General Knowledge Competition

Make sure that you answer at least 18 of the following questions and that each answer is not less than 50 words and not more than 100:

1) When did each of WWI & WWII take place? Who were the countries involved and what was the outcome?
2) Who is “The Lost Generation”?
3) What is the “Reign of Terror”?
4) When did the American War of Independence happen? Who was its leader?
5) Homer is the author of two of the most famous epics: “The Illiad” and “The Odyssey”. In which age did Homer live? What was the theme of each of the two epics?
6) Who was Achilles and why was his heel his point of weakness?
7) Dante wrote one of the most famous Renaissance epics: “The Divine Comedy”. What was the name of the hero? Where did he go on the two journeys in that book?
8) What was Alexander the Great’s “great vision”?
9) Who is Karl Marx? What is his main philosophy?
10) “Peter Pan” is a famous children’s story. Who wrote it? What is it about?
11) “Who Moved My Cheese” is a parable by Spencer Johnson from which readers can learn a lesson. What is the lesson? Who are the four main characters in the parable?
12) “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey is a guide to personal development. According to the book, what are the seven habits that people should develop in order to become socially effective?
13) Who was the first to speculate on the concept of “Democracy”?
14) Who was Gandhi? What was his “Passive Resistance” theory about?
15) What do the five Olympic rings on the flag of the Olympic Games represent?
16) Religions: Most people have some kind of belief or faith that helps to explain life and death. Many worship either one or several gods. The four major world religions are …
17) Not long after its literary success, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway was made into a movie by Paramount pictures in 1932. What major historical event did the novel and the movie discuss? Who starred in the movie?
18) The apartheid was a social regime against which thousands of South Africans stood. What was meant by it? Who was the first elected South African President to stand against it?
19) Who said the following quotes and what did they mean by them?
• “The law of the jungle…Survival for the fittest.”
• “The end justifies the means”.

20) Name three scientists who have stumbled upon great discoveries that have benefited humanity by mere coincidence. Justify your choice using facts.

P.S. Just for fun: Bonus Question: Who is the guy in the picture above
Ow BTW, these sites can help you find the competition questions
ask.com
wikipedia.org
britannica.com
kids.britannica.com