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Sarotte/Wilson/Elliott/ Spanos Gen. Knowledge Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the second president of the US?

a)

John Adams

b)

Alexander Hamilton

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

Andrew Jackson

2.

How many US senators does the state of Michigan have?

a)

4

b)

110

c)

2

d)

80

3.

What is meteorology the study of?

a)

Space

b)

Plants

c)

Rocks

d)

Weather

4.

What is the first element on the periodic table?

a)

Helium (He)

b)

Hydrogen (H)

c)

Oxygen (O)

d)

Lithium (Li)

5.

What is the largest fresh water lake in the world?

a)

Great Bear Lake

b)

Lake Tahoe

c)

Lake Superior

d)

Lake St. Clair

6.

What product’s slogan is: “They’re g-r-r-reat!”

a)

Wheaties

b)

Fruit Loops

c)

Lucky Charms

d)

Frosted Flakes

7.

What is the highest grossing film of all time?

a)

Avatar

b)

Titanic

c)

Frozen

d)

Avengers: End Game

8.

How many people world wide perished from the Bubonic Plague?

a)

25 million

b)

700,000

c)

1 billion

d)

35,000

9.

What planet is closest to the sun?

a)

Venus

b)

Neptune

c)

Mercury

d)

Earth

10.

Which of these is NOT a member of the Beatles?

a)

Ringo Starr

b)

George Harrison

c)

Paul McCartney

d)

John Paul Jones

11.

What is the largest mammal on planet earth?

a)

Elephant

b)

Lion

c)

Blue Whale

d)

Giraffe

12.

What team has won the most Stanley Cups?

a)

Montreal Canadiens

b)

Boston Bruins

c)

Pittsburgh Penguins

d)

Detroit Redwings

13.

Who won the 2019 Masters Tournament?

a)

Brooks Koepka

b)

Rickie Fowler

c)

Tiger Woods

d)

Jordan Speith

14.

Who composed the Moonlight Sonata?

a)

Vivaldi

b)

Bach

c)

Mozart

d)

Beethoven

15.

What year was the app Snapchat released?

a)

2011

b)

2016

c)

2008

d)

2019

16.

In what country were Legos invented?

a)

Finland

b)

China

c)

Denmark

d)

United States

17.

Who is the main character in J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye?

a)

Atticus Finch

b)

Holden Caulfield

c)

Leopold Bloom

d)

Ponyboy Michael Curtis

18.

Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?

a)

Vladimir Lenin

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Lenon Trotsky

d)

Karl Marx

19.

Who was B.F. Skinner?

a)

A Supreme Court justice

b)

An American Behaviorist

c)

A British General

d)

The 28th U.S. president

20.

Who discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid?

a)

Hardy & Wineberg

b)

Robert Hooke

c)

Mark Eberhard

d)

Watson & Crick