This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 229 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 229 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the two-player card game Piquet how are points scored? A) Declaring more and better card combinations. B) Taking tricks, with the highest cards being Ace of trumps and the Joker. C) Playing the same card as the other player, and claiming the cards. D) Declaring better card combinations, and then playing the highest card in a round. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Declaring better card combinations, and then playing the highest card in a round. 2. "You had me at 'Hello'!" is a line from which film? A) Pretty Woman. B) Jerry McGuire. C) Brief Encounter. D) Casablanca. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jerry McGuire. 3. The Sirohi, Jamunapari (or Jamnapari), Beetal, and Barbari goats are native to which arid or semi-arid area? A) Southern Afghanistan. B) North-western India. C) Northern Iran. D) Eastern Mongolia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North-western India. 4. The first Sovereign to reign over England, Scotland, and Ireland simultaneously was James who ruled in Scotland as James VI from the age of 18 months, and in England and Ireland as James I from 1603. He was the first King of England of which Royal House? A) Hanover. B) Tudor. C) Saxe-Coburg Gotha. D) Stuart. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stuart. 5. If someone holds their breath, chokes, or in some other way suspends external breathing, the term is what? A) Anaerobia. B) Apnoea. C) Eupnoea. D) Alveolic failure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apnoea. 6. What was the main element in the UK television series "Last Tango in Halifax" ? A) The romance and marriage of two widowed septuagenarians. B) The acting ambitions of a Marlon Brando lookalike. C) The retirement celebration of two dance instructors. D) A drug trial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The romance and marriage of two widowed septuagenarians. 7. Which is the organisation founded in 1905 and known by the acronym FAI? A) Food Aid International. B) International Amateur Fencing. C) Farming and Agriculture in India. D) Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. 8. What width are the lines used to mark out a soccer, or football, pitch? A) 10 cm (3.94 in). B) Not more than 12 cm (4.72 in), and all the same width. C) 15 cm (5.9 in). D) Not more than 10.16 cm (4 in), and all the same width. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not more than 12 cm (4.72 in), and all the same width. 9. The Great Retreat on the eastern front of World War I in 1915, was by which country or allied forces? A) Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. B) The German Empire, and Austria-Hungary. C) The Ottoman Empire. D) The Russian Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Russian Empire. 10. The 38th episode of what series is infamous for using visual effects that, when transmitted in December 1997, caused seizures in 685 viewers so severe that they were taken to hospital? A) Red Dwarf. B) Power Rangers. C) Stargate SG-1. D) Pokémon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pokémon. 11. Where is the resort now known as Villa Baviera? A) Switzerland. B) Chile. C) Austria. D) Brazil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chile. 12. In the USA, the Tav HaYosher is a certification mark offered to establishments that do what? A) Take leadership roles in social justice campaigns. B) Provide medical care. C) Serve kosher food and treat their workers fairly. D) Make loans to support entrepreneurs worldwide and combat poverty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Serve kosher food and treat their workers fairly. 13. The five best-known dwarf planets in our solar system are Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and which other? A) Triton. B) Charon. C) Eris. D) Ganymede. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eris. 14. Kigali is the capital city of which country? A) Rwanda. B) Uganda. C) Côte d'Ivoire. D) Zambia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rwanda. 15. Which 19th century Englishman went to New Zealand to be a sheep farmer, visited Canada, and wrote "Erewhon", "A Psalm of Montreal" and "The Way of All Flesh" ? A) Robert Louis Stevenson. B) Josef Conrad. C) Dr. David Livingstone. D) Samuel Butler. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Samuel Butler. 16. Minamata disease, a neurological syndrome with symptoms including ataxia, numbness, general weakness, narrowing of vision and damage to hearing and speech, and even insanity, paralysis, coma and death within weeks, is caused by severe poisoning by what? A) Mercury. B) Lead. C) Uranium. D) Aluminium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mercury. 17. Which of these snakes is native to South America? A) Python. B) Anaconda. C) Sunbeam. D) Elapids. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaconda. 18. Which of these is the art of growing miniature trees, or woody plants shaped as trees? A) Sushi. B) Karate. C) Bonsai. D) Origami. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bonsai. 19. Which of these might be found in the preparation and eating of poultry? A) Parson's nose. B) Bishop's Beak. C) Pope's ears. D) Curate's egg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parson's nose. 20. Neophobia is the fear of what? A) Eggs. B) Spiders. C) Heights. D) New things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New things. ← 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