General Knowledge

LOWER INTERMEDIATE
SCIENCE
1. What does your heart pump? 2. Which is the nearest star?
blood the sun gold
three

3. Which is heavier, gold or silver?

water

4. How many sides does a triangle have? 5. What is H2O?

6. How many legs does a butterfly have?

six

GEOGRAPHY
1. Which is bigger, a lake or an ocean? 2. Which country has the most people? 3. What is the capital city of Norway?
an ocean China

Oslo Alaska

4. What is the biggest state in the U.S.A.?

the Pacif ic

5. Which country has the biggest land area? 6. In which ocean is Hawaii?

Russia

SPORTS
1. What sport is played at Wimbledon?
tennis China
Brazil

2. In which country were the 2008 Olympic Games held?

3. What country does the football player Romario come from? 4. What is the most popular indoor sport in the U.S.A.?
basketball

5. In which sport was Muhammad Ali the world champion?

boxing

6. Which famous golf player's mother comes from Thailand?

Tiger Woods

MUSIC
1. How many strings does a violin have? 2. Where was Ricky Martin born?
Puerto Rico

four

3. What pop group was Howie D. in?

Backstreet Boys Eminem

a saxophone

4. Which singer usually sings rap music, Mariah Carey or Eminem?

English/British

5. Which instrument is often used in jazz music, a saxophone or a tuba? 6. What nationality is Robbie Williams?

INTERMEDIATE
SCIENCE
1. Blood is filtered by which pair of organs? 2. Which planet is the fifth from the sun?
Jupiter Albert Einstein
nitrogen

kidneys

3. Who developed the theory of relativity?

4. Which chemical element is represented by the symbol N? 5. In which organelle of a living cell is DNA found? 6. Which travel faster, light or sound waves?
light waves nucleus

GEOGRAPHY
1. In which country is Mount Everest?
Nepal Asia

2. Which continent has the biggest population? 3. What is the capital city of New Zealand? 4. On which continent is the Sahara desert? 5. Name the two longest rivers in the world.
Wellington Africa

Amazon/Nile

6. Which ocean is to the east of Africa?

Indian Ocean

SPORTS
1. What is longest running race in the Olympic Games called? 2. Who won the 2003 British Open golf tournament?
Ben Curtis

the marathon

3. In snooker, what is the colour of the last ball potted? 4. What nationality is the tennis player Lleyton Hewitt? 5. In which sport can you throw a 'curve ball'?
baseball

black Australian

6. Which team won the 2003 Formula One car racing championship?

Ferrari

MUSIC
1. Which pop singer married British movie director Guy Ritchie? 2. Which rock group did George Harrison belong to?
The Beatles
Beethoven Madonna

3. Which classical composer became deaf near the end of his life? 4. How many strings does a bass guitar usually have? 5. In what country did reggae music originate?
Jamaica four

6. How many instruments are there in a string quintet?

five

UPPER INTERMEDIATE
SCIENCE
1. Which vitamin is abundant in citrus fruits?
vitamin C a thermometer Charles Darwin

2. What instrument is used for measuring temperature?

3. Who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection? 4. What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?
carbon dioxide

5. What do we call a shape with eight sides? 6. What is the study of plants called?
botany

octagon

GEOGRAPHY
1. Which South American country has the greatest land area? 2. What is the capital city of Sri Lanka?
Colombo tropical Brazil

3. Which climate is generally hotter and more humid, tropical or temperate? 4. What do we call a mountain which could erupt? 5. Antarctica covers which of the earth's poles? 6. On which continent is Sierra Leone?
Africa a volcano the South Pole

SPORTS
1. In which sport would you use a 'sand iron'?
golf knock out 19th century five

2. In boxing, what do the letters K.O. stand for?

3. Baseball originated in the U.S.A. in which century?

4. How many rings are there in the Olympic Games symbol?

5. Which country won the 1998 FIFA World Cup football tournament? 6. Who won the 2003 Wimbledon women's tennis championship?

France

Serena Wil iams

MUSIC
1. Which female pop singer had a big hit called 'Baby, One More Time'?
jazz baton Britney Spears The Jackson Five

2. What pop group was Michael Jackson a member of when he was young? 3. What type of music did Louis Armstrong play?
Austrian REM

4. What does an orchestra's conductor wave to keep time? 5. What nationality was Mozart?

6. Which rock group is Michael Stipe the lead singer of?

ADVANCED
SCIENCE
1. Triton is a moon of which planet?
Neptune
photosynthesis Stephen Hawking

2. For what process do plants need sunlight, CO2 and water?

3. Which physicist wrote a book called 'A Brief History of Time'? 4. Which chemical element is represented by the symbol Zn? 5. In which organ of the body is the cerebrum found? 6. What do we call the study of birds?
ornithology the brain Zinc

GEOGRAPHY
1. In which country is the world's highest waterfall?
Venezuela earthquakes

2. What natural phenomena are measured by the 'Richter scale'? 3. Which two oceans does the Panama Canal link?
Nairobi

Atlantic/Pacif ic the Andes

4. What is South America's highest mountain range? 5. What is the capital city of Kenya?

6. What is the line of latitude 23.5 degrees north of the equator called?

tropic of Cancer

SPORTS
1. In which athletic event is a heavy metal ball thrown?
Scotland wrestling shot put

2. In what sport could you 'hit a six' or 'bowl a leg spinner'? 3. Golf was first played in which country?

cricket

4. In which sport could you find yourself in a headlock? 5. In which sport are a bow and arrow used?
archery

6. What does a third-place getter at the Olympic Games win?

a bronze medal

MUSIC
1. What instrument did the jazz musician Miles Davis play?
piano trumpet Oasis

2. Which British rock group do Liam and Noel Gallagher belong to? 3. Which instrument has keys, pedals and strings?
Paul McCartney

4. In which country is a 'gamelan orchestra' most commonly found? 5. Who wrote the song entitled 'Yesterday'?

Indonesia

6. Which is the largest stringed instrument in a classical orchestra?

double bass