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TOK GKQ Two!
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1
Which nation is this?
Iran
Afghanistan
Turkey
Kazakhstan
2
Which is the hottest planet in the solar system?
Jupiter
Venus
Mars
Mercury
3
Which sea is bordered by Iran, Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan?
Aral Sea
Red Sea
Caspian Sea
Mediterranean Sea
4
Lithuania borders which body of water?
Baltic Sea
Black Sea
Red Sea
North Sea
5
What is the sun mainly composed of?
Helium
Hydrogen
Nitrogen
Oxygen
6
What is the name for a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different spelling and meaning?
antonym
homophone
homonym
hominem
7
The process by which plants emit water vapor though their leaves is known as:
Evaporation
Perspiration
Transpiration
Precipitation
8
Which of the following was the main cause of the spread of the Black Death in Medieval Europe from 1347 to 1351?
a miasma
lice that lived on rats
fleas who lived on rats
rats
9
Which country won the first-ever soccer World Cup in 1930?
Uruguay
Italy
Brazil
England
10
Which of the following is the main ingredient in guacamole?
avocado
cilantro
tomatoes
Beans
11
Who wrote the novel
1984
?
Orwell
Huxley
Capote
Dickens
12
The largest island between Sumatra and Mindanao is
Borneo
Java
Sulawesi
Bali
13
Who is this guy?
Vladmir Putin
Joe Biden
Boris Johnson
Elon Musk
14
"France, army, Josephine" were the last words of which 19th century European?
Napoleon
Hugo
Bismark
Zola
15
What type of oil was the principal illuminant until it was replaced by petroleum?
fish oil
olive oil
whale oil
canola oil
16
What area of the Earth's interior above the core forms 83 percent of the planet's volume and 67 percent of its mass?
core
mantle
Crust
magma
17
What gulf is southwest of the Zagros Mountains of Iran?
Gulf of Mexico
Persian Gulf
Red Sea
Gulf of Aden
18
Who did Field Marshal Hindenburg name as chancellor of Germany in 1933?
Schleicher
Ludendorff
Papen
Hitler
19
Lake Victoria is the headwaters of which major rivier?
Congo
Mekong
Yangtze
Nile
20
What is the original meaning of the word "planet"?
World
Sphere
Wanderer
Orb
21
The application of what increases metal's ductility?
light
heat
water
pressure
22
The American city of Gainsvlille Georgia outlaws the eating of which food with a fork?
Tomato soup
Fried Chicken
French Fries
Hot dogs
23
In Greek mythology, what did the monster Argus have 100 of?
tentacles
eyes
ears
arms
24
Whose flag is this?
France
Denmark
Germany
The Netherlands
25
What is the English translation of the Mexican holiday, "El dia de los muertos"?
Independence Day
The day of the dead
The fifth of May
Friendship day
26
The major use of chiclet latex is in the production of what consumer good?
licorice
Super Glue
chewing gum
Silly Putty
27
In the Dutch East Indies, the Dutch forced Indonesians to grow this plant from which they could produce a blue dye...
tobacco
Mulberry
Anatto
Indigo
28
Thomas Hobbes famously wrote that before the development of society human lives were...
Nasty, brutish, and short
delightful, funloving, and joyful
Nasty, brutish, and long
lonely, miserable, and dark
29
Which visual style is most famously associatied with Pablo Picasso?
Cubism
pointilism
Dada
impressionism
30
Mt. Everest is part of which mountain range?
Andes
Himalayas
Alps
Rockies
31
Someone who is apiophobic is irrationally afraid of what?
being outdoors
birds
apes
bees
32
Which Russian was returned to Russia by the Germans in 1917 in hope that he would overthrow the Russian Government?
Lenin
Stalin
Trotsky
Rasputin
33
In the 16th century, this nation held part or all of the following territories: Goa, Calicut, Malacca, Java, and Brazil
England
The Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
34
What color is your blood when it’s inside your body?
Blue
It has not color
Green
Red
35
Which is the world's smallest nation in terms of both population and area?
Vatican City
Luxembourg
Grenada
Liechtenstein
36
In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated in what city?
Vienna
Bucharest
Sofia
Sarajevo
37
Which Renaissance artist said that his wife was his art and his chidren the works he "leaves behind"?
Raphael
Donatello
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
38
The outermost portion of the atmosphere is called the
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
stratosphere
exosphere
39
Which Asian archipelago was first a Spanish and then an American colony before gaining its independence in 1946?
Phillipines
Hawaii
Taiwan
Seychelles
40
These words came into English from what language? tornado, mosquito, embargo, armadillo
German
Arabic
French
Spanish
41
90 percent of the cosmic rays that enter the Earth's atmosphere are composed of what subatomic particles?
Protons
Muons
Electrons
Neutron