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90 Funny Trivia Questions and Answers

Reviewed by Aleesha Rubinstein, Editor·Updated Sep 2026·11 min read

Ninety funny trivia questions with answers — and every single one is true. Emu wars, cube-shaped wombat poo, an Olympic marathon won in a car, and a flood of molasses.

Funny Trivia title card — 90 questions and answers from Everything Trivia.

  1. 1Which country lost a war against emus in 1932?

  2. 2What is a group of flamingos called?

  3. 3What is a group of pugs called?

  4. 4What shape is wombat poo?

  5. 5What is Scotland's national animal?

  6. 6How many hearts does an octopus have?

  7. 7Botanically speaking, which of these is a berry?

  8. 8Why do sea otters hold hands while they sleep?

  9. 9What food has been found still edible in 3,000-year-old Egyptian tombs?

  10. 10What is the dot above a lower-case 'i' called?

  11. 11Which taste can cats not detect?

  12. 12What was Nintendo's original business when it was founded in 1889?

  13. 13Which product was originally invented as textured wallpaper?

  14. 14Which modelling compound for children started life as a wallpaper cleaner?

  15. 15What is a group of crows called?

  16. 16Peanuts are not actually nuts. What are they?

  17. 17Where is a shrimp's heart located?

  18. 18What appeared on Earth first?

  19. 19How does a tiger's skin look underneath its fur?

  20. 20Which animal kills the most humans each year?

  21. 21Is the Great Wall of China visible from space with the naked eye?

  22. 22On Venus, which lasts longer?

  23. 23Roughly how long did the world's shortest recorded war last?

  24. 24What was discovered when a chocolate bar melted in an engineer's pocket beside a radar set?

  25. 25Which fastener was inspired by burrs sticking to a dog's fur?

  26. 26What does the '40' in WD-40 refer to?

  27. 27Which office product came from an adhesive dismissed as too weak to be useful?

  28. 28Roughly how long does the world's shortest scheduled commercial flight take?

  29. 29What is Barbie's full name?

  30. 30Which toy was the first ever advertised on television?

  31. 31Which country has effectively no mosquitoes?

  32. 32In Switzerland it is illegal to keep only one of which pet, on the grounds that they get lonely?

  33. 33What is an Olympic gold medal mostly made of?

  34. 34How long did the Hundred Years' War actually last?

  35. 35Which sport was contested at the Olympics between 1900 and 1920 before being dropped?

  36. 36Which largely desert country has to import sand for construction?

  37. 37In the 1932 Emu War, who came out on top?

  38. 38Which Arctic town is known for effectively banning burials, because the permafrost stops bodies decomposing?

  39. 39At the 1904 Olympic marathon, how did the first man over the line cover much of the course?

  40. 40What did handlers give the eventual winner of the 1904 Olympic marathon during the race?

  41. 41What struck Strasbourg in 1518, with people reportedly dancing for days on end?

  42. 42What flooded the streets of Boston's North End in 1919?

  43. 43What flooded a London parish in 1814 when a brewery vat burst?

  44. 44Cleopatra lived closer in time to which of these?

  45. 45Which is older?

  46. 46A working facsimile machine was patented before which event?

  47. 47Woolly mammoths were still alive on Wrangel Island when what already stood?

  48. 48Which unusual discipline was an official Olympic event until 1992?

  49. 49Which live-target event was contested at the 1900 Olympic Games?

  50. 50How did Voltaire famously describe the Holy Roman Empire?

  51. 51Which country hosts the World Wife Carrying Championships?

  52. 52At the Cooper's Hill event in England, what do competitors chase down a steep slope?

  53. 53What can visitors reportedly hear inside the world's quietest anechoic chambers?

  54. 54What was the Guinness Book of Records originally created to settle?

  55. 55Which annual prizes honour research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think?

  56. 56What did ancient Romans use as both a mouthwash and a laundry treatment?

  57. 57Why did wealthy Europeans once believe tomatoes were poisonous?

  58. 58The British spread a wartime story that eating carrots improved night vision. What was it covering up?

  59. 59In the 1830s, what was tomato ketchup sold as?

  60. 60Which powerful adhesive was discovered during attempts to make clear plastic gun sights?

  61. 61How was the Slinky invented?

  62. 62What is the @ symbol commonly called in Italian?

  63. 63Which country's national anthem famously has no official lyrics?

  64. 64Which word first appeared in print in a Dr. Seuss book in 1950?

  65. 65Which long word can be typed using only the top row of a QWERTY keyboard?

  66. 66Which common English word is often given as the longest with no A, E, I, O or U in it?

  67. 67Why is a baker's dozen thirteen rather than twelve?

  68. 68Which country reportedly closed prisons in the 2010s for want of inmates?

  69. 69What happens to the Eiffel Tower in hot weather?

  70. 70Which fruit did sailors once carry as a status symbol, renting it out for parties on their return?

  71. 71Roughly how many rounds of ammunition were fired during Australia's Emu War?

  72. 72Which branch of the Australian military was sent to fight the emus?

  73. 73Who is traditionally named as the woman whose dancing began the 1518 Strasbourg outbreak?

  74. 74What did residents of Boston's North End claim they could still smell decades after the 1919 flood?

  75. 75Which sultan's brief reign was ended by the Anglo-Zanzibar War?

  76. 76What happened to Fredric Baur, the man who designed the Pringles can?

  77. 77Which 45-letter lung disease is often cited as the longest word in major English dictionaries?

  78. 78The popular story that the word 'quiz' was invented to win a bet in Dublin is almost certainly what?

  79. 79How big is a blue whale's heart, despite the claim that a human could swim through its arteries?

  80. 80Which insect has been shown in studies to recognise individual human faces?

  81. 81Which 1858 event finally forced Parliament to fund a modern London sewer system?

  82. 82What is a 'jiffy' in physics?

  83. 83How does the number of possible chess games compare with the number of atoms in the observable universe?

  84. 84How tall was Napoleon Bonaparte relative to French men of his era?

  85. 85Whose frustration at a shooting party led to the Guinness Book of Records?

  86. 86Land slugs use tentacles to smell. How many tentacles does a typical land slug have?

  87. 87What did Percy Spencer reportedly cook second, after the chocolate bar in his pocket melted?

  88. 88How many British combatants were recorded as casualties in the Anglo-Zanzibar War?

  89. 89In which decade was a working facsimile machine first patented?

  90. 90Which Olympic Games awarded prizes for art alongside sport?

Answer Key

  1. 1. Australia
  2. 2. A flamboyance
  3. 3. A grumble
  4. 4. Cube-shaped
  5. 5. The unicorn
  6. 6. Three
  7. 7. The banana
  8. 8. So they do not drift apart
  9. 9. Honey
  10. 10. A tittle
  11. 11. Sweetness
  12. 12. Making playing cards
  13. 13. Bubble wrap
  14. 14. Play-Doh
  15. 15. A murder
  16. 16. Legumes
  17. 17. In its head
  18. 18. Sharks
  19. 19. Striped, matching the coat
  20. 20. The mosquito
  21. 21. No — it is far too narrow
  22. 22. A day
  23. 23. About 38 minutes
  24. 24. Microwave cooking
  25. 25. Velcro
  26. 26. It was the 40th formulation attempted
  27. 27. The Post-it Note
  28. 28. About 90 seconds
  29. 29. Barbara Millicent Roberts
  30. 30. Mr. Potato Head
  31. 31. Iceland
  32. 32. A guinea pig
  33. 33. Silver
  34. 34. 116 years
  35. 35. Tug of war
  36. 36. Saudi Arabia
  37. 37. The emus — the operation was called off
  38. 38. Longyearbyen, in Svalbard
  39. 39. He rode in a car
  40. 40. Strychnine and brandy
  41. 41. A dancing plague
  42. 42. Molasses
  43. 43. Beer
  44. 44. The Moon landing
  45. 45. Oxford University
  46. 46. The American Civil War
  47. 47. The Great Pyramid of Giza
  48. 48. Solo synchronised swimming
  49. 49. Pigeon shooting
  50. 50. Neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire
  51. 51. Finland
  52. 52. A wheel of cheese
  53. 53. Their own heartbeat and blood flow
  54. 54. Arguments in pubs
  55. 55. The Ig Nobel Prizes
  56. 56. Urine
  57. 57. Acidic tomatoes leached lead from their pewter plates
  58. 58. Radar
  59. 59. Medicine
  60. 60. Cyanoacrylate, sold as Super Glue
  61. 61. A naval engineer knocked a tension spring off a shelf and watched it walk
  62. 62. Chiocciola, meaning snail
  63. 63. Spain
  64. 64. Nerd
  65. 65. Typewriter
  66. 66. Rhythms
  67. 67. Bakers added a loaf to avoid penalties for selling underweight bread
  68. 68. The Netherlands
  69. 69. It grows by around 15 cm
  70. 70. The pineapple
  71. 71. About 10,000
  72. 72. The Royal Australian Artillery
  73. 73. Frau Troffea
  74. 74. Molasses, on hot days
  75. 75. Khalid bin Barghash
  76. 76. His ashes were buried in one
  77. 77. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
  78. 78. An invented tale with no contemporary evidence
  79. 79. About the size of a small car, with arteries far too narrow to swim through
  80. 80. The honeybee
  81. 81. The Great Stink
  82. 82. A genuine unit of time, defined differently in different fields
  83. 83. It is vastly larger
  84. 84. About average
  85. 85. Sir Hugh Beaver
  86. 86. Four
  87. 87. Popcorn
  88. 88. One, wounded rather than killed
  89. 89. The 1840s
  90. 90. The Games from 1912 to 1948

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