Hi Everyone! Today I made a General Knowledge Quiz. Please do check it. Hope everyone likes it.

1. General
Knowledge
Quiz
By: Zaara Azad

2. Rules
• Three questions to each group in turns. Answering each
question correctly will enable them to earn points.
• If they answer all questions correctly, they will get 30+5 points.
• 5 extra points will be rewarded for answering all questions
correctly.
• Time Limit- 15 seconds for each question
1. First Question Carries 5 marks
2. Second Question Carries 10 marks
3. Third Question Carries 15 marks

3. According to Fedel Handhal, a scholar of world
history, the name for a modern city may have
come from the past tense derivative of the word
‘yadub’ (to creep), referring to the slow flow of a
Creek Island. Which city?
London
Paris
Dubai
Tokyo
Group 1

4. What invention by
Heine Allemagne and
Pablo Silva made its
debut at the FIFA 2014
World Cup and is now
commonly used at
soccer games?
Vanishing Spray
Freeze Spray
Group 1

5. ‘The Mysterious Affairs at
Styles’ introduced which
Belgian policeman as the
protagonist and he
subsequently appeared in
many more novels after
that?
Hercule Poirot
Tom Hanks
Group 1

6. We all know the Red
Cross, but which country’s
flag has a Blue Cross?
Japan
Korea Finland
UAE
Group 2

7. Which British prime minister
was awarded the Nobel
Price for Literature for his
history books?
Winston Churchill
Andrew Holness
Group 2

8. This man has a hotel
bearing his name in
Dubai. Who is he?
Armani
Robert Redford
Francis Ford Coppola
Olivia Newton-John
Group 2

9. What is the orange-colored
box in an aircraft known as?
Black BoxAircraft Tripod Jack
Group 3

10. What is the word that
comes from grain
crushing device used
in prisons
Treadmill
Grinder
Group 3

11. This is a type of sweater that ties,
buttons or zips down the front. It
in named after James Thomas
Brudenell who commanded the
charge of the Light Brigade during
the Crimean War. Which clothing
item is this?
Cardigan
Monte Carlo
Roadster
Group 3

12. Which popular writer
would you associate
with books such as The
Children of Hu’rin and
the Hobbit?
J.R.R. Tolkien
Monte Carlo
Stephen Edwin King
Group 4

13. Which couple dance form
originated in the 1880s
along the river Plata, the
natural border between
Argentina and Uruguay?
Tango
Waltz
Rumba
Group 4

14. The name of which US
state capital means
‘sheltered harbour’ or
‘calm port’
1. Honolulu
3. Algiers
2. Tirana
Group 4

15. Born in 1850 in
Staffordshire in England,
Edward John Smith
dropped out of school at
the age of 12 and his first
employment was on
Senator Weber, a ship in
1867. He died on 15th April
1912. what is he most
known for?
1. He was the captain of the RMS Titanic
2. He invented propeller.
Group 5

16. The patent of
which logo
modification is
titled ‘SYSTEM AND
METHOD FOR
ENRICHING USERS
TO A WEBSITE’?
Google Doodle
Hub Spot
Group 5

17. “If all knew what
others say of them,
there would not be
four friends in this
world”-this is a famous
quote by which French
mathematician and
physicist?
Blaise Pascal
Hypatia
Henri Poincare
Group 5

18. Extra Questions

19. Name the book modelled on
Homer’s Odyssey, that tells
the story of a day in Dublin
Ulysses
Lolita
The Great Gatsby
Catch-22
Group 1

20. Name the famous sportsperson you would associate with
the RF Foundation.
Roger Federer
Serena Willams
Rafeal Nadal
Andy Murray
Group 2

21. Which document management corporation founded in 1906
is headquarter in Norwalk, Connecticut in the US?
Auradot
Seren
Xenos
Andy Murray
Group 3

22. Who was the British Surgeon who laid the foundation of
modern antiseptic surgery in the 19th Century?
Heodore Dyke Acland.
Isaac Aaron.
Henry Acland.
Joseph Lister
Group 4

23. Murder in the
Cathedral is a
historical verse play
written by whom?
William Faulkner.
T.S Eliot
Fyodor Dostoevsky.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Group 5

24. Did you
enjoy the
session?