This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 182 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 182 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Raymond Blanc, Rick Stein and Graham Kerr are all associated with what activity? A) Show jumping. B) Cooking. C) Architecture. D) Motorcycle racing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cooking. 2. What country co-hosted the Euro 2008 soccer competition with Switzerland? A) Italy. B) Germany. C) Austria. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Austria. 3. Jean Todt, Morrie Chandler, Graham Stoker and Brian Gibbons have been involved in the administration of which sport at an international level? A) Soccer. B) Motorsport. C) Rugby. D) Cricket. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motorsport. 4. What is not usually a phrase for which the acronym PDF is used? A) Platform Divers Float. B) Portable document format. C) Planar deformation features. D) Professional Drivers' Foundation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Platform Divers Float. 5. Which is a key species in the ecosystem of the Pantanal? A) Fleas (Tunga Penetrans). B) Fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae). C) Apple snails (Pomacea lineata). D) Mosquitoes (Aedes Aegypti). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apple snails (Pomacea lineata). 6. Who did Uma Thurman marry in 1990? A) Gary Oldman. B) Quentin Tarantino. C) Ethan Hawke. D) Ringo Starr. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gary Oldman. 7. What standard distance was selected because it was expected to be "one ten millionth of the quadrant of the earth's meridian" A) Metre. B) Yard. C) Cubit. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metre. 8. From medieval times in Germany, what is the literal translation of "junkers", a term still in use today? A) Rubbish collectors. B) Young aristocrats. C) Pilots. D) Apprentices. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Young aristocrats. 9. From which country was Fulgencio Batista ousted in 1959? A) Guatemala. B) Dominican Republic. C) Haiti. D) Cuba. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cuba. 10. What is the world's smallest (25 square miles / 60 square km) and oldest republic, that is in the Apennine Mountains, entirely surrounded by Italy? A) San Marino. B) Liechtenstein. C) Andorra. D) Monaco. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) San Marino. 11. What is the title of a 2001 award winning documentary film directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews trying to reconcile their sexuality with their faith? A) Wilde About Moses. B) Kosher, Not Kosher. C) Sex in the Semites. D) Trembling Before G-d. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trembling Before G-d. 12. What name is given to the mental state in which one imagines oneself as a dog, frequently barking and growling? A) Affective distemper. B) Lucus effect. C) Cynanthropy. D) Stendhal syndrome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cynanthropy. 13. What is the subject of the study of "limnology" ? A) The history of illuminated manuscripts. B) Blood circulation in human arms and legs. C) Branch growth. D) Inland waters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inland waters. 14. In the southern states of the USA, which of these words is used to describe a type of swamp? A) Chitlin. B) Gumbo. C) Juke. D) Bayou. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bayou. 15. St James's Palace is in what street in London? A) The Mall. B) Victoria Street. C) Pall Mall. D) Cheapside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pall Mall. 16. Most elite high jumpers used the Straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off or Scissors-Jump until the development of which technique, when its inventor's gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics brought it to the world's attention? A) The Bartle bounce. B) The Stitchbury step. C) The Richardson roll. D) The Fosbury flop. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Fosbury flop. 17. When they played together in 1969, Ric Grech, Ginger Baker, Stevie Winwood & Eric Clapton were known as what band? A) The Bluesbreakers. B) Blind Faith. C) Cream. D) Derek and the Dominos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blind Faith. 18. What is a vespiary? A) Wasp's nest. B) Quiet section of a church. C) Outside toilet. D) Small suitcase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wasp's nest. 19. If a university or college student has an aegrotat what does this imply? A) They have failed all their courses. B) They could not complete a requirement of a course due to illness, injury, bereavement or similar. C) They have retired from one or all of their courses due to illness. D) They have a terminal illness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They could not complete a requirement of a course due to illness, injury, bereavement or similar. 20. What, in October 1871, was one of the biggest U.S. disasters of the 19th century, killing hundreds and destroying about four square miles of city buildings? A) Great Chicago Fire. B) San Francisco Earthquake. C) New Orleans floods. D) Hurricane Mortimer, Miami. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great Chicago Fire. ← 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