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Hard General Knowledge Quiz

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the smallest country in the world by area?

a)

Monaco

b)

Vatican City

c)

San Marino

d)

Liechtenstein

2.

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

a)

Florence Nightingale

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Ada Lovelace

d)

Jane Goodall

3.

What element has the chemical symbol “Fe”?

a)

Fluorine

b)

Francium

c)

Iron

d)

Feldspar

4.

Which planet has the most moons?

a)

Saturn

b)

Jupiter

c)

Uranus

d)

Neptune

5.

In what year did the Titanic sink?

a)

1905

b)

1912

c)

1915

d)

1920

6.

What is the longest river in the world?

a)

Amazon River

b)

Nile River

c)

Yangtze River

d)

Mississippi River

7.

Who wrote The Art of War?

a)

Confucius

b)

Lao Tzu

c)

Sun Tzu

d)

Mao Zedong

8.

What’s the capital city of Canada?

a)

Toronto

b)

Montreal

c)

Vancouver

d)

Ottawa

9.

Which famous scientist developed the theory of relativity?

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Galileo Galilei

10.

What’s the largest desert in the world?

a)

Sahara Desert

b)

Gobi Desert

c)

Arctic Desert

d)

Antarctic Desert

11.

What is the currency of Japan?

a)

Yuan

b)

Yen

c)

Won

d)

Dollar

12.

In which year did Jamaica gain independence?

a)

1960

b)

1962

c)

1964

d)

1965

13.

Who painted The Starry Night?

a)

Claude Monet

b)

Pablo Picasso

c)

Vincent van Gogh

d)

Leonardo da Vinci

14.

What is the world’s largest island?

a)

Australia

b)

Madagascar

c)

Greenland

d)

Borneo

15.

Which African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?

a)

Sudan

b)

Ethiopia

c)

Somalia

d)

Egypt

16.

What does DNA stand for?

a)

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

b)

Dinucleic Acid

c)

Dextroribonucleic Agent

d)

Double Nitrogen Acid

17.

What metal is liquid at room temperature?

a)

Mercury

b)

Iron

c)

Sodium

d)

Copper

18.

Who was the British Prime Minister during most of World War II?

a)

Neville Chamberlain

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Margaret Thatcher

d)

Harold Wilson

19.

What’s the chemical symbol for gold?

a)

Ag

b)

Au

c)

Gd

d)

Go

20.

Which planet spins the fastest on its axis?

a)

Jupiter

b)

Earth

c)

Mars

d)

Venus

21.

Who invented the telephone?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Nikola Tesla

d)

James Watt

22.

What’s the largest internal organ in the human body?

a)

Heart

b)

Liver

c)

Lungs

d)

Kidney

23.

Who wrote the novel 1984?

a)

Aldous Huxley

b)

Ernest Hemingway

c)

George Orwell

d)

J.R.R. Tolkien

24.

What country hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896?

a)

Italy

b)

Greece

c)

France

d)

Germany

25.

What’s the name of the longest bone in the human body?

a)

Tibia

b)

Femur

c)

Humerus

d)

Radius

26.

What is the national flower of Jamaica?

a)

Hibiscus

b)

Lignum Vitae

c)

Orchid

d)

Bougainvillea

27.

What is the capital city of Turkey?

a)

Istanbul

b)

Ankara

c)

Izmir

d)

Bursa

28.

Which element has the highest melting point?

a)

Carbon

b)

Iron

c)

Tungsten

d)

Platinum

29.

What year did Nelson Mandela become President of South Africa?

a)

1992

b)

1993

c)

1994

d)

1996

30.

What is the hardest natural material known to man (other than diamond)?

a)

Graphene

b)

Wurtzite boron nitride

c)

Quartz

d)

Silicon carbide