This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1211 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1211 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these animals is not a marsupial? A) Koala. B) Platypus. C) Virginia Opossum. D) Eastern Grey Kangaroo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Platypus. 2. Where is the vast and deep depression known as Hellas Basin? A) The Moon. B) Greece. C) USA. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mars. 3. If a chemical process is anaerobic it means it is happening under what conditions? A) Without, or having severely restricted, free oxygen. B) Oxygen-rich. C) Intensely. D) In steam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Without, or having severely restricted, free oxygen. 4. What is the Tipitaka (sometimes called Tripitaka)? A) A type of Mexican cooking. B) A Maori storehouse. C) The doctrinal foundation of Theravada Buddhism. D) The royal library in Mandalay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The doctrinal foundation of Theravada Buddhism. 5. An "elegant, organic, and rigorously logical" game of strategy developed in China more than 2, 500 years ago is called ..... ? A) Dominoes. B) Chess. C) Go. D) Nard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Go. 6. What band released the albums "Wild Life", "Red Rose Speedway", "At the Speed of Sound", "London Town" and Back to the Egg" between 1971 and 1979? A) Wings. B) Bon Jovi. C) Def Leppard. D) Pink Floyd. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wings. 7. Which of these is an infectious disease with patches of inflammation on the skin? A) Fibrositis. B) Hypostasis. C) Osmosis. D) Erysipelas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Erysipelas. 8. In international flag signalling code, what is a rectangular flag centred with a white square? A) "Epidemic on board". B) The letter "P". C) "Ship being scuttled". D) "No food on board". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The letter "P". 9. What name was given to a trooper in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War? A) Cherrypicker. B) Ironside. C) Squarehead. D) Plus four. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ironside. 10. Which delta blues musician wrote "Love in Vain", "Cross Road Blues", and "Rambling on My Mind" ? A) John Lee Hooker. B) Elmore James. C) Jimmy Reed. D) Robert Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Johnson. 11. What is the chemical symbol for Manganese? A) Mo. B) Mg. C) M. D) Mn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mn. 12. The Nazi Party saw which of these people as one of its leading proponents? A) Theyyam. B) Herleva. C) Himmler. D) Hema. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Himmler. 13. Which father and son, 17th and 18th century composers, between them lived in Rome, Naples, Florence and Madrid and composed over 120 operas, 600 chamber cantatas, and 500 harpsichord sonatas? A) Schumann. B) Scarlatti. C) Schubert. D) Bach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scarlatti. 14. What genus of bulbous flowering plants, native to the eastern Mediterranean region east to Iran and Turkmenistan has 3 species:litwinowii, orientalis and transcaspicus? A) Bougainvillea. B) Protea. C) Hyacinth. D) Hydrangea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyacinth. 15. Which of these is NOT a common colloquial expression? A) Dutch courage. B) Dutch uncle. C) Dutch shelter. D) Going Dutch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dutch shelter. 16. Black Bess, the horse of Dick Turpin (1706-39), would have been used to what phrase, if legend is to be believed? A) "Stand and deliver". B) "Forward, men". C) "Put your back into it". D) "Injuns ahead". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Stand and deliver". 17. In February 1578 the first Roman Catholic diocese was established in the country now known as what? A) Belgium. B) Australia. C) The Philippines. D) Indonesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Philippines. 18. What can a nictitating membrane protect against? A) Chlorophyll. B) Claws. C) Electricity. D) Dirt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dirt. 19. The British Royal Mint that was established in the Tower of London in 1279 and moved to an adjacent site on Tower Hill in 1809 is now situated where? A) Buckingham Palace, London. B) Llantrisant, South Wales. C) Glasgow, Scotland. D) Icknield Street, Birmingham, England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Llantrisant, South Wales. 20. The Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 was decisive in which conflict? A) The English Civil War. B) The Wars of the Roses. C) The Seven Years' War. D) The Boer War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Wars of the Roses. ← 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