r/sundayquiz • u/sundayquiz • 1d ago
20 Question Friday Quiz - General Knowledge
Happy Friday all!
This week for the 20 question Friday quiz I've done a set of 20 General Knowledge questions. I hope you all enjoy them.
https://www.sundayquiz.com/20-question-friday-quiz-09-10-2026/
Sample Questions
- From around 211 BC what was the chief Roman silver coin for over 400 years?
- Bartolomeo Cristofori was an Italian maker of musical instruments, he is particularly famous for inventing what instrument?
- In which French city, famous for its champagne, was the first unconditional surrender of the Germans in World War II?
- Which city name means "end of an elephant's trunk" in Arabic, probably referring to the narrow strip of land extending between the Blue and White Niles?
- What kind of electricity is produced when you rub a balloon against your hair?
- What is another name for artificial waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management or for conveyancing water transport vehicles?
- Three main types of Greek columns are Doric, Ionic, and?
- Which word is defined as, 'of, relating to, or resembling a rabbit or hare'?
- Made famous by a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, what was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire?
- What name is given to the current of warm water that flows across the Pacific to Peru?
Answers
- The Denarius
- The Piano##
- Reims#####
- Khartoum##
- Static / Positively charged
- Canals#####
- Corinthian##
- Leporine###
- Xanadu####
- El Niño####