This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 237 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 237 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Khalkha dialect predominates in the language of what area? A) Georgia. B) Mongolia. C) Finland. D) Tibet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mongolia. 2. The US state of Iowa has a southern border with what other US state? A) Missouri. B) Kansas. C) Oklahoma. D) Washington. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Missouri. 3. Which of these, a principality until 1536 but no longer known as such, still has an official Prince? A) Wales. B) Asturias. C) Moldavia. D) Monaco. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wales. 4. What is the Pusa sibirica, found exclusively in Lake Baikal? A) A seal. B) A sturgeon. C) A freshwater seaweed. D) A snail. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A seal. 5. What kind of material is MDA, developed by researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge? A) A structure for vaccines. B) Non-carbon plastic. C) A "rare metal". D) A form of ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A form of ice. 6. What is the title of American Grant DeVolson Wood's best known work, a 1930 painting showing a farmer holding a pitchfork standing beside his spinster daughter, dressed in a colonial print apron? A) For Whom the Bell Tolls. B) The Dentist's Wife. C) The Grapes of Wrath. D) American Gothic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) American Gothic. 7. Who created the "PietΓ " in St Peter's Basilica, the "Doni Tondo" in the Uffizi Gallery, and the sequence of poems written to Tommaso dei Cavalieri? A) Vittoria Colonna. B) Leonardo da Vinci. C) Michelangelo Buonaroti. D) Donatello. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Michelangelo Buonaroti. 8. Shakespeare's "King Lear" is set in which country? A) Greece. B) Denmark. C) Italy. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) England. 9. Rape and looting, and massacre of civilians and surrendered soldiers was carried out in Nanking (or Nanjing), China, over six weeks from the end of what year in the 20th century? A) 1915. B) 1937. C) 1942. D) 1922. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1937. 10. Which world welterweight boxing champion was reported in April 2010 to be standing for the Philippine Congress, for the political party called "the People's Champ Movement" ? A) Wladimir Klitschko. B) Floyd Mayweather jnr. C) Sugar Shane Mosley. D) Manny Pacquiao. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manny Pacquiao. 11. How is a pΕ«tΔtara used? A) Blown. B) Steamed, accompanied by ginger and chillies. C) Draped from one shoulder. D) As a parachute. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blown. 12. There are 259 steps from where to where? A) Ground level to the top of the Empire State Building, New York, USA. B) The floor of St Paul's Cathedral, London, UK, to the Whispering Gallery inside the dome. C) The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, New York, USA, to the crown. D) To the top of the Leaning Tower, Pisa, Italy from ground level. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The floor of St Paul's Cathedral, London, UK, to the Whispering Gallery inside the dome. 13. Which country's dissolution in 1993 was known as the Velvet Divorce? A) Yugoslavia. B) United Arab Republic. C) Soviet Union. D) Czechoslovakia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Czechoslovakia. 14. Boris Godunov ruled, first as de facto regent and then as ruler, in which country? A) Japan. B) Russia. C) England. D) Denmark. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Russia. 15. Which countries shared the two top spots for gold medals and total medals in the 2020 Summer Olympics? A) USA and China. B) Great Britain and Japan. C) Australia and Russia. D) USA and Great Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) USA and China. 16. What do a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist and developer of antibiotics and a popular English writer have most in common? A) They both detested porridge. B) A liking for bulldogs. C) The name Fleming. D) Composure in the face of stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The name Fleming. 17. Longacre Square, a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets, has been known as what since April 1904? A) Times Square. B) Trafalgar Square. C) Central Square. D) People's Square. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Times Square. 18. Which of these led to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots for treason? A) The Act of Unity. B) The temptation of the Earl of Essex. C) An attempted Spanish invasion. D) Babbington Conspiracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Babbington Conspiracy. 19. Virginia Woolf was portrayed in which of these films? A) Living In Oblivion. B) Topsy Turvy. C) The Hours. D) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Hours. 20. What 2008 film is an adaptation by Andrew Davies of a book by Sarah Waters, that is set in a Victorian-era women's prison? A) Affinity. B) Friendship. C) Equality. D) Sisterhood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affinity. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books