This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 170 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 170 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are understood to have been among the charges laid against the Gang of Four in 1981? A) Usurpation of state power and party leadership, and the persecution of about 750, 000 people. B) Planning to assassinate Mao Zedong. C) Mass burnings of Mao Zedong's Red Book. D) Expressing criticism of Hua Guofeng, at the time General Secretary of the Central Committee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Usurpation of state power and party leadership, and the persecution of about 750, 000 people. 2. What is the technical term for baldness? A) Alopecia. B) Pyrosis. C) Epistaxis. D) Aneurism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alopecia. 3. Peruvian Lina Medina, aged 5, made history in 1939 as the youngest person to do what? A) Win a gold medal at an international gymnastics competition. B) Give birth. C) Swim 50m freestyle in under 30 seconds. D) Sail solo around South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Give birth. 4. "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is the unfinished novel by which author? A) Wilkie Collins. B) Charles Dickens. C) Robert Louis Stephenson. D) Ian Fleming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Dickens. 5. Which one of these is not named Mumtaz Mahal? A) A crater on the asteroid 433 Eros. B) The wife of Shah Jahan, buried in the Taj Mahal. C) A half-human, half-fox exhibit at Karachi Zoo. D) A thoroughbred racehorse, described as the most important brood mare of the 20th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A half-human, half-fox exhibit at Karachi Zoo. 6. What do the Azerbaijani flag and the flag reinstated in Libya in 2011 carry in common? A) A white crescent and a star on the left. B) Red, green and black horizontal stripes. C) A red horizontal stripe at the top. D) A white crescent and a star in the centre. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A white crescent and a star in the centre. 7. What is the meaning of the word from which "meconium", the fecal discharge of a nearly born or newborn child, is derived? A) Poppy juice. B) Micturition. C) Chemical waste. D) A semi-precious gem similar to zirconium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poppy juice. 8. Which German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist became famous for his fairy stories and romantic novels, and for writing the opera "Undine" ? A) Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. B) Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman. C) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. D) Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman. 9. Where were the Olympic Games held at the turn of the 20th century, in 1900? A) St Louis, Missouri, US. B) Athens, Greece. C) Paris, France. D) London, UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paris, France. 10. The St Bernard Pass connects Switzerland to what other country? A) Denmark. B) Namibia. C) Italy. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Italy. 11. The Kalush Orchestra took the top prize in 2022 in what? A) The Azrieli Music Prizes. B) II International Music Competition-Małopolska. C) The Eurovision Song Contest. D) IPEA International Percussion Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Eurovision Song Contest. 12. In 2005, a rift of 500 metres (1, 640 ft) long, and 60 metres (197 ft) deep was formed in just a few days when a volcano, situated in the north of what region, erupted? A) Skógar, Iceland. B) Afar Triangle, Ethiopia. C) Akan National Park, Hokkaidō, Japan. D) Raoul Island, New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Afar Triangle, Ethiopia. 13. Which of these seas is not off the coast of South America? A) Argentine Sea. B) Caribbean Sea. C) Tasman Sea. D) Chilean Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tasman Sea. 14. Before the League of Nations was signed at Versailles in 1919, a clause was proposed by Japan but eventually omitted from the agreement relating to which of these? A) That the USA bankroll the League. B) Racial equality. C) That the USSR be excluded. D) That Japan be granted all German possessions in the Pacific north of the equator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Racial equality. 15. A song from the musical "Evita" is "Don't cry for me ..... '' where? A) Bulawayo. B) Oklahoma. C) Argentina. D) Greenland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Argentina. 16. Which pathway is determined by, among other forces, the relationship between vertical and horizontal velocity? A) Sine wave. B) Orbit. C) Hyperbola. D) Trajectory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trajectory. 17. What is one of the distinguishing features of Baku, capital city of Azerbaijan? A) It has a boundary line running through it dividing Azerbaijan from Russia. B) It is built at over 4, 000m (on the slopes of Mount Bazardüzü). C) It is the lowest lying national capital in the world. D) The buildings are all deep orange by statute. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is the lowest lying national capital in the world. 18. Which of these women was played by Margot Kidder in the films "Superman", "Superman II", "Superman III" and "Superman IV:The Quest for Peace" ? A) Lois Lane. B) Vicki Vale. C) Olive Oyl. D) Minnie Mouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lois Lane. 19. Which of the following sports has the highest horizontal bar on the goal? A) American football. B) Hockey. C) Soccer. D) Rugby Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) American football. 20. Muesli was developed around 1900 by Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner to feed who? A) Greyhounds. B) Orphaned babies. C) Hospital patients. D) Athletes. 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