The Most Challenging Trivia Questions Ever!!: 1,248 Questions to Really Test Your Trivia Knowledge!

By Tom Trifonoff

The Most Challenging Trivia Questions Ever!! will test even the most serious trivia players. While the questions are challenging, each one has a choice of four possible answers. There are 1,248 questions in the book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Jun 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984500151

Tom Trifonoff

This is the twelfth Quiz and Trivia book by Quiz Master Tom Trifonoff as he continues his passion of things to do with knowledge and trivia. It is also his first wholly multiple choice quiz book that will appeal to adults and children alike. Tom’s new book is sure to be a winner with all age groups.

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Copyright © 2018 by Tom Trifonoff.

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This book is dedicated to, and inspired by, Carolyn, Jenna and Callum Trifonoff

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Introduction

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W elcome to The Most Challenging Trivia Questions Ever!! These questions are designed to test even the most knowledgeable of trivia kings and queens.

I make no apologies for the difficulty level of the questions; after all, that’s what the book’s all about. However it’s not all bad news. Because the questions in the main part are difficult and obscure, there is a choice of 4 possible answers to choose from, making it one of the longest multiple choice tests you’ve come across. In the case where the answer is a year, there is a small range of years to choose from. So, even if you have absolutely no idea what the correct answer is, you can still take a guess and be successful. The multiple choice format has been challenging trivia gurus and school students completing standardised tests for years; and now it’s your turn!

Every now and then you may get a run on answers and you’ll think This isn’t so hard after all. but then you will probably hit a barren patch and get really frustrated at the whole thing. I hope that doesn’t happen though.

There is a world feel about the questions. That means there’s a lot of obscure trivia out there and it covers the whole world. Even the famous, and infamous, will have some obscure fact about them that will surprise you. And in later conversations you can dazzle your friends about a famous person that they didn’t know something about.

The book has been divided into two parts-the first being the 1248 questions with their four options, and then all the answers in the second part. Some of the answers will have a little more clarification and detail just for some more information for the reader/quiz master. While it was tempting to put the correct answer on the next page, it becomes a bit more of a challenge to have a guess at the answer, and then try and find it, just to check that you were right of course.

All the answers have been individually checked to ensure they are correct. Where there is an event liable to change (ie sporting records, world leaders, moons of planets etc.), the question has been worded to ensure it is correct at the time of writing this book.

The book has been designed across many topics to ensure it is a complete trivia book, rather than focusing just on history, sports, entertainment, geography, science etc. It aims to involve as many people as possible to try and answer challenging, obscure and outright trivial questions about our world, and everything on it.

The aim of every quiz/trivia book is to stimulate thought and encourage participation via questions that will challenge the people answering the questions. Failing that, there should also be an option to take an educated guess in the hope of getting it right. Many a quiz has been won by that one totally guessed answer that got you and your team over the line.

The Most Challenging Trivia Questions Ever!! is a book with all that in it. Some of the answers will surprise you, but if you already knew the answer, then the other 3 choices to choose from will look irrelevant to you.

There is no pattern to the answers. While some may adhere to the old saying, if in doubt, choose C, that won’t get you a very high score with this quiz-but some of the correct answers are C! You’ve just got to know which one it is. The correct answer (with the corresponding letter) have been deliberately jumbled to avoid any pattern emerging from which letters A, B, C or D have been used.

I hope that you will at least have a go at the answers-sadly, too often these days many are afraid just to take a guess. Well, you don’t have to be afraid of anything, just savour the challenge, and hopefully you will get many correct answers, either by knowledge or guess work, by answering the trivia in "The Most Challenging Trivia Questions Ever!!"

Tom Trifonoff

July 2018

The Most Challenging Trivia Questions Ever!!

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1. In what year did Shawn Colvin win the Grammy for Record of the Year?

2. Sunan is an airport in which country?

3. The US WW1 recruitment poster I Want You was designed by which artist?

4. The Blue Danube Airport is located in which city?

5. The Encke Gap is a feature of which planet?

6. How achievements mock me is a quote from which Shakespeare play?

7. What was awarded to the winners of the British Open Golf Championship between 1860-1870?

8. The lingula is part of which organ?

9. You know I can’t drink anymore were the last words of which artist?

10. Kale is noted for its high content of what vitamin?

11. At which theatre did The Nutcracker premiere?

12. Their first single on Chess records, which group had a No.1 smash hit with Sincerely?

13. Which of the sense deteriorates first with age?

14. Walt Disney passed away during the production of which film?

15. What brand of motor vehicle features in the title of a 2013 Ace Hood hit?

16. How many known moons orbit Pluto?

17. The Khyber Pass is approximately how many miles long?

18. In the UK, in which year was the voting age lowered from 30 to 21 for women?

19. Which playing card is known as the Snowman?

20. What was US President Gerald Ford’s middle name?

21. A tegestologist collects what?

22. How many stars appear on the national flag of Kosovo?

23. Which King of England sold Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France?

24. Who headlined at the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970?

25. In which year was the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, otherwise known as The Proms, founded?

26. Which US President died in 1841, on his 32nd day in office?

27. The Chicago Bears defeated which team 73-0 in the 1940 NFL Championship game?

28. What were the first names of writer C.S.Lewis?

29. How many imperial gallons of oil are in a barrel?

30. In which year was the death penalty for treason formally abolished on the mainland in the UK?