This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 20 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is a pre-cancerous condition? A) Dysarthria. B) Apylsia. C) Dysplasia. D) Aphasia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dysplasia. 2. What unfortunate link do Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes have? A) They were English suffragettes killed while campaigning. B) They were passengers on the Titanic. C) They are four of the people recorded as being victims of England's Jack the Ripper. D) They had Oscar Pistorius tattoos done just before he was charged and convicted for murder. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are four of the people recorded as being victims of England's Jack the Ripper. 3. Which of these is an American vulture of the Andes? A) Corvette. B) Condor. C) Caravelle. D) Carcinoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Condor. 4. Which of these was not one of the first three countries to receive an internationalised country code top-level domain (i.e. that employs a non Latin alphabet) in the Internet Domain Name System? A) Bulgaria. B) Egypt. C) Saudi Arabia. D) United Arab Emirates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bulgaria. 5. Which of the following was largely responsible for the British application of radar in World War II? A) Christopher Hinton. B) Frank Whittle. C) Robert Watson-Watt. D) Lawence Bragg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Watson-Watt. 6. When Russia became a communist state in 1918 with Lenin as virtual dictator, who was his foreign secretary? A) Leon Trotsky. B) Joseph Stalin. C) Karl Marx. D) Friedrich Engels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leon Trotsky. 7. Which BBC drama series, starring Peter Davison, Graham Crowden, David Troughton and Barbara Flynn, was rated in 2010 by "The Guardian" as 5th in their list of "The Top 50 TV Dramas of All Time" but ran for only 2 series, in 1986 and 1988? A) Bad Boyes. B) Just Good Friends. C) A Very Peculiar Practice. D) Ever Decreasing Circles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Very Peculiar Practice. 8. Which country declared war on Mexico on 13 May 1846? A) Peru. B) USA. C) Bolivia. D) Tunisia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) USA. 9. The islands of Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii and New Caledonia are in which ocean? A) Pacific. B) Atlantic. C) Indian. D) Antarctic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pacific. 10. According to The Bible, who was the older brother of Moses, who set up a golden calf on Mt Sinai for people to worship? A) Aaron. B) Seth. C) Noah. D) Jacob. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aaron. 11. Which of these seas is not on the coast of Asia? A) Red Sea. B) Bering Sea. C) Kara Sea. D) Tasman Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tasman Sea. 12. Which of these developed an early version of a computer in the 19th century? A) Charles Babbage. B) Dr Christiaan Barnard. C) Alexander Fleming. D) Gottlieb Daimler. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Babbage. 13. The London embassy of which country was seized in 1980 by gunmen demanding the release of political prisoners? A) Portugal. B) Pakistan. C) Israel. D) Iran. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iran. 14. Magnus Carlsen, on the way to becoming World Champion, was frequently the world's youngest what? A) Winner of major chess titles. B) British Member of Parliament. C) Olympic High Jump record holder. D) Astronaut. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Winner of major chess titles. 15. The award-winning 1982 film "Gandhi" was filmed in the UK and what other country? A) Pakistan. B) India. C) Bangladesh. D) Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) India. 16. Who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" ? A) John Keats. B) Alexander Pope. C) Ben Jonson. D) John Masefield. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Keats. 17. What was the name of the wife of Herman Munster? A) Glad. B) Rose. C) Lily. D) Ivy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lily. 18. Which author, poet, playwright, actor, Shintoist and nationalist committed seppuku in 1970 after declaring "Long live the Emperor" ? A) Yukio Mishima. B) George Takei. C) Noriyuki "Pat" Morita. D) Shūji Terayama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yukio Mishima. 19. What relationship had the Sword of Damocles to Damocles? A) He was killed by it in battle. B) He used it in battle. C) It was discovered by him. D) It hung over his head. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It hung over his head. 20. Why was the annual steeplechase known as the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the most valuable non-handicap chase in Britain, not run in 2001? A) Some horses were found to have the highly infectious and potentially deadly Potomac Horse Fever. B) A terrorist scare. C) A major outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in British farms. D) Flooding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A major outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in British farms. ← 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