General Education by Abegail

1.What is the capital of France?

a) Berlin
b) London
c) Paris
d) Rome
2.Who wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?
a) Charles Dickens
b) William Shakespeare
c) Jane Austen
d) Mark Twain
3.Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
a) Venus
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Saturn
4.In what year did World War II end?
a) 1942
b) 1945
c) 1950
d) 1939
5.What is the largest mammal in the world?
a) Elephant
b) Blue whale
c) Giraffe
d) Gorilla

6.Who painted the Mona Lisa?

a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Pablo Picasso
c) Vincent van Gogh
d) Michelangelo
7.Which element has the chemical symbol 'H'?
a) Hydrogen
b) Helium
c) Mercury
d) Chromium
8.What is the currency of Japan?
a) Yen
b) Won
c) Ringgit
d) Baht
9.Who was the first President of the United States?
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) John Adams
c) George Washington
d) James Madison
10.In what year did the Titanic sink?
a) 1912
b) 1920
c) 1905
d) 1931
11.Which planet is known as the "Morning Star" or "Evening Star"?
a) Mars
b) Venus
c) Mercury
d) Jupiter
12.What is the largest ocean on Earth?
a) Atlantic Ocean
b) Indian Ocean
c) Arctic Ocean
d) Pacific Ocean
13.Who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) J.D. Salinger
c) Harper Lee
d) Ernest Hemingway
14.What is the capital of Australia?
a) Sydney
b) Melbourne
c) Canberra
d) Brisbane
15.Who is known as the "Father of Computer Science"?
a) Alan Turing
b) Bill Gates
c) Steve Jobs
d) Mark Zuckerberg
16.What is the currency of Brazil?
a) Peso
b) Real
c) Euro
d) Rand
17.Which mountain is the highest in the world?
a) Mount Kilimanjaro
b) Mount Everest
c) Mount McKinley
d) Mount Fuji
18.In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
a) 1985
b) 1989
c) 1991
d) 1979
19.Who wrote "1984"?
a) George Orwell
b) Aldous Huxley
c) Ray Bradbury
d) J.R.R. Tolkien
20.What is the largest desert in the world?
a) Sahara Desert
b) Gobi Desert
c) Antarctica
d) Arctic Desert
26.What is the largest planet in our solar system?
a) Earth
b) Jupiter
c) Saturn
d) Neptune
27.Who wrote "The Great Gatsby"?
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) J.K. Rowling
d) Jane Austen
28. Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun?
a) China
b) Japan
c) South Korea
d) Vietnam

29.Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? a) Marie Curie b) Rosa Parks c) Amelia Earhart d) Mother
Teresa

30.What is the currency of Russia? a) Euro b) Ruble c) Dollar d) Yen

31.In which year did the Apollo 11 mission land the first humans on the Moon? a) 1965 b) 1969 c) 1972 d) 1975
32.Who painted "Starry Night"? a) Claude Monet b) Vincent van Gogh c) Pablo Picasso d) Leonardo da Vinci

33.What is the capital of South Africa? a) Johannesburg b) Cape Town c) Pretoria d) Durban

34. In what year did the United States declare its independence? a) 1765 b) 1776 c) 1789 d) 1800

35.Which gas makes up the majority of Earth's atmosphere? a) Oxygen b) Nitrogen c) Carbon dioxide d)
Hydrogen

36.Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"? a) Jane Austen b) Charlotte Brontë c) Emily Dickinson d) Charles
Dickens

37.What is the currency of China? a) Yuan b) Yen c) Won d) Ringgit

38.Which famous scientist developed the theory of relativity? a) Isaac Newton b) Albert Einstein c) Stephen
Hawking d) Galileo Galilei

39.What is the capital of Canada? a) Vancouver b) Toronto c) Ottawa d) Montreal

40.Who wrote "The Catcher in the Rye"? a) J.D. Salinger b) Ernest Hemingway c) F. Scott Fitzgerald d) Mark
Twain

41.Which river is the longest in the world? a) Nile River b) Amazon River c) Yangtze River d) Mississippi
River

42.What is the main ingredient in guacamole? a) Tomatoes b) Avocado c) Onions d) Peppers

43.Who painted the "Mona Lisa"? a) Michelangelo b) Leonardo da Vinci c) Vincent van Gogh d) Pablo Picasso

44.What is the capital of Argentina? a) Rio de Janeiro b) Buenos Aires c) Santiago d) Lima

45.In which year did the Cold War end? a) 1985 b) 1989 c) 1991
 Question Set 2
1.What is the currency of Mexico? a) Peso b) Dollar c) Euro d) Real

2.Who wrote "Hamlet"? a) William Shakespeare b) Jane Austen c) Charles Dickens d) F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.What is the largest ocean mammal? a) Dolphin b) Blue whale c) Seal d) Manatee

4.In what year did the World Wide Web become publicly accessible? a) 1985 b) 1991 c) 1995 d) 2000

5.Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean? a) Amelia Earhart b) Bessie Coleman c)
Harriet Quimby d) Jacqueline Cochran

6.What is the capital of Spain? a) Rome b) Madrid c) Lisbon d) Barcelona

7.Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? a) Leonardo da Vinci b) Michelangelo c) Raphael d) Donatello

8.Which gas is responsible for the Earth's greenhouse effect? a) Oxygen b) Nitrogen c) Carbon dioxide d)
Methane

9.In what year did the Berlin Wall construction begin? a) 1958 b) 1961 c) 1972 d) 1980

10.What is the largest desert in Asia? a) Arabian Desert b) Gobi Desert c) Thar Desert d) Iranian Desert

11.Who wrote "The Odyssey"? a) Homer b) Virgil c) Sophocles d) Aristotle

12.What is the currency of South Korea? a) Yen b) Won c) Ringgit d) Baht

13.In what year did the Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage? a) 1909 b) 1912 c) 1920 d) 1931

14.Which planet is known as the "Red Planet"? a) Venus b) Mars c) Jupiter d) Saturn

15.Who discovered penicillin? a) Marie Curie b) Alexander Fleming c) Louis Pasteur d) Jonas Salk
16.What is the capital of India? a) Mumbai b) Delhi c) Kolkata d) Chennai

17.Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"? a) Geoffrey Chaucer b) William Wordsworth c) John Milton d) Samuel
Taylor Coleridge

18.What is the currency of Egypt? a) Pound b) Dinar c) Riyal d) Lira

19.In which year did the United Nations officially come into existence? a) 1945 b) 1950 c) 1960 d) 1975

20.Who painted "The Starry Night"? a) Pablo Picasso b) Vincent van Gogh c) Claude Monet d) Salvador Dalí

Question Set 3
1. What is the currency of Switzerland? a) Euro b) Franc c) Pound d) Krona

2. Who wrote "The Iliad"? a) Homer b) Virgil c) Sophocles d) Plato

3. What is the largest desert in North America? a) Sahara Desert b) Sonoran Desert c) Mojave Desert d)
Great Basin Desert

4. In what year did the United States declare its independence from Great Britain? a) 1765 b) 1776 c) 1789
d) 1800

5. Who is known as the "Queen of Pop"? a) Madonna b) Beyoncé c) Lady Gaga d) Rihanna

6. What is the capital of Thailand? a) Bangkok b) Hanoi c) Jakarta d) Kuala Lumpur

7. Who painted "The Persistence of Memory"? a) Pablo Picasso b) Vincent van Gogh c) Salvador Dalí d)
Claude Monet

8. Which planet is known as the "Blue Planet"? a) Earth b) Neptune c) Uranus d) Venus
9. In what year did the World Health Organization (WHO) come into existence? a) 1945 b) 1950 c) 1960 d)
1948

10. What is the currency of Turkey? a) Lira b) Peso c) Rand d) Dinar

11. Who wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? a) Gabriel García Márquez b) Isabel Allende c) Mario
Vargas Llosa d) Jorge Luis Borges

12. Which river is often considered the longest in the world? a) Amazon River b) Nile River c) Yangtze
River d) Mississippi River

13. What is the capital of Sweden? a) Copenhagen b) Oslo c) Helsinki d) Stockholm

14. Who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection? a) Charles Darwin b) Alfred Russel
Wallace c) Gregor Mendel d) Louis Pasteur

15. What is the currency of South Africa? a) Rand b) Peso c) Real d) Kwacha

16. In which year did the Great Depression begin? a) 1920 b) 1929 c) 1935 d) 1942

17. Who is the author of the Harry Potter series? a) J.K. Rowling b) George R.R. Martin c) J.R.R. Tolkien d)
Suzanne Collins

18. What is the capital of New Zealand? a) Sydney b) Auckland c) Wellington d) Christchurch

19. Who painted "The Girl with a Pearl Earring"? a) Johannes Vermeer b) Rembrandt c) Leonardo da Vinci
d) Edvard Munch

20. In what year did the Industrial Revolution begin in England? a) 1650 b) 1750 c) 1850 d) 1950

21. What is the currency of South Africa? a) Peso b) Rand c) Real d) Dinar

22. Who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"? a) Oscar Wilde b) Virginia Woolf c) Charles Dickens d)
Emily Brontë
23. In what year did the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occur? a) 1980 b) 1986 c) 1991 d) 1999

24. Which planet is known as the "Red Planet"? a) Venus b) Mars c) Jupiter d) Saturn

25. Who painted "American Gothic"? a) Grant Wood b) Edward Hopper c) Jackson Pollock d) Georgia
O'Keeffe

26. What is the capital of Nigeria? a) Nairobi b) Lagos c) Accra d) Abuja

27. Who is the author of "The Hunger Games" trilogy? a) J.K. Rowling b) Suzanne Collins c) George R.R.
Martin d) Veronica Roth

28. In what year did the United States enter World War II? a) 1939 b) 1941 c) 1945 d) 1950

29. What is the currency of Japan? a) Won b) Ringgit c) Yen d) Baht

30. Who is known as the "Queen of Soul"? a) Whitney Houston b) Aretha Franklin c) Beyoncé d) Diana
Ross

31. What is the largest planet in our solar system? a) Earth b) Jupiter c) Saturn d) Neptune

32. Who wrote "Wuthering Heights"? a) Jane Austen b) Emily Brontë c) Charlotte Brontë d) Charles
Dickens

33. What is the capital of Argentina? a) Rio de Janeiro b) Buenos Aires c) Santiago d) Lima

34. Which mountain range is the longest in the world? a) Andes b) Himalayas c) Rockies d) Alps

35. What is the currency of Saudi Arabia? a) Riyal b) Dinar c) Dirham d) Rial

36. Who developed the theory of general relativity? a) Isaac Newton b) Albert Einstein c) Stephen Hawking
d) Niels Bohr
37. In what year did the Berlin Wall fall? a) 1985 b) 1989 c) 1991 d) 1995

38. What is the largest desert in Africa? a) Sahara Desert b) Kalahari Desert c) Namib Desert d) Libyan
Desert

39. Who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea"? a) Ernest Hemingway b) F. Scott Fitzgerald c) John Steinbeck
d) Mark Twain

40. What is the capital of Australia? a) Sydney b) Melbourne c) Canberra d) Brisbane