This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 102 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 102 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is a square-mouthed estuary on the northwest edge of East Anglia, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire on the east coast of England? A) The Solent. B) The Wash. C) Bristol Channel. D) The Irish Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Wash. 2. What does "feng shui" mean literally? A) Straight and true. B) Body and soul. C) Sand and stone. D) Wind and water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wind and water. 3. What was the first satellite put into orbit by the USA? A) Mercury. B) Explorer. C) Genesis. D) Voyager. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Explorer. 4. Which peninsula has the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west and the Black Sea to the north, and is separated from Europe by the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus? A) Asia Minor. B) Crimea. C) Iberian peninsula. D) The Balkans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asia Minor. 5. Which Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance by the French government for his efforts in fighting the German occupation as part of the French resistance in World War II? A) George Bernard Shaw. B) James Joyce. C) Samuel Beckett. D) Oscar Wilde. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Samuel Beckett. 6. What are maras? A) Low and spiny West African shrubs. B) Hare-like rodents. C) Incubi. D) Astringent herbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hare-like rodents. 7. Which was the last drama film to feature the work of veteran American actor and comedian Zero Mostel? A) Rhinoceros (1974). B) Best Boy (1979). C) The Front (1976). D) Watership Down (1978). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Watership Down (1978). 8. The Malvaceae family of plants not only includes marshmallows, the ancient source of a popular herbal sweet, but also ..... ? A) Ginger. B) Licorice. C) Hibiscus. D) Begonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hibiscus. 9. Where is The Bridge of Sighs? A) Florence. B) Venice. C) Pisa. D) Rome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venice. 10. The unit of electrical resistance was named after whom? A) Alessandro Volta. B) Georg Simon Ohm. C) Benjamin Franklin. D) Guglielmo Marconi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Georg Simon Ohm. 11. Which were the last Olympic Games in which East Germany took part as a country? A) 1992. B) 1988. C) 1984. D) 1982. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1988. 12. In which of these places is tundra most likely to be found? A) The Sahara. B) The Arctic. C) Australia. D) Panama Canal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Arctic. 13. Chaminda Vaas bowled a hat trick for Sri Lanka in his first 3 deliveries against Bangladesh in which Cricket World Cup? A) 2007. B) 1992. C) 2003. D) 1999. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2003. 14. What convex three-dimensional homogeneous body which, when resting on a flat surface, has just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium? A) Sasquatch. B) Tommy Tippee. C) Gömböc. D) Humboldt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gömböc. 15. Up to 1974, the title of "Negus" was used for the traditional rulers of what country? A) Ghana. B) Somalia. C) Egypt. D) Ethiopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethiopia. 16. What is NASA's craft called Ingenuity? A) A mini Mars helicopter. B) A Mars rover. C) A telescope. D) The control panel in the Mars rover. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A mini Mars helicopter. 17. The Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt is a statue of a reclining mythical creature with a lion's body and the head of a what? A) Cat. B) Bird. C) Dog. D) Human. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Human. 18. Ira Gershwin, the lyricist for most of George Gershwin's songs, was what relation to George? A) Brother. B) Wife. C) Sister. D) Cousin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brother. 19. What is a synonym for the English word "nick" ? A) Condition. B) Any of these. C) Steal. D) Small cut. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Any of these. 20. Whom did the Lady of Shalott, in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1832 poem, see in her mirror which made her break her enchantment and bring down the curse from which she died? A) Sir Gawain. B) King Arthur. C) Sir Galahad. D) Sir Lancelot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Lancelot. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeneral QuizzesGeneral Knowledge Quiz 1General Knowledge Quiz 2General Knowledge Quiz 3General Knowledge Quiz 4General Knowledge Quiz 5General Knowledge Quiz 6General Knowledge Quiz 7General Knowledge Quiz 8General Knowledge Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books