This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 165 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 165 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The animal has had legal protection in its country since 1895, and is the only living member of the more than 200 million year old order Rhynchocephalia. What is it? A) Gila monster. B) Tuatara. C) Lung fish. D) Solenodon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tuatara. 2. When in trouble, which of these characters might reach for a utility belt? A) Batman. B) Homer Simpson. C) Mandrake. D) Wonder woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Batman. 3. Which of these ships was built last? A) Titanic. B) Mary Rose. C) Mayflower. D) Victory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Titanic. 4. What is a disease of the bone, estimated to affect 2-3 million across Tibet, north-eastern to south-western China, South Siberia, and Korea? A) Kienbock's disease. B) Keshan disease. C) Legg-CalvΓ©-Perthes disease. D) Kashin-Beck disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kashin-Beck disease. 5. How many members are there in the Italian lower house, the Chamber of Deputies? A) 315. B) 630. C) 577. D) 321. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 630. 6. Which one of these could be seen as a mixed metaphor? A) Hoist with one's own petard. B) It is a millstone round one's neck. C) Who pays the piper calls the tune. D) A miss is a good as a mile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hoist with one's own petard. 7. What thick rich soup is made from lobster or shellfish? A) Bisque. B) Ragout. C) Quiche. D) Stroganoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bisque. 8. What singer recorded with the E Street Band? A) Bruce Springsteen. B) Bob Dylan. C) Chris Farlowe. D) John Farnham. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bruce Springsteen. 9. Up until May 2016 what was the home ground of the UK's West Ham United Football Club? A) Villa Park. B) Boleyn Ground. C) Wembley Stadium. D) Ewood Park. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boleyn Ground. 10. Who, on 2 October 1925, transmitted a picture of William Taynton, an office boy from the offices on the floor below his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in Soho, London, from one room to another? A) Guglielmo Marconi. B) Arthur Korn. C) Paul Nipkow. D) John Logie Baird. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Logie Baird. 11. What body of water is 86 feet (26 meters) below sea level? A) Lake Huron. B) Mediterranean Sea. C) Lake Baikal. D) Caspian Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Caspian Sea. 12. Which of these is a Jacob's Ladder? A) Builder's tool. B) Parasitic plant. C) Hairstyle. D) Toy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Toy. 13. Which of these has a stub? A) Cheque book. B) Wine glass. C) Washing machine. D) Dressing table. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cheque book. 14. What principal Dickens character wears a wedding dress throughout her appearance in the novel? A) Little Em'ly. B) Little Dorrit. C) Miss Mowcher. D) Miss Havisham. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Miss Havisham. 15. Measuring from the closest point of each of these countries to the equator, which is the furthest from the equator? A) South Africa. B) Ecuador. C) Ethiopia. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Canada. 16. How many of the Great Lakes form part of the border between the U S A and Canada? A) 3. B) 5. C) 6. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 17. The Supreme Council of Antiquities was founded in 1859 by the French scholar and archaeologist FranΓ§ois Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (1821-1881), who specialised in what field? A) Pre-historic cave painting. B) Celtic mythology. C) The Trojan War. D) Egyptology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Egyptology. 18. Where were the first public performances of the 1956 musical "My Fair Lady", based on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" ? A) Erlanger Theatre, Philadelphia, USA. B) Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway, New York, USA. C) Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, UK. D) Shubert Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shubert Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. 19. What was the overall aim of the three so-called Zimmerwald Conferences, held variously in Zimmerwald, Kienthal and Stockholm? A) Deep-sea exploration. B) Co-ordination of world health initiatives. C) Establishing a platform for sharing scientific knowledge. D) Anti-war. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anti-war. 20. What is one of the three most populous cities in Africa? A) Cairo. B) Khartoum. C) Durban. D) Nairobi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cairo. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books