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Geography
- What is Burkina Faso’s capital city?
a) Laos
b) Kabul
c) Tirana
d) Ouagadougou
Answer: d) Ouagadougou
2. Which one is the world’s oldest continuously inhabited city?
a) Rome
b) Athens
c) Damascus
d) Aleppo
Answer: c) Damascus
3. The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
a) Sicily
b) Sardinia
c) Cyprus
d) Crete
Answer: a) Sicily
- What is Kazakhstan’s capital city?
a) Almaty
b) Shymkent
c) Astana (Nur-Sultan)
d) Atyrau
Answer: c) Astana (Nur-Sultan)
- Which is the highest waterfall on Earth?
a) Niagara Falls
b) Victoria Falls
c) Angel Falls
d) Iguazu Falls
Answer: c) Angel Falls
- In which place lies the lowest part of the deep sea in all oceans?
a) Mariana Trench
b) Tonga Trench
c) Java Trench
d) Puerto Rico Trench
Answer: a) Mariana Trench
- Name Bhutan’s capital.
a) Thimphu
b) Paro
c) Punakha
d) Phuentsholing
Answer: a) Thimphu
- What is Uzbekistan’s capital?
a) Samarkand
b) Tashkent
c) Bukhara
d) Andijan
Answer: b) Tashkent
- What is Qatar’s capital?
a) Doha
b) Al Wakrah
c) Al Khor
d) Mesaieed
Answer: a) Doha
- The country with the largest landlocked area on earth in terms of surface area is what?
a) Mongolia
b) Chad
c) Kazakhstan
d) Niger
Answer: c) Kazakhstan
- What is Slovenia’s capital city?
a) Maribor
b) Celje
c) Ljubljana
d) Kranj
Answer: c) Ljubljana
- What is the capital city of Iceland?
a) Akureyri
b) Reykjavik
c) Hafnarfjörður
d) Kópavogur
Answer: b) Reykjavik
- Which city is the capital of South Africa?
a) Pretoria (administrative)
b) Bloemfontein (judicial)
c) Cape Town (legislative)
d) Johannesburg
Answer: a) Pretoria (administrative), b) Bloemfontein (judicial), c) Cape Town (legislative)
- What is the world’s largest reef system?
a) Great Barrier Reef
b) Mesoamerican Reef
c) Red Sea Coral Reef
d) Andros Barrier Reef
Answer: a) Great Barrier Reef
- Which one is the earth’s biggest island?
a) Borneo
b) New Guinea
c) Greenland
d) Madagascar
Answer: c) Greenland
- Which country has the smallest area in Africa by land mass?
a) Seychelles
b) Comoros
c) São Tomé and Príncipe
d) Djibouti
Answer: a) Seychelles
- What is the tallest non-Asian peak on the planet?
a) Kilimanjaro
b) Denali
c) Aconcagua
d) Mount Elbrus
Answer: c) Aconcagua
- What nation has the most extensive shoreline globally?
a) Russia
b) Australia
c) Canada
d) Indonesia
Answer: c) Canada
- The capital of Mongolia is called…
a) Ulaanbaatar
b) Erdenet
c) Darkhan
d) Choibalsan
Answer: a) Ulaanbaatar
- Where can you find Earth’s driest spot on Earth’s surface?
a) Sahara Desert
b) Atacama Desert
c) Namib Desert
d) Gobi Desert
Answer: b) Atacama Desert
- What is Africa’s largest lake?
a) Lake Tanganyika
b) Lake Malawi
c) Lake Victoria
d) Lake Chad
Answer: c) Lake Victoria
22. Which river flows through Europe for the longest time?
a) Danube River
b) Volga River
c) Rhine River
d) Loire River
Answer: b) Volga River
23. Which city serves as Maldives’ capital city?
a) Malé
b) Hulhumalé
c) Addu City
d) Fuvahmulah
Answer: a) Malé
24. Which country has been established the first ever in history?
a) Egypt
b) China
c) San Marino
d) Greece
Answer: c) San Marino
25. Where is the most populous city on this planet?
a) New York
b) Shanghai
c) Tokyo
d) Delhi
Answer: c) Tokyo
History
26. Who became the Nobel Prize female winner as the first-ever nominee among women competitors?
a) Marie Curie
b) Rosalind Franklin
c) Ada Lovelace
d) Lise Meitner
Answer: a) Marie Curie
27. In what year did the first email get sent?
a) 1965
b) 1971
c) 1978
d) 1983
Answer: b) 1971
28. Who was the initial African-American Oscar winner?
a) Sidney Poitier
b) Hattie McDaniel
c) Dorothy Dandridge
d) James Earl Jones
Answer: b) Hattie McDaniel
29. Which ancient civilization constructed Machu Picchu?
a) Maya
b) Aztec
c) Inca
d) Olmec
Answer: c) Inca
30. Who was the first Emperor of China?
a) Qin Shi Huang
b) Han Gaozu
c) Tang Taizong
d) Wu Zetian
Answer: a) Qin Shi Huang
31. Who was the last Tsar of Russia?
a) Alexander II
b) Nicholas II
c) Peter the Great
d) Ivan IV
Answer: b) Nicholas II
32. Who was the first woman Prime Minister of the UK?
a) Margaret Thatcher
b) Theresa May
c) Angela Merkel
d) Golda Meir
Answer: a) Margaret Thatcher
33. Whose discovery is credited with understanding how blood circulates in a body system?
a) Andreas Vesalius
b) William Harvey
c) Marcello Malpighi
d) Hippocrates
Answer: b) William Harvey
34. Whose name is associated with being the initial person to reach the South Pole?
a) Robert Falcon Scott
b) Roald Amundsen
c) Ernest Shackleton
d) James Clark Ross
Answer: b) Roald Amundsen
35. Who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
a) Amelia Earhart
b) Beryl Markham
c) Harriet Quimby
d) Jacqueline Cochran
Answer: a) Amelia Earhart
36. Which country gave women voting rights for the first time?
a) Finland
b) New Zealand
c) United States
d) Switzerland
Answer: b) New Zealand
37. Who became America’s first-ever President?
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) John Adams
c) George Washington
d) James Madison
Answer: c) George Washington
38. What was mankind’s earliest civilization called?
a) Sumerians
b) Egyptians
c) Indus Valley Civilization
d) Mesopotamians
Answer: a) Sumerians
39. The name of Rome’s inaugural emperor was.
a) Julius Caesar
b) Augustus
c) Nero
d) Tiberius
Answer: b) Augustus
40. During World War II, who served as leader of the Soviet Union, USSR Army, and The Party state?
a) Vladimir Lenin
b) Joseph Stalin
c) Leon Trotsky
d) Nikita Khrushchev
Answer: b) Joseph Stalin
41. Name of the man who made his maiden space flight from Earth into outer space in 1961:
a) Yuri Gagarin
b) Alan Shepard
c) John Glenn
d) Neil Armstrong
Answer: a) Yuri Gagarin
42. Which war divided the United States into two factions; North and South?
a) The Civil War
b) The Revolutionary War
c) The War of 1812
d) The Mexican-American War
Answer: a) The Civil War
43. Who held office as Prime Minister of Britain during WW2?
a) Neville Chamberlain
b) Winston Churchill
c) Clement Attlee
d) Stanley Baldwin
Answer: b) Winston Churchill
44. The First Female Nobel Laureate in Literature? (1909).
a) Selma Lagerlöf
b) Pearl S. Buck
c) Gabriela Mistral
d) Doris Lessing
Answer: a) Selma Lagerlöf
45. Prior to Queen Elizabeth II, which British monarch had held that position for the longest period of time?
a) George III
b) Henry VIII
c) Queen Victoria
d) Elizabeth I
Answer: c) Queen Victoria
46. First Human on the Moon.
a) Buzz Aldrin
b) Neil Armstrong
c) Michael Collins
d) Yuri Gagarin
Answer: b) Neil Armstrong
Nature and Science
47. Which blood type is the rarest of all?
a) A Negative
b) B Negative
c) AB Negative
d) O Negative
Answer: c) AB Negative
48. What is the hardest known material on Earth?
a) Diamond
b) Wurtzite boron nitride
c) Lonsdaleite
d) Graphene
Answer: b) Wurtzite boron nitride
49. What is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust?
a) Iron
b) Aluminium
c) Magnesium
d) Silicon
Answer: b) Aluminium
50. What is the smallest planet in our solar system?
a) Pluto
b) Mercury
c) Mars
d) Venus
Answer: b) Mercury
51. What is the main component of natural gas?
a) Methane
b) Ethane
c) Propane
d) Butane
Answer: a) Methane
52. Which element has the highest melting point?
a) Tungsten
b) Carbon
c) Osmium
d) Rhenium
Answer: a) Tungsten
53. What is the most common element in the universe?
a) Helium
b) Oxygen
c) Hydrogen
d) Nitrogen
Answer: c) Hydrogen
54. The scientific name for the human kneecap.
a) Patella
b) Tibia
c) Fibula
d) Femur
Answer: a) Patella
55. Largest species of shark.
a) Great White Shark
b) Hammerhead Shark
c) Whale Shark
d) Megamouth Shark
Answer: c) Whale Shark
56. Chemical symbol for lead.
a) Pb
b) Ld
c) Le
d) Pl
Answer: a) Pb
57. What is the main ingredient in the traditional Japanese dish “natto”
a) Fermented soybeans
b) Seaweed
c) Rice
d) Fish
Answer: a) Fermented soybeans
58. The most common element in earth’s crust.
a) Silicon
b) Iron
c) Oxygen
d) Aluminium
Answer: c) Oxygen
59. What do you call the group of crows?
a) Flock
b) Gaggle
c) Murder
d) Swarm
Answer: c) Murder
60. The largest body organ.
a) Liver
b) Skin
c) Heart
d) Lungs
Answer: b) Skin
61. The longest river in Asia.
a) Yellow River
b) Yangtze River
c) Mekong River
d) Ganges River
Answer: b) Yangtze River
62. Fear of spiders.
a) Arachnophobia
b) Acrophobia
c) Claustrophobia
d) Xenophobia
Answer: a) Arachnophobia
63. Which planet has more moons than any other planet in the solar system?
a) Jupiter
b) Saturn
c) Uranus
d) Neptune
Answer: a) Jupiter
64. The tallest mammal on the Earth.
a) Elephant
b) Giraffe
c) Rhinoceros
d) Hippopotamus
Answer: b) Giraffe
65. A bird known for its elaborate courtship dance.
a) Peacock
b) Albatross
c) Bird of Paradise
d) Crane
Answer: c) Bird of Paradise
66. What type of gas we often breathe in the air?
a) Oxygen
b) Carbon Dioxide
c) Nitrogen
d) Argon
Answer: c) Nitrogen
67. The Red Planet is:
a) Venus
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Saturn
Answer: b) Mars
68. The fastest bird in the world is:
a) Golden Eagle
b) Peregrine Falcon
c) Swift
d) Albatross
Answer: b) Peregrine Falcon
Literature
69. The author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.
a) Jorge Luis Borges
b) Isabel Allende
c) Gabriel García Márquez
d) Mario Vargas Llosa
Answer: c) Gabriel García Márquez
70. Who wrote “The Brothers Karamazov”?
a) Leo Tolstoy
b) Fyodor Dostoevsky
c) Anton Chekhov
d) Ivan Turgenev
Answer: b) Fyodor Dostoevsky
71. Who wrote “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”?
a) Sophocles
b) Homer
c) Euripides
d) Virgil
Answer: b) Homer
72. Who is the author of “The Prince”?
a) Thomas Hobbes
b) Niccolò Machiavelli
c) John Locke
d) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Answer: b) Niccolò Machiavelli
73. Who wrote “Things Fall Apart”?
a) Chinua Achebe
b) Wole Soyinka
c) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
d) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Answer: a) Chinua Achebe
74. Which writer authored “The Canterbury Tales”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) John Milton
d) Christopher Marlowe
Answer: b) Geoffrey Chaucer
75. Don Quixote was written by:
a) Gabriel García Márquez
b) Mario Vargas Llosa
c) Miguel de Cervantes
d) Jorge Luis Borges
Answer: c) Miguel de Cervantes
76. Author of “The Stranger”.
a) Jean-Paul Sartre
b) Albert Camus
c) Marcel Proust
d) Simone de Beauvoir
Answer: b) Albert Camus
77. Who authored “To the Lighthouse”?
a) Virginia Woolf
b) James Joyce
c) D.H. Lawrence
d) E.M. Forster
Answer: a) Virginia Woolf
78. Who created “War and Peace”?
a) Fyodor Dostoevsky
b) Leo Tolstoy
c) Alexander Pushkin
d) Anton Chekhov
Answer: b) Leo Tolstoy
79. Who is the author of “Pride and Prejudice”?
a) Charlotte Brontë
b) Jane Austen
c) Emily Brontë
d) Mary Shelley
Answer: b) Jane Austen
80. Who was the author of “Moby-Dick”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Herman Melville
c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: b) Herman Melville
81. Which character is not in “Pride and Prejudice”?
a) Elizabeth Bennet
b) Mr. Darcy
c) Jane Eyre
d) Lydia Bennet
Answer: c) Jane Eyre
82. In what decade did “The Great Gatsby” take place?
a) 1910s.
b) 1920s.
c) 1930s.
d) 1940s.
Answer: b) 1920s.
83. Who authored “The Catcher in the Rye”?
a) J.D Salinger
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) William Faulkner
d) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: a) J.D Salinger
84. What novel starts with the words, “Call me Ishmael”?
a. The Scarlet Letter
b. Moby Dick
c. Great Expectations
d. Wuthering Heights
Answer: b. Moby Dick
85. 1984 is written by?
a) Aldous Huxley
b) George Orwell
c) Ray Bradbury
d) H.G Wells
Answer: b) George Orwell
86. Which Shakespearean work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as characters?
a) Hamlet
b) Macbeth
c) Othello
d) The Tempest
Answer: a) Hamlet
87. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in what fictional town?
a) Maycomb
b) Castle Rock
c) Yoknapatawpha
d) Avonlea
Answer: a) Maycomb
88. Brave New World was written by whom?
a) George Orwell
b) Aldous Huxley
c) Ray Bradbury
d) Philip K. Dick
Answer: b) Aldous Huxley
89. Who is the protagonist in The Hobbit?
a) Frodo Baggins
b) Gandalf
c) Bilbo Baggins
d) Aragorn
Answer: c) Bilbo Baggins
Other Questions on Literature
90. What is the first Gothic novel?
a) “Frankenstein”
b) “Dracula”
c) “The Castle of Otranto”
d) “Wuthering Heights”
Answer: c) The Castle of Otranto
91. Who authored “The Picture of Dorian Gray”?
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Charles Dickens
c) Thomas Hardy
d) Henry James
Answer: a) Oscar Wilde
92. Which book does the character Atticus Finch appear in?
a) “The Catcher in the Rye”
b) “To Kill a Mockingbird”
c)”Of Mice and Men”
d)”The Grapes of Wrath”
Answer: b) To Kill a Mockingbird.
93. Who authored “Beloved”?
a) Maya Angelou
b) Alice Walker
c) Toni Morrison
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: c) Toni Morrison.
94. What location is used in “Crime and Punishment”?
a) Paris
b) London
c) St. Petersburg
d) Berlin
Answer: c) St.Petersburg
95. Who wrote “A Farewell to Arms”?
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) William Faulkner
c) John Steinbeck
d) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: d) Ernest Hemingway.
96. Who wrote “The Canterbury Tales”:
a) Geoffrey Chaucer
b) William Langland
c) John Gower
d) Thomas Malory
Answer: a) Geoffrey Chaucer
97. Which novel contains Hester Prynne as its character?
a) “Jane Eyre”
b) “The Scarlet Letter”
c) “Wuthering Heights”
d) “Mansfield Park”.
Answer: b) ” The Scarlet Letter”.
98. Who wrote “The Road”:
a) Cormac McCarthy
b) Don DeLillo
c) Philip Roth
d) Thomas Pynchon
Answer: a) Cormac McCarthy
99. Which novel does the character Holden Caulfield appear in?
a) “Catch-22”
b) “The Great Gatsby”
c) “On the Road”
d) “The Catcher in the Rye”
Answer: d) “The Catcher in the Rye”
100. Who authored “Middlemarch”?
a) Emily Brontë
b) George Eliot
c) Jane Austen
d) Thomas Hardy
Answer: b) George Eliot
101. Who wrote “The Handmaid’s Tale”?
a) Margaret Atwood
b) Doris Lessing
c) Alice Munro
d) Anne Tyler
Answer: a) Margaret Atwood
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