This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 167 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 167 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where is the natural habitat of the Steller's sea cow? A) Western Pacific Ocean. B) Bering Sea. C) None, it is extinct. D) Southwest Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) None, it is extinct. 2. Who won the gold medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and yelled "Oh my God!" at least 11 times in an aquatic centre that was stunned into silence over her surprise win? A) Staciana Stitts. B) Jenny Thompson. C) Misty Hyman. D) Diana Munz. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Misty Hyman. 3. Ludwig van Beethoven originally referred to his symphony No. 3 in E flat major (Op. 55) by what name? A) Eroica. B) Bonaparte. C) Apotheosis of Dance. D) The Fate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bonaparte. 4. Which prophetess, the daughter of Priam, King of Troy, was killed following the fall of Troy by Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra? A) Helen. B) Salome. C) Cassandra. D) Jocaster. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cassandra. 5. The foxtrot, a dance introduced to Great Britain around 1914, originated in which country? A) Spain. B) Brazil. C) France. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) USA. 6. Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim are most usually associated with which work? A) Candide. B) Porgy and Bess. C) West Side Story. D) A Little Night Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) West Side Story. 7. For much of his career the artist Charles Frederick Goldie painted what subjects? A) Late 19th century Australian gold miners. B) Norwegian landscapes. C) Portraits of Maori of the early 20th century in New Zealand. D) Native South American animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Portraits of Maori of the early 20th century in New Zealand. 8. Kim Schmitz is better known as who? A) Kim Kardashian. B) Kim Basinger. C) Kim Dotcom. D) Kim Jong Un. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kim Dotcom. 9. What does the chemical symbol Fe stand for? A) Iron. B) Gold. C) Silver. D) Cheese. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iron. 10. In 2015 Lacy Thibodeaux-Fields brought a lawsuit against the NFL, which sparked a wave of lawsuits alleging wage theft, unsafe working conditions, gender discrimination and harassment. What was the occupation of Thibodeaux-Fields and the other people suing? A) Video coordinators. B) Scouts. C) Cheerleaders. D) Human resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cheerleaders. 11. In the history of thought concerning natural rights, who said "we are born for Justice, and that right is based, not upon opinions, but upon Nature" ? A) Cicero (106-43 BCE). B) Homer (9th century BCE). C) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). D) John Locke (1632-1704). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cicero (106-43 BCE). 12. There are several world championships in the field of woodchopping or wood cutting; which of these is celebrated as the first one? A) Lumberjack World Championships. B) Stihl Timbersports Series. C) World Logging Championship. D) Woodchopping Championship (world). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Woodchopping Championship (world). 13. A tower in Boughton, Chester, UK, was built to manufacture what, following a process pioneered by William Watts in the 1780s? A) Lead shot. B) Silk thread. C) Electricity. D) Spinning jennies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lead shot. 14. What treaty ended the Second Boer War? A) Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. B) The Treaty of Vereeniging. C) Treaty of Paris. D) Southern African Customs Union Agreement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Treaty of Vereeniging. 15. Which of these animals has the most northerly natural habitat? A) Hyena. B) Giant Panda. C) Wombat. D) Penguin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Giant Panda. 16. Which of these is Selma Bouvier's sister? A) Marge Simpson. B) Jacqueline Kennedy. C) Eleanor Roosevelt. D) Sarah Fergusson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marge Simpson. 17. What is the full name of the organism found in abundance in the mammalian gut, and used as the host organism for the majority of work with recombinant DNA, in early commercial work the bacterium of choice for cloning and mass-producing new materials? A) Staphylococcus aureus. B) Enterococcus faecalis. C) Clostridium perfringens. D) Escherichia coli. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Escherichia coli. 18. Who is a South African serial killer who committed the "ABC Murders" between 1994 and 1995, with over 30 victims? A) Moses Sithole. B) Aaron Standpit. C) Jacob Leanbed. D) Esau Liemine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moses Sithole. 19. The legend represented by the statue (now in the Vatican Museum) of a father and his twin sons being strangled by two great sea serpents, shows divine punishment for what according to Virgil? A) The man had remarried, against a ban by local priests. B) Spitting in the sea. C) Eating an offering made to the god, Zeus. D) The man had warned the Trojans against accepting the wooden horse left by the Greeks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The man had warned the Trojans against accepting the wooden horse left by the Greeks. 20. Which family of 3 painters depicted the life of peasants, paintings in which devils and witches appear, and landscapes? A) Rembrandt. B) Dali. C) Brueghel. D) Holbein. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brueghel. ← 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