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Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was a political and military assembly of Mongol and some Turkic chiefs and lesser Khans called?

a)

Kutermiak

b)

Kurultai

c)

Khurim

d)

Kurulmak

2.

What is the 4th tallest mountain above sea level and in which country would you find it?

a)

Nanga Parbat, Pakistan

b)

Makalu, Nepal-China

c)

Lhotse, Nepal

d)

Dhaulagiri, Nepal

3.

Which of these is not an Abrahamic religion?

a)

Islam

b)

Judaism

c)

Christianity

d)

Zoroastrianism

4.

What is the term used for the metal or plastic tube fixed tightly round the end of a shoelace?

a)

Aglet

b)

Coven

c)

Medlar

d)

Alfresco

5.

The island of Borneo is divided between Malaysia and Indonesia. What is the Indonesian part of the island called?

a)

Sabah

b)

Kalimantan

c)

Kutai

d)

Sarawak

6.

Which of these is a Shinto deity who is borrowed from Buddhism?

a)

Amaterasu

b)

Izanami

c)

Benzaiten

d)

Omoikane

7.

What is the subfamily of languages that rose of Vulgar Latin in 3rd-8th century CE?

a)

Osco-Umbrian

b)

Italic

c)

Italo-Dalmatian

d)

Romance

8.

In what genus of Rutaceae could one find fruits that when had their unwaxed rinds scraped, gives something we commonly refer to as zest?

a)

Citrus

b)

Citropsis

c)

Panicum

d)

Ruta

9.

What term is used to refer to worshipping one god while not denying that others may exist?

a)

Deism

b)

Henotheism

c)

Pantheism

d)

Polytheism

10.

Which of these is not an Afro-Asiatic language?

a)

Hebrew

b)

Arabic

c)

Yiddish

d)

Maltese

11.

Along which river, also the 6th longest in the world, did a great ancient civilization develop?

Hint: Its English translation means "yellow river".

a)

Yangtze

b)

Mekong

c)

Huangpu

d)

Huang Ho

12.

Which is the 9th most populous city in the United States?

a)

Dallas

b)

Houston

c)

Fort Worth

d)

Austin

13.

What is the demonym for a person from Bangladesh?

(a)  

14.

What would you shorten the term "Doctor of Philosophy" to?

(a)  

15.

Which variety of Chinese would you find people speaking in Shanghai, Zhejiang and parts of Jiangsu?

(a)  

16.

What is the name of the only speedcuber ever to have won the WCA World Championship twice?

(a)  

17.

Spanish for hills, this term is used for the areas of vegetation in the rainless and barren deserts of Peru and Chile that thrive only because they are watered by the moist, dense fog and mist rolling in from the Pacific. - (a)   .

18.

San Antonio is Spanish for Saint Anthony. What is San Diego Spanish for?

(a)  

19.

What is the longest epic ever written?

(Since it is disputed, I have given 2 options.)

(a)  

20.

What is the second most spoken language in Turkey?

(a)  

21.

Which communist politician in Cambodia was at the head of the terrible Khmer Rouge?

(a)  

22.

There is a reason the ozone hole is above Antarctica. Which clouds found here only in the winter provide surfaces for chemical reactions whose products in the spring lead to ozone destruction?

(a)  

23.

Dwarf stars, said to be on the "main sequence", spend 90% of their existence fusing hydrogen atoms into (a)   in high temperature and high pressure reactions, releasing huge amounts of energy in the process.

24.

The meaning of this word is new or almost new, pure and in quite excellent condition. It is often used to describe the colour white.

(a)