Test your general knowledge with our quick quiz!

Here are 10 questions. If you don't know the answer to a question, try following the link at the beginning of the question...

Archaeology: The various ages - stone, bronze, iron - were devised by?: Thor Heyerdahl
Richard Leakey
Christian Thomsen
John Smith
Astronomy: What is the 7th planet from the Sun?: Mercury
Pluto
Uranus
Saturn
Computers: What is Windows an example of?: an operating system
an application program
a CPU monitor
a virus
Encyclopedias: Where was the first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica published?: Cambridge
Oxford
Edinburgh
London
History: Herodotus lived when?: 2000 BC
484 BC to 428 BC
2000 years ago
100 AD to 138 AD
Mathematics: The series (x-a)(x-b)(x-c) ... (x-z) equals?: x²⁶ + (a b c ... z) - ...
x²⁶ - (a b c ... z) + ...
0
None of the above
Physics: What is Quantum mechanics?: a theory of atomic and sub-atomic particles
atomic and molecular engineering
a cosmological model for the origin of the universe
the study of forces in non-linear systems
SETI: is an acronym for?: Special Evolutionary Theory of Intelligence
Super Evolved Thinking Intellects
Search for ExtraTerrestrial Idiots
Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
Theater: Where was Shakespeare's Globe Theatre originally built?: Stratford-upon-Avon
Cambridge
London
Oxford
WWW: Who wrote the first web browser?: Bill Gates
Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina
Tim Berners-Lee
Steve Jobs