This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 174 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 174 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In what form were the tombs of the rulers in Kush in Nubia in the 8th century BCE and later? A) Barrows. B) Ziggurats. C) Pyramids. D) Mausoleums. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pyramids. 2. For which two films has Michael Caine won Oscars? A) "Educating Rita" & "The Quiet American". B) "Zulu" & "The Italian Job". C) "Get Carter" & "The Ipcress File". D) "The Cider House Rules" & "Hannah and Her Sisters". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "The Cider House Rules" & "Hannah and Her Sisters". 3. What is the art of decorating materials with marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object? A) Pyrography. B) Carding. C) Dystrophy. D) Stenography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pyrography. 4. In March 2021 the International Olympics Committee (IOC) enabled athletes from which country to compete at the Tokyo Summer Olympics (rescheduled from 2020) provided it was under a neutral flag instead of the flag of their own country? A) North Korea. B) Russia. C) Taiwan. D) Transnistria. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Russia. 5. What is the world's only alpine parrot? A) Cockatoo. B) Kea. C) Danish Blue. D) Polly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kea. 6. The Irrawaddy, Chindwin and Sittaung Rivers run north to south in which country? A) Vietnam. B) Laos. C) Cambodia. D) Myanmar / Burma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Myanmar / Burma. 7. What colour is the cross on the flag of Switzerland? A) Black. B) Red. C) White. D) Blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) White. 8. How long, to the nearest mile, is an Olympic marathon? A) 26. B) 52. C) 10. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 26. 9. Which is true of the 332nd Fighter Group of the US Army Air Corps, popularly known as "The Tuskegee Airmen", who fought in World War II? A) They had all been born in Germany. B) They flew only from Canadian bases. C) It was a Mobile Army Surgical unit. D) They were African American. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They were African American. 10. Which Olympics saw observing environmental and sustainability issues become a criterion for the building of the venues? A) 1994 Winter Olympics, Lillehammer, Norway. B) 1998 Winter Olympics, Nagano, Japan. C) 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta, USA. D) 1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona, Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1994 Winter Olympics, Lillehammer, Norway. 11. John Donne is famous for which of these quotations? A) No man is an island. B) Don't mention the war. C) Breaking up is hard to do. D) Tiger, tiger, burning bright. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No man is an island. 12. In darts, what is the name of the line behind which the throwing player must stand? A) Oche. B) Char. C) Chukka. D) Jack. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oche. 13. Who, when discussing the power of a lever, is reputed to have said "give me but one firm place on which to stand and I will move the earth" ? A) Leonardo da Vinci. B) Pythagoras. C) Archimedes. D) Isaac Newton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Archimedes. 14. Which of these was painted first? A) "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper. B) "The Dream" by Henri Rousseau. C) "The Hay Wain" by John Constable. D) "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" by Damien Hirst. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The Hay Wain" by John Constable. 15. What is the term used to describe the collection of flowers in species that have more than one flower on an axis (sometimes called "composite flowers" ? A) Effervescence. B) Inflorescence. C) Flourescence. D) Floracity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inflorescence. 16. To what scientist was the line "Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department" attributed? A) Ernest Rutherford. B) Albert Einstein. C) Stephen Hawking. D) Isaac Newton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ernest Rutherford. 17. What was the mission of the two Voyager spacecraft sent into space in 1977? A) To examine the effects of prolonged space flight on astronauts. B) To examine the planet Mars. C) To establish the first in a series of OSCAR communication satellites. D) To study the remote solar system, the 4 giants of the outer system and eventually interstellar space. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To study the remote solar system, the 4 giants of the outer system and eventually interstellar space. 18. The Eurasian and North American tectonic plates lie beside one another under which island? A) Ireland. B) Greenland. C) Iceland. D) Newfoundland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iceland. 19. Which of these is most likely to come "face to face" with a polar bear in its native territory? A) Python. B) Penguin. C) Panda Bear. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People. 20. Which of these is a wine descriptor often associated with Pinot Noir dominated-Champagne to indicate the sense of yeasty or bread dough aroma and flavours? A) Needy. B) Sticky. C) Corny. D) Biscuity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biscuity. ← 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