This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 196 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 196 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is Ferdinand in the 1936 children's book "The Story of Ferdinand" ? A) A South American gaucho. B) A French mouse. C) An English sparrow. D) A Spanish bull. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Spanish bull. 2. How many letters are there in the Turkish alphabet? A) 50. B) 26. C) 36. D) 29. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 29. 3. The Patriotic League was launched in Estonia at a time when the activities of all political parties were suspended. What year was that? A) 1935. B) 1914. C) 1943. D) 1896. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1935. 4. The National Gallery of British Art, built on the site of Millbank Prison and opened in 1897, became commonly known as the Tate Gallery. What was it officially renamed in 2000, and now displays only historical and contemporary British art? A) Tate Britain. B) Guildhall Art Gallery. C) National Portrait Gallery. D) Barbican Art Gallery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tate Britain. 5. What word is used to denote a summary or miniature form of something, and is also used as a synonym for "embodiment" ? A) Epicure. B) Epiphany. C) Epitome. D) Epicentre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epitome. 6. What gives the flamingo the colour of its plumage? A) Humidity. B) Age. C) Temperature. D) Diet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diet. 7. What was the first name of the singer known as Caruso? A) Enrico. B) Enzo. C) Luciano. D) Plácido. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enrico. 8. As at October 2010, ice covers about what percentage of the world's land surface? A) 30. B) 10. C) 1. D) 50. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10. 9. Where would a fluffer be most likely to be found? A) In the make-up department of a fashion show. B) In an industrial carpet-making process. C) In a dog show. D) In an underground railway line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In an underground railway line. 10. Who was the co-winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars, and nephew of the 1930 Nobel Prize winner in Physics? A) William Alfred Fowler. B) Kenneth G. Richardson. C) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar. D) Ernst Ruska. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar. 11. Churning cream turns it into what? A) Tomato sauce. B) Beer. C) Vinegar. D) Butter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Butter. 12. What is the name given to something used to compress an artery to control bleeding? A) Gavotte. B) Soubriquet. C) Garrotte. D) Tourniquet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tourniquet. 13. Which of these is high altitude? A) Dead Sea. B) Lake Titicaca. C) Lake Geneva. D) Lake Maracaibo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lake Titicaca. 14. Apart from being surrounded by water, usually, what defines an "island" ? A) Land or rock however formed which is above water at the lowest tide. B) Naturally formed, above water at high tide, and can sustain human habitation. C) Naturally formed and above water at high tide. D) Land or rock however formed which is capable of human habitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naturally formed, above water at high tide, and can sustain human habitation. 15. What is a leit motiv? A) Musical phrase representing a recurring character, situation or idea. B) A reason for an action. C) A legally registered company logo. D) A theme that runs through a collection of, for example, short stories or poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Musical phrase representing a recurring character, situation or idea. 16. Which of these is a puzzle with seven flat shapes which are put together to form a shape given in outline or silhouette using all the pieces, which may not overlap? A) Lipogram. B) Tangram. C) Pangram. D) Anagram. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tangram. 17. In 2004 the result of a UK/French architectural and engineering collaboration was opened, ranked as one of the greatest engineering achievements; what is it? A) The Shard. B) London Eye. C) Millau Viaduct. D) Petronas Towers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Millau Viaduct. 18. What period of history does Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" concern? A) From the formation of the Milky Way. B) None. C) The centuries of clock-making. D) From the formation of the Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) None. 19. Which Woody Guthrie album was included on Mojo magazine's list of 100 Records That Changed The World? A) Hard Travelin'. B) Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child. C) My Dusty Road. D) Dust Bowl Ballads. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dust Bowl Ballads. 20. Which of these is a portmanteau word? A) Smog. B) Boogie. C) Feet. D) Gladstone bag. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smog. ← 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