This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 164 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 164 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To what country is the Shinto religion indigenous? A) India. B) Saudi Arabia. C) Pakistan. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Japan. 2. What office did James Schlesinger not hold in 1973 under US President Gerald Ford? A) Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. B) Secretary of Defense. C) Director of Central Intelligence. D) Secretary of Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Secretary of Energy. 3. Tinnitus affects what part of the body? A) Feet. B) Eyes. C) Hands. D) Ears. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ears. 4. Which Latin poet wrote "Satires", "Epodes", "Epistles" and "Carmen Seculare" ? A) Homer. B) Virgil. C) Maecenas. D) Horace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horace. 5. What is a dart board usually made from? A) Horse hair. B) Particle board. C) Customwood. D) Sisal fibres or cork. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sisal fibres or cork. 6. What is the name of the classic English horse race run at Epsom, the day before the Derby? A) The Steeplechase. B) The Queen's Pace. C) The 1, 000 Guineas. D) The Oaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Oaks. 7. The first recorded fatality of a car accident in the USA was Henry Bliss, on 13 September 1899. Where was it? A) New York City. B) Detroit. C) Chicago. D) Dallas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New York City. 8. What or who is the Mabinogion? A) A prominent Welsh druid during the Roman invasion of Britain. B) A Welsh language collection of pre-14th century British literature. C) 19th century Welsh fairy tales. D) A sacred island off the coast of Anglesey in Wales. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Welsh language collection of pre-14th century British literature. 9. In Japan they are a symbol of luck, longevity and fidelity, and are white birds with black-tipped wings and throat plus what else? A) Red collar and cheeks. B) Black tail. C) Crimson bonnet of bare skin. D) Grey plume on the back of the head. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crimson bonnet of bare skin. 10. When the USSR re-occupied Estonia, first in 1940 and then 1994 to 1991, what was one of the tools of its rule? A) A ban on reindeer farming. B) A non-aggression pact with near neighbours Sweden, Finland and Germany. C) A national annual contest for poetry written in Russian. D) It destroyed major and ancient cemeteries, reusing some for Russians. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It destroyed major and ancient cemeteries, reusing some for Russians. 11. Which of these words can be applied correctly to 97% of all animal species? A) Mammals. B) Vertebrates. C) Invertebrates. D) Reptiles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Invertebrates. 12. Which illustrator, born in what is now Haiti, raised in France, and an immigrant to America at 18, turned early observations and a hobby into creating work which included a book which was published in Britain and which is now considered a classic? A) Elizabeth Blackwell (1700-1758). B) Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750). C) John James Audubon (1785-1851'). D) Mark Catesby (1682-1749). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John James Audubon (1785-1851'). 13. For the 2020/2021 year the US Mint confirmed that the cost of manufacturing the cent and the nickel (the 5 cent coin) was what? A) 2.1 and 8.52 cents each respectively. B) Finally below the face value of the coin. C) 0.7 and 1.2 cents each respectively. D) Approximately the same as the face value of the coin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2.1 and 8.52 cents each respectively. 14. What metal instrument, 10 to 12 inches long, is used to unfasten knots and loosen rope strands for splicing? A) Awl. B) Marlinspike. C) Hoe. D) Mainbrace. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marlinspike. 15. The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in north-western South Africa, is mainly what type of land? A) Grassed plains. B) Tablelands. C) Mountainous desert. D) Rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mountainous desert. 16. What was patented in London by Ralph Wedgewood in 1806? A) China. B) Carbon paper. C) A design for a chair leg. D) Mimeograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carbon paper. 17. Marie Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911), was born where? A) Warsaw, Poland. B) Paris, France. C) Geneva, Switzerland. D) Sydney, Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Warsaw, Poland. 18. The Ironman World Championship, which has been held annually in Hawaii since 1978, with an additional race in 1982, involves which sport? A) Surfing. B) Triathlon. C) Swimming. D) Marathon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Triathlon. 19. In which sea is The Grenadines island chain? A) Caribbean. B) Aegean. C) South China. D) Caspian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caribbean. 20. Which US vice presidential candidate made "The Checkers speech", an address on TV and radio on 23 September 1952, which was an early example of a politician using television to appeal directly to the electorate? A) John D Rockefeller. B) Dwight D Eisenhower. C) John F Kennedy. D) Richard Nixon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Richard Nixon. ← 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