General Knowledge Quiz

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

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 

EVERYDAY SCIENCE MCQs-6

51. Einstein’s famous equation which states that mass and energy are interchangeable is?
A. E = mc2
B. E = cm2
C. M = ec2
D. M = ce2

52. The SI unit of electric current is?
A. Coloumb
B. Ampere
C. Volt
D. Watt

53. The principal constituent of the atmosphere of the Earth is?
A. Oxygen
B. Carbon
C. Hydrogen
D. Nitrogen

54. What is Dry Ice?
A. Solid Oxygen
B. Solid Carbon Dioxide
C. Solid Hydrogen
D. Solid Nitrogen

55. What are the primary colours?
A. White, Black, Blue
B. Red, Yellow, Blue
C. Red, Orange, Blue
D. Red, Green, Blue

56. Digestion of food is completed in the __________.
A. small intestine
B. large intestine
C. stomach
D. Liver

57. Carrot is good source of Vitamin?
A. A
B. B complex
C. C
D. D

58. For proper formation of teeth, __________ is essential.
A. iodine
B. copper
C. fluorine
D. iron

59. Deficiency of __________ causes loss of appetite and poor growth.
A. zinc
B. iodine
C. copper
D. iron

60. Meteorology is the study of?
A. seasons
B. atmosphere
C. air and sounds
D. winds and clouds

ANSWERS: SCIENCE QUIZZES

51.  A

52.  B

53.  D

54.  B

55.  D

56.  A

57.  A

58.  C

59.  A

60.  B

EVERYDAY SCIENCE MCQs-4

41. The position of an element in the Periodic Table is determined by its __________ number.
A. Electron
B. Proton
C. Neutron
D. Positron

42. The salinity of sea water is determined by the amount of common salt (Sodium Chloride) in __________ of sea water.
A. 1 gram
B. 10 grams
C. 1 kg
D. 10 kg

43. The planet which is easily visible from the Earth is?
A. Mercury
B. Venus
C. Mars
D. Jupiter

44. The Great Spot is on the planet __________.
A. Saturn
B. Venus
C. Mars
D. Jupiter

45. The Great Spot is a __________.
A. Mountain
B. Desert
C. Frozen Carbon dioxide
D. Storm

46. The bodyguard of the Earth is __________ that save the Earth from many Comets and Asteroids.
A. Mars
B. Saturn
C. Uranus
D. Jupiter

47. 1 light year = ?
A. 9.5x106 km
B. 9.5x109 km
C. 9.5x1012 km
D. 9.5x1018 km

48. The planets visible to us without using a telescope are __________.
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6

49. According to Big Bang Theory, the Universe began about __________ billion years ago.
A. 10 – 20
B. 20 – 30
C. 30 – 40
D. 40 – 50

50. Biosensor is used to measure?
A. Blood glucose level
B. The body pH value
C. Amount of hemoglobin
D. Salinity in Urine

ANSWERS: EVERYDAY SCIENCE MCQs
41. B
42. C
43. B
44. D
45. D
46. D
47. C
48. C
49. A
50. A