This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 1112 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1112 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The small eggs in Ahuahutle, also known as Mexican caviar, come from ..... ? A) Aquatic insects. B) Bluefish. C) Bonefish. D) Miniature bantam hens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aquatic insects. 2. "Runaway Jury" (2003), a film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, is an adaption of the book by which author? A) Reginald Rose. B) Len Deighton. C) Michael Crichton. D) John Grisham. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Grisham. 3. Which animal appeared in the opening credits of the British TV series "Coronation Street" ? A) Rabbit. B) Badger. C) Hamster. D) Cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cat. 4. Which of these is a British medal instituted in 1918 awarded to officers and warrant officers of the Royal Air Force? A) DSM. B) DFM. C) DSO. D) DFC. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) DFC. 5. Erik the Red from Norway founded the first successful Norse settlement on Greenland, and then his son Leif continued the tradition of exploring west and landed where? A) Iceland. B) Russia. C) North America. D) Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) North America. 6. What town 16 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, dominated by the Puritans in the 17th century, was famous for its witchcraft trials? A) Philadelphia. B) Salem. C) Scranton. D) Providence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salem. 7. The national flag of which country consists of just a horizontal red stripe top and bottom, and a white stripe across the centre? A) Albania. B) Argentina. C) Austria. D) Algeria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Austria. 8. What is the name of the front, slightly raised area, of a saddle? A) Pomander. B) Pommes frites. C) Pompom. D) Pommel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pommel. 9. Which Belgian novelist wrote the "Maigret" stories between 1930 and 1935? A) Albert Uderzo. B) Georges Simenon. C) Hercule Poirot. D) Baroness Orczy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Georges Simenon. 10. The theatres for which war included Odessa, Yevpatoriya, Sevastopol, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Kinburn? A) The Wars of the Roses. B) American Civil War. C) Crimean War. D) The Boer War. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crimean War. 11. What does the acronym "DOA" mean? A) Dead on arrival. B) Down and away. C) Daft old age. D) Dinner of antelope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dead on arrival. 12. The London 2012 Summer Olympics was remarkable, among other things, for what? A) The sun shone through the entire Olympics. B) It had three official mascots. C) It was the first Olympics at which every sport had female competitors. D) No competing athletes tested positive for drugs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was the first Olympics at which every sport had female competitors. 13. Which series ended on UK television in 1989 after a 26 year run, and returned in 2005? A) The Goodies. B) Doctor Who. C) Only Fools and Horses. D) The Good Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Doctor Who. 14. The Sunda Trench is the deepest part of which ocean? A) Atlantic Ocean. B) Pacific Ocean. C) Indian Ocean. D) Arctic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indian Ocean. 15. A 2018 film, a US-German co-production produced by Indian Paintbrush and American Empirical Pictures, focuses on the fallout from which virus epidemic? A) Distemper. B) Flu. C) Ebola. D) SARS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flu. 16. The phrase "eyeball to eyeball" uses a figure of speech known as what? A) Synecdoche. B) Metaphor. C) Metonymy. D) Bahuvrihi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 17. What in the human body shows the effect of melanin? A) Lungs. B) Skin. C) Heart. D) Liver. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skin. 18. Since the 1960s there has been guerilla warfare, invasion and political instability in Cyprus because of disputes between people of which two nationalities? A) Egyptians and Bulgarians. B) Italians and French. C) Romanians and Iranians. D) Greeks and Turks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Greeks and Turks. 19. Whose name is associated with the theorem that states that kinetic energy equals increased relativistic mass multiplied by the speed of light squared? A) Pythagoras. B) Albert Einstein. C) RenΓ© Descartes. D) Isaac Newton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Albert Einstein. 20. Tetanus is known by what other name? A) Tennis elbow. B) Athlete's foot. C) Lockjaw. D) Achilles heel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lockjaw. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books