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Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which is the only country that spans both Asia and South America?

a)

Russia

b)

Turkey

c)

Kazakhstan

d)

None (No country spans both)

2.

Which is the rarest blood type in the world?

a)

AB-

b)

B-

c)

O-

d)

Rh-null

3.

Which physicist proposed the wave theory of light?

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Thomas Young

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

James Clerk Maxwell

4.

Which element is the most abundant in Earth's crust?

a)

Oxygen

b)

Silicon

c)

Aluminum

d)

Iron

5.

Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Linus Pauling

d)

Richard Feynman

6.

Which country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles?

a)

Germany

b)

Argentina

c)

Brazil

d)

Italy

7.

What is the speed of light in a vacuum?

a)

280,000 km/s

b)

300,000 km/s

c)

320,000 km/s

d)

250,000 km/s

8.

Which civilization built the ancient city of Machu Picchu?

a)

Mayans

b)

Aztecs

c)

Incas

d)

Olmecs

9.

Who wrote The Republic, a philosophical work on justice and governance?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Socrates

c)

Plato

d)

Confucius

10.

What is the heaviest naturally occurring element?

a)

Uranium

b)

Plutonium

c)

Thorium

d)

Osmium

11.

Which country is known as the "Land of the Thunder Dragon"?

a)

Nepal

b)

Bhutan

c)

Mongolia

d)

Tibet

12.

Who developed the first successful polio vaccine?

a)

Louis Pasteur

b)

Jonas Salk

c)

Edward Jenner

d)

Alexander Fleming

13.

Which is the deepest point in the Earth's oceans?

a)

Mariana Trench

b)

Tonga Trench

c)

Puerto Rico Trench

d)

Java Trench

14.

What is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name?

a)

Q

b)

X

c)

Z

d)

J

15.

Which mathematician is credited with developing calculus independently from Newton?

a)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

b)

Leonhard Euler

c)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

d)

Euclid

16.

What is the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?

a)

Apollo 11

b)

Sputnik 1

c)

Explorer 1

d)

Vostok 1

17.

Which is the largest island in the world that is not a continent?

a)

Madagascar

b)

Greenland

c)

Borneo

d)

New Guine

18.

Who discovered the electron?

a)

J.J. Thomson

b)

Ernest Rutherford

c)

Niels Bohr

d)

James Chadwick

19.

Which U.S. president served the shortest time in office?

a)

James Garfield

b)

Zachary Taylor

c)

William Henry Harrison

d)

Warren G.

20.

Which is the only planet in the Solar System that rotates clockwise?

a)

Mercury

b)

Venus

c)

Uranus

d)

Neptune

21.

What is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth?

a)

Astatine

b)

Francium

c)

Curium

d)

Polonium

22.

Who was the first person to reach the South Pole?

a)

Robert Falcon Scott

b)

Ernest Shackleton

c)

Roald Amundsen

d)

Edmund Hillary

23.

Which ancient city was buried under volcanic ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD?

a)

Carthage

b)

Troy

c)

Pompeii

d)

Babylon

24.

Which element has the highest melting point?

a)

Tungsten

b)

Carbon

c)

Osmium

d)

Platinum

25.

Which country has the most time zones (including overseas territories)?

a)

Russia

b)

France

c)

United States

d)

China

26.

Which was the first country to grant women the right to vote?

a)

United States

b)

Finland

c)

New Zealand

d)

Canada

27.

Which spacecraft was the first to successfully land on Mars?

a)

Viking 1

b)

Curiosity

c)

Opportunity

d)

Sojourner

28.

Which is the only bird known to have nostrils at the tip of its beak?

a)

Albatross

b)

Kiwi

c)

Penguin

d)

Falcon

29.

Which mathematical theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation aⁿ + bⁿ = cⁿ for any integer value of n greater than 2?

a)

Pythagorean Theorem

b)

Fermat’s Last Theorem

c)

Euler’s Theorem

d)

Riemann Hypothesis

30.

What is the name of the first cloned mammal?

a)

Dolly the Sheep

b)

Bella the Cow

c)

Lucy the Chimpanzee

d)

Charlie the Dog

31.

Which ancient civilization is credited with developing the first known writing system, cuneiform?

a)

Egyptians

b)

Sumerians

c)

Phoenicians

d)

Mayans

32.

Who was the first emperor of China?

a)

Liu Bang

b)

Qin Shi Huang

c)

Kublai Khan

d)

Sun Tzu

33.

Which country has the longest coastline in the world?

a)

Australia

b)

United States

c)

Canada

d)

Russia

34.

Which disease is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin C?

a)

Rickets

b)

Scurvy

c)

Beriberi

d)

Pellagra

35.

Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe?

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Ferdinand Magellan

c)

Marco Polo

d)

Vasco da Gama

36.

Which country is home to the most active volcanoes in the world?

a)

Japan

b)

United States

c)

Indonesia

d)

Italy

37.

What is the most abundant gas in the universe?

a)

Helium

b)

Hydrogen

c)

Carbon

d)

Oxygen

38.

What is the SI unit of luminous intensity?

a)

Lux

b)

Candela

c)

Lumen

d)

Watt

39.

Who was the first female Prime Minister in the world?

a)

Indira Gandhi

b)

Margaret Thatcher

c)

Golda Meir

d)

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

40.

What was the first synthetic element to be discovered?

a)

Technetium

b)

Francium

c)

Einsteinium

d)

Neptunium