Random Knowledge Test: General Trivia fun quiz to test your knowledge about random topics around the world.
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
What term is used to describe an influential and wealthy person?
(a) Obese pig
(b) Tubby puppy
(c) Fat cat
(d) Overweight horse
How is a putatara used?
(a) Blown
(b) Steamed, accompanied by ginger and chillies
(c) Draped from one shoulder
(d) As a parachute
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
What is a mythological ”xana”?
(a) Unicorn
(b) Dragon
(c) Fairy
(d) Flying horse
Goidelic is one type of the Celtic language. What is the other?
(a) Catatonic
(b) Histrionic
(c) Brythonic
(d) Boadiceaic
‘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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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
A radio call used in aviation or shipping to seek urgent attention can be “Mayday”, but it can also be what other call?
(a) Code Orange
(b) SSS
(c) Pan pan
(d) TTT
A country or state which imposes no tax or very low tax is known as _
(a) Tax Tourism
(b) NoTax Zone
(c) Tax Haven
(d) Tax Keeper
What word describes a retail dealer in special supplies or equipment for ships?
(a) Ostler
(b) Haberdasher
(c) Milliner
(d) Chandler
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
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
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
What word has come to describe a hatter who designs, makes, sells or trims hats primarily for a female clientele?
(a) Ostler
(b) Chandler
(c) Farrier
(d) Milliner
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World’s largest blue star sapphire weighing 1404.49 carats has been found in which country ?
(a) China
(b) Sri Lanka
(c) Ujbekistan
(d) Panama
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
__ is the study of the remains of the past.
(a) Biography
(b) Archaeology
(c) Cartology
(d) None of these
What can describe a phlegmatic person?
(a) Even-tempered
(b) A person with a throaty cough
(c) Excited
(d) Wounded
What is someone who has podophilia attracted to?
(a) Plants
(b) Children
(c) Feet
(d) Public speaking
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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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
Where is the world’s widest street?
(a) London
(b) Buenos Aires
(c) New York
(d) Sydney
What is the nickname of Nike’s company logo?
(a) The ”tick”
(b) The ”swoosh”
(c) The ”check”
(d) The ”wing”
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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Which is the preposition in the tongue twister ”She sells sea shells by the sea shore”?
(a) She
(b) The
(c) By
(d) Sells
What is the relationship between the words ”bridle” and ”bridal”?
(a) Synophones
(b) Persephones
(c) Monophones
(d) Homophones
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
What word is used to refer to someone who is given boring and menial tasks?
(a) Beetlesear
(b) Catshead
(c) Ratsfoot
(d) Dogsbody
Which of these is the name for a type of broom?
(a) Trug
(b) Besom
(c) Ostler
(d) Tabard
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Ball, fork and sheet are all types of what?
(a) Lightning
(b) Bedding
(c) Cutlery
(d) Motor vehicle
What is the name for the act of murdering of one’s own mother?
(a) Springicide
(b) Bedicide
(c) Headboardicide
(d) Matricide
Where are grackles native?
(a) The Americas
(b) The Camargue in southern France
(c) Northern Africa
(d) The Romanche Trench
__ is small model of Earth.
(a) Ball
(b) Map
(c) Sketch
(d) Globe
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
Which of these would not be a name for a ghost?
(a) Eidolon
(b) Thivish
(c) Spectre
(d) Wrait
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What word is used to describe someone within an organisation who leaks information?
(a) Mole
(b) Groundhog
(c) Hamster
(d) Gerbil
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
What are likely to interest a numismatist specially?
(a) Burial practices
(b) Birds
(c) Stamps
(d) Coins or medals
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
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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An adolescent as a person within years of age
(a) 10-19
(b) 10-18
(c) 15-18
(d) 12-19
What is an apocalypse, in its original meaning?
(a) Thunder
(b) Destuction
(c) Cataclysm
(d) A revelation, or uncovering
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
To Herder, Volksgeist means
(a) German ideology
(b) National Spirit
(c) Romantic spirit
(d) None of these
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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Tissue is a kind of
(a) Paper
(b) Medicine
(c) Group of similar cells
(d) Cloth
The term ‘Metropolis’ simply means
(a) Colony
(b) Town
(c) Settlement
(d) Mother Country
What sign of the zodiac is represented by a set of scales?
(a) Pisces
(b) Aries
(c) Taurus
(d) Libra
The four major directions, North, South, East and West are called what
(a) Thematic points
(b) Cardinal points
(c) Symbolic points
(d) Conventional points
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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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
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
The number of zodiacs are
(a) 10
(b) 12
(c) 13
(d) 11
Maps showing natural features of the earth are called __ maps
(a) Relief
(b) Political
(c) Thematic
(d) Symbolic
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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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
In some languages the sound of the letter ”V” may be almost identical, if not more, to that of which other letter?
(a) M
(b) P
(c) B
(d) T
What are microliths?
(a) Stone tools
(b) Iron tools
(c) Copper tools
(d) Shield
Which of the following is used in beauty parlours for hair setting?
(a) Sulphur
(b) Silicon
(c) Phosphorous
(d) Chlorine
Which of the following arts is called calligraphy?
(a) Beautiful paintings
(b) Beautiful writings
(c) Beautiful poem
(d) Beautiful architecture
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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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
The term ‘Demography’ was coined by
(a) John Graunt
(b) Thomas Robert Malthus
(c) Acille Guillard
(d) Herbart spancer
