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Trivia Quiz #2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

By what Spanish name is the West Indian fruit 'The Alligator Pear' more commonly known as

a)

Apricot

b)

Avocado

c)

Cantaloupe

d)

El Platano

2.

Which monument in Delhi built by Sher Shah in 1545 gets its present name from the execution of the two sons of Bahadur Shah by the British?

a)

Red Fort

b)

Khooni Darwaaza

c)

Turkman Gate

d)

Lal Bangla

3.

Which word was coined by Lewis Carroll to define words like 'smog' in which two words combine together to make a new word?

a)

Conjunction

b)

Contraction

c)

Gerund

d)

Portmanteau

4.

Which product was initially sold under the brand name, 'Hindustan Landmaster'?

a)

Ambassador

b)

Contessa

c)

Trekka

d)

Padmini

5.

Which modern kingdom was founded in 1932 by uniting the four tribal provinces of Hejaz, Asir, Najd and Al Haza?

a)

Bahrain

b)

Saudi Arabia

c)

United Arab Emirates

d)

Kuwait

6.

According to Hindu mythology, which celestial cow was created during the cosmic churning of the ocean?

a)

Kamdhenu

b)

Nandini

c)

Dhenu

d)

Subhadra

7.

What is the chess position called in which the player cannot move any piece without placing the king in check?

a)

Castling

b)

En Passant

c)

Stalemate

d)

Promotion

8.

The name of which enclosure is derived from the Greek unit of measurement for the distance covered in six hundred feet?

a)

Dome

b)

Colosseum

c)

Amphitheatre

d)

Stadium

9.

The name of which Indian state literally means 'three cities'?

a)

Telangana

b)

Manipur

c)

Tripura

d)

Arunachal Pradesh

10.

Which American city, the sixth largest in the country, takes its name from the Greek for 'brotherly love'?

a)

Baltimore

b)

Boston

c)

Austin

d)

Philadelphia

11.

Who created Blockchain?

a)

Satoshi Nakamoto

b)

Tamas Blummer

c)

Christopher Ferris

d)

Vitalik Buterin

12.

Which American neurotechnology company started in 2016 is involved in developing implantable brain–machine interfaces?

a)

Neurable

b)

BitBrain

c)

Neuralink

d)

NextMind

13.

Whats is the name of a popular autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text?

a)

Turing NLG

b)

XLNet

c)

GPT

d)

BERT

14.

The salt-to-software Tata Group comprises approximately how many operating companies in seven business sectors — including steel, salt, software, energy, cars and trucks, and chemicals?

a)

95

b)

66

c)

80

d)

96

15.

'C' programming language had a predecessor language called “B”. The language was created and written in 1969 by Ken Thompson, a Turing Award-winning computer scientist. What does the B stand for?

a)

Bell

b)

Bit

c)

Beta

d)

Byte