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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 12 July 2026
(1) The original colour of the White House was grey.
(2) Aicraft black boxes are orange.
(3) The original colour of Coca-Cola was green.
(4) The anagram from “epileptic soda” is “Diet
Pepsi-Cola”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 17 May 2026
Answers to questions on islands:
(1) There are 7000 islands in the Philippines when it is
high tide. At low tide the country has 7100 islands. (Question
was: "When are there 7000 islands in the Philippines?")
(2) The world’s largest island after Greenland is Papua
New Guinea. (Question was: "Because Australia is
regarded as a continent, Greenland is the world's largest
island. What is second largest?")
(3) Inaccessible Island is virtually inaccessible. It is
in the Atlantic Ocean, in a remote spot between South America
and Africa. (Question was " Is Inaccessible inaccessible?")
(4) The anagram from “O, mile trek” is “kilometre”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 10 May 2026
Answers to questions on personal names:
(1) Gonxha Bojaxhiu was the world’s most admired woman
when she died in India in 1997 as Mother Theresa.
(2) What were French composer Julien’s given names?
If you got this right, you were doing fairly well. Julien
had 36 given names. (Top Ten of Everything)
(3) The most common first name for a male worldwide is Mohammad.
(4) The anagram from “Script: he ever hero” is
Christopher Reeve.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 19 April 2026
Answers to questions on country names:
(1) The “stan” in the names of countries such
as Afghanistan means place. So “Afghanistan” means
“Afghanis’ place”.
(2) Greenland has the ice, but Iceland has the green. Greenland
was named by Eric the Red, who sailed from Iceland in AD982.
The name was a sales ploy to entice people to migrate there
and afford him some company. Iceland was so-named to deter
migrants. On the other hand, half of this answer might well
be just myth.(Question was: "How did Greenland and Iceland
get their names?")
(3) In its first eight letters, the country name Kyrgyzstan
has an amazing eight consonants, and therefore no vowels.
(4) The anagram from “Leprechaun fib I retold”
is “The Republic of Ireland"
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 15 March 2026
Answers to questions on inventions:
1) Roman numerals were invented in India.
(2) The Pakistanis invented the bagpipes.
(3) Indian ink was invented in China.
(4) The anagram from “I am on a march” is “Chairman
Mao”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 8 March 2026
Answers to questions on accidents:
(1) The 1968 exhibition at Harrogate, UK, by the Royal Society
for the Prevention of Accidents was marred somewhat when the
entire display fell down. (Book of Heroic Failures) (Question
was: "What happened to the 1968 exhibition at Harrogate
by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents?")
(2) It will be another 25 000 years before the radiation
from the nuclear reactor that exploded at Chernobyl in April
1986 will have dropped to a safe level.
(3) Colliding with a deer is the cause of the largest number,
30%, of Swedish road accidents.
(4) The anagram from “mishap…but locate clues”
was “Space Shuttle Columbia”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 22 February 2026
Answers to questions on time:
(1) The timepiece with the most moving
parts is the sandglass, and that with the least moving parts
is the sundial, with none. (Question was: " Of all of
history’s timepieces, which had the most moving parts
and which had the least moving parts?")
(2) Time of day in Ethiopia begins at sunrise, so our 7am
is called 1am in Ethiopia. (Question was: "Why does the
sun rise before 1 o’clock every morning in Ethiopia?")
(3) What time is it at the North Pole? You can take your
pick, as 24 time zones meet there.
(4) The anagram from “wonkey items there” is
“The New York Times”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 1 February 2026
Answers to questions on street names:
(1) The most common street name in Sydney is Park Street.
(Question was: "What is the most common street name in
Sydney, Australia? - Try thinking of something that almost
every suburb has, like a church or a railway station. But
no, it’s not Church Street or Railway Street.")
(2) If you followed our suggestion and made a second choice
for this answer, congratulations! The most common street name
in the USA is Second Street. Park Street is second, followed
by Third, Fourth and Fifth Streets, before First Street gets
a place. (The Top Ten of Everything). (Question was "(2)
What is the most common street name in the USA? - It’s
most unlikely to be the same as your answer to the first question,
so try a second choice.")
(3) The main street in Latvia’s capital, Riga, has
enjoyed all the names of Adolf Hitler Strasse, Alexander Boulevard,
Freedom Street and Lenin Street, depending on what country
last “liberated” it. (Signs of the Times)
(4) The anagram from “to race in” is “a
Citroen”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 25 January 2026
Answers to lthe questions on wildlife:
(1) The King owns all of England’s swans. (University
of Sydney Diary)
(2) About 10 million penguins live on South Georgia Island.
We assume that the life expectancy of the local fish is not
great.
(3) Outside of zoos, all penguins are in the southern hemisphere,
primarily in the Antarctic. (Absolute Trivia)
(4) The anagram of “flutter by” is “butterfly”.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 11 January 2026
Answers to the questions on countries:
(1) Sudan is Africa’s largest country.
(2) “Costa Rica” means “rich coast”;
“El Salvador” means “the Saviour”
and “Guatemala” means “land of many trees”.
(Question was: "What Central American countries’
names mean “rich coast”, “the Saviour”
and “land of many trees”?")
(3) The Sahara Desert is found in Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya,
Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia.
(4) “But I’m in a desert area” is an anagram
of United Arab Emirates.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 4 January 2026
Answers to the questions on world rivers:
(1) A drop of water takes at least four years to travel from
the headwaters of the Colorado River to the Gulf of California.
In some years no water makes it to the gulf. (National Geographic
December 2001). (Question was: "How long does it take
a drop of water to travel from the headwaters of the Colorado
River to the Gulf of California? (a) almost a week (b) several
months (c) years")
(2) Every twist of the Gambia River in The Gambia is matched
by a similar twist in the country’s borders. (Question
was: "Every twist of the Gambia River is matched by something
that is approximately 20 kilometres from each bank. What is
this?")
(3) How many rivers would be needed to fill an empty Lake
Bailkal in one year? All of them. Russia’s Lake Baikal
is the world’s deepest. All the rivers in the world
would take a year to fill it if it were empty. (Discovery
Channel’s World’s Best Natural Wonders)
(4) The water transport that is an anagram of “ocean”
is “canoe”.
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