Free quiz · 8 questions · Warm-up to Boss
General knowledge quiz
How well do you really know General knowledge? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.
60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of General knowledge questions for your group.
The questions
- Warm-up
Zoom out from your neighborhood to the solar system: which planet is our home, and what star does it orbit?
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- Earth is the planet we live on
- Earth orbits the Sun
- Warm-up
When plants use sunlight to make food, which gas do they take from the air, and what is this food-making process called?
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- Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air
- The process is photosynthesis
- Warm-up
Which mammal group can fly under its own power for sustained periods, and what do flying squirrels do instead?
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- Bats are the only mammals capable of sustained powered flight
- Flying squirrels glide
- Gliding is not powered flight
- Easy
The Mona Lisa has a famously mysterious smile—who painted it, and in roughly which century was it completed?
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- Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa
- It was completed in the 16th century
- It was completed in the early 1500s
- Easy
At ordinary room temperature, one metal stays liquid—what is it, and what is its chemical symbol?
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- Mercury
- Its chemical symbol is Hg
- It is liquid at typical room temperature
- Medium
Gold gets a tiny code on the periodic table: what’s its chemical symbol, and what’s its atomic number?
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- Gold’s chemical symbol is Au
- Gold’s atomic number is 79
- The symbol comes from the Latin name aurum
- Medium
Decode the Roman numeral XLIX into a number, and name the two subtractive pairs that build it.
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- XLIX represents 49.
- XL represents 40.
- IX represents 9.
- Boss
From C up to F-sharp, what is the interval called, and how many semitones does it span?
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- The interval is a tritone.
- It is also called an augmented fourth.
- It spans six semitones.
How scoring works
- Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
- Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
- A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.
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