This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 24 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is hyssop? A) A type of mint, used for flavouring food and drinks. B) A mediaeval beer. C) Liqueur made from raspberries. D) A peppery condiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A type of mint, used for flavouring food and drinks. 2. What electricity voltage is provided as mains power in Japan? A) 230 Volts. B) 100 Volts. C) 110 Volts. D) 120 Volts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 100 Volts. 3. What was a fleam used for? A) To deliver pills direct to the back of the throat. B) To shape a spear or arrow head. C) To mix blood sausage. D) To cut a vein for bloodletting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To cut a vein for bloodletting. 4. Beat Mändli, Daniel Deusser, Markus Beerbaum and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum are world ranking competitors in which sport? A) Show Jumping. B) Alpine Skiing. C) Swimming. D) Orienteering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Show Jumping. 5. What dramas popular in Europe especially during the Renaissance have characters personifying abstractions such as charity or vice, or such as death or youth? A) Mysteries. B) Morality plays. C) Miracle plays. D) Commedia dell'arte. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Morality plays. 6. In 1840 Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom married her cousin. What was his name? A) Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein. B) Prince Albert of Belgium. C) Prince Harald of Glücksburg. D) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. 7. In 2009, what name was proposed for the bridge connecting roads for a new route across the Colorado River for U.S. Route 93, known as the Hoover Dam Bypass? A) Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. B) The Hoover Bridge. C) The Hoover Bypass. D) The Golden Canyon Bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. 8. Originally a UK TV series using string puppets it first aired in 1952 with an idiosyncratic version of English called Oddle Poddle; what was the series? A) Wacaday. B) Flower Pot Men. C) Roland Rat. D) Supercar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flower Pot Men. 9. What form of water is part of the name for a digit found high up on the leg of many mammals, birds, and reptiles? A) Dew. B) Ice. C) Steam. D) Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dew. 10. The Serengeti in Africa is predominantly what kind of countryside? A) Limestone crags. B) Rolling hills. C) Marshland. D) Plains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plains. 11. During the Cold War, what Eastern European alliance was the equivalent of NATO? A) Pravda. B) Arab League. C) SMERSH. D) Warsaw Pact. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Warsaw Pact. 12. What is an epic poem from Ancient Iraq, originally titled "He who Saw the Deep" or "Surpassing All Other Kings", of which the most complete version exists on 12 clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BCE Assyrian king Ashurbanipal? A) The Canterbury Tales. B) The Iliad. C) The Epic of Gilgamesh. D) The Dead Sea Scrolls. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Epic of Gilgamesh. 13. In a 1934 song, Noël Coward warned Mrs Worthington: "Don't put your daughter on the ..... " what? A) Train. B) Rostrum. C) Bus. D) Stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage. 14. What period was labelled "the Phony War" in Europe? A) September 1939 to Spring 1940. B) October to December 1853. C) Period of the Gibson Girl (late 19th and early 20th century). D) August 7th to the 12th, 2008. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) September 1939 to Spring 1940. 15. What was the family name of the rulers of Russia from 1613 to 1917? A) Hapsburg. B) Stroganoff. C) Romanoff. D) Medici. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanoff. 16. Which country withdrew from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 2008 after it became a net importer of oil? A) Nigeria. B) Indonesia. C) Ecuador. D) Venezuela. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indonesia. 17. Which of these "Mary"s was never a Queen? A) Daughter of George V and Queen Mary. B) Daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Teck. C) Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. D) Daughter of James II and Anne Hyde. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Daughter of George V and Queen Mary. 18. Which of these is a nutritional disease, the symptoms of which are dryness of skin, anaemia, swelling of the gums, and haemorrhages into skin, muscles and joints? A) Scurvy. B) Tetanus. C) Mumps. D) Malnutrition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scurvy. 19. Where are the Crown Jewels for the reigning monarch of Great Britain stored? A) Westminster Abbey. B) Tower of London. C) The tower of Big Ben. D) Buckingham Palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tower of London. 20. The American TV series "Grown-ish", first series broadcast 2018, is a spin-off from which other series? A) White-ish. B) Mixed-ish. C) Delish. D) Black-ish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black-ish. ← 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