Things in Common Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which shared geographic fact connects Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania?
Each borders Lake Victoria.
Each has a coastline on the Indian Ocean.
Each borders the Red Sea.
Each is crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn.
2. What connects Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility?
They were written by the Brontë sisters.
They are novels by Jane Austen.
They are plays adapted by William Shakespeare.
They are novels by George Eliot.
3. A whale, bat, human, and dog all belong to which biological class?
Reptiles
Mammals
Amphibians
Birds
4. An equilateral triangle, a square, and a regular hexagon share which geometric property?
Their diagonals are all equal in length.
Each shape can tile a flat plane by itself using congruent copies without gaps.
Every interior angle measures 120 degrees.
Each has the same order of rotational symmetry.
5. What connects Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Homage to Catalonia, and The Road to Wigan Pier?
They were written by Aldous Huxley.
They were written by George Orwell.
They were written by John Steinbeck.
They were written by H. G. Wells.
6. Which numerical rule applies to 12, 18, 24, and 30?
Each number is divisible by 4.
Each number is a perfect square.
Each number is divisible by 6.
Each number has exactly six positive factors.
7. What unusual trait connects the platypus and echidnas?
They are marsupials that carry young in permanent pouches.
They spend most of their lives underwater.
They are mammals that lay eggs.
They are native exclusively to New Zealand.
8. What connects the chemical symbols Na, K, Fe, and Ag?
They represent elements that are gases at room temperature.
They represent elements first discovered in the twentieth century.
Each symbol begins with the first letter of its current English element name.
Each symbol comes from a historical or non-English name rather than its current English name.
9. Zeus, Ares, Aphrodite, and Hermes have Roman counterparts named Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. What links those Roman names?
Each is also the name of a zodiac constellation.
Each is also the name of a calendar month.
Each is also the name of a planet.
Each is also the name of a chemical element.
10. Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese belong to which language group?
Germanic languages
Slavic languages
Celtic languages
Romance languages
11. What visual feature is shared by the national flags of Japan, Denmark, Switzerland, and Canada?
All four contain a cross.
All four contain a plant or leaf.
All four use only red and white.
All four are vertical tricolors.
12. A recipe combines chickpeas, lentils, peas, and beans. Which food group connects all four ingredients?
Cruciferous vegetables
Cereal grains
Nightshade vegetables
Legumes
13. What do Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars have in common?
They are rocky planets.
They have no natural moons.
They each orbit the Sun in less than one Earth year.
Their atmospheres consist mainly of carbon dioxide.
14. A violin, viola, cello, and double bass all belong to which orchestral family?
String
Woodwind
Brass
Percussion
15. What do Canberra, Ottawa, Brasília, and Washington, D.C. have in common?
Each is a national capital but not its country's most populous city.
They are all in the Southern Hemisphere.
Each was founded during the twentieth century.
Each is located directly on an ocean coast.
16. Emerald, aquamarine, morganite, and heliodor are colored varieties of which mineral?
Corundum
Quartz
Garnet
Beryl