This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Mercury, sulphur and salts of mercury and arsenic are discussed in ancient Chinese texts in relation to what? A) Assassins' tools needing remedies. B) The Elixir of Life. C) Imperial cosmetics. D) Fertilisers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Elixir of Life. 2. Which capital city is on the northern bank of the La Plata estuary? A) Quito. B) Montevideo. C) Santiago. D) Santo Domingo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Montevideo. 3. When were the first Youth Olympic Games held? A) 2012. B) 2010. C) 2008. D) 2002. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2010. 4. According to Edward Lear, who went to sea in a sieve? A) Jumblies. B) Yahoos. C) Lilliputians. D) The Owl and the Pussycat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jumblies. 5. Which of these places is closest to Paris, France? A) Beijing, China. B) Cape Town, South Africa. C) New York, New York, USA. D) Mumbai, India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New York, New York, USA. 6. Which of these is the part of an insect's body to which the legs are attached? A) Head. B) Abdomen. C) Thorax. D) Pupa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thorax. 7. By what does the United States Golf Association (USGA) measure the length of golf clubs (excluding putters)? A) The length on a plane from touch to the end of the club's grip when the club head is at 60 degrees. B) From the tip of the head of the club to the base of the grip. C) The length of the shaft. D) The length of the shaft plus the length of the grip. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The length on a plane from touch to the end of the club's grip when the club head is at 60 degrees. 8. What is the closest relation that your father's sister's sister in law can be to you? A) Sister. B) Aunt. C) Mother. D) Wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mother. 9. Which area is particularly favoured for building observatories and powerful astronomical telescopes? A) Atacama Desert. B) Tierra del Fuego. C) Galapagos Islands. D) Maracaibo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atacama Desert. 10. Which of these is a type of pheasant? A) Penguin. B) Peacock. C) Parrot. D) Pigeon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peacock. 11. In the song "How Much is that Doggy in the Window", "they say in the papers there are ..... '' what? A) Robbers. B) Tigers. C) Dodgers. D) Badgers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robbers. 12. What does a phlebotomist usually deal with? A) Injections. B) Removing kidney stones. C) Flora. D) Taking blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taking blood. 13. What is the principal ore of aluminium? A) Lead. B) Bauxite. C) Chromium. D) Californium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bauxite. 14. When did the last Roman Emperor before Justinian in 554 CE rule in Rome? A) 550 CE. B) 476 CE. C) 493 CE. D) 445 CE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 476 CE. 15. Where is it a traditional 'sport' to stand on a beach and throw a rope with a weight at the end to catch birds when they return from foraging at sea? A) Bosnia. B) Nauru. C) Switzerland. D) Nyasaland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nauru. 16. Which TV family consisted of a hardware store owner, his wife and the couple's two children, a son (an optimistic if somewhat naive teenager), a daughter (who was sweet but feisty) and an older son who disappeared during the second season? A) The Addams. B) The Cunninghams. C) The Munsters. D) The Gellers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Cunninghams. 17. Ogen and cantaloupe are types of what? A) Orange. B) Melon. C) Banana. D) Pear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Melon. 18. Which of these most nearly describes a link between South Sudan and Eritrea? A) They are the first and last of the world's six newest sovereign states. B) They were colonised by Italy. C) They compete as a joint team as the Summer Olympics. D) They lie on opposite banks of the White Nile river. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are the first and last of the world's six newest sovereign states. 19. Who won the Tour de France every year from 1991 to 1995? A) Lance Armstrong. B) Miguel Indurain. C) Greg LeMond. D) Laurent Fignon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Miguel Indurain. 20. Which US-born naturalised Briton wrote "Murder In The Cathedral", "The Cocktail Party" and "The Wasteland" ? A) T S Eliot. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Evelyn Waugh. D) George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) T S Eliot. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeneral QuizzesGeneral Knowledge Quiz 1General Knowledge Quiz 3General Knowledge Quiz 4General Knowledge Quiz 5General Knowledge Quiz 6General Knowledge Quiz 7General Knowledge Quiz 8General Knowledge Quiz 9General Knowledge Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books