math & puzzles Online Quiz - 102

math & puzzles Online Quiz - 102

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it

  1. He wanted to work all night
  2. but we saw that he was completely worn
  3. and so we persuaded him to stop.
  4. No error.
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it

  1. Few scientists changed
  2. people's ideas as much as
  3. Darwin with his Theory of Evolution.
  4. No error.
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it

  1. When a whale is washed ashore by the tide,
  2. the people flock together to see it,
  3. wondering how so huge an animal can swim about in the water
  4. No error.
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following counties is not adjacent to Bay country Florida?

  1. Jackson County
  2. Greene County
  3. Gulf County
  4. Walton County
  5. Washington County
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

With whom of the following has Denis Rodman not been involved?

  1. Madonna
  2. Himself
  3. Carmen Electra
  4. Annie Bakes
  5. Ru Paul
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Where is the World's Largest Guitar (tm)?

  1. Tamworth
  2. Greely
  3. Cleveland
  4. Oslo
  5. Las Vegas
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who first used the term Micronesia to designate a group of South Pacific Islands in 1831?

  1. Charles Darwin
  2. Miguel Santos De Michele
  3. Jules Dumont d'Urville
  4. Rogers and Hemmerstein
  5. It wasn't used until 1921
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the primary function of a melon baller?

  1. removing warts
  2. making pie
  3. pressing them into the melon's flesh and rotating
  4. nothing to do with melon's at all
  5. who cares
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not an alias of Mark Wahlberg?

  1. Mark Wahlberg
  2. Marky Mark
  3. Dirk Diggler
  4. Markus Big
  5. Monk D
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The following family of peppers includes the includes the South American rocoto peppers.

  1. capsicum rotesco
  2. capsicum pubescens
  3. caspian rotodandrum
  4. pepperonus roadus
  5. syphillus maximus
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The following is the capital of Macedonia:

  1. Donesk
  2. Kiev
  3. Minsk
  4. Skopje
  5. Toppo
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A. The two neighbours never fought each other. B. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown. C. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder. D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally. E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male.

  1. BEDAC
  2. DEBAC
  3. BDCAE
  4. BCEDA
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A. He felt justified in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves. B. At times he was fighting the entire Congress. C. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency. D. Bush was not fighting just the democrats. E. Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.

  1. CAEDB
  2. DBAEC
  3. CEADB
  4. ECDBA
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a language?

  1. Esperanto
  2. Galego
  3. Hidalgo
  4. Norgsk
  5. Ido
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following historical personage was not apparently suffering from Syphalis?

  1. Adolf Hitler
  2. Hernan Cortes
  3. Franz Schubert
  4. Thomas Jefferson
  5. Al Capone
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome. B. In June 1944 Germany’s military position in World War Two appeared hopeless. C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed. D. The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland. E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.

  1. EDACB
  2. BEDAC
  3. BDECA
  4. CEDAB
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A. Experts such as Larry Burns, head of research at GM, reckon that only such a full hearted leap will allow the world to cope with the mass motorisation that will one day come to China or India. B. But once hydrogen is being produced from biomass or extracted from underground coal or made from water, using nuclear or renewable electricity, the way will be open for a huge reduction in carbon emissions from the whole system. C. In theory, once all the bugs have been sorted out, fuel cells should deliver better total fuel economy than any existing engines. D. That is twice as good as the internal combustion engine, but only five percentage points better than a diesel hybrid. E. Allowing for the resources needed to extract hydrogen from hydrocarbon, oil, coal or gas, the fuel cell has an efficiency of 30 %.

  1. CEDBA
  2. CEBDA
  3. AEDBC
  4. ACEBD
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A. But this does not mean that death was the Egyptians’ only preoccupation. B. Even papyri come mainly from pyramid temples. C. Most of our traditional sources of information about the Old Kingdom are monuments of the rich like pyramids and tombs. D. Houses in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not been preserved, and when most people died they were buried in simple graves. E. We know infinitely more about the wealthy people of Egypt than we do about the ordinary people, as most monuments were made for the rich.

  1. CDBEA
  2. ECDAB
  3. EDCBA
  4. DECAB
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which British king died in 1952?

  1. George V
  2. George II
  3. George VI
  4. George IV
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who was generally considered the second last powerful Mughal Emperor of India? (He was very cruel.)

  1. Aurangzeb
  2. Bahadur Shah Zafar
  3. Shahjahan
  4. Akbar

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