This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 112 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 112 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does term "monorchid" describe? A) Having only a single colour. B) An orchid which carries only one flower in a season. C) Having only a single testicle in the scrotum. D) Wearing spectacles with only one prescription lens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Having only a single testicle in the scrotum. 2. What is a high-powered vacuum tube that generates microwaves using the interaction of a stream of electrons with a magnetic field? A) Cyclotron. B) Cybertron. C) Magnetron. D) Klystron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Magnetron. 3. Which of these is not one of the four main divisions of the Stone Age? A) Monolithic. B) Eolithic. C) Palaeolithic. D) Mesolithic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monolithic. 4. Pippin, Haralson, Honeygold, Honeycrisp and Bramley are varieties of what? A) Grape. B) Pear. C) Orange. D) Apple. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apple. 5. In 645 CE the Emperor Kōtoku in Japan designed and implemented a set of doctrines called what? A) The Sakoku Edict. B) The Taika Reforms. C) The Tokugawa edicts. D) The Shōwa Edict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Taika Reforms. 6. Which conductor had tenure with the Philadelphia Orchestra for 44 years? A) Wilhelm Furtwängler. B) Norrie Paramor. C) Vladimir Ashkenazy. D) Eugene Ormandy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eugene Ormandy. 7. Which name is associated with the IT developments which grew into Apple? A) Careers. B) Jobs. C) Positions. D) Roles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jobs. 8. After several suspended efforts, Chile, with a consortium of OAS, Hyundai, SYSTRA, and Aas-Jakobsen and financial backing from investors in Brazil, France and Norway, started construction in 2015 of what? A) A new and deeper water port. B) A millennium tower. C) A new hydro-electric dam across the Loa River. D) A 2, 750 m (9, 022 ft) bridge between Chile and its island of Chiloé. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A 2, 750 m (9, 022 ft) bridge between Chile and its island of Chiloé. 9. A label on a fabric saying that it is "colourfast" means what? A) The colour is resistant to running. B) The colour will run easily. C) The colour is very bright. D) The colour will become increasingly darker over time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The colour is resistant to running. 10. What became the world's largest passenger ship by gross tonnage when it was delivered in October 2009? A) Queen Mary II. B) Freedom of the Seas. C) Oasis of the Seas. D) Elizabeth II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oasis of the Seas. 11. Which of these is common to Kurokawa (Japan), Tbilisi (Georgia), Fang (Thailand), and Binh Chau (Vietnam)? A) Birthplace of a 15th century warlord. B) Sulphur hot springs. C) Prehistoric cave paintings. D) Sand castle festivals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sulphur hot springs. 12. What does "xylophilous" refer to? A) A wood carver. B) Growing in or living on wood. C) Something constructed of wooden slats. D) A resonant ringing when beaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Growing in or living on wood. 13. In the first decades of the 18th century, from about 1718 to 1730, what was a predominant motif in Ottoman art and culture? A) Dragons. B) Gold leaf. C) Stylised, serrated leaves. D) Tulips. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tulips. 14. Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto featured in which 1945 film directed by David Lean? A) Casablanca. B) Vertigo. C) Tom Brown's Schooldays. D) Brief Encounter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brief Encounter. 15. What was named "Desire" in the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams? A) A rollercoaster. B) A streetcar. C) A speakeasy. D) One of the neighbours. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A streetcar. 16. Victor Emmanuel II was the first king of what nation? A) Austria. B) Italy. C) Germany. D) Switzerland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italy. 17. When Joseph Priestley isolated "dephlogisticated air" in 1774, what did he see as the phlogiston which he had removed from the air? A) Particles of burnt matter. B) The constituent or principle in every burnable substance which enabled it to burn. C) Carbon. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The constituent or principle in every burnable substance which enabled it to burn. 18. What city, heavily bombed in the Spanish Civil War, was featured in a painting by Picasso? A) Guernica. B) Madrid. C) Valencia. D) Barcelona. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guernica. 19. Which of these is a book by 'Che' Guevara (then a 23-year-old medical student) about his travels 8, 000 km (5, 000 miles) across South America with Alberto Granado (a 29-year-old biochemist)? A) Whistle Down the WInd. B) Notes From A Small Island. C) The Motorcycle Diaries. D) Medical Journeys. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Motorcycle Diaries. 20. The main characters of which play by Henrik Ibsen are Dr. Thomas Stockmann, his wife and three children, and Peter Stockmann, the Mayor, who is his elder brother? A) A Doll's House. B) An Enemy of the People. C) Hedda Gabler. D) The Master Builder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An Enemy of the People. ← 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