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General Knowledge 4

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

The Olympics is held every 4 years. What do we call the Olympics Sports event for disabled athletes?

a)

Paralympic Games

b)

Asian Games

c)

FIFA World Cup

d)

Winter Olympic Games

2.

A person who is deaf can hear using the help of the following medical tool that can be seen in the picture. What is it called?

a)

Earrings

b)

Hearing aid

c)

Earbuds

d)

Earplugs

3.

What happens to satellites that are not functioning anymore in space?

a)

The satellites are lured back to earth to burn in the atmosphere

b)

The satellites are shot down to the sea.

c)

The satellites are put into the "graveyard orbit", so they won't collide with the ones that are still working.

d)

The satellites are left in the same orbit as the working satellites.

4.

During World War II, the United States dropped an atom bomb in Japan. Which cities did it land on?

a)

Tokyo

b)

Nagasaki

c)

Hiroshima

d)

Mount Fuji

5.

Which of these countries are located on the African continent?

a)

Tanzania, Ghana, Azerbaijan, Russia

b)

Italy, Morocco, Monaco, Egypt

c)

Morocco, Ghana, Ethiopia, Algeria

d)

Jordan, Peru, Chile, Maldives

6.

ASEAN is a governmental organisation that unites South East Asian countries. What does ASEAN stand for?

a)

Associate in Southern-Eastern Asian Nations

b)

As South-east Asian Nations

c)

Adapting in South-east Asian Nations

d)

Association of South-east Asian Nations

7.

What do we call people who can speak more than multiple languages?

(a)  

8.

What do we call children who are raised in a culture other than their parents' or the culture of their country of nationality?

a)

Third culture children

b)

Raised abroad children

c)

Immigrants

d)

Migrants

9.

Animals (a)   to a different region or another habitat according to the seasons.

10.

Which of these Disney animations have Asian characters?

a)

Raya and the Last Dragon

b)

Big Hero 6

c)

Aladdin

d)

Cinderella

11.

Food waste is a problem now, around a billion tons of food a year are wasted, according to the UN. Why is food waste a problem?

a)

Farming creates between 10% and 30% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, which causes the climate crisis. Pollution is created for nothing when food is wasted.

b)

Many people can go hungry when food is wasted and not consumed.

c)

Many poor countries waste more food than in rich countries.

d)

Food is wasted more at home which is around 61%, an average of 73kg per person.

12.

The Women's International Month falls on which month?

a)

February

b)

March

c)

December

d)

September

13.

The first scientist to discover these two radioactive materials, Polonium and Radium, was a woman. Who was she?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Jane Austen

c)

Mother Theresa

d)

Anne Frank

14.

Which of the following actions are considered bullying? Select all that applies.

a)

encouraging others to socially exclude someone

b)

Making racist remarks

c)

playing nasty jokes to embarrass and humiliate

d)

Kicking and hitting

e)

imitating others online or using their log-in.

15.

A new discovery has been made in the dinosaur world. Palaeontologists discovered a dinosaur species that laid and sat on their eggs like birds. What are these dinosaurs called?

a)

Oviraptorosaur

b)

Ornithopoda

c)

Tyrannosaurus Rex

d)

Stegosaurus

16.

The cold war happened between the two big nations from 1947 until 1991. The two countries did not claim any physical war, however competed in many aspects such as machinery, weaponry and science. Which two nations were they?

a)

United States of America and Russia

b)

China and the United States of America

c)

United States of America and the Soviet Union

d)

Italy and Germany

17.

He was considered one of the most diversely talented individuals. He was a painter, a sculptor, and a scientist. One of his famous artwork is "Monalisa". Who was he?

a)

Michaelangelo

b)

Galileo Galiel

c)

Leonardo Da Vinci

d)

Rembrandt

18.

When were the envelopes, that we know now, invented?

a)

The 1830s

b)

The 1930s

c)

2003

d)

200 BC

19.

Richard Garriot, the multimillionaire game developer and entrepreneur has travelled to Earth’s four furthest extremes. Where had he travelled to?

a)

Travelled to the Amazon Rainforest

b)

Reached the Earth's orbit

c)

Travelled to South and North Pole

d)

Dived into the Challenger Deep in the Marianna Trench

20.

The first patented car was invented in the year __________ by ________ _________.

a)

1920, Nils Bohlin

b)

1903, Henry Ford

c)

1919, W.O. Bentley

d)

1886, Carl Benz