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WorksheetsGeneral Knowledge Quiz
Total questions: 107
Worksheet time: 54mins
Which number is a prime?
21
49
53
1
Which device measures air pressure?
Barometer
Hygrometer
Ammeter
Seismograph
Which planet has the most moons confirmed?
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Which gas makes up most of Earth’s atmosphere?
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Carbon dioxide
Argon
What is the hardest natural substance?
Quartz
Sapphire
Diamond
Corundum
What is the capital of Canada?
Toronto
Ottawa
Vancouver
Montreal
Which writing system is used in Japan with Chinese characters?
Hangul
Kanji
Cyrillic
Devanagari
Which instrument is a woodwind?
Violin
Clarinet
Trumpet
Cello
The acronym “URL” stands for…
Universal Resource Locator
Uniform Resource Locator
Unified Reference Link
Universal Reference Link
Which element is liquid at room temperature?
Mercury
Potassium
Lithium
Sodium
Which ocean is the smallest by area?
Indian
Arctic
Atlantic
Southern
A heptagon has how many sides?
5
6
7
8
Which animal is a marsupial?
Koala
Panda
Lemur
Meerkat
Which continent has the most countries?
South America
Africa
Europe
Asia
The Great Barrier Reef is primarily composed of…
Basalt
Coral
Granite
Sandstone
What is the longest river in the world by most modern measurements?
Amazon
Nile
Yangtze
Mississippi
Which language has the most native speakers?
English
Mandarin Chinese
Spanish
Hindi
What is the currency of South Korea?
Yen
Yuan
Won
Dong
Which organ produces insulin?
Liver
Pancreas
Spleen
Thyroid
Which metal is most abundant in Earth’s crust?
Iron
Aluminum
Copper
Calcium
Photosynthesis occurs mainly in which organelle?
Mitochondrion
Chloroplast
Ribosome
Nucleus
The speed of light in vacuum is approximately…
3×10³ m/s
3×10⁵ m/s
3×10⁸ m/s
3×10¹¹ m/s
Which vitamin helps blood clotting?
A
C
D
K
HTML is primarily used to…
Style web pages
Structure web content
Query databases
Secure connections
CRISPR is a tool for…
Protein folding
Gene editing
Imaging cells
Making vaccines only
Which particle carries a negative charge?
Proton
Neutron
Electron
Positron
Earth’s most common rock type in the crust is…
Basalt
Granite
Limestone
Marble
1 kilobyte equals…
100 bytes
1024 bytes
1000 bytes exactly
2048 bytes
The Doppler effect is a change in…
Temperature
Frequency
Mass
Charge
Which blood type is a universal donor for red cells?
A−
O−
AB+
B+
Which planet has the longest day (rotation)?
Venus
Mars
Earth
Mercury
The SI unit of electric current is…
Volt
Ohm
Ampere
Watt
“HTTPS” adds which protocol for security?
FTP
SSH
TLS/SSL
SFTP
In chemistry, pH 2 is…
Strongly acidic
Neutral
Weakly basic
Strongly basic
A light-year measures…
Time
Distance
Brightness
Temperature
The aurora is caused by interactions between solar wind and…
Ozone layer
Magnetosphere
Jet stream
Tectonic plates
Moore’s Law originally observed the doubling of…
Battery life
Transistor count
Pixel density
Storage speed
Which disease is caused by a prion?
Rabies
Mad cow disease
Tuberculosis
Malaria
In electricity, P = VI means power equals…
Voltage × Current
Voltage ÷ Current
Current ÷ Voltage
Resistance × Current
The nearest star system to Earth is…
Barnard’s Star
Alpha Centauri
Sirius
Vega
The capital of Kenya is…
Addis Ababa
Nairobi
Kampala
Dar es Salaam
The Taj Mahal is in…
New Delhi
Jaipur
Agra
Varanasi
The world’s largest desert (non-polar) is…
Sahara
Arabian
Gobi
Kalahari
Mount Kilimanjaro is in…
Kenya
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Uganda
Which country is landlocked?
Peru
Bolivia
Ecuador
Colombia
The Danube flows into which sea?
Baltic
Black
Adriatic
Aegean
The strait between Spain and Morocco is the…
Bosporus
Dover
Gibraltar
Magellan
Which U.S. state is called the “Sunshine State”?
California
Florida
Arizona
Nevada
The driest continent is…
Antarctica
Africa
Australia
Asia
Which country has the city of Medellín?
Mexico
Colombia
Chile
Argentina
The Mekong River does NOT flow through…
Laos
Cambodia
Myanmar
Vietnam
The city historically known as Constantinople is…
Ankara
Istanbul
Izmir
Bursa
Which country uses the forint?
Hungary
Romania
Czechia
Croatia
The world’s highest waterfall by uninterrupted drop is…
Victoria
Angel
Niagara
Iguazu
The city of Timbuktu is in…
Mali
Niger
Sudan
Chad
Which country has the most time zones (including territories)?
USA
France
Russia
UK
The Atacama Desert is in…
Peru
Chile
Argentina
Bolivia
Lake Baikal is notable for being…
Highest altitude
Saltiest
Deepest freshwater
Largest by area
The “Emerald Isle” refers to…
Iceland
Ireland
New Zealand
Sri Lanka
Lake Baikal is notable for being…
Highest altitude
Saltiest
Deepest freshwater
Largest by area
The “Emerald Isle” refers to…
Iceland
Ireland
New Zealand
Sri Lanka
The longest European river is the…
Rhine
Danube
Volga
Dnieper
The Magna Carta was signed in…
1066
1215
1492
1649
The ancient city of Machu Picchu was built by the…
Maya
Inca
Aztec
Olmec
The “Cold War” primarily involved the USA and…
Germany
Japan
Soviet Union
China
Who discovered penicillin?
Louis Pasteur
Alexander Fleming
Robert Koch
Edward Jenner
The first successful powered flight (Wright brothers) was in…
1903
1914
1899
1927
The Berlin Wall fell in…
1987
1988
1989
1991
The Titanic sank after striking an iceberg in…
1905
1912
1918
1925
Genghis Khan founded the…
Ottoman Empire
Mughal Empire
Mongol Empire
Persian Empire
The Rosetta Stone helped scholars read…
Sanskrit
Cuneiform
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Linear B
The Meiji Restoration modernized which country?
China
Japan
Korea
Thailand
The French Revolution began in…
1776
1789
1804
1815
The first woman in space was…
Sally Ride
Valentina Tereshkova
Mae Jemison
Svetlana Savitskaya
The Silk Road primarily linked China with…
The Americas
Europe
Oceania
Antarctica
The “Scramble for Africa” was in the…
1500s
1600s
1700s
1800s
The city of Petra is in modern-day…
Egypt
Jordan
Syria
Israel
“To Kill a Mockingbird” was written by…
Harper Lee
Toni Morrison
Jane Austen
George Eliot
A word that sounds like what it describes (buzz, hiss) is…
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Irony
“La Belle Dame sans Merci” is by…
John Keats
William Blake
Lord Byron
T.S. Eliot
The Filipino epic featuring Lam-ang is…
Biag ni Lam-ang
Hudhud
Ibalon
Darangen
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” was written in…
English
Spanish
Portuguese
French
A haiku traditionally has how many syllables?
14
17
19
21
The author of “1984” is…
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Kurt Vonnegut
Ray Bradbury
The comparative form of “good” is…
Gooder
Best
Better
More good
“Ibong Adarna” is written in…
Ilocano
Filipino/Tagalog
Cebuano
Kapampangan
A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards. Which is a palindrome?
Noon
Later
Soon
Moon
The Greek muse of history is…
Calliope
Clio
Erato
Terpsichore
“Noli Me Tangere” critiques…
Colonial society
Astronomy
Agriculture
Music theory
The main character of “The Little Prince” meets a fox who teaches about…
War
Taming
Flight
Mathematics
“Florante at Laura” was written by…
Francisco Balagtas
Jose Rizal
Nick Joaquin
Carlos Bulosan
The plural of “cactus” (standard) is…
Cactuses or cacti
Cacti only
Cactus
Cactae
How many players start for one team in basketball?
4
5
6
7
The Olympics are held every…
2 years
3 years
4 years
5 years
In soccer, the 2022 FIFA World Cup was won by…
France
Argentina
Brazil
Germany
A perfect score in a single bowling game is…
200
250
300
350
The Wimbledon surface is…
Clay
Grass
Hard
Carpet
The term “birdie” is used in…
Golf
Tennis
Baseball
Cricket
Which nation hosts the Tour de France?
Spain
Italy
France
Belgium
In volleyball, how many points to win a set (by 2) under rally scoring (most sets)?
21
15
25
30
The NBA team “Heat” is based in…
Orlando
Miami
Phoenix
Houston
In chess, which piece can “castle” with the king?
Bishop
Rook
Knight
Queen
The Filipino boxer nicknamed “Pacman” is…
Nonito Donaire
Manny Pacquiao
Gerry Peñalosa
Donnie Nietes
The maximum score for a single gymnastics routine (open-ended now) was historically…
9.5
10
12
15
In baseball, 3 strikes equals…
Out
Walk
Foul
Balk
The term “grand slam” in tennis means…
Four majors won in one calendar year
Winning any major
Winning Olympic gold
Winning Davis Cup
The PBA stands for…
Philippine Boxing Association
Philippine Basketball Association
Pro Bowling Assoc.
Professional Badminton Assoc.
