This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 205 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 205 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. During World War II, Japan occupied which part of the USA? A) Aleutian Islands, Alaska. B) Buffalo, New York. C) Dallas, Texas. D) Las Vegas, Nevada. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 2. The image from which critically acclaimed Australian horror film, written and directed by Jennifer Kent and released in 2014, was displayed as a symbol during Australia's Pride Month in 2017 despite containing nothing overtly to do with LGBT matters? A) Wyrmwood. B) Charlie's Farm. C) The Babadook. D) Lemon Tree Passage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Babadook. 3. What was the first film starring "Chucky" ? A) Silence of the Lambs. B) The Borrowers. C) Bride of Chucky. D) Child's Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Child's Play. 4. In 2011 Mario Draghi assumed the presidency of which institution? A) World Wildlife Fund. B) FIFA. C) European Central Bank. D) World Chess Federation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) European Central Bank. 5. What does an anemometer measure? A) The strength of an opposing army. B) Sea creatures tentacles. C) Petal sizes of certain perennial flowers. D) Wind velocity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wind velocity. 6. What was the immediate cause in 1975 of at least 17 years of civil war in Mozambique, displacement of at least four million people, the death of perhaps a million more as a result of violence, famine, and disease, and flight of foreign investment? A) Invasion by South Africa and Zimbabwe. B) Independence. C) An epidemic of the Black Plague. D) Collapse of three major industries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Independence. 7. Who was killed by their own Sikh bodyguards in 1984? A) Indira Gandhi. B) Sanjeev Nanda. C) Rajiv Gandhi. D) Harmandir Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indira Gandhi. 8. How many dice are used in the game of Yahtzee? A) 10. B) 5. C) 3. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 9. Where was the supposedly golden land of El Dorado? A) Europe. B) Asia. C) South America. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South America. 10. What author's non-fiction work includes "The Fate of Man", "The Future in America:A Search After Realities", "Little Wars", "The New World Order", "The Outline of History", "Russia in the Shadows" and "A Short History of the World" ? A) Agatha Christie. B) Isaac Asimov. C) J K Rowling. D) H G Wells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) H G Wells. 11. Which country returned to a democratic form of government after the death of dictator Juan Vicente Gomez in 1935? A) Switzerland. B) Venezuela. C) Ecuador. D) Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venezuela. 12. What was astronaut Buzz Aldrin's first name? A) Ernest. B) Errol. C) Edwin. D) Edmund. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edwin. 13. Towards the end of 1781 the crew of the British trading ship Zong did what to conserve scarce supplies of water? A) Hoisted so much sail to increase speed that the ship capsized. B) Offloaded half the crew at the next port. C) Diluted the water with rum. D) Threw 133 Africans, held as slave cargo, overboard to drown. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Threw 133 Africans, held as slave cargo, overboard to drown. 14. Most of the works by which author, who was born in Prague and died of tuberculosis in 1924, were published after his death? A) Franz Kafka. B) Edgar Allen Poe. C) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. D) Osip Mandelstam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Franz Kafka. 15. Which of these is not a type of oak tree? A) Ring-cupped. B) English. C) Turkey. D) Austrian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Austrian. 16. What phrase means "absolutely everything" or "all of the objects" ? A) Blood, sweat and tears. B) Bell, book and candle. C) Hook, line and sinker. D) Lock, stock and barrel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lock, stock and barrel. 17. The stage name or pseudonym of which early 20th century performer means "eye of the day" in Indonesian dialect? A) Augustina Iglesias Otero. B) Lily Langtry. C) Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (neé Zelle). D) Virginia Hall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (neé Zelle). 18. Whose 32nd album was called "In Search of the Fourth Chord" ? A) Black Sabbath. B) Led Zeppelin. C) Motorhead. D) Status Quo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Status Quo. 19. What is produced from coarse aggregate, sand, cement and water? A) Mortar. B) Gingernut biscuits. C) Concrete. D) Stucco. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete. 20. Which of these is a women's golf cup, the equivalent of the Ryder Cup? A) Grantham Plate. B) Bloomer Trophy. C) Solheim Cup. D) Ranfurly Shield. 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