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York Quiz 16.01.20

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
How many colors are in the rainbow?
a)
7
b)
8
c)
4
d)
6
2.
What is the name of the red earthenware pottery, which remains porous when unglazed?
a)
terracotta
b)
sand
c)
rubber
d)
canvas
3.
What do you call the time span of one thousand years?
a)
millennnium
b)
decade
c)
century
4.
How many degrees are found in a circle?
a)
360
b)
84
c)
720
d)
90
5.
The Dewey Decimal system is used to categorize what?
a)
Mt. Dew
b)
Books
c)
Magazines
d)
Authors
6.
How many squares are there on a chessboard?
a)
64
b)
24
c)
86
d)
39
7.
How many points does a compass have?
a)
32
b)
86
c)
64
d)
12
8.
Who wrote a series of novels about orcs, hobbits, goblins, and elves?
a)
JR Tolkien
b)
Howard Hughes
c)
Curtis Reed
d)
Ayn Rand
9.
Which hormone controls the supply of sugar between muscles and blood?
a)
insulin
b)
hgb
c)
excedrin
d)
thc
10.
Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales- What was his first name?
a)
Geoffrey
b)
Curtis
c)
Hamlet
d)
Oscar
11.
What sport uses the terms love, match, and volley?
a)
volleyball
b)
badmitton
c)
tennis
d)
polo
12.
Who is Winnie the Pooh's gloomy donkey friend?
a)
Tigger
b)
Rabbit
c)
Christopher Robin
d)
Eeyore
13.
What is the name of a poker hand containing three of a kind and a pair?
a)
royal flush
b)
straight
c)
full house
d)
grand hand
14.
Who did Matthew Perry play on "Friends"?
a)
Ross 
b)
Joey
c)
Chandler
d)
Gunther
15.
How many total syllables make up a haiku?
a)
5
b)
7
c)
15
d)
17
16.
Which face card in a standard deck of cards sometimes only has one eye?
a)
Jack
b)
Queen
c)
King
d)
Joker
17.
Who is the author of the book 1984?
a)
Thomas Hardy
b)
Emilie Zola
c)
George Orwell
d)
Walter Scott
18.
The famous line, "to be or not to be" is from which Shakespeare play?
a)
Romeo and Juliet
b)
Hamlet
c)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
d)
Othello 
19.
Where is the Great Victoria Desert located?
a)
Canada
b)
Austrailia
c)
West Africa
d)
South America
20.
The horizontal lines on maps and globes are called...
a)
longitudes
b)
latitudes 
c)
geographic grids
d)
poles