Mock Test 2

(For Classes 6, 7 & 8)

Q.1. Which Asian country suffers more earthquakes than the others?

a. Jordan
b. Sri Lanka
c. Japan
d. Singapore

Q.2. Which European country colonized Macau and East Timor?

a. Portugal
b. Norway
c. Ukraine
d. Germany

Q.3. Composed of soil, organic debris, and matted vegetation, 'phumdis' are
unique circular floating islands found, for the point, in which lake in
India?

a. Dal Lake, Jammu and Kashmir

b. Chilika Lake, Odisha
c. Loktak Lake, Manipur
d. Deepor Bil, Assam

Q.4. Which city, for the point, was proclaimed the capital of Myanmar in 2006?

a. Pyinmana
b. Naypyidaw
c. Mandalay
d. Pagan
Q.5. Which is the largest hydroelectric man-made dam in the world that
spans the Yangtze River?

a. Three Gorges Dam

b. Jinping-I Dam
c. Ahai Dam
d. Bikou Dam

Q.6. Montenegro, Slovenia, and Serbia were all once part of which former
country?

a. Yugoslavia
b. USSR
c. East Germany
d. Czechoslovakia

Q.7. BIMSTEC is an organization that India and six other Asian countries are
part of due to their dependence of which geographical feature?

a. Indian Ocean
b. Arabian Sea
c. Sunderban Delta
d. Bay of Bengal

Q.8. At least one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World could be found
on all of the following continents except?

a. Asia
b. Europe
c. North America
d. Africa
Q.9. Syrian refugees attempted to cross into Europe by doing which of the
following?

a. Walking across the dried up lake bed of the Aral Sea

b. Crossing the Aegean Sea in poorly-constructed boats that sometimes sink
c. Paying smugglers known as “coyotes” to evade the border patrol on the
Rio Grande
d. Heading south from Java, though many get captured and sent to
detention camps on Nauru

Q.10. If you wanted to walk on the Wakhan Corridor, where would you go to put
your feet down?

a. The industrial heartland of Brazil

b. The small bit of India that connects its eastern states with the rest of the
country
c. Building D at EU headquarters in Brussels
d. The portion of Afghanistan that extends farthest east, and borders China
on its end

Q.11. All of the permanent member nations of the UN Security Council have
what in common?

a. They all belong to OPEC

b. They have all hosted the FIFA World Cup
c. They all possess nuclear weapons
d. They have all invaded Uruguay
Q.12. When Eric Arthur Blair was 19 years-old, he joined the Imperial Police
Force in Burma and wrote 'Burmese Days'. By what name is this Motihari-
born author known better?

a. Aldous Huxley
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. George Orwell
d. Ray Bradbury

Q.13. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built initially by which Pharaoh in the
3rd century BCE?

a. Sneferu
b. Khafre
c. Menkaure
d. Khufu

Q.14. All of these were important cities in the Indus River Valley civilization
EXCEPT which of the following?

a. Kish
b. Harappa
c. Dholavira
d. Mohenjo-daro

Q.15. Which of the following became prime minister of India in 1984

following the assassination of Indira Gandhi?

a. V.P. Singh
b. Chandra Shekhar Singh
c. P.V. Narasimha Rao
d. Rajiv Gandhi
Q.16. Which conference was attended by Mahatma Gandhi after the
conclusion of the first Civil Disobedience Movement?

a. First Round Table Conference

b. Second Round Table Conference
c. Third Round Table Conference
d. Fourth Round Table Conference

Q.17. Crops such as potato, tomato, cashew nut, and pineapple were
introduced to India by which colonial people, who first arrived in
Calicut?

a. French
b. English
c. Dutch
d. Portuguese

Q.18. In a series of five paintings by Jacques-Louis David, who can be seen

crossing the Alps through the Great St Bernard Pass on horseback, in
May 1800?

a. Alexander the Great

b. Julius Caesar
c. Otto von Bismarck
d. Napoleon Bonaparte

Q.19. Which Roman dictator who conquered Gaul was murdered on the Ides of
March in 44 B.C.?

a. Julius Caesar
b. Constantine the Great
c. Spartacus
d. Virgil
Q.20. All of these are true of the Delhi Sultanate EXCEPT which of the
following?

a. it was an Islamic empire that controlled much of the Indian subcontinent

until the 14th century CE
b. it was able to assert dominance in the region by conquering the Mughal
Empire
c. it oversaw a period of both rapid economic and population growth in its
territory
d. it was able to fend off invasion attempts from the Chagatai Khanate

Q.21. Which of these Presidents of the United States of America was not
assassinated?

a. Abraham Lincoln
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. James Garfield
d. John F Kennedy

Q.22. Which of the following was the result of the India's First War of
Independence in 1857?

a. British East India Company forces were decisively defeated and kicked out
of India
b. The Mughal Empire was strengthened and was able to exert direct control
over more of the subcontinent
c. Company rule came to an end in India and the British Raj was created
d. India was partitioned and Pakistan was created by the East India Company
Q.23. The leaders of the Yellow Turban Rebellion were adherents of which
of the following belief systems?

a. Buddhism
b. Christianity
c. Islam
d. Taoism

Q.24. Which of the following best describes cuju in ancient China?

a. it is a type of sailing vessel

b. it is the name for the earliest Chinese calendar
c. it is a game that involves kicking a ball into a net and is considered the
earliest form of football (soccer)
d. it is a branch of Confucianism

Q.25. Which of these was a confederation of city-states that existed in the

Nakdong River basin during the Three Kingdoms Period of Korea?

a. Dongye
b. Gaya
c. Okejo
d. Buyeo

Q.26. Which iron-rich protein, found in human blood, is instrumental in

transporting oxygen to all parts of the body?

a. Chlorophyll
b. Haemoglobin
c. Fibrinogen
d. Gamma Globulins
Q.27. Which of the following is NOT a programming language?

a. Pascal
b. Mozilla
c. C++
d. Ada

Q.28. What name is given to the blood vessels that carry blood from the heart
to other parts of the body?

a. Artery
b. Capillaries
c. Venules
d. Veins

Q.29. Which famous scientist, known for discovering gravity, invented the
reflecting telescope in 1668?

a. Sethus Calvisius
b. Henri Gellibrand
c. Isaac Newton
d. Francesco Redi

Q.30. Which space agency was the first to land a human to the Moon in 1969?

a. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

b. European Space Agency (ESA)
c. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
d. British National Space Centre (BNSC)
Q.31. What name is given to a real number that cannot be expressed as a
ratio of two integers?

a. Complex Number
b. Unreal Number
c. Irrational Number
d. Imperfect Number

Q.32. Which diagram displays chemical elements and was invented by

Dmitry Mendeleev?

a. Punnett Square
b. Periodic Table of the Elements
c. Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
d. Histogram

Q.33. By what name is the plant with the scientific name Mimosa pudica
popularly known, whose leaves droop on being touched?

a. Touch-me-not
b. Forget-me-not
c. Morning Glory
d. Venus Flytrap

Q.34. Fjords are created by what large accumulations of ice that cover
landmasses like Greenland?

a. Glaciers
b. Mesas
c. Taiga
d. Deserts
Q.35. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for 'his work on the
scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him'?

a. Wilhelm Roentgen
b. Ernest Rutherford
c. CV Raman
d. John William Rayleigh

Q.36. Launched in 1977, which space probe, for the point, became the first
man-made object to enter interstellar space in August 2012?

a. Pioneer 11
b. New Horizons
c. Voyager 1
d. Cassini

Q.37. The Almagest was written by which of the following?

a. Aristotle
b. Pythagoras
c. Ptolemy
d. Hipparchus

Q.38. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is one of the most renowned exponents

of which musical instrument?

a. Flute
b. Santoor
c. Tabla
d. Sitar
Q.39. Which comic book character was portrayed by Robert Pattinson in a
2022 film?

a. Superman
b. Iron Man
c. Thor
d. Batman

Q.40. Which fast food chain's logo has the nickname 'Golden Arches'?

a. McDonald's
b. Burger King
c. Pizza Hut
d. Wendy's

Q.41. Which English Romantic novelist, the daughter of feminist author Mary
Wollstonecraft and political philosopher William Godwin, is noted for
writing 'Frankenstein'?

a. Virginia Woolf
b. Mary Shelley
c. Sylvia Plath
d. Emily Bronte

Q.42. Which game was originally called Criss Cross and was based on the
crossword puzzle and anagrams, developed by Alfred M. Butts?

a. Scrabble
b. Rummikub
c. Guess Who?
d. Spelling Bee
Q.43. If it's the 'Golden Bear' for Berlin International Film Festival, and the
'Golden Lion' for the Venice Film Festival, what is it for the Cannes
Film Festival?

a. Golden Tiger
b. Golden Peacock
c. Golden Palm
d. Golden Leopard

Q.44. Which of the following, for the point, is a form of song, dance, and music
associated with the Roma people of southern Spain?

a. Fandango
b. Capoeira
c. Flamenco
d. Kabuki

Q.45. Which influential Indian painter with acclaimed works like 'The Battle
of Ganga and Jamuna', started his painting career by painting cinema
hoardings?

a. Tyeb Mehta
b. Akbar Padamsee
c. Ram Kumar
d. MF Husain

Q.46. This Brazilian football player was a part of the Brazilian national teams
that won three FIFA World Cups between 1958 and 1970. For the point,
name this athlete who passed away in 2022.

a. Garrincha
b. Mario Zagallo
c. Roberto Rivellino
d. Pele
Q.47. Which iconic 102-storey skyscraper designed in Art Deco style was
completed in 1931 in Manhattan, New York ?

a. Empire State Building

b. Chrysler Building
c. Taipei 101
d. Renaissance Centre

Q.48. In February 2023, which European Football club won the 2023 FIFA
Club World Cup, beating Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal 5-3 in the final?

a. Bayern Munich
b. Manchester City
c. Real Madrid
d. Paris Saint-Germain

Q.49. Agatha Christie, popularly known for her crime and murder novels,
wrote romance novels, for the point, under which pen name?

a. Adrian Lester
b. Jane Austen
c. Mary Westmacott
d. Clive Hamilton

Q.50. Which Irish Nobel Literature laureate wrote the introduction to the first
English translation of Rabindranath Tagore's 'Gitanjali'?

a. WB Yeats
b. John Keats
c. TS Eliot
d. Mahatma Gandhi