This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 216 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 216 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who took the role originated by Jodie Foster in later films about Hannibal Lecter? A) Drew Barrymore. B) Julianne Moore. C) Courtney Cox. D) Jennifer Aniston. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Julianne Moore. 2. Tanzania was renamed in 1964. What was it previously called? A) United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. B) Tanganyika and Zimbabwe. C) Congo Republic. D) Malawi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. 3. A rapid alternation of a note with the note immediately below or above it in the scale is known as what? A) Mordic. B) Mordant. C) Mordhau. D) Mordent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mordent. 4. What compound is also known as vitamin B9 or folacin? A) Ascorbic acid. B) Oxalic acid. C) Folic acid. D) Formic acid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Folic acid. 5. Which country held its bicentennial celebrations in 1976? A) Australia. B) India. C) USA. D) Malaysia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) USA. 6. The nutmeg tree is important for two spices derived from the fruit:nutmeg and which other? A) Rosemary. B) Thyme. C) Mace. D) Sage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mace. 7. What device is designed to measure a gravitational field and changes to it? A) Centrifuge. B) Accelerometer. C) Cyclotron. D) Gravimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gravimeter. 8. What language does the word "orienteering" come from? A) American English. B) Swedish. C) Indian. D) Danish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Swedish. 9. Which of these are not all single-celled organisms? A) Amoeboids. B) Bacteria. C) Archaea. D) Fungi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fungi. 10. Where is the Chiloé Archipelago? A) Just off the southern coast of Chile. B) In the Mediterranean. C) In the Indian Ocean. D) Part of the Philippines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Just off the southern coast of Chile. 11. Which of these games has 225 squares on a standard board? A) Snakes and Ladders. B) Noughts and Crosses / Tic-tac-toe. C) Chess. D) Scrabble. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scrabble. 12. On 3 November 1902 a telephone cable was opened between Vancouver, Canada, and where? A) Tokyo, Japan. B) Queensland, Australia. C) Mumbai, India. D) London, England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Queensland, Australia. 13. Loki and Baldur, or Baldr, are names from what? A) Russian folk tales. B) Greyhound breeding. C) Norse mythology. D) Shoe styles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Norse mythology. 14. One of the longest running science experiments in the world stands in the 3rd floor lift foyer of the Department of Physics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. What is it? A) Dripping bitumen. B) A continuously ringing electric bell, set up in 1840. C) A clock, built in 1864, which has never been manually wound. D) To determine after how many years whether seeds will sprout after remaining dormant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A clock, built in 1864, which has never been manually wound. 15. Sony introduced a product to the world market in 1979, and in October 2010 announced that they would cease selling it in Japan. What product was it? A) Cyber-shot. B) Playstation. C) Betacam. D) Walkman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Walkman. 16. Which musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson won five Tony awards in its first year of its long Broadway run in 1957, including Best Musical, and the first Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album? A) Pal Joey. B) The Music Man. C) An Affair to Remember. D) Funny Face. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Music Man. 17. What does the word "enormity" imply? A) Tallness. B) A great size. C) Something serious and/or morally bad or criminal. D) Larger than usual girth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Something serious and/or morally bad or criminal. 18. What links Cartagena, Maracaibo and Barranquilla? A) They are major cities in northern Colombia. B) They are ports. C) They were famous as favourite havens for 17th century pirates. D) They are major lakes in Venezuela. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are ports. 19. Which country is the only one to have won a gold medal in every Winter Olympics from 1924, the first, until 2018? A) Russia (including the Soviet Union). B) Norway. C) Germany (including West and East Germany). D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) USA. 20. Where would you go to see exposed one of the most complete sequences of rock anywhere, representing a period of nearly 2 billion years of the Earth's history? A) Mt Eiger, Switzerland. B) Huka Falls, New Zealand. C) Kakadu National Park, Australia. D) The Grand Canyon, USA. 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