Basic Bible Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Scripture?

1. Look at this series: 2, 1, (1/2), (1/4) ... What number should come next?

2. A person has 4 coins for each of a different denomination, what is the number of different sums of money the person can form (using one or more coins at a time)?

3. In how many ways can a six applicants for a job arrange themselves at a roundtable when they are invited for an interview?

4. In a class, there are 50 pupils if 15 of them are girls, what percentage are boys?

5. In an election the winner received 3/7 of the total vote: If the total number of votes cast were 700000, what number of votes did the winner receive?

6. A trader had 19 lanterns in her store, sold 13 and bought 6 more. How many lanterns does she have left in her store?

7. During the 2008 POSTJAMB registration exercise which lasted 15 days, the number of candidates on the first day was 2000 but doubled daily in the next 4 days. Thereafter, it was 250 per day till the end. How many candidates registered for the exercise?

8. Adie is thrown once, what is the the 5/6probability that the number that turns up is a multiple of two?

9. How much is N3, 000 worth in US$ if the exchange rate is US$ 1 = N120?

10. Look at this series: 36, 34, 30, 28, 24... What number should come next?

11. My watch was correct at noon, after which it started to lose 15 minutes per hour. It now shows 2.15 pm. What time is it now?

12. A number consists of 2 digits whose sum is 8, if 8 is subtracted from the number, the digits interchanges their place. The number is

13. Tope had 30 kittens. After A bout of coccidiosis, all but 13 died. How many kittens are left?

14. Subtract ninety-nine from nine hundred and ninety and then, add it to eight hundred and sixty-five. What will be the final answer?

15. The radius of a right circular cone is 30cm and its height is 4cm, the curved surface of the cone will be

16. Solve 21% of 70

17. The followings are true concerning a trapezium except……?

18. State the number of multiples of 4 between 20 and 60

19. If 10% of a number is subtracted
from it, result is 1800. The number is

20. What is the value of DCXL?

21. A radio when sold at A certain price gives a gain of 20%, what will be the gain percent if sold for 3ce the price?

22. The fractions 7/11; 16/20; 21/22 when arranged in descending order is

23. One cow tells the other that there are two cows in front of me. The other one also shouts that he too has two behind him. How many are they?

24. How many times do the hands of a clock overlap in 24 hours?

25. Which is the greatest of the following fractions?

26. An early morning jogger jogged to cover a distance of 1.5 kilometers and followed the same route back to where he started. The distance covered will be?

27. Two-thirds of a class passed English Language as a subject. The number of students who failed English Language will be?

28. Wale and Joke have ratio 6:4 in 80 units of Transcorp’s shares. How many units of these shares belong to Wale?

29. In a coding system numbers 0 to 9 are coded a to j respectively, what will be the code for the number 4238?

30. A labourer is paid N5,400:00kper month. What is his total salary in 1 3/4 years?

31. If the class average of a100 student class is 50% and 25%of students scored 70%. How many scored below 75%?

32. If the value of x lies between 0 and 1, which of the following is the xlargest?

33. The radius of a right circular cone is 30cm and its height is 4cm, the curved surface of the cone will be

34. If John starts work at 8.845 am and finishes at 5.15 pm. He has 90 minutes of break. How many hour does he work in 5 days?

35. The cost of 2 biros and 3 pencils is N18, if a pencil cost N2.50k, how much is a biro?

36. A student made a 5% error in the measurement of a 50cm long stick. What was the student’s measurement?

37. A man is 30 years older than his daughter. If the sum of their ages is 48 years, what is the daughter’s age?

38. Write in words the sum of 31,004 and117, 009.

39. A team of eight lumberjacks cut an average of 15,000 cubic feet of timber in a week. How many cubic feet will four lumberjacks cut in four weeks?

40. The combined age of me and my two children is 75. What will it be in five years’ time?

41. If 8 men can reap 80 hectares in 24 days, then how many hectares can 36 men reap in 30 days?

42. The radius of a right circular cone is 30cm and its height is 4cm, the curved surface of the cone will be

43. A plane figure with ten sides and ten angles

44. What is the discounted price of the coat?

45. On selling 3 articles at the cost of 4 articles, there will be a profit of

46. A boy estimated his transport fare for a journey as N 190 instead of N200. Find the percentage error in his estimate

47. If forty people donated N6 a month to a cooperative society for one year, how much would be collected?

48. If 15 cans of food are needed for seven adults for two days, the number of cans needed to feed four adults for seven days is?

49. Which of the following numbers should be added to 11158 to make it exactly divisible by 77?

50. Thirty men take 20 days to complete a job working for 9hrs a day, how many hr(s) a day should 40 men to work to complete the job?