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40 Road Trip Trivia Questions With Answers

No prep, no printouts: forty road trip trivia questions with answers, sorted into rounds and ready to read aloud somewhere past the second coffee stop.

How to run road trip trivia questions in the car

These road trip trivia questions are built for reading aloud: the passenger hosts, everyone else answers, one point per correct answer, host rotates every round. For close calls on the estimate questions, closest answer takes the point. Four rounds of ten below — geography, food and travel, on-the-road knowledge, and a true-or-false lightning round where even wild guessing keeps everyone in the game.

Answers are in brackets right after each question, so the host should be the only one looking at the screen.

Round 1: Geography

  1. What is the capital of Australia? (Canberra — not Sydney)
  2. Which river is traditionally listed as the longest in the world? (The Nile)
  3. What is the smallest country in the world? (Vatican City)
  4. Which country has the most time zones, counting overseas territories? (France — twelve)
  5. How many countries are there in Africa? (54)
  6. Which is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres? (Africa)
  7. What is the largest desert on Earth? (Antarctica — deserts are defined by dryness, not heat)
  8. Which two countries share the longest international border? (The USA and Canada)
  9. Which country is home to the Autobahn? (Germany)
  10. Mount Everest sits on the border of which two countries? (Nepal and China)

Round 2: Food and travel

  1. What is the seaweed wrapped around sushi called? (Nori)
  2. The Margherita pizza was designed to show the colors of which flag? (The Italian flag — red, white, green)
  3. What is the main ingredient in guacamole? (Avocado)
  4. In which country did the croissant's ancestor, the kipferl, originate? (Austria)
  5. Paella comes from which region of Spain? (Valencia)
  6. What does “tapas” roughly translate to? (Lids or covers — small plates said to have covered drinks)
  7. Which country drinks the most coffee per person? (Finland)
  8. What currency would you spend in Japan? (Yen)
  9. Which city is famous for its canals: Bruges, Bratislava or Belgrade? (Bruges)
  10. What side of the road do cars drive on in the UK? (The left)

Round 3: On the road

  1. Historic Route 66 ran from Chicago to which city? (Santa Monica / Los Angeles)
  2. What does the “M” in BMW stand for? (Motoren — Bayerische Motoren Werke)
  3. In the US interstate system, do even-numbered highways run east–west or north–south? (East–west)
  4. Which US state has the most coastline? (Alaska)
  5. What is the only US state name with one syllable? (Maine)
  6. How many stripes are on the US flag? (Thirteen)
  7. Which country invented the roundabout-heavy “magic roundabout”? (England — Swindon)
  8. What do the letters GPS stand for? (Global Positioning System)
  9. Which German city is closest to the Danish border: Flensburg, Frankfurt or Freiburg? (Flensburg)
  10. How many keys does a standard piano have — useful for road-trip karaoke arguments? (88)

Round 4: True or false lightning round

  1. The Great Wall of China is visible from space with the naked eye. (False)
  2. Bananas are berries. (True)
  3. Goldfish have a three-second memory. (False — months)
  4. Honey never spoils. (True)
  5. Lightning never strikes the same place twice. (False)
  6. The Eiffel Tower gets taller in summer. (True — the metal expands in heat)
  7. Measured from its underwater base, Mauna Kea is taller than Mount Everest. (True)
  8. Australia is wider than the Moon. (True — about 4,000 km vs roughly 3,475 km diameter)
  9. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones. (Widely claimed and fun to argue — award the point either way)
  10. Neil Armstrong first walked on the Moon in 1971. (False — 1969)

Out of questions but not out of highway? Switch formats: verbal category games from our Scattergories categories list or any of the car games that need nothing at all pick up right where trivia ends.

Never run out of questions again

Forty questions last about an hour with a chatty group. The Play tab in Gempin solves the running-out problem: Trivia Sprint and True or False generate fresh rounds every single game, no two quizzes alike, and they work offline when the highway kills your signal. It's one of five mini-games in our road trip games for adults toolkit.

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