(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
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
(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
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
1. When did South Sudan become independent?
a) 1 January 2001
b) 7 April 2004
c) 9 July 2011
d) 22 October 2008
2. What is the national motto of South Sudan?
a) Justice, liberty, prosperity
b) God, union, liberty
c) Peace and justice
d) We stand with God
3. Which country is to the east of South Sudan?
a) Zambia
b) Ethiopia
c) Algeria
d) Lesotho
1. When was The Washington Post founded?
a) 1 January 1901
b) 4 April 1904
c) 7 August 1898
d) 6 December 1877
2. Who founded The Washington Post?
a) Charles Henry Dow
b) Stilson Hutchins
c) Edward Jones
d) Clarence Barron
3. Who bought The Washington Post in 1905?
a) Warren Harding
b) Philip Graham
c) John McLean
d) Joseph Pulitzer
1. What is Haj?
a) Friday sermon
b) Pilgrimage to Mecca
c) Night prayer
d) Sufi shrine
2. Who gives the call for prayer in Islam?
a) Khatib
b) Ayatollah
c) Muezzin
d) Talib
3. Which of the following is not one of the five Pillars of Islam?
a) Zakat
b) Shahadah
c) Nikah
d) Salat
1. When was Michael Faraday born?
a) 5 July 1794
b) 4 March 1792
c) 22 September 1791
d) 10 December 1788
2. Where was Michael Faraday born?
a) Lexington
b) Newington
c) Bristol
d) Coventry
3. Who offered Michael Faraday the job of laboratory assistant?
a) Humphry Davy
b) John Dalton
c) Sarah Barnard
d) William Whewell
1. When was Anne Frank born?
a) 1 January 1914
b) 12 June 1929
c) 25 September 1925
d) 16 December 1926
2. Where was Anne Frank born?
a) Amsterdam
b) Frankfurt am Main
c) Zurich
d) Rome
3. When did Anne Frank move to a Jewish School?
a) 1941
b) 1939
c) 1929
d) 1936
1. What was Honore de Balzac’s original name?
a) Edmund Nantes
b) George Sand
c) Honore Balssa
d) Horatio Alger
2. When was Honore de Balzac born?
a) 3 January 1794
b) 20 May 1799
c) 14 July 1801
d) 22 October 1795
3. Where was Honore de Balzac born?
a) Tours
b) Vendome
c) La Rochelle
d) New Rochelle