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Category: General Knowledge Quizzes
Jacques Chirac Quiz
William Smellie Quiz
William Smellie Quiz Questions and Answers
1. Where was William Smellie born?
a) Gloucester
b) Edinburgh
c) Birmingham
d) Falkirk
2. Who asked William Smellie to prepare Encyclopaedia Britannica for the press?
a) George Gleig
b) James Millar
c) Horace Hooper
d) Andrew Bell
3. When was William Smellie a founder of Newtonian Society?
a) 1748
b) 1760
c) 1752
d) 1756
Nobel Prize 2017 Quiz
1) Who won Nobel Prize 2017 for Medicine?
a) Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael Young
b) Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Frisch
c) Niels Ryberg Finsen
d) Barbara McClintock
2) For what was Nobel Prize 2017 for Medicine given?
a) Discovery of genetic transposition
b) Contribution to treatment of lupus vulgaris
c) Observation of animal behaviour patterns
d) Discovery of the molecular mechanisms that control circadian rhythms
3) Who won Nobel Prize 2017 for Physics?
a) Pavel Cherenkov, Ilya Frank, Igor Tamm
b) Alfred Kastler
c) Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, Kip Stephen Thorne
d) Donald Arthur Glaser
Robert Mugabe Quiz
1. When was Robert Mugabe President of Zimbabwe?
A. 1964-1974
B. 1987-2017
C. 1972-1976
D. 1966-1968
2. When was Robert Mugabe born?
A. 21 February 1924
B. 5 April 1920
C. 22 August 1922
D. 28 December 1925
3. Where was Robert Mugabe born?
A. Lusaka
B. Windhoek
C. Kutama
D. Durban
Francis Bacon Quiz
Francis Bacon Quiz Questions with Answers
(This quiz is about Francis Bacon the author.)
1. When was Francis Bacon born?
a) 22 January 1561
b) 4 May 1549
c) 16 July 1548
d) 11 November 1564
2. Where was Francis Bacon born?
a) Liverpool
b) London
c) Cambridge
d) Paris
3. Where did Francis Bacon study law?
a) Inner Temple
b) Middle Temple
c) Lincoln’s Inn
d) Gray’s Inn
Saturn Quiz
1) What is the specific gravity of Saturn?
a) 1
b) 0.7
c) 1.7
d) 7
2) Which is the outermost ring of Saturn?
a) A ring
b) D ring
c) F ring
d) E ring
3) Who is Saturn in mythology?
a) God of Industry
b) Goddess of Earth
c) God of Agriculture
d) Goddess of Hunting
Sveriges Riksbank Prize Quiz
Sveriges Riksbank Prize Quiz Questions with Answers
(This quiz is about Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.)
1. When was Sveriges Riksbank Prize first given?
a) 1912
b) 1969
c) 1948
d) 1976
2. Who won Sveriges Riksbank Prize in 1970?
a) Paul Samuelson
b) Ragnar Frisch
c) Jan Tinbergen
d) Simon Kuznets
3. When did Leonid Kantorovich win Sveriges Riksbank Prize?
a) 1972
b) 1967
c) 1975
d) 1985
Pancho Barnes Quiz
Pancho Barnes Quiz Questions with Answers
1. What was Pancho Barnes’s original name?
a) Josephine Shaw
b) Florence Lowe
c) Shirley MacLean Beaty
d) Vivian Mary Hartley
2. When was Pancho Barnes born?
a) 22 March 1902
b) 5 May 1908
c) 14 July 1901
d) 11 November 1903
3. Where was Pancho Barnes born?
a) Pasadena
b) Springfield
c) Atlanta
d) Sacramento