wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

mlop

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In 1775 the Thirteen Colonies began fighting the American revolutionary war prior to declaring independence as the United States of America. Which of these four was not one of the 13?

a)

Massachusetts

b)

Michigan

c)

Maryland

d)

Virginia

2.

Who did the original version?

"There's a lady for sure,

All that glitters is gold,"

a)

Black Sabbath

b)

Jethro Tull

c)

Led Zeppelin

d)

Rolf Harris

3.

Who is this?

a)

Beyoncé

b)

Whitney Houston

c)

Jennifer Lopez

d)

Rihanna

4.

Which county is this?

a)

Surrey

b)

East Sussex

c)

Essex

d)

Kent

5.

Roughly how long is the Panama canal?

a)

48km

b)

60km

c)

80km

d)

100km

6.

Who "sang" this?

"Generals gathered in their masses,

Just like witches at black masses,

Evil minds that plot destruction

Sorcerers of death's construction."

a)

Blind Faith

b)

Rolling Stones

c)

Black Sabbeth

d)

Jericho

7.

On 30 September 1938, the British prime minister Neville Chamberlain was proudly announcing he had secured "peace for our time" thanks to the Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler's Germany. Which two other countries, apart from the UK and Germany, signed the agreement?

a)

France and Italy

b)

France and Russia

c)

France and Poland

d)

France and Spain

8.

Which county is this?

a)

Lincolnshire

b)

North Yorkshire

c)

Suffolk

d)

East Yorkshire

9.

Who was proclaimed King of England on 30 September 1399?

a)

Henry III

b)

HenryIV

c)

Henry V

d)

Henry VI

10.

Who sang this?


"We'll be fighting in the streets,

With our children at our feet,

And the morals that they worship will be gone.

And the men who spurred us on

Sit in judgement of all wrong;

They decide and the shotgun sings the song."

a)

Ten Years After

b)

Free

c)

The Who

d)

The Small Faces

11.

Which of the following elements is not found in Ca(HCO₃)₂?

a)

Carbon

b)

Cobalt

c)

Calcium

d)

Oxygen

12.

Which is this county?

a)

West Yorkshire

b)

Lancashire

c)

Cheshire

d)

Derbyshire

13.

Here's Prince Charles emerging from Doctor Who's Tardis for some reason. But aside from him, which of these actors has never been Doctor Who? Plot twist – yes, it is anagram time …(60 seconds for this one)

a)

Wry Ladle Bash

b)

Clap Gunman

c)

Ant Van Did Ten

d)

Placed Pirate

14.

Who sang this?

"In the white room with black curtains near the station.

Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.

Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes.

Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment."

a)

John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers

b)

Rolling Stones

c)

Cream

d)

The Yardbirds

15.

Who was the first woman in space?

a)

Yelena Serova

b)

Yelena Kondakova

c)

Valentina Tereshkova

d)

Svetlana Savitskaya

16.

Name the film.

"You’re gonna need a bigger boat"

a)

The African Queen

b)

Titanic

c)

Jaws

d)

Sink the Bismark!

17.

Which US children's TV series features characters with the surnames Rogers, Blake and Dinkley?

a)

Scooby Doo

b)

Spongebob Squarepants

c)

The Flintstones

d)

Wacky Races

18.

Which mountain is 28,251 feet (8,611 meters) high?

a)

Mount Everest

b)

Aconcagua

c)

K2

d)

Mount McKinley

19.

Which British politician is this?

a)

Michael Gove

b)

Keir Starmer

c)

Dominic Raab

d)

Matt Hancock

20.

Name the film'

“I’ll have what she’s having”

a)

Breakfast at Tiffany's

b)

Love Story

c)

When Harry met Sally

d)

Trainspotting

21.

"Rossum's Universal Robots" was a play in the 1920s that introduced the word 'robot ' for artificial beings into the English language. Who wrote it?

a)

Frans Kafka

b)

Karel Čapek

c)

Jaroslav Kvapil

d)

Antonín Dvořák

22.

The highest peaks in the Western Hemisphere are found in which mountain range?

a)

The Andes

b)

The Rockies

c)

The Sierra Madres

d)

The Sierra Nevada

23.

Which of these is NOT the name of an Elvis movie? Plot twist – it is anagram time…(60 seconds)

a)

Core Gel Ink

b)

Hair Sock Joule

c)

Karate Throb Heel

d)

Remelted Oven

24.

Name the film

”I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.”

a)

Shirley Valentine

b)

Airplane

c)

Gigi

d)

Love Story

25.

Which famous poem opens with these lines? "April is the cruellest month,breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain."

a)

T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land

b)

Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken

c)

Wallace Stevens' Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

d)

Paul Laurence Dunbar's We Wear the Mask

26.

Mount Ras Dejen rises to nearly 15,000 feet in which African mountain range?

a)

The Atlas Mountains (northwestern Africa)

b)

The Ethiopian Highlands (Ethiopia)

c)

The Drakensberg (South Africa)

d)

The Eastern Rift Mountains (East Africa)

27.

Jared Harris played which character in HBO's Chernobyl?

a)

Valery Legasov

b)

Boris Shcherbina

c)

Anatoly Dyatlov

d)

Vasily Ignatenko

28.

Name the film

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

a)

Good Morning Vietnam

b)

Full Metal Jacket

c)

Apocolypse now

d)

The Killing Fields

29.

Which of these European city and river combinations is incorrect?

a)

The River Po flows through Turin

b)

The River Danube flows through Cologne

c)

The River Loire flows through Nantes

d)

The River Clyde flows through Glasgow

30.

Which mountain range marks the traditional physiographic boundary between Europe and Asia?

a)

The Kunlun Mountains

b)

The Alps

c)

The Altay Mountains

d)

The Ural Mountains

31.

Since St Peter became the first bishop of Rome ~ roughly ~ how many Popes have there been?

a)

210

b)

265

c)

315

d)

1056

32.

"Cat's foot, iron claw,

Neuro-surgeons scream for more

At paranoia's poison door

Twenty-first Century schizoid man."


What a great opening! Who sang it?

a)

Caravan

b)

Van De Graf Generator

c)

King Crimson

d)

Hawkwind

33.

Who is this?

a)

Romesh Ranganathan

b)

Mawaan Rizwan

c)

Richard Ayoade

d)

Nish Kumar

34.

Name the film.

“Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.”

a)

Queen of the Dessert

b)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

c)

2001 A Space Odessy

d)

Back to the Future

35.

One of these lists of elements, as denoted by their chemical symbols, contains only metals. Which one?

a)

Mg, Al, Li, K

b)

P, Li, Cl, Au

c)

P, S, Au, Fe

d)

S, Li, K, Cl

36.

Who sang:

"Pleased to meet you/ Hope you guess my name/ But what's puzzling you/ Is the nature of my game"?

a)

Beatles

b)

Rolling Stones

c)

Rod Stewart

d)

Genesis

37.

Which of these substances has the highest melting point?

a)

Gold

b)

Manganese

c)

Platinum

d)

Cobalt

38.

Name the film.

”You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”

a)

Rocky

b)

On the Waterfront

c)

Raging Bull

d)

Rocky II

39.

Rosa Parks was one of the significant figures in the civil rights movement in the US. Her actions prompted a bus boycott in which city?

a)

Montgomery, Alabama

b)

Little Rock, Arkansas

c)

Birmingham, Alabama

d)

Memphis, Tennessee

40.

Who sang

"Call me, call me,on the line/ Call me, call me anytime"?

a)

Iggy Pop

b)

Blondie

c)

The Ramones

d)

Patti Smith

41.

In 2016 Hasbro released a revised edition of Cluedo, which replaced Mrs White with which new character?

a)

Dr Orchid

b)

Dr Olive

c)

Dr Violet

d)

Dr Liz Shaw

42.

Name the film.

"We’ll always have Paris”

a)

French Lieutenant's Woman

b)

Amelie

c)

Casablanca

d)

Moulin Rouge

43.

Metal Guru was a huge hit for Marc Bolan as part of the band T Rex. But during which period of geological time did the Tyrannosaurus rex live?

a)

Triassic

b)

Jurassic

c)

Cretaceous

d)

Silurian

44.

Who sang

"But if I stayed here with you, girl, Things just couldn't be the same. 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now, And this bird you can not change, oh, oh, oh, oh"?

a)

Metallica

b)

AC/DC

c)

Val Donican

d)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

45.

This is the third highest mountain in Montserrat and has an elevation of 697 metres. What is it called?

a)

Adam Hill

b)

Katy Hill

c)

Damon Hill

d)

Harry Hill

46.

The Ostwald process converts ammonia into which acid?

a)

Sulphuric

b)

Nitric

c)

Sulphurous

d)

Acetic

47.

Which county is this?

a)

Hertfordshire

b)

Surrey

c)

Berkshire

d)

Twatshire (Rick Mayall's favourite county)

48.

Who was the first woman to be paid $1m for a film role?

a)

Rita Hayworth

b)

Marilyn Monroe

c)

Elizabeth Taylor

d)

Bette Davis

49.

When asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, who said, "because it's there"?

(the most famous three words in mountaineering).

a)

Sir Edmund Hillary

b)

Reinhold Messner (weil es da ist)

c)

George Mallory

d)

Chris Bonnington

50.

What is the capital city of Mozambique?

a)

Maputo

b)

Monrovia

c)

Mogadishu

d)

Maseru

51.

Which county is this?

a)

Herefordshire

b)

Gloucestershire

c)

Shropshire

d)

Cheshire

52.

How many metres can a fully grown adult ostrich cover with one stride?

a)

2

b)

5

c)

8

d)

20

53.

Mount Kenya, Africa's second-highest peak, was once thought to be over 1,000 metres higher. Why?

a)

It was wrongly measured by the German missionaries who were the first Europeans to sight it

b)

Centuries of rainy seasons wore away the porous basalt

c)

It once had a thick ice cap, which has melted because of global warming

d)

A volcanic eruption blew its top off (it was only supposed to open the safe)

54.

In Douglas Adams' Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, what was Bowerick Wowbagger doing?

a)

Spending a year dead for tax reasons

b)

Insulting everyone in the entire universe in alphabetical order

c)

Writing poetry considered to be the worst in the Galaxy

d)

Constructing the coastlines of continents on artificial planets

55.

Which county is this?

a)

Norfolk

b)

Suffolk

c)

Leicestershire

d)

Cambridgeshire

56.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was written in 1931. It is set in AD 2540, but in the novel the year is given as 632, in what new dating system?

a)

AC – After Curie

b)

AE - After Edison

c)

AF – After Ford

d)

AB- After Boeing

57.

A "sacred footprint" at the top of Sri Pada mountain in Sri Lanka is held to be that of ...

a)

Buddha

b)

The Hindu god Shiva

c)

The place Adam first set foot on Earth

d)

All of the above

58.

ANAGRAM TIME: Which of these is NOT a major London railway terminus? (60 seconds on this one)

a)

Bleary Omen

b)

God Pant Din

c)

Orate Owl

d)

Leave Wry

59.

Which county is this?

a)

Cumbria

b)

Cheshire

c)

Yorkshire

d)

Lancashire

60.

Which company’s motto, when it started, was “get big fast”?

a)

Amazon

b)

Facebook

c)

eBay

d)

Tesla