General Knowledge Quiz for 13 Year Olds
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A bag contains three red counters and two blue counters. Without looking, what is the probability of drawing a red counter?
3/5
2/5
1/2
3/2
2. Which structure in a plant cell captures light energy for photosynthesis?
Chloroplast
Nucleus
Vacuole
Mitochondrion
3. Which civilization built Machu Picchu in the Andes?
Maya
Inca
Roman
Aztec
4. A student is researching daily life during a war that ended long ago. Which item is a primary source?
A modern school history textbook
An encyclopedia article about the war
A recent podcast made by a historian
A diary written by a person during the war
5. Which sentence correctly uses a semicolon to connect two closely related independent clauses?
The storm ended; the players returned to the field.
After the storm; the players returned to the field.
The players; returned when the rain stopped.
Because the rain stopped; before sunset.
6. A class has 40 students, and three-quarters of them submit an assignment. How many students submit it?
10
30
20
35
7. Drops of water appear on the outside of a cold glass. What caused them?
Water vapor in the air cooled and condensed
Water slowly passed through the glass
The glass produced water as it cooled
Melted ice escaped through tiny cracks
8. What is the capital city of Japan?
Kyoto
Seoul
Osaka
Tokyo
9. Which composer wrote the famous Fifth Symphony that begins with a short “da-da-da-dum” motif?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Antonio Vivaldi
Frédéric Chopin
Ludwig van Beethoven
10. Which energy source is renewable?
Natural gas
Wind
Uranium
Coal
11. On a map, 1 centimeter represents 5 kilometers. Two towns are 4 centimeters apart on the map. What is their represented distance?
9 kilometers
15 kilometers
20 kilometers
25 kilometers
12. In the sentence “At lunchtime, the classroom was a zoo,” which figure of speech is used?
Rhyme
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
13. In a food chain, grass is eaten by mice, and mice are eaten by owls. If disease sharply reduces the mouse population, what is the most immediate likely effect on the owls?
They will have more nesting space
They will begin producing grass
They will have less food available
They will no longer need energy
14. Lines of longitude measure how far east or west a place lies from which reference line?
The Equator
The International Date Line
The Prime Meridian
The Tropic of Cancer
15. Students want to test how fertilizer affects plant growth. Which setup creates the fairest comparison?
Give each plant different amounts of fertilizer and water
Give every plant the same fertilizer but different amounts of sunlight
Measure one plant before fertilizer and a different plant afterward
Keep conditions the same except for the amount of fertilizer
16. An unexpected email claims to be from a game company and asks you to confirm your password through a link. What is the safest immediate response?
Open the link but leave the password box empty
Reply to the email and ask whether it is genuine
Avoid the link and verify or report the message through an official channel
Forward the email to a personal account for later