This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1034 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1034 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What, in ancient Rome, was a "sudatorium" ? A) Dirty house. B) Bubble bath. C) Horse race. D) Sauna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sauna. 2. When French politician Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès called in 1799 for "a sabre", what or who was his solution? A) Napoléon Bonaparte. B) Maximilien Robespierre. C) The guillotine. D) Jean-Paul Marat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Napoléon Bonaparte. 3. One of the tools proposed in detecting skin cancer is called what? A) Molelist. B) Molechart. C) Molegraph. D) Molemap. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Molemap. 4. At the 1996 Olympics, what did Carl Lewis become the fourth person to do? A) Miss a medal award ceremony. B) Run in bare feet. C) Win 9 gold medals. D) Assault an official. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Win 9 gold medals. 5. Which of these tools would an astronomer use in their research? A) SPICT. B) Speculum. C) Spectrograph. D) Spiculated mass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spectrograph. 6. What is the overall subject of the sentence "UTC replaced GMT in most places in the world on 1 January 1972" ? A) The use of weedkillers and defoliants. B) Military weapons. C) Television broadcasting systems. D) Time zones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time zones. 7. Who wrote the opera "The Magic Flute" ? A) Verdi. B) Mozart. C) Puccini. D) Britten. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mozart. 8. A pyroclastic flow from a volcano is called that, strictly speaking, because it what ..... ? A) Burns everything in its path. B) Is extremely fast. C) Comes from a fiery place. D) Contains rock pieces and gas broken by fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contains rock pieces and gas broken by fire. 9. What war, begun in 1740 when Austrian Emperor Charles VI died and his daughter Maria Theresa came to the throne, involved attacks by Prussia, Bavaria, France, Spain, Sardinia and Saxony, and ended in 1748? A) The Crimean War. B) The Second World War. C) The War of the Austrian Succession. D) The Boer War. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The War of the Austrian Succession. 10. Which of these is a short haired odd-toed vegetarian mammal native to Central and South America and Southeast Asia? A) Marmoset. B) Sloth. C) Tapir. D) Capybara. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tapir. 11. What annual event, to have been held in 2008, was cancelled after al-Qaeda's murder of four French tourists on Christmas Eve in December 2007 in Mauritania? A) The Dakar Rally. B) North African Tennis Open. C) World Water Divining Championship. D) Sahara Camel 5, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Dakar Rally. 12. What wine is named after a city in the south of Iran? A) Port. B) Sherry. C) Shiraz. D) Ouzo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shiraz. 13. There were three state funerals in the USA in 12 months in 1963/64. Which of these was not one of them? A) Herbert Hoover. B) John F. Kennedy. C) Dwight Eisenhower. D) Douglas MacArthur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dwight Eisenhower. 14. Which of these religions does not regard Jerusalem as a Holy City? A) Buddhism. B) Judaism. C) Christianity. D) Islam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Buddhism. 15. Who, according to the Sumerian king list, was the fifth king of Uruk around 2700 BC, and became the central character in one of the best known works of early literature, where he was described as two-thirds god? A) Lugalbanda. B) Gilgamesh. C) Ninsun. D) Enkidu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gilgamesh. 16. Where does a grunion lay its eggs? A) Along the stalks of coastal kelp. B) In exposed roots of mangroves. C) On shallow reefs. D) In coastal sand just above high tide mark during exceptionally high tides. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In coastal sand just above high tide mark during exceptionally high tides. 17. What is found in a banket? A) Plans or maps. B) Fishing equipment. C) Swan's down. D) Almond paste. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Almond paste. 18. Who was variously leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, of the World War II Yugoslav resistance movement, of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and until his death in 1980 Marshal of Yugoslavia? A) Joseph Stalin. B) Benito Mussolini. C) Josip Tito. D) Henrik Ibsen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Josip Tito. 19. Which of these has an Atlantic coastline? A) Mozambique. B) ESwatini. C) South Africa. D) Lesotho. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South Africa. 20. What does "HM" mean, when referring to a Queen on the throne of the United Kingdom? A) Her Mightiness. B) Her Majesty. C) Her Magnificence. D) Her Mione. 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