This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1008 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1008 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The tiger is native to which continent? A) Africa. B) Asia. C) Australia. D) Antarctica. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asia. 2. When bidding in Auction Bridge, what suit has the highest value below "No trumps" ? A) Diamonds. B) Hearts. C) Spades. D) Clubs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spades. 3. Which city, on the River Arno, is the capital of the region of Tuscany? A) Moscow. B) Florence. C) Belgrade. D) Budapest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Florence. 4. Which of these is a form of textile art, woven on a vertical loom? A) Panoply. B) Sophistry. C) Tapestry. D) Dacquiri. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tapestry. 5. Which national leader's 3 wives were Aurelia Tizón (married 1929) and Eva Duarte (married 1945) who both died of cancer, and Isabel Martínez (married 1961)? A) Willy Brandt. B) Augusto Pinochet. C) Silvio Berlusconi. D) Juan Perón. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juan Perón. 6. Which of these is an ape that occurs in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia and north to southern China, including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java, and differs from great apes in being smaller and pair-bonded, in not making nests, and in certain anatomical details in which it more closely resembles a monkey than great apes do? A) Chimpanzee. B) Gibbon. C) Gorilla. D) Orangutan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gibbon. 7. Which play's characters comprise two married couples called Honey and Nick, and Martha and George? A) The Lion In Winter. B) The Betrayal. C) Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?. D) All My Sons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?. 8. The ports of Astrakhan and Baku are on which body of water? A) Lake Baikal. B) Mediterranean Sea. C) Caspian Sea. D) Lake Huron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caspian Sea. 9. What was invented in the 1940s by Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, who was building magnetrons for radar sets? A) Microwave oven. B) Vacuum cleaner. C) Television set. D) Wireless transmitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Microwave oven. 10. Which Indian citizen won a Nobel Prize in 1979? A) Jawaharlal Nehru. B) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. C) Mother Teresa. D) Sanjeev Bhaskar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mother Teresa. 11. A character from the films "Beetlejuice" and one in several in the Harry Potter series have names which suggest stars from which constellation? A) Orion. B) Sagittarius. C) Libra. D) Aries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Orion. 12. What is the title of Luxembourg's Head of State? A) Emperor. B) Prince. C) King. D) Grand Duke. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grand Duke. 13. Which car company, in 1986, commissioned "Cars", a series of artworks to track the evolution of its designs, from Andy Warhol? A) Chrysler. B) Ford. C) Mercedes-Benz. D) Porsche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mercedes-Benz. 14. In what field is or was the art of Ralph Steadman, Thomas Nast, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson usually expressed? A) Cartoon. B) Sculpture. C) Thread art. D) Mural. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartoon. 15. In surnames, e.g. Fitzwilliam, FitzGerald, Fitzherbert & Fitzhenry, what does "Fitz-" mean? A) Son of . B) From the town of . C) Who fought at the battle of . D) With the tartan of . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Son of . 16. What island group may be described as a triangle with its corners at Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island, including the island groups Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Niue? A) Melanesia. B) Australasia. C) Polynesia. D) Micronesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polynesia. 17. What is a characteristic of the moon, Phoebe? A) Its orbit is retrograde. B) It is completely iced over. C) It has active volcanoes. D) It is perfectly spherical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Its orbit is retrograde. 18. The Rance Barrage is the first example of what? A) Gated diversion dam. B) Military-use balloon. C) Caisson breakwater. D) Tidal power station. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tidal power station. 19. Tijuana and San Diego are on either side of what? A) Pacific Ocean. B) USA / Mexico border. C) Panama Canal. D) Rocky Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) USA / Mexico border. 20. Maynard James Keenan is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and winemaker, known as the singer and primary lyricist of several rock bands. Which is NOT one of those bands? A) Puscifer. B) Tool. C) A Perfect Circle. D) Smashing Pumpkins. 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