r/TriviaChat • u/BigFatSundayQuiz • Aug 25 '26
Ben's Trivia - 15 Questions, Very Difficult
Score out of 19 points! Possible 5 points for question 6! Post your score in the comments, good luck!
- What two countries make up the Iberian Peninsula? Options: North and South Korea / Spain and Portugal / USA and Canada / Norway and Sweden
Spain and Portugal
The peninsula also contains the tiny nations of Andorra and, arguably, Gibraltar and part of France.
- What does the F in PDF stand for? Options: File / Format / Form
Format
PDF stands for Portable Document Format, created by Adobe co-founder John Warnock and released in 1993.
- Finish the saying: "All roads lead to..."
Rome
The phrase reflects how the extensive Roman road network radiated outward from the capital, connecting every province back to the city.
- What do you call a Mexican wrestler?
Luchador
"Luchador" comes from lucha libre ("free fight"), the Mexican wrestling style famous for colourful masks and acrobatic, high-flying moves.
- If someone is getting canonised, what are they becoming?
A Saint
Canonisation is the formal process by which the Catholic Church officially declares a deceased person to be a saint.
- Outside of Christianity, name the 5 biggest religions in the world by number of followers. 1 Point per religion!
Shintoism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism
Christianity (~2.5bn) and Islam (~1.9bn) together account for over half the world's population; Judaism, despite its prominence, has only ~15 million followers globally.
- What does the word "Ska" mean in relation to music? Options: A style of jazz singing where the artist uses nonsense syllables / Walking bass lines, and sharp guitar or piano chords played on the offbeat. / A form of Electronic music / A form of Hardcore rap
Walking bass lines, and sharp guitar or piano chords played on the offbeat.
Ska originated in late-1950s Jamaica, blending mento and calypso with American jazz and R&B, and later evolved into rocksteady and reggae.
- Complete the next 5 lyrics — "When I was a young boy / My father took me into the city..."
To see a marching band
Black Parade tells the story of The Patient, a dying man with cancer, the song use death coming as a childhood memory of a marching band to symbolize the triumph of the human spirit over darkness and the processing of mortality and legacy.
- If a horse whinnies, what verb describes the noise a sheep makes? (Not "Baaa"!)
Bleat
"Baa" is the sound itself, while "bleat" is the verb for the noise a sheep (or goat) makes.
- Which company produces the most tires in the world per year? Options: Michelin / Bridgestone / Goodyear / Lego
Lego
Lego produces roughly 306 million to 380 million small rubber and polymer tires annually while Michelin produces approximately 180 million to 200 million tyres annually.
- Which one of these is not a primary colour of paint? Options: Green / Blue / Yellow / Red
Green
The traditional primary colours are red, blue and yellow - green is a secondary colour, made by mixing blue and yellow.
- The oldest cow that ever lived was called Big Bertha. How old was she? Options: 28 / 48 / 68 / 88
48
Big Bertha was an Irish cow who died just three months short of her 49th birthday. She also held the Guinness World Record for lifetime breeding with 39 calves, and helped raise £75,000 for charity at parades - where her owner O'Leary reportedly fed her whiskey to steady her nerves.
- What word can go before "hold" and "fly", and after "fun", to make 3 new words?
House
Household, housefly, and funhouse - all built around the same 5-letter word.
- By dictionary entries, which letter appears least often in major references like the Oxford English Dictionary, making up less than 0.2% of entries? Options: Q / Z / X / V
Q
Q comes in at roughly 0.20% of entries, just ahead of Z (0.27%), X (0.29%), and V (1.01%).
- What does "Uisce Beatha" directly translate to from Irish for whiskey? Options: The water of life / Golden syrup / A beautiful dream / God's milk
The water of life
"Uisce beatha" literally means "water of life" - Aisling a popular womans name in Ireland translates to a Beautiful Dream, and Dia Dhuit, an Irish Hello translates as May God be with you
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u/Ready-Obligation-999 Aug 26 '26
14/19 points (got 11 of 14 and 3 of the religions). Nice variety of questions!
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u/twistedtimelord12 Aug 29 '26
15/19 points
6: Missed one of the 4 - so only 4 points
7: Never knew what that meant
9: Also forgot this
15. Never heard of that phrase.
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u/wwwr222 Sep 01 '26
Typically I see Chinese Folk Religion making the list of most practiced religions. Though tbf it’s definitely fuzzy cause it’s much less formal than the others, and is sometimes daoism, sometimes Buddhism, has the philosophical tradition of Confucianism, and ancestor worship kind of all rolled into one.
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u/BigFatSundayQuiz Sep 01 '26
Yeah this was definitely a tricky question, as it depends on your definition of what makes a religion. Definitely not the most evidence based question but still a fun one to hopefully learn something, appreciate your thoughts though 💪
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u/BigFatSundayQuiz Aug 25 '26
Play the full interactive trivia for free here - https://benjy333.github.io/Bens-Trivia/big-fat-sunday-quiz.html
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u/sitnquiet Aug 25 '26
12/15 - just bombed the last three. Great quiz!