If You Ace This Week’s General Knowledge Quiz, There’s Hope For You

This week’s general knowledge quiz isn’t the toughest one we’ve set yet but some of the questions will make you scratch your head!

Try scoring at least 8/10 because anything below that is plain sad for a quiz this easy!

Let's start with something simple. The sun is...

The sun - duh!

A star

An asteroid

A planet

Correct! Wrong!

Which two Pakistanis have won the Nobel Prize?

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Malala Yousafzai

Dr. Abdus Salam & Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Dr. Abdus Salam & Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai & Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan

Correct! Wrong!

The semi-final of the 1992 Cricket World Cup was between Pakistan and which other country?

Australia

England

Sri Lanka

New Zealand

Correct! Wrong!

Mark the correct definition of Osmosis.

Osmosis is the spontaneous net movement of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration, in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides.

Osmosis is the net movement of anything from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration.

Osmosis s the breakdown of large insoluble food molecules into small water-soluble food molecules so that they can be absorbed into the watery blood plasma.

Osmosis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities.

Correct! Wrong!

Which book was NOT written by Dan Brown.

The Di Vinci Code

Origin

Angels and Demons

Dark Places

Correct! Wrong!

Tea is believed to have originated from...

Pakistan & India

Burma and China

Australia

England

Correct! Wrong!

Who among these was NOT a physicist?

Galileo Galilei

Socrates

Abbas Ibn Firnas

Isaac Newton

Correct! Wrong!

Name the largest ocean.

Atlantic

Arctic

Pacific

Indian

Correct! Wrong!

Which Pakistani city is famous for its production of football?

Faisalabad

Quetta

Karachi

Sialkot

Correct! Wrong!

_________ is the scientific study of the mind and behavior.

Sociology

Anthropology

Psychology

Biology

Correct! Wrong!

If You Ace This Week's General Knowledge Quiz, There's Hope For You

Major thumbs down!

Darling, you're either having a bad day or you really didn't pay much attention in class. In either case, this is a wake-up call: LEARN AT LEAST A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN!

Meh!

Sure, you're not a complete dud but tell me honestly, is that good enough? Do some reading in your spare time

Pretty good!

Very nice! But there are still some things you can learn about. Go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole whenever you can to polish your raw ends.

Standing ovation!

This wasn't really a very tough quiz but some questions were definitely tricky. You're basically brilliant for getting a neat 10/10!

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