JUNIOR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

QUIZ
1. What name is given to computer software that is deliberately created with intent to
cause damage or harm to other computer systems?
ANSWER: A Virus
2. Any storage device added to a computer beyond the immediately usable main storage
is known as……………..?
ANSWER: BACKING STORE
3. Name the organ in a human being that removed urea from the blood
ANSWER: KIDNEYS
3. What do you call that calculating device, which makes use of beads for calculations?
ANSWER: Abacus
4. What disease of the liver is caused by excessive intake of alcohol drinks(bear)?
ANSWER: CIRRHOSIS
5. To which family of plants does tomato belong?
ANSWER: SOLANACEAE
6. In electronics, what do the letters DVD stand for?
ANSWER: DIGITAL VIDEO DISPLAY
7. In a petrol engine, name the part that ignites fuel?
ANSWER: SPARK PLUG
8. Which software activates the computer? (One attempt ONLY)
ANSWER: OPERATING SYSTEM
9. Who was the first Zambian female to become a professor?
ANSWER: NKANDU LUO
10. What do the letters DNA in biology stand for?
ANSWER: DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID
11. Which computer has been designed to be as compact as possible?
ANSWER: SUPER COMPUTER
12. The smallest unit of measuring computer memory is called….

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 ANSWER: Bit
13. What is the life span of skin cells in human beings?
Answer:20 days
14. Unlawful termination of pregnancy before due date is called…
ANSWER: ABORTION
15. Name a scientist who studied phototropism in grass seedlings in about 1880.
ANSWER: CHARLES DARWIN
16. Who devised the vacuum flask which is known to most of us as the thermos flask. Give full
names
ANSWER: SIR JAMES DEWAR
17. Zambia observes her time from which longitude?
ANSWER: 300E (ONE ATTEMPT)
18. What do we call any of the many small planets between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
ANSWER: ASTEROIDS
19. What is he name of an instrument used to measure the volume of air breathed in and out of
the lungs
ANSWER: SPIROMETER
20. Which is the longest line of latitude?
ANSWER: THE EQUATOR (00 DEGREES)
21. Booting in computing language is……………………
ANSWER: THE PROCESS OF STARTING UP A COMPUTER
22. On the satellite dish, there is an LBN which received reflected signals. What do the letter
LBN stand for?
ANSWER: LOW NOISE BALANCE
23. What name is given to the branch of horticulture which deals with fruit growing?
ANSWER: POMOLOGY
24. AM is a signal in which amplitude of a carrier wave is varied. The letters AM stands for
ANSWER: AMPLITUDE MODULATION
25. What do we call death caused from deprivation of oxygen?
ANSWER: SUFFOCATION
26. What is the name of a place that uses telescopes and other scientific equipment to research
space and astronomy?
ANS: AN OBSERVATORY

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27. A grade 9 pupil inadvertently deletes very important documents from the ICT teacher’s
computer. Which folder should the teacher check in an attempt to recover the deleted
documents?
ANSWER: RECYCLE BIN.
28. What name is given to the bending of light as it moves from one medium to the other?
ANS: REFRACTION OF LIGHT
29. Which separation technique can be used to separate water and cooking oil?
ANS: USE OF SEPARATING FUNNEL or DECANTATION
30. What do the letters S.I unit stand for?
ANS: SYSTEM INTERNATIONAL
31. Black is a colour.True or false (one attempt)
ANS: FALSE
32. Energy released during the splitting or fusing of atomic nuclei is called?
ANS: NUCLEAR ENERGY
33. The basic software that controls a computer is called
ANS: OPERATING SYSTEM
34. Define acceleration
ANS: THE RATE OF CHANGE OF VELOCITY
35. Which principle states that when, a body is totally or partially immersed in a fluid gas or
liquid the up thrust on it is equal to the weight of fluid displaced?
ANS: PRINCIPLE OF ARCHIMEDES
36. Who inverted the Jet engine
ANS: SIR FRANK WHITTLE
37. What causes objects to fall towards a planet?
ANS: FORCE OF GRAVITY OR GRAVITY
38. The planet in the solar system rotate in same direction except for………………..
ANS: VENUS
39. What name is given to an animal that live on both land and water?
ANSWER: AMPHIBIAN
40. A monitor is a good example of a VDU. What do the letters VDU stand for?
ANSWER: VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT
41. Which of the following is the biggest; Megabyte, Gigabyte and Kilobyte? ANSWER:
GIGABYTE.
42. In which galaxy is the earth located?

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 ANSWER: THE MILKY WAY GALAXY
43. What is the name of a disturbance that transfers energy from one point to the other?
ANSWER: WAVE
44. What instrument is used to study electric charges of static electricity?
ANSWER: GOLD-LEAF ELECTROSCOPE
45. A car is moving with a uniform speed in a straight line at 4 m/s in 10 seconds. What is
acceleration during this time?
ANSWER: 0 m/s2
46. The mass of a box on earth is 200 kg and its weight is 2000 N. The gravitational field
strength on earth is 10 N/kg. What will be its mass on the moon?
ANSWER: 200 kg
47. A current of 0.4 A passes through two resistors 1Ω and 2Ω connected in series. What is the
emf (electromotive force) of the power supply?
ANSWER: 1.2 V
48. What is the SI unit for temperature?
ANSWER: KELVIN OR DEGREES CELSIUS
49. Which law states that for every action force there is an equal but opposite reaction force?
ANSWER: NEWTON THIRD LAW OF MOTION
50. The time taken for the activity of a radioactive element to decrease by half of its original
activity is known as?
ANSWER: HALF-LIFE
51. A car of mass 500 kg is moving with a velocity of 10 m/s. It is brought to rest by applying the
brakes. How much work is done in stopping the car?
ANSWER: 25000 J
52. State one function of the formula bar in Microsoft Excel
ANSWER: Any of the following
(Displays the content of the current cell) OR
(Used to edit the contents of the current cell)
53. A computer uses binary digits to perform its computations. What are binary digits?
ANSWER: NUMBERS IN BASE TWO, 0 & 1
54. How many megabytes make up 1GB?
ANSWER: 1024 Megabytes
55. How much space in bytes would the word TIBI occupy on the hard disk?
ANSWER: 4Bytes

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56. The central part of the operating system that is copied to the RAM during the booting process
is called the…………………………………
ANSWER: KERNEL
57. Calculate the speed of a wave with frequency of 200 Hz and wave length of 0.5 m?
ANS: 100 m/s
58. State the law of electrostatics
ANSWER: LIKE CHARGE REPEL WHILE UNLIKE CHARGES ATTRACTS
59. Which method can be used to charge a metallic sphere?
ANSWER: INDUCTION
60. State the value of the speed of x-ray in a vacuum
ANSWER; 3.0 x 108m/s
61. Thermal energy needed to change the state of a substance is called?
ANSWER: LATENT HEAT

62. An object has the same weight on earth and on the moon. True or False
ANSWER: FALSE
63. What is the name of the process by which two gases mix because of their molecular
movement?
ANSWER: DIFFUSION
64. In a simple d.c motor, the direction of the current in the motor is reverses every half-
revolution to keep the motor turning in the same direction. Which part of the motor does this?
ANSWER: COMMUTATOR
65. Which property of a solid object cannot be changed by the application of a force?
ANSWER: MASS
66. What causes a moving body to resist a change in its state of motion?
ANSWER: INERTIA
67. What is the current in a 5.0 Ω resistor when the potential difference between the ends of the
resistor is 2.5 V?
ANSWER: 0.5 A
68. Name the three window control buttons in Microsoft windows.
ANSWER: MINIMISE, MAXIMISE/RESTORE DOWN & CLOSE BUTTONS

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