Random Knowledge Test: General Trivia fun quiz to test your knowledge about random topics around the world.
Ques. What is a “quandong”?
(a) Oil obtained from a rubber plant
(b) A Vietnamese boat
(c) An Indian item of clothing
(d) A fruit from Australia
Ques. What term is used to describe an influential and wealthy person?
(a) Obese pig
(b) Tubby puppy
(c) Fat cat
(d) Overweight horse
Ques. Expand PTO which is often written on the end of pages
(a) Please turn over
(b) Page Turn Over
(c) Please turn out
(d) Page Turn Out
Ques. What is a mythological ”xana”?
(a) Unicorn
(b) Dragon
(c) Fairy
(d) Flying horse
Ques. What does ”I” stand for in the acronym ”LGBTI”?
(a) Ideology
(b) Interstitial
(c) Irregular
(d) Intersex
Ques. ‘Sea of Tranquility’ is the name given to
(a) Atlantic Ocean
(b) A specific area of Antarctica
(c) A specific area on moon’s surface
(d) None of these
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Ques. What is a quinella?
(a) A monozygotic twin
(b) A type of bet on a horse race
(c) A five man gun crew
(d) A female quintuplet
Ques. A country or state which imposes no tax or very low tax is known as _
(a) Tax Tourism
(b) Tax Terrorism
(c) Tax Haven
(d) Tax Keeper
Ques. When the repayment of a loan starts after certain period of its disbursement, that period is called
(a) Esoteric
(b) Foreclosure
(c) Diffusion
(d) Moratorium
Ques. In the nursery rhyme “The House That Jack Built”, what was wrong with the cow?
(a) It had no tail
(b) It had only 3 legs
(c) It had a crumpled horn
(d) It gave no milk
Ques. What is the official process whereby one nation or state requests and obtains from another nation or state the surrender of a suspected or convicted criminal?
(a) Exile
(b) Extrapolation
(c) Extradition
(d) Suspension
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Ques. World’s largest blue star sapphire weighing 1404.49 carats has been found in which country ?
(a) China
(b) Sri Lanka
(c) Russia
(d) Africa
Ques. What was the name of the IBM computer that defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997?
(a) Deep Blue
(b) Big Brain
(c) Big Blue
(d) Deep Throat
Ques. __ is the study of the remains of the past.
(a) Biography
(b) Archaeology
(c) Cartology
(d) None of these
Ques. What can describe a phlegmatic person?
(a) Even-tempered
(b) A person with a throaty cough
(c) Excited
(d) Wounded
Ques. What links the cities of Quito and Lima?
(a) They are the capital cities of adjacent countries
(b) The water source for both cities is the Rimac River
(c) The main language spoken in both is Portuguese
(d) They have ports on the Caribbean Sea
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Ques. What is the Maracaibo Beacon?
(a) Frequent lightning storms in the area
(b) Lighthouse built by pirates in 1669
(c) A major South American radio station
(d) Maracaibo’s city newspaper
Ques. Where is the world’s widest street?
(a) London
(b) Buenos Aires
(c) New York
(d) Sydney
Ques. What is the nickname of Nike’s company logo?
(a) The ”tick”
(b) The ”swoosh”
(c) The ”check”
(d) The ”wing”
Ques. In February 2009, 38 year old Eluana Englaro, at Lecco, North of Milan, was newsworthy for doing what since January 1992?
(a) Not seeing another person
(b) Pole-sitting
(c) Being on life support
(d) Watching television constantly
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Ques. Which is the preposition in the tongue twister ”She sells sea shells by the sea shore”?
(a) She
(b) The
(c) By
(d) Sells
Ques. What is the relationship between the words ”bridle” and ”bridal”?
(a) Synophones
(b) Persephones
(c) Monophones
(d) Homophones
Ques. A large kinship group whose members inhabit one geographic area and believe they are descendent from a common area is known as:
(a) Clan
(b) Tribe
(c) Kin group
(d) Class
Ques. What word is used to refer to someone who is given boring and menial tasks?
(a) Beetlesear
(b) Catshead
(c) Ratsfoot
(d) Dogsbody
Ques. Which of these is the name for a type of broom?
(a) Trug
(b) Besom
(c) Ostler
(d) Tabard
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Ques. Ball, fork and sheet are all types of what?
(a) Lightning
(b) Bedding
(c) Cutlery
(d) Motor vehicle
Ques. What is the name for the act of murdering of one’s own mother?
(a) Springicide
(b) Bedicide
(c) Headboardicide
(d) Matricide
Ques. Where are grackles native?
(a) The Americas
(b) The Camargue in southern France
(c) Northern Africa
(d) The Romanche Trench
Ques. __ is small model of Earth.
(a) Ball
(b) Map
(c) Sketch
(d) Globe
Ques. Etnocentricism means:
(a) Evaluating other cultures with the Yardstick of your own values.
(b) Taking other nations as good as your own one but disowned
(c) No other society is like your’s and your society or group is superior to others
(d) None of these
Ques. Which of these would not be a name for a ghost?
(a) Eidolon
(b) Thivish
(c) Spectre
(d) Wrait
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Ques. What word is used to describe someone within an organisation who leaks information?
(a) Mole
(b) Groundhog
(c) Hamster
(d) Gerbil
Ques. Which of these animals is not mentioned in the nursery rhyme that starts ”Hey Diddle Diddle” and ends with a dish running away with a spoon?
(a) Pig
(b) Cat
(c) Cow
(d) Dog
Ques. What are likely to interest a numismatist specially?
(a) Burial practices
(b) Birds
(c) Stamps
(d) Coins or medals
Ques. On 21 June, the day light at the North Pole is seen for
(a) Zero hour
(b) 12 hours
(c) 18 hours
(d) 24 hours
Ques. What is a boson?
(a) A ship’s officer
(b) An elementary particle
(c) A musical instrument
(d) A bout of heavy rain
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Ques. An adolescent as a person within years of age
(a) 10-19
(b) 10-18
(c) 15-18
(d) 12-19
Ques. What is an apocalypse, in its original meaning?
(a) Thunder
(b) Destuction
(c) Cataclysm
(d) A revelation, or uncovering
Ques. Over use of resource is called “Tragedy of Commons.” It was propounded by.
(a) Garett Hardin
(b) Seligman
(c) Adolph Wagner
(d) A.P. Lernier
Ques. To Herder, Volksgeist means
(a) German ideology
(b) National Spirit
(c) Romantic spirit
(d) None of these
Ques. Modern age is characterized by
(a) Faith in Belief
(b) Faith in rationality
(c) Faith in religion
(d) None of these
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Ques. Tissue is a kind of
(a) Paper
(b) Medicine
(c) Group of similar cells
(d) Cloth
Ques. The term ‘Metropolis’ simply means
(a) Colony
(b) Town
(c) Settlement
(d) Mother Country
Ques. What sign of the zodiac is represented by a set of scales?
(a) Pisces
(b) Aries
(c) Taurus
(d) Libra
Ques. The four major directions, North, South, East and West are called what
(a) Thematic points
(b) Cardinal points
(c) Symbolic points
(d) Conventional points
Ques. What is symbiosis?
(a) association necessary for survival of both partners
(b) association in which one species is benetted and causes harm to another species
(c) association in which one species is benetted and another is unaffected
(d) None of these
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Ques. What word means the judgment (using analysis and evaluation) of the merits and faults of the actions or work of another individual, which now has an implication of an expression of disapproval?
(a) Nepotism
(b) Syllogism
(c) Criticism
(d) Aphorism
Ques. When a ship crosses the International Date Line from west to east _
(a) it loses one day
(b) it gains one day
(c) it loses half day
(d) it gains half day
Ques. The number of zodiacs are
(a) 10
(b) 12
(c) 13
(d) 11
Ques. Maps showing natural features of the earth are called __ maps
(a) Relief
(b) Political
(c) Thematic
(d) Symbolic
Ques. What is a fontanelle?
(a) Part of the bowel
(b) A bone in the hand
(c) Part of the nasal cavity
(d) The soft spot on a baby’s head
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Ques. What are ”crocodile tears”?
(a) Early morning dew drops from daffodils
(b) Insincere expressions of sorrow
(c) A common discharge from pigs’ ears
(d) Very light rain
Ques. What are microliths?
(a) Stone tools
(b) Iron tools
(c) Copper tools
(d) Shield
Ques. Which of the following is used in beauty parlours for hair setting?
(a) Sulphur
(b) Silicon
(c) Phosphorous
(d) Chlorine
Ques. Which of the following arts is called calligraphy?
(a) Beautiful paintings
(b) Beautiful writings
(c) Beautiful poem
(d) Beautiful architecture
Ques. Who is a cartographer?
(a) One who rules over a kingdom
(b) One who does trade by oceanic roots
(c) One who make Maps
(d) One who builds bullock carts
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Ques. What is the name for a site serving as the final resting place of human skeletal remains, which is frequently used where burial space is scarce?
(a) Ostralia
(b) Ostuary
(c) Ossuary
(d) Ostrechra
Ques. The term ‘Demography’ was coined by
(a) John Graunt
(b) Thomas Robert Malthus
(c) Acille Guillard
(d) Herbart spancer
