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200626

Total questions: 66

Worksheet time: 24mins

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Class
Date
1.

When did our sun form?

a)

6000 years ago

b)

2,700,000 years (2.7 million years) ago

c)

4,500,000,000 years (4.5 billion years) ago

d)

3,200,000,000,000 years (3.2 trillion years) ago

2.

In the following number series, which is the missing number?

S = 1 ; 3 ; 5 ; 7 ; 11 ; ..?.. ; 17 ; 19

a)

12

b)

13

c)

15

d)

42

3.

Which European country had the largest GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in 2019?

a)

Italy

b)

France

c)

Germany

d)

UK

4.

Most modern cars have engines equipped with a Turbo-charger. What best describes a “Turbo”?

a)

A device that uses energy from the exhaust gases to compress fresh air into the engine inlet in order to burn more fuel and produce more power.

b)

A device that uses energy from the exhaust gases to power a turbine linked to the prop shaft.

c)

A device to keep the engine cool in order to make it more reliable

d)

A device that does not do much in term of engine power but sounds cool and help sell cars

5.

In which chronological order, did the following countries abolish slavery?

a)

1811 Spain

1833 UK

1848 France

1888 Brazil

b)

1811 France

1833 Brazil

1848 Spain

1888 UK

c)

1811 UK

1833 France

1848 Brazil

1888 Spain

d)

1811 France

1833 UK

1848 Spain

1888 Brazil

6.

If one is “Myopic”, one is:

a)

Idiotic

b)

Long sighted

c)

Resident of Myo-Pikzu in China

d)

Short sighted

7.

What is the name of this flower?



a)

Azalea

b)

Hydrangea

c)

Rhododendron

d)

Begonia

8.

Which one of the following Football clubs did Kevin Keegan play for?

a)

Hamburger SV (Hamburg)

b)

Manchester City (Manchester)

c)

Sampdoria (Genoa)

d)

Bayern Munich (Munich)

9.

What is RISC short for in computer-lingo?

a)

Reduced Instruction Set Chip

b)

Danger

c)

Reduced Inflation Sale Computer

d)

Reduced Instruction Set Computer

10.

Dado; Dovetail; Miter and Rabbet are names of . . ?

a)

1960s Rock Bands that performed at WoodStock?

b)

Carpentry joints

c)

Type of breads

d)

Fish

11.

Who is Elmer the archenemy of?

a)

Bugs Bunny

b)

Wile E coyote

c)

Peter Pan

d)

Peter Rabbit

12.

Who sang the following lyrics?


“On a dark desert highway,

cool wind in my hair,

warm smell of colitas rising up through the air”

a)

Bee Gees

b)

Mammas & Papas

c)

The beach boys

d)

The Eagles

13.

Who sang the following lyrics?


“What have I become

My sweetest friend?

Everyone I know

Goes away in the end”

a)

Elton John

b)

George Michael

c)

Johnny Cash

d)

Leonard Cohen

14.

How many tiles in a double-six set of dominos?

a)

24

b)

28

c)

32

d)

36

15.

Who sang the following lyrics?


"Look at the stars

Look how they shine for you

And everything you do

Yeah they were all yellow"

a)

Oasis

b)

Blur

c)

Elton John

d)

Coldplay

16.

When did Earth form?

a)

6000 years ago

b)

2,700,000 years (2.7 million years) ago

c)

4,500,000,000 years (4.5 billion years) ago

d)

3,200,000,000,000 years (3.2 trillion years) ago

17.

When did the earliest life (single cell organism) appear on Earth?

a)

6000 years ago

b)

300,000 years ago

c)

2,000,000 years (2million years) ago

d)

4,000,000,000 years (4 billion years) ago

18.

If Cos(x) = y.
What is the value of y when  

 x=2π3x=\frac{2\pi}{3}  rad?

a)

 22\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}  

b)

 32-\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}  

c)

-0.5

d)

-1

19.

What is the highest mountain in Europe (not including Russia) and how high above sea level is it approximately?

a)

Mont Blanc, 4810m

b)

Mont Blanc, 4410m

c)

Zumsteinspitze, 4630m

d)

Mont Blanc, 4960m

20.

Why are most motor vehicle equipped with a “differential”?

a)

To help mechanics recognise the left side from the right side

b)

Because, on average, women have small weak arms and need help to turn the steering wheel

c)

Because when a car turn, the outer wheels have to cover a different distance than the inner wheels

d)

To allow different voltages to be used in the engine bay

21.

Chose the most likely explanation:

When the tide goes out, the sea water goes . . . . .

a)

To the other side of the country

b)

To the other side of the world

c)

To the bottom of the ocean

d)

Towards where it is high tide at the time

22.

What is a “Gendarme”?

a)

A French policeman

b)

A French military

c)

A French marionette

d)

A French aperitif

23.

Yan, Tan, …?

a)

Dan

b)

Yap Yap Yap

c)

Tethera

d)

Peter Pan

24.

What type of cloud is this?

a)

Cyrus

b)

Cumulus

c)

Cumulonimbus

d)

Turbochargus

25.

Who sang the following lyrics?


“Ah, push it, push it good Ah, push it, push it real good”

a)

Michael Jackson

b)

George Michael

c)

Salt n Pepa

d)

Bob Dylan

26.

Who sang the following lyrics?


“I met my love by the gas works wall

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

I kissed my girl by the factory wall”

a)

Dire Straits

b)

Silly Wizard

c)

Tom jones

d)

The Pogues

27.

Which country is Monmouthshire a county of?

a)

England

b)

Northern Ireland

c)

Scotland

d)

Wales

28.

How many “gates” or “hoops” on a golf croquet court?

a)

4

b)

5

c)

6

d)

7

e)

8

29.

What is the age of “Lucy” one our earliest Humanoid ancestor?

a)

6000 years

b)

300,000 years

c)

3,000,000 years (3 million years)

d)

4,000,000,000 years (4 billion years)

30.

When did “Homo sapiens”, (our species), first evolved on Earth?

a)

6000 years

b)

60,000 years

c)

500,000 years

d)

3,000,000 years (3 million years)

31.

In the following number series, which is the missing number?

S = 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 5 ; . . ? . . ; 13

a)

6

b)

8

c)

10

d)

42

32.

Which is the longest distance between the following European capitals? (as crow flies)

a)

Berlin – Rome

b)

Amsterdam – Vienna

c)

Brussels – Zagreb

d)

Paris – Madrid

33.

All things being equal and regular,

a car going twice as fast as another similar car will stop in …???... as the slower car?

a)

Same distance

b)

Twice the distance

c)

4 times the distance

d)

8 times the distance

34.

Which of the following cities has the latitude nearest to the latitude of Montreal?

a)

Bergen (Norway)

b)

Bilbao (Spain)

c)

Port au Prince (Haiti)

d)

Moscow (Russia)

35.

What is the prime definition of “Pride” in the Oxford dictionary?

a)

A feeling derived from one’s own achievement

b)

A feeling derived from belonging to a group

c)

A feeling of happy homosexuality

d)

A label of butter

36.

What is the name of this plant?

a)

French Marigold

b)

Dandelion

c)

St John Wort

d)

Passion Flower

37.

Which of the following clubs never had Steve McManaman as a player?

a)

Liverpool

b)

Real Madrid

c)

Man City

d)

Juventus

38.

How many Kilo Hertz in a Mega Hertz?

a)

10

b)

1000

c)

1,000,000

d)

1,000,000,000

39.

Who is Tweety's nemesis?

a)

Elmer

b)

Tobby

c)

Sylvester

d)

O'Malley

40.

Which of the following films did not feature Humphrey Bogart?

a)

Casablanca

b)

The African queen

c)

The Caine mutiny

d)

Back door to heaven

41.

Who sang the following lyrics?


“Oh if I was a blackbird, could whistle and sing

I'd follow the vessel my true love sails in

And in the top rigging I would there build my nest

And I'd flutter my wings o'er her lily-white breast”

a)

The Pogues

b)

Silly Wizard

c)

Big Country

d)

Biffy Clyro

42.

“Dance Monkey” the song from “Tone and I” is gonna be one of the songs of summer 2020.

Where is the artist “Tone and I” from?

a)

Australia

b)

England

c)

Netherland

d)

US

43.

When does Genetic Science indicate that the 1st Homo sapiens left Africa to colonise the rest of the world?


Note: All of us, in Europe, Asia, Americas, and Australasia are likely descendants from the members of that 1st tribe who drifted out of Africa.

a)

6000 years ago. (approx. 220 generations)

b)

60,000 years ago. (approx. 2200 generations)

c)

500,000 years ago. (approx. 18,500 generations)

d)

3,000,000 years (3 million years) ago

44.

If I am 7 years older than my sister,

that she is 7 times the age of my dog

which is twice as old as my guinea pig

which was born 1.5 years ago.


How old am I?

a)

42

b)

35

c)

28

d)

21

45.

Which was the most populous city in the world in 2019?

a)

London

b)

Mexico City

c)

New York

d)

Shanghai

46.

Which of the following countries had the lowest GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in 2019?

a)

China

b)

India

c)

Japan

d)

UK

e)

USA

47.

What is the adult insect called?

a)

Daddy long leg

b)

Dragonfly

c)

Ladybird

d)

Red Admiral Butterfly

48.

What are MIPS?

a)

Unit of transportation flow equivalent to a million individuals per seconds

b)

Unit of computing speed equivalent to a million instruction per seconds

c)

The electrical “Maximum Isolation Protection Standard”

d)

A name for chips made of marrow instead of potato

49.

Thomas O’Malley, Berlioz, Toulouse and Lafayette are all characters of which Disney cartoon?

a)

The Aristocats

b)

101 Dalmatians

c)

The Lion King

d)

Spies in disguise

50.

Who sang the following lyrics?


“If you want a father for your child

Or only want to walk with me a while across the sand

I’m your man.”

a)

Bob Dylan

b)

Tom Waits

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Tom Jones

51.

“Replicants” were the main subject of which of the following films?

a)

Witness

b)

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the lost arch

c)

Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the crystal skull

d)

Blade Runner

52.

Another one of the songs of Summer 2020 is “Blinding Lights”


Anecdote: The group singing the song asked their fans to vote for Major Tom so that he would get to number 1 in the charts instead of them.


Who sings it?

a)

Dojo Cat

b)

Maroon 5

c)

The Black Eyed Peas

d)

The Weeknd

53.

In golf croquet, how many points win a game?

a)

3

b)

5

c)

7

d)

9

e)

11

54.

What is the area of a rectangular field that measures

10000 cm by 0.5 km ?

a)

0.5 Hectare (5000 m2)

b)

5 Hectare (50000 m2)

c)

5 Are (500 m2)

d)

5 Arpent (20206 m2)

55.

In order to tighten a bolt into a captive nut, should?

a)

The bolt be hammered into place

b)

The bolt be rotated around its axis anti-clockwise

c)

The bolt be rotated around its axis clockwise

d)

None of the above. It is the nut that must be rotated anti-clockwise around it’s axis

56.

How many levels/steps are there in the Beaufort scale?

a)

6

b)

8

c)

12

d)

14

57.

Which of the following principalities or micro states do not have a frontier with France?

a)

Andorra

b)

Luxemburg

c)

Monaco

d)

Liechtenstein

58.

Which of the following is not a computer programming language . . . yet?

a)

COBOL

b)

FORTRAN

c)

PASCAL

d)

PRIDE

59.

Which came first?

a)

The Egg

b)

The Chick

c)

The Hen

d)

The Cockerel

60.

Which English county has the following flag?

a)

Cumbria

b)

Lancashire

c)

Norfolk

d)

Yorkshire

61.

Which of the following is not a Charles Dickens character?

a)

Tiny Tim

b)

Bill Sikes

c)

Sydney Cardboard

d)

Ebenezer Scrooge

e)

Jacob Marley

62.

For an atom to be electrically neutral, it must have. . ?

a)

The same number of Protons; Neutron and Electrons

b)

The same number of Protons and Electrons

c)

The same number of Neutrons and Protons

d)

The same Number of Neutrons and electrons

63.

Which human body part has a bit that is named after a famous Homeric character?

a)

Arm

b)

Head

c)

Torso

d)

Leg

64.

Which of the following terms is used to describe atomic decay?

a)

Fission

b)

Fusion

c)

Melt down

d)

Implosion

65.

Who sang the following lyrics?


I come from down in the valley

Where mister when you're young

They bring you up to do like your daddy done

Me and Mary we met in high school

When she was just seventeen

a)

The Pogues

b)

Bruce Springsteen

c)

Johnny Cash

d)

Bob Dylan

66.

What do you get if you multiply one VOLT by one AMP?

a)

Coulomb

b)

Joule

c)

Ohm

d)

Watt