English Language

General Knowledge
Quiz
Form 5

2013

Instruction : Answer all questions

Name : _______________________
Class : ________________________

SMK
Victoria
Bulan
Bahasa

1. Which city hosted Asia's first Olympic Games?

a)
b)
c)
d)

Tokyo
Seoul
Osaka
Beijing

2. For the battle scene the actor was in front of a __________. It was difficult for him to
pretend he was fighting with thousands of other soldiers around him when there was only him being
filmed.
a)
b)
c)
d)

background
green screen
green house
blue screen of death

3. What's the name we give to the Egypt of 3000 years ago?

a)
b)
c)
d)

Very old Egypt

Early Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Antique Egypt

4. Who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. who has become well-known for the
"mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, and his social and political
activism?

a)
b)
c)
d)

Kanye West
Michael Stipe
Justin Timberlake
Kid Rock

5. How many planets orbit the sun between it and earth?

a)
b)
c)
d)

1
2
3
4

6. What is 40-40 in tennis?

a)
b)
c)
d)

Vater
Deuce
Tee
Koffee

7. A teenager who spends all day in front of a computer screen is called a

____________.
a) screenager
b) cybersickness
c) ciberwidow
d) e-cash
8. How many members of a netball team are allowed to shoot at goal?
a) 4
b) 3
c) 2
d) 5
9. What is the name for the act of murdering of one's own mother?
a)
b)
c)
d)
10.

Which of these is an example of an "anthropoid"?

a)
b)
c)
d)
11.

Springicide
Bedicide
Headboardicide
Matricide

Wasp
Ape
Deer
Bear

Who played Ava Gardner in "The Aviator"?

2

a)
b)
c)
d)
12.

Why was Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996, so named?

a)
b)
c)
d)
13.

After Dolly Parton

She was small and dainty
That was the name of the lead scientist's wife
From the acronym for DNA Open Learning Institute which co-sponsored the work

Which of these is the name of a panther in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book"?

a)
b)
c)
d)

Bagheera
Mowgli
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Akela
What nationality is the soccer player Dennnis Bergkamp?

14.

a)
b)
c)
d)

Belgian
Dutch
German
Austrian
In snooker, what coloured ball scores 5 points?

15.

a)
b)
c)
d)
16.

Keira Knightley SP
Kate Winslet
Kate Beckinsale
Catherine Zeta-Jones

Brown
Blue
Green
Red

Which of these is not a rodent?

a)
b)
c)
d)
17.

a)
b)
c)
d)

Dog
Rabbit
Rat
Skunk
How many nouns are in the sentence "My mother and father visited my sister in Wellington"?
A9
B1
C4
D 15

What's the maximum score in a game of darts?

a) one hundred eighty
b) one thousand eighty

18.

c) one thousand and eighty

d) one hundred and eighty
Which of these games has 9 squares on a standard board?
a) Noughts and Crosses
b) Chess
c) Snakes and Ladders
d) Scrabble

19.

20.

Which of these songs is from the musical Annie?

Summertime
Getting to Know You
Tomorrow
Get Me to The Church On Time

21.
22.

When something is difficult to find it is like looking for a needle in a

Which saying is used to suggest that people are on very close terms with each other?

23.
24.

As as
What fruit did Little Jack Horner pull out of his pie ?
What does the pancreas produce that turns excess blood sugar into glycogen?

25.

How many bones are there in the adult human body? ..

Answers
1.A
2. B
3. C

4. B
5. B
6. B
7. A
4

8. C
9. D
10. B
11. C
12. A
13. A
14. B
15. B
16. D
17. C
18. D
19. A
20. C
21. haystack
22. this as thieves
23. plum
24. insulin
25. 206