This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1190 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1190 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What name is given to describe the phenomenon of the gradual mixing of two different substances which are in contact? A) Diffusion. B) Diffraction. C) Refraction. D) Debacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diffusion. 2. In 2016 Britain voted to do what? A) Change the pound sterling to the US dollar. B) Change its name. C) Amalgamate with Denmark. D) Leave the European Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leave the European Union. 3. Where were the 2017 World Masters Games held? A) Sydney, Australia. B) Toronto, Canada. C) Auckland, New Zealand. D) Turin, Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Auckland, New Zealand. 4. To what is the Pauli Exclusion Principle applied? A) Electrons only. B) Fermions, e.g. leptons (including electrons), quarks, baryons and many atoms and nuclei. C) Photons. D) Social groupings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fermions, e.g. leptons (including electrons), quarks, baryons and many atoms and nuclei. 5. The drug "diazepam" is used chiefly to what? A) Reduce anxiety. B) Reduce weight. C) Control diabetes. D) Counter travel sickness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reduce anxiety. 6. What is the grammatical term for the verb "could" ? A) Copula. B) Relative. C) Modal. D) Passive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modal. 7. How did the alcoholic beverage "punch" get its name? A) It is intended to knock the drinker out. B) The Hindu word for "5" . C) It is an important prop in a "Punch and Judy" show. D) It is part of the Commedia dell' Arte tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Hindu word for "5" . 8. Pierre Poivre, an eighteenth‑century French horticulturalist and government administrator in the French islands of the West Indian Ocean, may have sparked what saying? A) He who has the pepper may season as he lists. B) Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue. C) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. D) Peter Peter pumpkin eater. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. 9. Caracas, Venezuela, is situated along which river? A) Apure. B) Orinoco. C) Negro. D) Guaire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Guaire. 10. When were the first Asian Games held? A) 1942. B) 1982. C) 1962. D) 1938. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1962. 11. What is the name of a construction toy made of interlocking plastic blocks? A) Legless. B) Legolas. C) Legwarmer. D) Lego. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lego. 12. Where is the Bayóvar Depression? A) Chott Melrhir, Algeria. B) Qattara Depression, Egypt. C) Atacama Desert, Chile. D) Sechura Desert, Peru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sechura Desert, Peru. 13. Which of these would you encounter when carving a chicken? A) Parson's nose. B) Bishop's eye. C) Curate's throat. D) Priest's ear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parson's nose. 14. Where is the giant copper statue of a man, woman and child, known as the African Renaissance monument, that was unveiled in April 2010? A) Dakar, Senegal. B) Harare, Zimbabwe. C) Lusaka, Zambia. D) Kampala, Uganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dakar, Senegal. 15. What word means the type of movement by normally walking on the soles of the feet? A) Digitigrade. B) Facultative. C) Plantigrade. D) Ungulate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plantigrade. 16. Ronnie Scott's club in London is the venue for what kind of music? A) Early music. B) Punk. C) Jazz. D) Opera. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jazz. 17. The modern Oxford-Cambridge University boating course runs from Putney to where? A) Mortlake. B) Henley. C) Greenwich. D) Kew. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mortlake. 18. Which of these African lands lies closest to the mid-Atlantic ridge? A) Chad. B) Mauretania. C) Eritrea. D) The Gabon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mauretania. 19. The only, since 1980, annual athletics international contest with only two participating countries still held at a professional level involves which two countries? A) Japan and the Philippines. B) Scotland and Northern Ireland. C) Sweden and Finland. D) New Zealand and Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sweden and Finland. 20. The two main islands of which country are known as "the North Island" and "the South Island" ? A) New Zealand. B) United Kingdom. C) Singapore. D) South Korea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Zealand. ← 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