Think you know it all? This quiz will push your general knowledge to the absolute limit and beyond. Only the most well-read and knowledgeable individuals will stand a chance.
1. Which ancient civilization introduced the earliest known positional numeral system?
Maya
Chinese
Babylonians
Egyptians
2. Which element is named after the village of Ytterby in Sweden?
Neodymium
Ytterbium
Holmium
Scandium
3. Who was Robert Scott's rival in the 1911 race to the South Pole?
Nobu Shirase
Frederick Cook
Roald Amundsen
Ernest Shackleton
4. What is the classification of the Andromeda Galaxy based on its shape?
Elliptical
Irregular
Spiral
Barred Spiral
5. Which novel opens with the phrase 'Call me Ishmael'?
Moby-Dick
Pride and Prejudice
The Catcher in the Rye
The Old Man and the Sea
6. What does a metaclass in Python primarily define?
Inheritance model
Class behavior
Memory allocation
Instance behavior
7. In which layer of the Earth's atmosphere does the Hubble Space Telescope orbit?
Troposphere
Exosphere
Thermosphere
Stratosphere
8. Which philosopher popularized the concept of empiricism?
Aristotle
Immanuel Kant
David Hume
John Locke
9. Which cryptographic method uses a fixed-length string of bits, often for encryption?
Stream cipher
Hash function
Block cipher
Public-key cryptography
10. Who authored the 1st century work 'Bibliotheca historica'?
Herodotus
Plutarch
Diodorus Siculus
Thucydides
11. What geological feature is characterized by superheated rock rising through the mantle?
Subduction zone
Mantle plume
Tectonic uplift
Igneous intrusion
12. Which novel features the character Leopold Bloom?
