This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1083 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1083 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where are chemical elements listed? A) Tilde table. B) Colonic table. C) Commaic table. D) Periodic table. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Periodic table. 2. What is the painful and incurable, so far, condition characterised by uterine cells growing outside the uterus? A) Endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia. B) Endometrial hyperplasia. C) Polycystic ovary syndrome. D) Endometriosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Endometriosis. 3. According to Lewis Carroll in his novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" (1872), what was used to kill the Jabberwock? A) A vorpal sword. B) Silver bullets. C) Brittany spears. D) Flaming arrows. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A vorpal sword. 4. The FAI awards the Leonardo da Vinci Diploma annually in what discipline? A) Code structure. B) Parachuting. C) Sculpture. D) Engineering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parachuting. 5. LeeAnne Rimes and Carrie Underwood are associated with what sort of music? A) Heavy metal. B) Jazz. C) Opera. D) Country. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Country. 6. In what country did the MNLA which was formed by Tuareg, the peoples indigenous to the area, declare the independent state of Azawad in 2012? A) Mali. B) Burkina Faso. C) Algeria. D) Niger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mali. 7. While the Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 in the UK did not put an end to capital punishment it did do what? A) Made capital punishment a penalty only for third strike offences. B) Ended the penalty of beheading and quartering those executed for treason. C) Established the right to a last cigarette before punishment. D) Ended executions in public. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ended executions in public. 8. What was the name of an iron case containing gunpowder that was used to destroy a gate or palisade? A) Petard. B) Iron Maiden. C) Catapult. D) Bazooka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Petard. 9. What stitch, also called a whip stitch (when done by machine) or a crochet stitch (when done by hand), is used to reinforce the edge of thick materials? A) Chain stitch. B) Tent stitch. C) Blanket stitch. D) Featherstitch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blanket stitch. 10. In 1994 NFL star O.J.Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and who else? A) His next-door neighbour. B) His two children. C) Waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman. D) Her lawyer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman. 11. What is the maximum number of goal keepers allowed on the field during a game of soccer? A) 1. B) 2. C) 4. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 12. What Pope took office on 21 June 1963? A) John XXIII. B) Paul VI. C) George III. D) Ringo I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paul VI. 13. In which country was Pol Pot Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979 and leader of the communist movement known as the "Khmer Rouge" ? A) Laos. B) Thailand. C) Cambodia. D) Vietnam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cambodia. 14. Which of these was not an ancient Egyptian god? A) Isis. B) Osiris. C) Set. D) Osram. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osram. 15. Brees and Brady are well-known names in what sport? A) Tennis. B) Baseball. C) American football. D) Lacrosse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) American football. 16. Who is the New Zealand-born physicist whose discoveries include most of the great advances in physics between 1899 and 1930? A) Edmund Hillary. B) Ernest Rutherford. C) Wilson Whineray. D) Frank Whittle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ernest Rutherford. 17. What sport may involve a tercel, or tiercel? A) Jousting. B) Fencing. C) Archery. D) Hawking, or falconry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hawking, or falconry. 18. Where is the Tamu (Texas A & M University) Massif? A) East of the Rocky Mountains in the USA and Canada. B) Colorado, USA. C) Under the northwest Pacific Ocean. D) Saskatchewan, Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Under the northwest Pacific Ocean. 19. What is a WPESS system used to do? A) Transfer of media photographs. B) Position wires. C) Wireless programming. D) Electronic sonar scans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Electronic sonar scans. 20. During the 12th to the 18th centuries multiple countries claimed the area now known as Latvia; which of these was not one of them? A) Poland. B) Germany. C) Sweden. D) Norway. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Norway. ← 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