This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 198 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 198 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is NOT one of the five boroughs of New York City? A) The Bronx. B) Staten Island. C) Long Island. D) Manhattan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Long Island. 2. In which of these countries is sign language for the deaf recognised as an official language? A) New Zealand. B) England. C) Australia. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Zealand. 3. What is a sarcophagus? A) A person who derides others. B) Part of the throat. C) Legendary monster. D) Stone coffin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stone coffin. 4. In a May 1940 operation codenamed "Operation Fork" the British Royal Navy and Royal Marines invaded where? A) Malta. B) Iceland. C) Sicily. D) Greenland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iceland. 5. Where is the only Playboy Club that is still operating in 2012? A) New York, USA. B) Lansing, Michigan, USA. C) Manila, Philippines. D) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 6. Gordon Bennett, a leading figure on the world stage in the 19th century, made his substantial fortune in what field? A) Banking. B) Engineering. C) Journalism. D) Transport. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Journalism. 7. When did China terminate diplomatic relations with Germany in the First World War? A) 1918. B) 1915. C) They didn't. D) 1917. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1917. 8. What does a weathervane measure? A) Wind direction. B) Rainfall. C) Hours of sunlight. D) Air temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wind direction. 9. Where are the internationally recognised wetlands of the Mundok and Rason migratory bird Reserves? A) South Africa. B) Vietnam. C) Australia. D) North Korea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) North Korea. 10. Where is the town where in 1917 Gabriela Mistral, future literature Nobel Prize winner, headed a school and where Pablo Neruda, another future literature Nobel Prize winner, was growing up? A) Santiago, Chile. B) Parral, Chile. C) VicΓ‘lvaro, Spain. D) Tacna, Peru. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parral, Chile. 11. Which of these animals is herbivorous? A) Quoll. B) Potoroo. C) Bandicoot. D) Thorny Devil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Potoroo. 12. Which of these fought to unify Italy in the 19th century? A) Joachim Murat. B) Benito Mussolini. C) Giuseppe Garibaldi. D) Canaletto. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giuseppe Garibaldi. 13. Which planet comes closest to the earth in its orbit around the sun? A) Saturn. B) Mercury. C) Mars. D) Venus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Venus. 14. What is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric, the name thought to be Malay in origin, that is made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarn? A) Gingham. B) Twill. C) Seersucker. D) Denim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gingham. 15. Which of these countries is the furthest north? A) Belgium. B) France. C) Netherlands. D) Denmark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Denmark. 16. During the final scenes of the 1989 film "Dead Poets Society", a student stands on a desk and quotes a line from which poet's work? A) William Blake. B) Walt Whitman. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Emily Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walt Whitman. 17. Which planet has a year of 687 days, a day of 24 hours 37 minutes, a diameter twice that of the moon and a mass one tenth of the earth? A) Uranus. B) Venus. C) Saturn. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mars. 18. The famous "The Great Wave" painted by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai is part of his series of thirty-six paintings on what subject? A) Fishermen. B) Views of Mount Fuji. C) Japanese shorelines. D) Landscapes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Views of Mount Fuji. 19. What does the ancient name for Egypt mean in modern Greek? A) Two straits. B) Chemistry. C) Below the Aegean. D) Coptic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chemistry. 20. If someone is said to "have green fingers", we expect them to be successful as what? A) Magician. B) Embalmer. C) Painter. D) Gardener. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gardener. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books