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WorksheetsGeneral Knowledge Quiz
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 38mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which planet has moons named Phobos and Deimos?
a)
Mars
b)
Jupiter
c)
Saturn
d)
Uranus
2.
Who is regarded as the king of the gods in Greek mythology?
a)
Zeus
b)
Apollo
c)
Poseidon
d)
Hades
3.
Who composed the opera "Aida"?
a)
Verdi
b)
Puccini
c)
Mascagni
d)
Donizetti
4.
How many times has Roger Federer won Wimbledon?
a)
8
b)
7
c)
9
d)
6
5.
How many times has Rafael Nadal won at Roland Garros?
a)
14
b)
9
c)
11
d)
10
6.
Who is Trinity's longest serving Head Master?
a)
James Hogg
b)
Roderick West
c)
Milton Cujes
d)
Vernon Murphy
7.
How many foreign languages are offered by Trinity as part of its normal curriculum?
a)
6
b)
5
c)
4
d)
7
8.
Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities"?
a)
Charles Dickens
b)
William Thackeray
c)
Henry James
d)
Herman Melville
9.
Which of Beethoven's symphonies has a choral movement?
a)
9th
b)
8th
c)
7th
d)
6th
10.
With whom did Steven Spielberg collaborate to make "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?
a)
George Lucas
b)
Martin Scorcese
c)
James Cameron
d)
Christopher Nolan
11.
Which of the following plays was NOT written by William Shakespeare?
a)
Antigone
b)
Julius Caesar
c)
King Lear
d)
Macbeth
12.
How many majors has Aussie golfer Jason Day won?
a)
One
b)
None
c)
Two
d)
Three
13.
Which river carries the most water to the sea?
a)
Nile
b)
Ganges
c)
Amazon
d)
Danube
14.
Which of the Gospels is not regarded as synoptic?
a)
John
b)
Matthew
c)
Luke
d)
Mark
15.
Which of the following verbs is NOT similar in meaning to "abhor"?
a)
abjure
b)
loathe
c)
detest
d)
hate
16.
If you are "disinterested", you are ...
a)
impartial
b)
biased
c)
bored
d)
not interested
17.
You congratulate someone ... an achievement. The missing word is:
a)
on
b)
with
c)
in
d)
through
18.
Just between you and ... , I don't like them very much. The missing word is:
a)
I
b)
myself
c)
me
d)
we
19.
We worked all day. The two words "all day" could be described as:
a)
an adverb
b)
an adjective
c)
a noun
d)
an object of the verb
20.
He is a politician. In this last sentence, "politician" is:
a)
in the nominative case
b)
the object of the verb
c)
an adverb
d)
in the accusative case
21.
When you put endings on verbs, you are ... .
a)
declining them
b)
conjugating them
c)
making them passive
d)
making them infinitives
22.
How much do you pay for something if you get it "gratis"?
a)
nothing
b)
very little
c)
the accepted price
d)
more than the normal price
23.
To which continent is the rubber tree native?
a)
Africa
b)
Asia
c)
South America
d)
North america
24.
If you are seriously into gastronomic delights, in which of the following places would you be spending a lot of time?
a)
an expensive restaurant
b)
an exclusive fashion store
c)
a famous planetarium
d)
a major art gallery
25.
Which large body of water is familiarly known as "the pond"?
a)
Atlantic Ocean
b)
Pacific Ocean
c)
Southern Ocean
d)
Arctic Ocean
26.
In which country is the secret service called Mossad?
a)
Israel
b)
Saudi Arabia
c)
Lebanon
d)
Syria
27.
Who invented dynamite?
a)
Alfred Nobel
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Alexander Graham Bell
d)
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
28.
Which country's capital is Madrid?
a)
Spain
b)
Portugal
c)
Albania
d)
Italy
29.
Which mythological figure came up with the idea of The Trojan Horse?
a)
Odysseus
b)
Agamemnon
c)
Achilles
d)
Menelaus
30.
The real identity of "Green Arrow" is ...
a)
Oliver Queen
b)
Barry Allen
c)
Bruce Wayne
d)
Arthur Curry
31.
How many single squares are there on a chessboard?
a)
64
b)
36
c)
100
d)
81
32.
The Apple computer appeared on the market in ...
a)
1976
b)
1978
c)
1980
d)
1982
33.
Which country's Rugby Union team is called the "Pumas"?
a)
Argentina
b)
South Africa
c)
France
d)
Italy
34.
For how many years did "Sleeping Beauty" sleep?
a)
100
b)
50
c)
20
d)
200
35.
Which famous American actor has an airport named after him?
a)
John Wayne
b)
Paul Newman
c)
Humphrey Bogart
d)
Gary Cooper
36.
In which of these films does Tom Cruise NOT appear?
a)
The Color of Money
b)
The War of the Worlds
c)
Top Gun
d)
Passengers
37.
Who is Leonardo di Caprio's male co-star in the film "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"?
a)
Johnny Depp
b)
Joaquin Phoenix
c)
Matthew McConaughey
d)
Matt Damon
38.
Which of these films won the FEWEST Academy Awards?
a)
Gone With The Wind
b)
Titanic
c)
Ben-Hur
d)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
39.
In which of the following films does Kate Winslet NOT act?
a)
Bend It Like Beckham
b)
The Reader
c)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
d)
Divergent
40.
Which of these languages is NOT classified as a Romance language?
a)
Danish
b)
Romanian
c)
Spanish
d)
Portuguese
41.
Which of these words is NOT Germanic in origin?
a)
spectre
b)
ghost
c)
spook
d)
nightmare
42.
What animal am I talking about if I use the adjective "equine"?
a)
horse
b)
bear
c)
pig
d)
porcupine
43.
Who wrote the novella "The Shawshank Redemption"?
a)
Stephen King
b)
Sarah J. Maas
c)
Suzanne Collins
d)
Jeff Wheeler
44.
In which year did the Eels first win the Rugby League Premiership?
a)
1981
b)
1982
c)
1977
d)
1979
45.
Which of these batsmen did NOT average over 60 when they completed 5 000 runs in Test Cricket?
a)
Viv Richards
b)
Gary Sobers
c)
Steve Smith
d)
Don Bradman
46.
Which Australian bowler has taken the most Test wickets?
a)
Shane Warne
b)
Glenn McGrath
c)
Dennis Lillee
d)
Mitchell Johnson
47.
Which Australian batsman has scored the THIRD most runs in Test cricket?
a)
Steve Waugh
b)
Allan Border
c)
Ricky Ponting
d)
Michael Clarke
48.
How many times did Martina Navratilova win the Wimbledon championship?
a)
9
b)
8
c)
10
d)
7
49.
Besides Margaret Court, who is the other Australian woman to win Wimbledon?
a)
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
b)
Kerry Melville Reid
c)
Samantha Stosur
d)
Sloane Stephens
50.
Which of these Trinity "Houses" existed before 1992?
a)
Hilliard
b)
Wynn Jones
c)
Weeks
d)
Stephenson
51.
How many golf majors has Tiger Woods won?
a)
15
b)
14
c)
13
d)
16
52.
Which of the following words has no semantic connection with the word "rural"?
a)
bellicose
b)
bucolic
c)
pastoral
d)
agrarian
53.
Which of the following sprinters has recorded the SECOND fast time ever over 100 metres behind Usain Bolt?
a)
Jesse Owens
b)
Asafa Powell
c)
Justin Gatlin
d)
Tyson Gay
54.
If a person seems to know everything, that person could be described as ...
a)
omniscient
b)
omnivorous
c)
omnipotent
d)
omnigenous
55.
"The sun was shining" is a sentence in the ... tense.
a)
imperfect
b)
perfect
c)
pluperfect
d)
future
56.
If I "curtail" something, then I could also be said to ... it.
a)
shorten
b)
lengthen
c)
praise
d)
protect
57.
Which of these nouns is the ODD one out from the point of view of its meaning?
a)
pulchritude
b)
beauty
c)
allure
d)
abatement
58.
The verb in the sentence "She communicates well" is an example of a verb in its ... form.
a)
finite
b)
infinitive
c)
passive
d)
subjunctive
59.
"The country was conquered by its enemies" is an example of the ... voice.
a)
passive
b)
active
c)
aggressive
d)
neutral
60.
In the sentence "They want to go home", the word "home" ...
a)
is an adverb
b)
is the noun object of "go"
c)
is noun in the nominative case
d)
is the indirect object of "want"
61.
In the sentence "We offered him the throne", the word "him" is the ... of the verb.
a)
indirect object (dative)
b)
direct object (accusative)
c)
reflexive pronoun
d)
subject (nominative)
62.
Which is the ODD word out from the point of view of its construction?
a)
demigod
b)
semifinal
c)
hemisphere
d)
perihelion
63.
Which of these words is the ODD one out from the point of view of its meaning?
a)
nadir
b)
apogee
c)
summit
d)
zenith
64.
When Cain killed Abel he committed ...
a)
fratricide
b)
patricide
c)
matricide
d)
sororicide
65.
A pyromaniac has an irresistible impulse to start a/an ...
a)
war
b)
fire
c)
argument
d)
business
66.
People who don't like foreigners could be called ...
a)
xenophiles
b)
xenophobes
c)
misanthropes
d)
philanthropes
67.
If a creature resembles a wolf, it could be said to have ... characteristics.
a)
lupine
b)
avian
c)
feline
d)
ursine
68.
"Your diligence will always ... you in good stead" What is the missing word?
a)
stand
b)
put
c)
hold
d)
keep
69.
Which king of England was forced to sign the Magna Carta?
a)
John
b)
Richard I
c)
Richard II
d)
William I
70.
In English, a noun could be the object of ...
a)
a verb only
b)
a preposition only
c)
a verb or a preposition only
d)
a determiner only
71.
In English, French and German, the Perfect Tense is used to describe an action which ...
a)
was going on in the past, but not completed
b)
is to be completed in the near future
c)
could not have been bettered
d)
has been completed
72.
Which of the following verbs is NOT an auxiliary verb in English?
a)
be
b)
have
c)
do
d)
make
73.
In the sentence "That is her car", "her" is an example of a ...
a)
possessive adjective
b)
possessive pronoun
c)
genitive pronoun
d)
definite article
74.
The biggest of the "big cats" on average is the ...
a)
tiger
b)
lion
c)
jaguar
d)
snow leopard
75.
Which is / are the only planet(s) in our Solar System where one can witness a "perfect" solar eclipse?
a)
Earth only
b)
Earth and Venus only
c)
Earth, Mars and Venus only
d)
Earth and Mars only
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