: Who is the author of the Harry Potter series?

Answer: J.K. Rowling

Question: What is the name of the boy who never grows up in "Peter Pan"?

Answer: Peter Pan

Question: What's the name of Harry Potter's pet owl?

Answer: Hedwig

Question: Which hobbit friend in the Lord of the Rings accompanies Frodo to Mordor?

Answer: Samwise Gamgee

Question: What movie is the quote “To infinity and beyond!” from?

Answer: Toy Story

Question: What is the name of the actor who played Jack in Titanic?

Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio

Question: What is the name of Han Solo’s ship?

Answer: Millennium Falcon

Question: What Disney movie is about a young woman who falls in love with a man turned beast?

Answer: Beauty and the Beast

Quick Sports Trivia

Question: What sport does Cristiano Ronaldo play?

Answer: Soccer/football

Question: How many players are on a basketball team?

Answer: Five

Question: What sport is known as "America's pastime"?

Answer: Baseball

Question: What is the objective in golf?

Answer: To get the ball into the hole with the fewest strokes

Question: What is the name of the championship series in Major League Baseball?

Answer: The World Series

Question: In tennis, what is it called when a player wins four points without the opponent scoring?

Answer: A game

Question: How many innings are there in a standard baseball game?

Answer: Nine

Question: What is the highest score possible in a single frame of bowling?

Answer: 30

Question: What is the name of the soccer tournament held every four years, featuring teams from around the world?

Answer: The FIFA World Cup

Question: What is the shape of a rugby ball?

Answer: Oval

Painless History Trivia

Question: What year did the United States declare its independence?

Answer: 1776

Question: What year was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

Answer: 1863

Question: What year was Barack Obama elected to the US presidency?

Answer: 2008

Question: What year was the Moon landing?

Answer: 1969

Question: Who lives in the White House?

Answer: The President and the First Family

Question: What year did Christopher Columbus first reach the Americas?

Answer: 1492

Question: What year did World War II end?

Answer: 1945

Question: What year did Barbie come out?

Answer: 1959

Question: What year was the French Revolution?

Answer: 1789

Question: In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?

Answer: 1989

Question: Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the US?

Answer: France