This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 178 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 178 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where would a syllogism be used? A) In debate or in reasoning. B) In preparing a dessert. C) Proof of a scientific theorem. D) In a sado-masochistic game. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In debate or in reasoning. 2. In which general direction would you sail from New York to London? A) West. B) East. C) North. D) South. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) East. 3. Yemen, in addition to being devastated by civil war from 2014, bombings by external allies of the factions, and lack of food, water and medicines, suffered the worst known outbreak of what disease in 2016/7? A) Malaria. B) Tuberculosis. C) Cholera. D) Poliomyelitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cholera. 4. Which American situation comedy TV series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993 had a core cast made up at various times of Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth and George Wendt? A) Frasier. B) Cheers. C) Happy Days. D) Seinfeld. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cheers. 5. The line "Frailty, thy name is woman" is from what play? A) The Merchant of Venice. B) Macbeth. C) King Lear. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet. 6. Which of these terms describes a collective name for Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa? A) Cassini group. B) Huygens' moons. C) Galilean satellites. D) Constellation of Hubble. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Galilean satellites. 7. What can be a symptom of the inner ear disturbance known as Ménière disease? A) Dryness in the ear canal. B) Paresthesia. C) Nystagmus. D) Excess wax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nystagmus. 8. Apart from a brilliant scarlet pigment what is the main constituent of cinnabar? A) Lead tetroxide. B) Mercury sulphide. C) Haematite. D) Gallium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mercury sulphide. 9. Countries with territory in the Sahel include Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad and ..... ? A) Zimbabwe. B) Morocco. C) Mauritania. D) Mozambique. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mauritania. 10. Where would you find a "plimsoll line" ? A) On a shoe. B) On a ship. C) In the sky. D) In a public park. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On a ship. 11. When British navigator James Cook arrived at what are now called Cook Islands what did he name them? A) San Bernardo. B) Cook Islands. C) Hervey Islands. D) Gente Hermosa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hervey Islands. 12. Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine are associated with what? A) Architecture. B) Fashion. C) Interior decoration. D) Music composition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fashion. 13. What is the tallest known volcano and mountain in the Solar System? A) Silpium Mons, on Jupiter's moon Io. B) Ciuacoatl Mons, on Venus. C) Maxwell Montes, on Venus. D) Olympus Mons, on Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Olympus Mons, on Mars. 14. How many Olympic Games have been cancelled due to World Wars? A) 1. B) 2. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 15. Which of these characters appears last in the film musical "The Sound of Music" ? A) Rolf. B) Baroness Elsa Schraeder. C) Liesl. D) Captain von Trapp. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baroness Elsa Schraeder. 16. Sir George Benjamin's first opera "Into the Little Hill", which was commissioned by the Festival d'Automne à Paris and premièred in Paris in 2006, is based on which well-known story or stories? A) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. B) The Pied Piper of Hameln. C) The Mabinogion. D) The Kalevala. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Pied Piper of Hameln. 17. What is the name of the cathedral in Krakow where Poland's kings and heroes are buried? A) Wawel. B) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. C) Wrocław Cathedral. D) St. Mary's Basilica. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wawel. 18. Rose Sayer was played by Katharine Hepburn in which film? A) Titanic. B) The African Queen. C) The Jewel In The Crown. D) Northanger Abbey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The African Queen. 19. In the 2012 Olympics, the gold medallist in the women's shotput was later deprived of her medal, making world champion Valerie Adams, New Zealand, the gold medallist instead. Why? A) Her claim to represent the country under whose flag she competed was not legal. B) She was not yet officially a woman. C) Positive drug test both before and after the finals. D) A video replay was eventually found to show that her winning shot involved illegal foot placement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive drug test both before and after the finals. 20. Barbara is the name of the First Lady of which US president? A) George H Bush. B) Barack Obama. C) Ronald Reagan. D) John Hancock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George H Bush. ← 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