5,000+ General Knowledge Trivia Questions

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General Knowledge Trivia Questions

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  1. The thalamus is located above the brainstem, almost in the center of the brain: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  2. The thick skin of the watermelon prevents it from absorbing the pesticides used to control the pests: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  3. The third closest planet to the sun is:
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    • The Earth.
    • Venus.
    • Mars.
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  4. The thorax contains the lungs and the heart: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  5. The Thousand Day War took place in:
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    • Colombia
    • Spain
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  6. The tibia is the longest and strongest bone in the human body: True or false?
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    • True.
    • False, it's the femur.
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  7. The tigress has a gestation period of about:
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    • 24 weeks
    • 16 weeks
    • 12 weeks
    • 28 weeks
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  8. The timbre is the property that allows to distinguish between two musical notes played by:
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    • Two equal instruments.
    • Two different instruments.
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  9. The Titanic sank in 1914: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  10. The torn piece of the dress or other clothing is called:
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    • Shred
    • Tear
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  11. The traditional Portuguese game in which discs are thrown in the direction of a stick a few meters away is called ___.
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    • Stick and hoop.
    • Portuguese net.
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  12. The Tragic Decade took place in:
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    • Mexico
    • Spain
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  13. The Trans-Siberian Railway, the longest in the world, connects which cities since 1916?
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    • Paris-Constantinople
    • Moscow-Norilsk
    • Saint Petersburg-Beijing
    • Moscow-Vladivostok
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  14. The transformation that takes place from activism or passiveness to militant, revolutionary or extreme posture.
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    • Radical Behaviorism
    • Radicalization
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  15. The transition from swimming to cycling is known as:
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    • T1
    • T2
    • T3
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  16. The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed between Spain and...
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    • France
    • Portugal
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  17. The trilogy "Science, justice and work" is the motto of:
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    • Freemasonry
    • Scientology
    • Calvinism
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  18. The Tropic of Capricorn is a parallel found in which hemisphere?
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    • South
    • North
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  19. The tsunami caused by the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 could go as far as Cornwall in the southern English coast: True or false?
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    • True
    • False, Portugal was too far away.
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  20. The Tunnel (1948) is a novel by:
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    • Umberto Eco.
    • Ernesto Sabato.
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  21. The Tunnel (1984) is a short novel by:
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    • Ernesto Sabato.
    • Umberto Eco.
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  22. The two dimples that form on women's lower backs are called Venus dimples: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  23. The two largest lakes of the UK are located in:
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    • Scotland
    • Wales
    • Northern Ireland
    • England
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  24. The typical Australian animal is the red lizard: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  25. The umbrella was invented in the late 19th century: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  26. The UN was founded on October 24, 1919: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  27. The ungualine bed, what part of the body is it in?
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    • Nail
    • Ear
    • Navel
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  28. The unit of measure of the molar mass is:
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    • kg / mol
    • m^(3) / mol
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  29. The upper part of the mantle upon which the crust of the Earth floats is called:
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    • barysphere
    • mesophere
    • mohorovic discontinuity
    • asthenosphere
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  30. The urge to eat non-nutritious or potentially dangerous substances is called what in psychiatry?
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    • Binge Eating Disorder
    • Pica
    • Anorexia Nervosa
    • Bulimia Nervosa
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  31. The urge to eat raw potatoes is called Geomelophagia in medicine: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  32. The US dollar is the official currency in Peru: True or false?
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    • True.
    • False, it is the sol.
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  33. The use of chemicals or drugs to selectively destroy infectious micro-organisms without destroying the live tissues or the host, is known as
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    • Chemotherapy
    • Gene therapy
    • Drug therapy
    • Plastic surgery
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  34. The V2 rocket, the first to go into space, was launched by whom?
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    • The Russians
    • The Americans
    • The Germans
    • The Chinese
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  35. The Vasa, the famous Swedish 17th-century battleship, sank during a naval battle: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  36. The verb “hide” translated to Spanish would be:
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    • Recordar
    • Esconder
    • Sanar
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  37. The video game Pac-Man was created by Shigeru Miyamoto: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  38. The Virgin was one of the caravels used by Christopher Columbus on his first trip: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  39. The Visegrad Group or V4 is an alliance of four Central European countries, one of which is:
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    • Luxembourg
    • Hungary
    • Belgium
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  40. The Volga River flows into the sea...
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    • White
    • Caspian
    • Black
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  41. The Voyager 1 space probe is still operational today (as for 2024): True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  42. The wall of Ávila is a Greek military fence that surrounds the old part of the Spanish city: True or false?
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    • True.
    • False, it is Romanesque.
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  43. The War of the Pacific is also known as:
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    • The Saltpetre War.
    • The War for Peace.
    • The War for the Sea.
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  44. The Warsaw Pact was a military cooperation agreement (1955) by countries:
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    • From the West Block.
    • Of the Capitalist Block.
    • From the Eastern Bloc.
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  45. The way the factors are grouped does not change the result of multiplication: True or false?
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    • True, it refers to the associative property.
    • False.
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  46. The wet wipe technique is used in:
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    • Painting
    • Sculpture
    • Architecture
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  47. The whale shark is smaller than the great white: True or false?
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    • True.
    • False, the whale shark is much bigger.
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  48. The whale shark is the largest existing fish in the world: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  49. The White Cliffs near Dover are one of the best-known coastal landmarks of which county?
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    • Sussex
    • Essex
    • Kent
    • Dorset
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  50. The Wilhelmus (“The William” in English) is the oldest national anthem in the world (1572) and belongs to:
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    • The Netherlands
    • England
    • Iceland
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  51. The Winter War broke out when the Soviet Union attacked:
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    • Sweden
    • Norway
    • Finland
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  52. The wizarding world's plants come from a real book
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    • True
    • False
    • The Deathly Hallows
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  53. The word "manatee" in the indigenous Caribbean language means "with breasts.": True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  54. The word "Soviet" is...
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    • Oxytone
    • Paroxytone
    • Proparoxytone
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  55. The word “astronaut” comes from a combination of terms that mean “star” and “sailor”. In what language?
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    • French
    • Latin
    • Italian
    • Greek
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  56. The word “organ” comes from the Greek “organon” which means:
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    • Tool
    • Part
    • Function
    • Lever
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  57. The word “triskaidekaphobia” refers to what?
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    • Fear of cats
    • Fear of mondays
    • Fear of number 13
    • Fear of doctors
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  58. The word hundred is derived from the word hundrath which means?
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    • 99
    • 120
    • 100
    • 100.1
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  59. The work Maja Desnuda was painted by:
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    • Diego Velázquez
    • El Greco
    • Francisco de Goya
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  60. The World Cup in South Africa was in the:
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    • 2010
    • 2014
    • 2004
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  61. The world ice hockey championship is organized:
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    • Annually
    • Every 2 years
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  62. The world’s highest waterfall is located in Brazil’s territory: Yes or no?
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    • Yes
    • No
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  63. The writer Alonso Cueto is from:
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    • Peru
    • Bolivia
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  64. The writer Jorge Luis Borges is a native of:
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    • Uruguay
    • Argentina
    • Bolivia
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  65. The youngest ever to win Wimbledon.
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    • Ivan Lendl
    • Boris Becker
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  66. The zaino bull is an animal of color:
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    • Brown
    • Black
    • Coral
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  67. Theodore Roosevelt is the longest-running president in US history: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  68. There are 14 main gods of the Olympus: True or false?
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    • True.
    • False, 12.
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  69. There are 27 bones in the hand: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  70. There are 85 people in a warehouse. Some have been turned into zombies. If the zombie to human ratio is 2:3, how many zombies are present in the warehouse?
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    • 42
    • 34
    • 20
    • 38
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  71. There are about 2,400 languages in danger of extinction in the world. How often a language disappears?
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    • Every two months
    • Every two days
    • Every two weeks
    • Every two hours
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  72. There are around 1.4 billion insects for each human on the planet: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  73. There are eight continents on our planet: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  74. There are materials that don’t allow electricity to flow easily throughout them. How are they called?
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    • Insulators
    • Semiconductors
    • Conductors
    • None of the above
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  75. There are meat tenderizing powders that contain pineapple enzymes: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  76. There are more bones in feet than in hands.
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    • Yes
    • No, hands have more bones than feet.
    • No, hands have the same number of bones.
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  77. There are more Kangaroos is Australia than people: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  78. There are only two planets in our Solar System that rotate clockwise. Which ones?
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    • Venus and Uranus
    • Mercury and Mars
    • Earth and Saturn
    • Jupiter and Neptune
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  79. There are two oceans that produce tropical cyclones and hurricanes, which are they?
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    • Atlantic and Pacific.
    • Pacific and Indian.
    • Atlantic and Indian.
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  80. There is a ‘pirate stock exchange’ in Somalia where locals can invest in pirate gangs planning hijacking missions: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  81. There is a dormant volcano that happens to be the largest in all Solar System. In which planet is it?
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    • Earth
    • Venus
    • Mars
    • Mercury
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  82. There is a fundamental law of physics that Robert Fludd’s hypothetical “Perpetual Motion Machine” doesn’t follow. Which one?
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    • Thermodynamics
    • Conservation of mass and energy
    • Inertia
    • Electrostatics
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  83. There is a law in physics stating that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Which law is it?
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    • Pascal’s law of transmission of fluid pressure
    • Coulomb’s law of electrostatic force
    • Newton’s law of motion
    • Boyle’s law of compression and expansión of a gas at constant temperature
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  84. There is a novel whose main character is not a human but a dog named Buck. Which novel is that?
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    • L. P. Hartley’s “The Go-Between”
    • Jack London’s “A Call of the Wild”
    • Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim”
    • Bernard Cornwell’s “Sharpe’s Tiger”
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  85. There is a patch of lily pads in a lake. Everyday the patch doubles in size. If it takes 20 days to cover the entire lake how many days will be required to cover half the lake?
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    • 10
    • 15
    • 19
    • 5
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  86. There is a sovereign state whose territory is entirely engulfed by another country. Which one is it?
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    • Yemen
    • Lesotho
    • Liechtenstein
    • North Korea
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  87. There is a species of penguin, known as the Cape Penguin, that lives on the African continent: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  88. There is a tendency in objects to remain in a state of rest until acted upon by an external force. How is it called?
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    • Chain reaction
    • Deflection
    • Leverage
    • Inertia
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  89. There is no doubt that for the ____ of a work a ____ is needed.
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    • criticism / card
    • production / ticket
    • distribution / theater
    • representation / public
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  90. There is no need to wash the towels because we use them when they are clean.
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    • True
    • Myth
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  91. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”. What character of Shakespeare’s dramas says this?
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    • Macbeth
    • Cordelia
    • Hamlet
    • Caliban
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  92. There's a side of the moon that's always dark
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    • True
    • Myth
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  93. There's no wind or sound on the moon
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    • True
    • Myth
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  94. There’s a dish called “mole poblano” traditional in what country?
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    • Ecuador
    • Italy
    • Cuba
    • Mexico
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  95. There’s a dish made with mashed durum wheat, very common in Northwestern African countries. How’s it called?
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    • Tagine
    • Moroccan chickpea stew
    • Bulgur bowl
    • Couscous
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  96. There’s a male actor who won the Oscar 3 times and has a record of nominations of 12. Who is it?
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    • Daniel Day-Lewis
    • Walter Brennan
    • Robert De Niro
    • Jack Nicholson
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  97. "These aren’t the droids you’re looking for."
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    • The Rise of Skywalker
    • The Force Awakens
    • A New Hope
    • Attack of the Clones
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  98. They can reproduce both sexually and asexually.
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    • Spiders
    • Starfish
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  99. They have a bone structure.
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    • Invertebrates
    • Vertebrates
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  100. "They used to sleep but little by night [invoking their Lord and praying, with fear and hope]"
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    • Bible
    • Quran
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Ricardo Gondelles

Thirty years of experience in journalism and the publishing world is easily said. Yet, I feel so open to learning that I like to imagine what comes for the next 30 years. As a writer, editor and proofreader, my passion for the written word keep me discovering new realms. Bilingual (Spanish-English), I’m a language lover who’s going through French and Italian as well (I don’t know what comes next, Russian?). My goal in life is to have things done as best as I can, and I take pride in it. Contact me.

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