This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1076 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1076 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name for a steak stuffed with oysters? A) Carpetbag. B) Matlock. C) Linotype. D) Rugrat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carpetbag. 2. Found in the human body, what are the "venae cavae" ? A) Appendices. B) Cavities in the stomach. C) Holes in teeth caused by decay. D) Veins that return deoxygenated blood from the body to the heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Veins that return deoxygenated blood from the body to the heart. 3. In May 2009, flooding killed at least 30 people and caused more than 20, 000 people to leave their homes in which country? A) India. B) South Africa. C) Brazil. D) Pakistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brazil. 4. Where in the human body is the sagittal suture? A) Front to back along the top of the skull. B) From side to side on the top of the skull. C) Down the pubic bone. D) Down the nose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Front to back along the top of the skull. 5. In printing, what are slugs? A) Lazy printing staff. B) Solid lines of type. C) Barrows for wheeling lead around the printing works. D) The frames that metal type was put into to represent "pages". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solid lines of type. 6. Who was the first female, the first Californian and the first Italian-American to hold the post of Speaker of the US House of Representatives? A) Sandra Day O'Connor. B) Hillary Clinton. C) Condoleezza Rice. D) Nancy Pelosi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nancy Pelosi. 7. Which of these is a former Prime Minister of South Africa? A) "Papa Doc" Duvalier. B) Jan Smuts. C) Bernardo O'Higgins. D) Warren G. Harding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jan Smuts. 8. When Julius Caesar in the first century BCE took a break from overrunning countries and fighting, and returned to display his spoils, what city did he come to? A) London. B) Constantinople. C) Paris. D) Rome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rome. 9. A Star of David can be seen in the stained glass of the cathedral of which Mexican city? A) Mazatlan. B) Mexico City. C) Cancun. D) Guadalajara. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mazatlan. 10. An American sitcom (1962-1971) was "The Beverley ..... "? A) Hills. B) Hillbillies. C) Hootenannies. D) Hooches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hillbillies. 11. Which of these is a 1966 musical (music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon) based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria, where the central character is a dancer-for-hire at a Times Square dance-hall? A) Sweet Charity. B) Annie. C) Evening Primrose. D) Wait a Minim!. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sweet Charity. 12. In which series of the UK TV series "Blackadder" was there a character with the same name as an Australian river? A) Blackadder the Third. B) The Black Adder. C) Blackadder II. D) Blackadder Goes Forth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blackadder Goes Forth. 13. What is the name of Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter? A) Rhianna. B) Sophie. C) Britney. D) Chelsea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chelsea. 14. What two forces were engaged in the Battle of Thermopylae in mid 480 BCE? A) Persia (now Iran) against an alliance of Greek city states. B) Athens against Sparta. C) Syracuse and Agrigentum against Carthage. D) Macedon against Athens and Thebes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persia (now Iran) against an alliance of Greek city states. 15. Which country, now part of Europe, did Robert the Bruce rule over in the 14th century? A) Eire. B) Norway. C) Spain. D) Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scotland. 16. What TV character used the catchphrase "I know nothing" ? A) Sergeant Shultz. B) Homer Simpson. C) Fred Flintstone. D) Mr. T. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sergeant Shultz. 17. The song "Come Rain or Come Shine" made popular during the 1940s and 50s in the USA was written for which Broadway Musical? A) The Easter Parade. B) Doll Face. C) Blue Skies. D) St. Louis Woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) St. Louis Woman. 18. With which country do you associate the sitar? A) Thailand. B) India. C) China. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) India. 19. Who is credited with writing the software for Skype? A) Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. B) Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström. C) Huw Price, Martin Rees, and Jaan Tallinn. D) Georgy Adelson-Velsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. 20. What genre is the TV series "Taggart" ? A) Travel. B) Detective. C) Romcom. D) Cooking. 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