General Knowledge Questions I have a friend who seems to be an expert about pretty much everything. Without studying very much at all, he always aces his tests. It is as if he studies smarter than everyone else. His real area of expertise, however, is general knowledge questions. I have taken many pub quizzes with him, and I've seen how it goes. Half the time, he blows away everything in the bar. If he does lose, he invariably loses to someone much older than him who has been answering general knowledge questions in trivia quizzes for years. He knows it all, more or less. He does good at geography trivia, sports trivia, world history, politics, and current events. For someone who listens to classic music and rarely leaves his apartment, he certainly seems to know his way around pop culture. He can answer almost every popular culture question you can ask. I don't know how he does it. For some reason it seems that some people just have a mind like that. Some people seem to absorb nearly everything they ever hear and organize it for later repetition. Whether it is general knowledge questions, abstract philosophy, analytical mathematics, or what have you, they just suck it in. The drawback to having a mind like this is that sometimes it makes you less creative. My friend is definitely an example of this. He is extremely good at combining bits of things he knows together to come up with variations, but few of his ideas are ever genuinely new. It is as if he has so cluttered his mind with the accumulated wealth of human knowledge that he can't make anything up anymore. Still, he does make for an interesting conversationalist. When we aren't answering general knowledge questions at the bar, he generally discourses on current events and world affairs. He has an opinion on everything and a good bit of background information, yet he doesn't act like a know it all. He is as interested in hearing other peoples opinions even if those people might be less informed than he is – which they invariably are. He seems to be genuinely concerned with finding out what other people think. He is even a good sport when he misses general knowledge questions or loses a pub quiz. I think it is nice for him to find someone else in his league. He always had a long talk with the old-timer who beats him when that happens. Summary General knowledge questions can be a great way to find out what you really know and what you don't. Some people naturally acquire bits of knowledge easily and store it for later. Others have a harder time remembering details. Related Articles Essay Questions Who Discovered America? Related Sites Trivia Questions - Free Trial Download