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25 Questions about General Knowledge 8 | General

Another 25 multi-choice easy general knowledge questions with a few teasers to catch you out. These increase in difficulty. Have fun. (Your final score doesn't matter, it's the learning process which is fun.)

A multiple-choice quiz by Quizzical. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Quizzical

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
50,102

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
15 / 25

Plays
5757

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Question 1 of 25

1. Who was the author of 'Robinson Crusoe'? Hint

Mark Twain

Jules Verne

Alexandre Dumas

Daniel Defoe

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Question 2 of 25

2. What was Archimedes doing just before he shouted 'Eureka'? Hint

Lowering himself into a bath

Sculpturing stone

Tying his shoelace

Eating fish

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Question 3 of 25

3. Who was not one of the Bronte sisters? Hint

Charlotte

Jane

Emily

Anne

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Question 4 of 25

4. What is the capital of New Zealand? Hint

Auckland

Dunedin

Christchurch

Wellington

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Question 5 of 25

5. Name the dog in Herge's 'Adventures of Tintin'. Hint

Fido

Toto

Snowy

Toby

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Question 6 of 25

6. What is the capital of South Dakota? Hint

Henri

Claude

Charles

Pierre

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Question 7 of 25

7. On which ship did Charles Darwin sail to the Galapagos Islands? Hint

Mayflower

Beagle

Endeavour

Golden Hind

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Question 8 of 25

8. Name the brother of Mary and Martha who was raised from the dead by Jesus. Hint

Nicodemus

Matthias

Barabbas

Lazarus

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Question 9 of 25

9. Asia Minor was a great peninsula of west Asia making up most of which modern country? Hint

China

Israel

India

Turkey

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Question 10 of 25

10. Which island appears on its national flag? Hint

Cyprus

Malta

Crete

Greenland

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Question 11 of 25

11. Which creature is composed of 95 percent water and has no heart, virtually no brain and no blood? Hint

Axolotl

Jellyfish

Cockroach

Slug

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Question 12 of 25

12. Name the only sea without a coastline. Hint

Mediterranean Sea

Tyrrhenian Sea

Sargasso Sea

Sea of Azov

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Question 13 of 25

13. Which animal's name means 'earth pig'? Hint

Wart hog

Hippopotamus

Aardvark

Tapir

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Question 14 of 25

14. Sclera is better known as the ______? Hint

Lachrymal sac

White of the eye

The pupil of the eye

Optic nerve

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Question 15 of 25

15. The 'Battle of Bull Run' took place in 1861 and was the first major battle of the American Civil War. In which American state did it take place? Hint

Kentucky

Georgia

Virginia

Alabama

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Question 16 of 25

16. Which word comes from an Italian word meaning 'little ball'? Hint

Billet

Ballot

Balloon

Bullet

17. When King Zheng became emperor of ancient China, he ordered a splendid tomb to be built. His tomb was guarded by a large grouping of life-sized clay terracotta soldiers who had real crossbows and spears, with life-sized clay horses and chariots, known as 'The Terracotta Army'. How many members are there in this Terracotta Army? Hint

1,250

7,000

250

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Question 18 of 25

18. The familiar phrase 'He's fit as a fiddle' or 'She's cool as a cucumber' are examples of what type of word? Hint

Alliteration

Palindrome

Homophone

Blend names

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Question 19 of 25

19. What was first used extensively in World War II on soldiers with serious wounds, saving many lives? Hint

Carbolic acid

Penicillin

Bandages

Tourniquet

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Question 20 of 25

20. The Italian physicist, Torricelli, was the inventor of the barometer and was assistant to Galileo. What was his first name? Hint

Evangelista

MacPherson

Moss

Campbell

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Question 21 of 25

21. What is the world's oldest known religion which is found all over the world? Hint

Buddhism

Judaism

Christianity

Shamanism

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Question 22 of 25

22. Mary Anning is famous as she earned a living by selling what? Hint

Fossils

Famous autographs

Exotic butterflies

Faberge eggs

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Question 23 of 25

23. The St. Joachimsthal silver mine in Bohemia issued its own silver coins called 'Joachimsthalers' in 1512. These were later known as 'thalers'. Which currency was derived from 'thalers'? Hint

Franc

Krona

Dinar

Dollar

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Question 24 of 25

24. How many of the following planets have rings: Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune? Hint

all four of them

Two

Only Saturn has a ring

Three

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Question 25 of 25

25. A person of which nationality invented felt-tip (fibre-tip) pens? Hint

Turkish

Italian

Swiss

Japanese

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who was the author of 'Robinson Crusoe'?

Answer: Daniel Defoe

Written in 1719.

2. What was Archimedes doing just before he shouted 'Eureka'?

Answer: Lowering himself into a bath

The public bath overflowed as he lowered himself into it. He suddenly understood the physical law of water displacement.

3. Who was not one of the Bronte sisters?

Answer: Jane

Emily Bronte only wrote one novel, 'Wuthering Heights' (1847). Charlotte Bronte wrote four novels including 'Jane Eyre' (1847). Anne Bronte's best-known novel is 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' (1848).

4. What is the capital of New Zealand?

Answer: Wellington

5. Name the dog in Herge's 'Adventures of Tintin'.

Answer: Snowy

Belgian artist Georges Remi used the pen name Herge. He and his team translated stories into English. Tintin's dog 'Milou' became 'Snowy' and detectives 'Dupont and Dupond' became 'Thomson and Thompson'.

6. What is the capital of South Dakota?

Answer: Pierre

7. On which ship did Charles Darwin sail to the Galapagos Islands?

Answer: Beagle

8. Name the brother of Mary and Martha who was raised from the dead by Jesus.

Answer: Lazarus

Nicodemus was a Pharisee who had a secret meeting with Jesus. Barabbas was a robber and murderer who was released from prison instead of Jesus. Matthias was chosen to replace the apostle Judas. Four days after the death of Lazarus, Jesus miraculously restored him to life.

9. Asia Minor was a great peninsula of west Asia making up most of which modern country?

Answer: Turkey

10. Which island appears on its national flag?

Answer: Cyprus

11. Which creature is composed of 95 percent water and has no heart, virtually no brain and no blood?

Answer: Jellyfish

The axolotl is a rare amphibian whose name means 'water monster' in the Aztec language.

12. Name the only sea without a coastline.

Answer: Sargasso Sea

The Sea of Azov is surrounded by Russia and the Ukraine. The Sargasso Sea is an area of calm, barely moving water in the North Atlantic between the West Indies and the Azores.

13. Which animal's name means 'earth pig'?

Answer: Aardvark

Dutch settlers in South Africa gave the aardvark its name although the aardvark is really a type of anteater.

14. Sclera is better known as the ______?

Answer: White of the eye

15. The 'Battle of Bull Run' took place in 1861 and was the first major battle of the American Civil War. In which American state did it take place?

Answer: Virginia

Confederate forces defeated the Union army.

16. Which word comes from an Italian word meaning 'little ball'?

Answer: Ballot

Little balls were dropped into a container to vote. White for 'yes' and black for 'no'. Hence the expression 'to blackball' or vote against somebody. According to Wikipedia: "The origins of the blackball lie in ancient Greece, where people were excluded by use of the ostrakhon (shell or potsherd) as a ballot in voting: see ostracize".

Answer: 7,000

King Zheng is more commonly known to us as Qin Shi Huang Di, the first emperor to unify China.

18. The familiar phrase 'He's fit as a fiddle' or 'She's cool as a cucumber' are examples of what type of word?

Answer: Alliteration

Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelt differently, such as 'bough' and 'bow' or 'bear' and 'bare'. Blend names are words such as 'smog' a mixture of smoke and fog. 'Brunch' and 'motel' are other examples. A palindrome is a word or phrase the letters of which, when taken in reverse order, give the same word or phrase. 'Madam' or 'level' are examples.

19. What was first used extensively in World War II on soldiers with serious wounds, saving many lives?

Answer: Penicillin

Carbolic acid is another word for phenol, especially when it is used as an antiseptic or disinfectant. In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered that penicillin could kill harmful germs so it was first used extensively during World War Two.

20. The Italian physicist, Torricelli, was the inventor of the barometer and was assistant to Galileo. What was his first name?

Answer: Evangelista

21. What is the world's oldest known religion which is found all over the world?

Answer: Shamanism

A shaman is a priestly witch-doctor, believed to have power through trances to influence the good or bad spirits who govern human life.

22. Mary Anning is famous as she earned a living by selling what?

Answer: Fossils

Born in Dorset, England in 1799, she grew up to be a great fossil hunter and was so good that she earned her living by selling fossils. She found the first complete fossil skeleton of a giant marine ichthyosaur when she was only twelve years old. She also found the first complete skeleton of a plesiosaur.

23. The St. Joachimsthal silver mine in Bohemia issued its own silver coins called 'Joachimsthalers' in 1512. These were later known as 'thalers'. Which currency was derived from 'thalers'?

Answer: Dollar

24. How many of the following planets have rings: Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune?

Answer: all four of them

Close-up photographs taken by the 'Voyager' space probes have shown us that they all have rings.

25. A person of which nationality invented felt-tip (fibre-tip) pens?

Answer: Japanese

The modern fibre tip pen, as we know it, is credited to Yukio Horie of the Tokyo Stationary Company in 1962. The Japanese inventor hoped that the pen's soft tip would make people's handwriting more graceful. Hope you enjoyed the quiz.

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