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General knowledge quiz

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is used in pencils?

a)

Graphite

b)

Silicon

c)

Charcoal

2.

Which planet in our Solar System takes the longest time to complete its revolution around the Sun?

a)

Neptune

b)

Saturn

c)

Uranus

3.

Photosynthesis generally takes place in which parts of the plant?

a)

Leaf and other chloroplast bearing parts

b)

stem and leaf

c)

Roots and chloroplast bearing parts

4.

The gas usually filled in the electric bulb is

a)

nitrogen

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

hydrogen

d)

oxygen

5.

Who founded Facebook?

a)

Elon Musk

b)

Jeff Bezos

c)

Mark Zuckerberg

6.

Where were the last Olympic Games held ?

a)

China,Beijing

b)

Tokyo, Japan

c)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

7.

Galileo was an Italian astronomer who

a)

developed the telescope

b)

discovered four satellites of Jupiter

c)

discovered that the movement of pendulum produces a regular time measurement

d)

All of the above

8.

Which is the largest continent?

a)

Europe

b)

Africa

c)

Asia

9.

Who invented the Computer?

a)

Charles Francis

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Adam Osborne

10.

Ordinary table salt is sodium chloride. What is baking soda?

a)

Potassium chloride

b)

Potassium carbonate

c)

Potassium hydroxide

d)

Sodium bicarbonate

11.

Who was the first woman President of India?

a)

Pratibha Patil

b)

Indira Gandhi

c)

Kamala Nehru

d)

Sarojini Naidu

12.

Who is known as the Iron Man of India?

a)

Pandit Nehru

b)

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

c)

Lokmanya Tilak

d)

Swami Vivekananda

13.

Ozone hole refers to

a)

hole in ozone layer

b)

decrease in the ozone layer in troposphere

c)

decrease in thickness of ozone layer in stratosphere

d)

increase in the thickness of ozone layer in troposphere

14.

For which of the following disciplines is Nobel Prize awarded?

a)

Physiology or Medicine

b)

Physics and Chemistry

c)

Literature, Peace and Economics

d)

All of the above

15.

Which is the 2nd coldest country in the world ?

a)

Kuwait

b)

Antarctica

c)

Kazakhstan

d)

Russia

16.

Who invented telephone ?

a)

Dr. Mary Edward Walker

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Alexander Graham Bell

d)

Abraham Lincoln

17.

Grand Central Terminal, Park Avenue, New York is the world's

a)

highest railway station

b)

longest railway station

c)

largest railway station

d)

None of the above