This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1107 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1107 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is an acute infectious fever characterised by a rash which, after going through stages, dries up and leaves permanent scarring? A) Smallpox. B) Mumps. C) Whooping cough. D) Measles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smallpox. 2. What is a clavicle? A) Siege machine used in the middle ages. B) Musical instrument, similar to a piano. C) The shaft that drives the valves in a piston engine. D) Collar bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collar bone. 3. Although neutral, Switzerland maintains military forces. In 1995, which of these was NOT one? A) Cavalry. B) Navy. C) Pigeon Service. D) Air Force. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cavalry. 4. What fuels the energy, and brightness, of stars? A) Oxygen. B) Hydrogen. C) Wood. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hydrogen. 5. In Greek legend, Narcissus was famous for which of the following? A) Falling in love with his reflection. B) Killing a monster. C) Killing his parents. D) Saving the world from a comet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falling in love with his reflection. 6. The habitat of red pandas includes central China and where else? A) The mountains of Nepal and northern Myanmar (Burma). B) Indonesia. C) Japan and the Philippines. D) Vietnam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The mountains of Nepal and northern Myanmar (Burma). 7. Before becoming president of the USA, why did Hiram Ulysses Grant change his name to Ulysses S. Grant? A) The Military Academy at West Point had his name wrong. B) He fell out with his father, Hiram Senior. C) Hiram was also the name of a popular cartoon character at the time. D) He didn't want the initials "HUG". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Military Academy at West Point had his name wrong. 8. Which is the largest of the world's deserts? A) The Atacama. B) The Namib Desert. C) The Antarctic Polar Desert. D) The Thar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Antarctic Polar Desert. 9. Which English author and model, the grand-daughter of author Roald Dahl, actress Patricia Neal and actor Stanley Holloway, married singer and pianist Jamie Cullum in 2010? A) J K Rowling. B) Jane Seymour. C) Minnie Driver. D) Sophie Dahl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sophie Dahl. 10. Dayaks are native to what area? A) Andes. B) China. C) Borneo. D) Urals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Borneo. 11. What is a style of delivery mostly used in operas, oratorios, and cantata, in which a singer adopts the rhythms of ordinary speech? A) Monotone. B) Plainsong. C) Recitative. D) Vocalisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recitative. 12. Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson had a hit with which song in 1985? A) I Don't Know How to Love Him. B) I Know Him So Well. C) My Favourite Things. D) Da Doo Ron Ron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I Know Him So Well. 13. What does Cagliari refer to? A) Fashion design. B) Food. C) Car. D) Football. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Football. 14. If a word or phrase is deictic, it ..... ? A) Refers to a spiritual belief. B) Contains a command. C) Requires context to be fully understood. D) Is an exclamation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Requires context to be fully understood. 15. The R & B album "Girl You Know It's True" brought a 1990 Grammy Award for Best New Artist to which German band? A) C Arma. B) Milli Vanilli. C) Boney M. D) Tangerine Dream. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Milli Vanilli. 16. In which city's opera house does The Phantom lurk? A) New York. B) Paris. C) Milan. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paris. 17. The BWF World Championships are for what sport? A) Basketball. B) Badminton. C) Bandy. D) BASE jumping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Badminton. 18. What or who does a cloaca serve? A) A governmental undercover agent. B) The conversion of chlorophyll in plants. C) The intestinal, reproductive, and urinary tracts in some animals. D) A painter in oils, to enable the paints to adhere to some surfaces. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The intestinal, reproductive, and urinary tracts in some animals. 19. What was the title of Quentin Crisp's autobiography published in 1968? A) Time Waits For No-one. B) Meals on Wheels. C) Don't worry, Be Happy. D) The Naked Civil Servant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Naked Civil Servant. 20. In 1936, whose paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" proved that a machine could perform any conceivable mathematical computation if it were able to be represented as an algorithm? A) Albert Einstein. B) Alan Turing. C) Charles Babbage. D) Ada Lovelace. 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