This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1077 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1077 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Yangtze River is on which continent? A) South America. B) Australia. C) Asia. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asia. 2. For a constant sound wave, what is the time interval between successive crests per second called? A) Wavelength. B) Amplitude. C) Frequency. D) Power. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frequency. 3. When the US swimmer Michael Phelps became the youngest male at the time to break a world record in swimming, what was the occasion? A) 200 m butterfly in the World Championship Trials for the 2001 World Aquatics Championships. B) 200 m individual medley at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships. C) 4 x 100 m medley relay in the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. D) 400 m individual medley at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 200 m butterfly in the World Championship Trials for the 2001 World Aquatics Championships. 4. What was one of the immediate effects of the sinking of the liner, Lusitania, en route from New York, USA, to Liverpool, UK, by German submarine in 1915? A) People completely stopped sailing between America and the UK. B) America entered World War I. C) Kaiser Wilhelm ordered his submarines not to attack passenger liners. D) America gave the UK 10 submarines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kaiser Wilhelm ordered his submarines not to attack passenger liners. 5. Although there is no legislated term, the Secretary-General of the United Nations is (since 1971) re-elected or replaced at what interval? A) Twenty years. B) Five years. C) Every year. D) Every other year. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Five years. 6. Which scientist, born In Württemberg, failed to pass the general part of his examination for the Swiss Federal polytechnic school in Zürich in 1895 but is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists in his field? A) Ernest Rutherford. B) Immanuel Kant. C) Albert Einstein. D) Nikolai Tesla. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Albert Einstein. 7. What is the main aspect which distinguishes the American sport of roque from the sport from which it developed? A) The shoes. B) The balls. C) The racquets. D) The playing surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The playing surface. 8. What does the first "A" in the acronym for the American scientific body known as "NOAA" stand for? A) Atmospheric. B) Agency. C) America. D) Administration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atmospheric. 9. Who worked at Betchley Park in World War II as one of the Enigma codebreakers and became known as "the father of modern computer science" ? A) Alan Turing. B) Charles Babbage. C) Ada Lovelace. D) Blaise Pascal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alan Turing. 10. Which city hosted the 1972 Olympics? A) Munich. B) Mexico City. C) Montreal. D) Moscow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Munich. 11. Unlike other vertebrates, placental mammals and most bony fishes lack what? A) A notochord. B) A cloaca. C) Lymphocyte receptors. D) Pheronomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A cloaca. 12. Backgammon is a game for how many players? A) 4. B) 1. C) 2. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 13. The cocktail "Black Russian" is created by mixing what spirits? A) Vodka and kahlua. B) Gin and kahlua. C) Vodka and gin. D) Vodka and rum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vodka and kahlua. 14. What civil engineering project first begun in 1876, opened in 1994? A) Euston Railway Station, London, England. B) Channel Tunnel between England and France. C) Sydney Opera House. D) Kansai International Airport, Osaka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Channel Tunnel between England and France. 15. How many disciplines were competed at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics in Turkey? A) 43. B) 5. C) 21. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 21. 16. What ceremony was held for the first time on 10 December 1901? A) State of the Nation address in the USA. B) Announcement of the Census of Ireland and Scotland. C) Award of Nobel Prizes. D) Medal to a survivor of barrelling over the Niagara Falls. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Award of Nobel Prizes. 17. What was the cause of the disqualification of Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall at Mexico City in 1968, the first as a result of failing a doping test at an Olympic Games? A) Beer. B) Barbiturates. C) Steroids. D) Marijuana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beer. 18. What name is given to the jewelled, gilded and illuminated mediaeval religious manuscript, thought to have been created c. 715-20 CE in Britain and presently held in the British Library? A) Les Très Riches Heures. B) Lindisfarne Gospels. C) The Book of Kells. D) Luttrell Psalter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lindisfarne Gospels. 19. What is the highest point in the 48 contiguous states of the USA? A) Alma, Colorado. B) Winter Park, Colorado. C) Mount Whitney, California. D) Leadville, Colorado. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mount Whitney, California. 20. What is hapax legomenon? A) Interpretation and analysis of literary flights of fancy. B) A custard, marzipan and whipped egg-white cake topping. C) A word used on one occasion in any given context and never recorded again. D) Unique. 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