General Knowledge Quiz-4

1.    Which superhero was born on the planet Krypton just before it was destroyed?

Superman


2.    Which country won the football World Cup in 1966?

England


3.    Does rubber come from a tree, the sea or a bee?

A tree


4.    What was the old man doing in the rhyme It’s Raining It’s Pouring?

Snoring


5.    How many days are there in a leap year?

366


6.    What do cows drink?

Water


7.    Which of Hook’s hands was a hook in Peter Pan?

Left


8.    Where did this old man play ‘four’ in Nick Nack Paddywack?

On my door


9.    Which sport takes place in a square ring?

Boxing


10.    Who packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus?

Nellie the Elephant


11.    Constantinople is a very long word, spell IT.

I-T


12.    What kind of weapon can be found on the badge of Arsenal Football Club?

Cannon


13.    How many legs does a seahorse have?

None


14.    Who is buried in Tutankhamun’s tomb?

Tutankhamun


15.    Who was Kanga’s baby in Winnie the Pooh?

Baby Roo


16.    What two colours is the flag that is waved at the end of a motor race?

Black and white


17.    Which is the world’s most famous drink, with sales of over 300,000,000 every day?

Coca-Cola


18.    What colour are white rhinos?

Grey


19.    Which metal is the FA Cup made out of?

Silver


20.    Which cartoon character’s ears always point to the front no matter which way he is looking?

Mickey Mouse’s




TIE BREAKER QUESTION (5 SECONDS)

WHAT YEAR WAS I BORN?

General Knowledge Quiz-3

Geography

1.    What is the capital city of Australia? (Canberra)
2.    How many states are there in America? (50)
3.    What is the name of the main river in India? (River Ganges)
4.    Does China or the USA have the largest population? (China)
5.    Name the seven continents. (Europe, Asia, Australasia, Antarctica, North America, South America, Africa)

History

6.    Who is buried in the pyramids of Ancient Egypt? (pharaohs)
7.    In what year did the Battle of Hastings take place? (1066)
8.    How old was Queen Elizabeth II when she became queen? (25)
9.    In which season did the UEFA Champions League begin in its current format? (1992/1993)
10.    What was Henry VIII third wife called? (Jane Seymour)

Science

11.    Which two elements make up water? (hydrogen and oxygen)
12.    How many days does it take for the moon to orbit the earth? (28 days / a month)
13.    What are the function of roots in a plant? (absorb nutrients and anchor the plant)
14.    What part of the body protect the heart? (ribs)
15.    Name two food groups. (carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins & minerals

General Knowledge

16.    Which two colours make green? (yellow and blue)
17.    What is the name of the imaginary line that goes around the centre of the Earth? (equator)
18.    What was the name of the man who first discovered America? (Christopher Columbus)
19.    On a computer keyboard, which letter is to the left of ‘W’? (Q)
20.    Who is the most successful British football team? (Liverpool FC)
21.    What is the plural of sheep? (sheep)
22.    What is the collective name for a group of lions? (pride)
23.    Who wrote Oliver Twist? (Charles Dickens)
24.    In what street does the Prime Minister live? (Downing Street)
25.    What do the letters RSPCA stand for? (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
26.    What do you call any four sided shape? (quadrilateral)
27.    What is the Indian Festival of Light called? (Diwali)
28.    What is the capital city of Scotland? (Edinburgh)
29.    What is the next number in the following sequence: 1, 3, 6, 10, 15? (21)
30.    Who wrote the Harry Potter books? (JK Rowling)


TIE BREAK QUESTION

How high is Mount Everest in feet? (29,029)

General Knowledge Quiz-111

1) What happened in London on April 29th 2011? (Prince William & Kate Middleton’s wedding)
2) Which football team won the Premier League this year? (Manchester City)
3) What is the capital city of Spain? (Madrid)
4) Which star sign are people born between July 23rd and August 22nd? (Leo)
5) Name David and Victoria Beckham’s four children. (Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz, Harper Seven)
6) In what year was Justin Bieber born? (1994)
7) Name the last country to win the football World Cup.  (Spain)
8) What is the name of the actor who plays Harry Potter? (Daniel Radcliffe)
9) In which Olympic sport does Zara Phillips compete? (horse riding)
10) What is President Obama’s first name? (Barrack)
11) Who is third in line to the British throne? (Prince Harry)
12) Which is the most popular sport throughout the World? (football)
13) How many hours are there in a week? (168)
14) Who had an encounter with the three bears? (Goldilocks)
15) Which tree do acorns come from? (oak)
16) How many years are there in a century? (100)
17) Which is the only vowel not on the top row of a computer keyboard? (A)
18) What colour are emeralds? (green)
19) Which sport takes place in a velodrome? (cycling)
20) In which sport might you do a ‘slam dunk’? (basketball)

General Knowledge Quiz-112

1) What is the longest river in the World? (River Nile)

2) Write the number 128 in Roman Numerals. (CXXVIII)

3) This year the Olympics are being held in London, the last Olympics were held in Beijing and the ones before that were held in Athens, what year were the Olympics held in Athens? (2004)

4) Where does the British Prime Minister live? (10 Downing Street)

5) How many days did it take Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to reach the Moon after Apollo 11 had left the Earth’s orbit? (4 days)

6) What is the name of Shrek’s wife? (Princess Fiona)

7) How many sides does a dodecagon have? (12)

8) Which planet is known as the Red Planet? (Jupiter)

9) What is the object hit in a hockey or ice hockey game called? (puck)

10) What is the capital city of Spain? (Madrid)

11) Which river goes through Liverpool? (River Mersey)

12) What colour jersey is worn by the leader of the Tour de France? (yellow)

General Knowledge Quiz,

1.     Who won the X Factor 2010? (Matt Cardle)
2.     In tennis, what is it called when both players have 40 points? (deuce)
3.     What is the capital city of Austria? (Vienna)
4.     Which band are Marvin, Oritsé, Aston and JB in? (JLS)
5.     Who plays football at Pride Park? (Derby County)
6.     What is the Royal title of Prince William and Catherine Middleton? (Duke and Duchess of Cambridge)
7.     Who has just had a baby called Harper Seven? (David & Victoria Beckham)
8.     What sport does Phil ‘the Power’ Taylor play? (darts)
9.     Which is the closest planet to the Sun? (Mercury)
10.  What are GHD’s? (hair straightners)
11.  Name three Premiership football teams whose name begins with a ‘W’? (Wigan, West Brom, Wolves)
12.  Which city would you be in if you could see the Colosseum? (Rome)
13.  Which type of shoe is also something to do with a train station? (platform)
14.  What colour t-shirt does the leader of the Tour de France have to wear? (yellow)
15.  What country would you be in if you were in the city Bucharest? (Romania)
16.  What is Daniel Radcliffe famous for? (he plays Harry Potter in the films)
17.  Who is the manager of the English football team? (Fabio Capello)
18.  What do you call a baby elephant? (calf)
19.  Which English city does Cheryl Cole come from? (Newcastle)
20.  What sport would you be watching if you were at the Oval? (cricket)
21.  What is the name of the Prime Minister? (David Cameron)
22.  Name three members of Take That. (Robbie Williams, Howard Donald, Mark Owen, Jason Orange, Gary Barlow)
23.  Which country won the Lady’s World Cup Final on Sunday? (Japan)
24.  What three colours are on the Icelandic flag? (red, white and blue)
25.  Who wore a dress made of meat to an awards ceremony? (Lady Gaga)
26.  What football team does Lionel Messi play for? (FC Barcelona)
27.  If you were travelling by Eurostar what type of transport would you be using? (train)
28.  Who sang ‘Never Say Never’? (Justin Bieber)
29.  What sport is Fernando Alonso famous for? (F1)
30.  How many stars are on the American flag? (50)

 

General Knowledge Quiz-13

1. Which side of your plate should the fork be placed on if you are right-handed? (left)
2. What do we call a sheet of ice that moves very slowly down a mountain? (a glacier)
3. Which two countries compete in the Ashes? (England & Australia)
4. How many children does the Queen have? (four)
5. What is a young wolf called? (cub)
6. Who wrote “To be or not to be, that is the question”? (William Shakespeare)
7. What types of creatures live in schools and shoals? (whales)
8. What is the outside of a cricket ball made from? (leather)
9. Would you expect to find Eskimos in the north or south pole? (north)
10. Who has the most bones, an adult or a young child? (young child)
11. How many people should be on the field during a football match? (23)
12. What will the day after tomorrow be if yesterday was Monday? (Thursday)
13. What present is given on The Third Day of Christmas according to the song? (French hens)
14. Do fish and insects close their eyes to go to sleep? (no)
15. What did the Ancient Romans call the carts that were pulled by horses in races? (chariots)
16. How many neck bones does a giraffe have if a human has seven? (seven)
17. What happened in the summer of 1976, it snowed, the Thames dried up or there was a severe earthquake? (The Thames dried up)
18. Which queen rules England for 64 years? (Victoria)
19. What did Alexander Graham Bell invent that is in almost every home? (telephone)
20. What season is it in America when it is summer in Britain? (summer)
21. What do the spots on opposite sides of a dice always add up to? (seven)
22. How many different events must a competitor in the decathlon take part in? (10)
23. Are dolphins vegetarians? (no)
24. What colour flag should people wave if they wish to stop fighting in a battle? (white)
25. Which has ten arms, an octopus, a squid or an ant? (squid)
26. Which seems to come first, thunder or lightning? (lightning)
27. What kind of creature is a cabbage white? (butterfly)
28. What is somebody’s job if they have a green flashing light on the roof of their car? (doctor)
29. Who was the tallest of Robin Hood’s Merry Men? (Little John)
30. Which famous duck will be eighty years old in 2014? (Donald Duck)

General Knowledge Quiz-113

1. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
2. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
3. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
4. A snail can sleep for three years.
5. All Polar bears are left-handed.
6. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
7. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
8. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
9. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
10. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
11. Butterflies taste with their feet.
12. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
13. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
14. China has more English speakers than the United States.
15. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
16. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
17. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
18. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
19. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
21. I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
22. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
23. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
24. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
25. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
26. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
27. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
28. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
29. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
30. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
31. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
32. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
33. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
34. No word in the English language rhymes with month.
35. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
36. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
37. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.
38. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
40. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
41. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
42. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
43. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
44. Starfish haven't got brains.
45. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
46. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
47. The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
48. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
49. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
50. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
51. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
52. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
53. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
54. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
55. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
56. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
57. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
58. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
59. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
60. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
61. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
62. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
63. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
64. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
65. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
66. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
67. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world