This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 145 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 145 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. With the history of which of these countries is Josip Broz Tito associated? A) India. B) Italy. C) Yugoslavia. D) Somalia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yugoslavia. 2. What men's golf tournament was held on The Hills Golf Course, a privately owned golf course in an area known as Arrowtown, in 2007, 2009 and 2010? A) New Zealand Open. B) Brunei Open. C) Australian Open. D) South African Open. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Zealand Open. 3. What is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel whereby tightly folded balloons are passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size using water pressures some 75 to 500 times normal blood pressure (6 to 20 atmospheres)? A) Pneumonectomy. B) Rhinoplasty. C) Tracheotomy. D) Angioplasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Angioplasty. 4. Which country has the longest straight stretch of railway line? A) Australia. B) Russia. C) Canada. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Australia. 5. Where are the Straits of Bonifacto? A) Between Sicily and Corsica. B) Between Naples and the Italian peninsula. C) Between Corsica and Sardinia. D) Between Sicily and Sardinia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Between Corsica and Sardinia. 6. Which award winning building was built directly underneath Waterloo Bridge, London, in the 1980s and has stalactites (from water leaking through the Bridge) growing in it? A) National Film Theatre. B) Royal National Theatre. C) Hayward Art Gallery. D) Museum of the Moving Image. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Museum of the Moving Image. 7. Where are most of the oil, or bituminous, sand deposits in Canada? A) Alberta. B) Quebec. C) Saskatchewan. D) Manitoba. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alberta. 8. Who wrote the songs "Suzanne", "First We Take Manhattan" and "Everybody Knows" ? A) Phil Ochs. B) Bob Dylan. C) Leonard Cohen. D) Serge Gainsbourg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leonard Cohen. 9. Who was Formula One Champion driver from 2010 to 2013? A) Michael Schumacher. B) Nico Rosberg. C) Sebastian Vettel. D) Susie Wolff. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sebastian Vettel. 10. According to the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church, how many "stations" are there in "The Stations of the Cross" ? A) 5. B) 12. C) 10. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14. 11. What did the country which later became Zambia and Zimbabwe but was at that time led by the European Ian Smith proclaim in 1965? A) The founding of ZANU. B) The founding of ZAPU. C) Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the UK. D) The Republic of Rhodesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the UK. 12. Which of these is a term used to describe a pathological fear of contact with dirt, to avoid contamination and germs? A) Cynophobia. B) Pteromechanophobia. C) Mysophobia. D) Haemophobia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mysophobia. 13. In tennis, the annual Grand Slam season consists of the French Open, the U.S. Open, the Wimbledon Championship and which other? A) America's Cup. B) Queen's Club Championships. C) Davis Cup. D) Australian Open. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Australian Open. 14. Which King of Macedon created one of the largest empires in ancient history between 336 and 323BC, including most of the city-states of mainland Greece and the (then) Persian-ruled Asia Minor? A) Algernon the Large. B) Anderson the Small. C) Alexander The Great. D) Arbuthnot the Little. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alexander The Great. 15. What number do the numbers on opposite sides of a standard cube-shaped die always add up to? A) 9. B) 6. C) 8. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7. 16. With what activity is Italian Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni associated? A) Architecture. B) Painting. C) Musical composition. D) Ballet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Musical composition. 17. In the fifth year of his reign the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV, or Amenophis, changed his name to what? A) Tutankhamun. B) Akhenaten. C) Ramesses. D) Thutmose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Akhenaten. 18. What would one normally do with veloutรฉ? A) Rub it on your face. B) Eat it. C) Drive it. D) Hit it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eat it. 19. Before becoming president of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt was vice president to whom? A) William Howard Taft. B) William McKinley. C) Benjamin Harrison. D) Grover Cleveland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William McKinley. 20. Which of these is another word for the thumb? A) Thorax. B) Caster. C) Pollex. D) Hallux. 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