ECO502: Module

2021-12-16

1) Which actor played the role of Jake Gittes in Chinatown?:

1) Burt Lancaster

2) Sean Penn

3) Al Pacino

4) Jack Nicholson

2) The language 'French' belongs to which language family?:

1) Japonic

2) Sino-Tibetan

3) Kra–Dai

4) Indo-European

3) Where was Solomon's Temple located?:

1) Bethlehem

2) Tel Aviv

3) Haifa

4) Jerusalem

4) The song 'You Really Got Me' had a well-known cover by Van Halen, but who recorded the original?:

1) Bobby Fuller Four

2) Carl Perkins

3) Talking Heads

4) The Kinks

5) Which popular musical features the music of ABBA?:

1) Grease

2) West Side Story

3) Les Misérables
 4) Mamma Mia!

6) Which author wrote 'Mortal Engines'?:

1) Oscar Wilde

2) Robert Louis Stevenson

3) Christopher Tolkien

4) Philip Reeve

7) What type of animal is Spongebob's best friend Patrick?:

1) Squid

2) Plankton

3) Lobster

4) Starfish

8) Which author wrote 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'?:

1) Christopher Tolkien

2) Philip Pullman

3) C. S. Lewis

4) J. K. Rowling

9) The language 'German' belongs to which language family?:

1) Niger–Congo

2) Afroasiatic

3) Dravidian

4) Indo-European

10) What civilization built the ancient city of Chichen Itza?:

1) Aztec

2) Minoans

3) Khmer

4) Maya
11) Who Opened The First Cinema In Paris In 1895?:

1) The Warner Brothers

2) The Cannes Brothers

3) The Canal Brothers

4) The Lumiere Brothers

12) Which of these quotes is from the film 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story'?:

1) "Are you not entertained?"

2) "I have had it with these mother—— snakes on this mother—— plane!"

3) "What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read…if

they can’t even fit inside the building?"

4) "Nobody makes me bleed my own blood. Nobody!"

13) Which author wrote 'Oz series'?:

1) Suzanne Collins

2) James Fenimore Cooper

3) Donna Leon

4) L. Frank Baum

14) What is the name given to the pastry that looks like a doughnut, but made with choux pastry?:

1) Strudel

2) Dosant

3) Chouxnut

4) Cronut

15) Which English rock band released the studio album 'Kid A'?:

1) Goldfrapp

2) Cream

3) Girls Aloud

4) Radiohead
16) Roughly How Many Men Were There In A Roman Legion?:

1) 1000

2) 10000

3) 20000

4) 5000

17) Which American musician wrote the song 'All Along the Watchtower'?:

1) Neil Young

2) Eric Clapton

3) Alanis Morissette

4) Bob Dylan

18) Who developed the vaccine for smallpox?:

1) Francis Crick

2) Edith Bower

3) Marcel Decroix

4) Edward Jenner

19) Which river runs through Tokyo?:

1) Yellow River

2) Kiso River

3) Pearl River

4) Sumida River

20) Which of these countries borders Spain?:

1) Monaco

2) Algeria

3) Belgium

4) Andorra

21) Which author wrote 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes'?:

 1) Agatha Christie

2) Oscar Wilde

3) George Orwell

4) Arthur Conan Doyle

22) Which Shakespearean play is set in the forest of Arden?:

1) The Twelfth Night

2) A Midsummer Night's Dream

3) Richard III

4) As You Like It

23) Which Famous Artist Was Shot And Wounded By Valeria Solanis In 1968?:

1) Pablo Picasso

2) Salvador Dali

3) Edvard Munch

4) Andy Warhol

24) Who wrote the book "Brave New World"?:

1) George Orwell

2) Ernest Hemingway

3) TS Elliot

4) Aldous Huxley

25) What is the name of the 1981 album by The Police that was named after a 1967 book by Arthur

Koestler?:

1) Synchronicity

2) Reggatta de Blanc

3) Outlandos d'Amour

4) Ghost in the Machine

26) Which word is defined as 'Old English word for bagpipe'?:

 1) Fipple

2) Tittynope

3) Quire

4) Doodle Sack

27) Which country administers South Georgia, a last stop before Antarctica?:

1) The USA

2) Argentina

3) France

4) The UK

28) Ascorbic acid is commonly referred to as which vitamin?:

1) Vitamin D

2) Vitamin A

3) Vitamin B

4) Vitamin C

29) Which artist painted "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus":

1) Georges Seurat

2) Pablo Picasso

3) Hokusai

4) Pieter Bruegel the Elder

30) Which of these countries borders France?:

1) Liechtenstein

2) United Kingdom

3) San Marino

4) Germany