This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 242 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 242 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who starred in the film "Coquette" (released in 1929)? A) Mary Pickford. B) Lillian Gish. C) Jean Harlow. D) Greta Garbo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mary Pickford. 2. What is a femicide? A) Destroyer of Danish-style furniture. B) A weedkiller. C) Something which stops fermentation. D) Someone who kills a woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Someone who kills a woman. 3. What is shodō or shūji? A) Japanese calligraphy. B) A type of noodle. C) Tree art. D) A theatre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Japanese calligraphy. 4. Where is myelin found? A) In bone marrow. B) As a cancer in plasma cells. C) Surrounding the axions of nerve cells. D) In malformed blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surrounding the axions of nerve cells. 5. "Silverside" is a cut of what? A) Beef. B) Wood. C) Crystal. D) Hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beef. 6. What nationality was the first golfer to win the United States Open Championship, known as the U.S. Open? A) American. B) English. C) Scottish. D) Jersey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English. 7. The last edition of which British music chart television programme was broadcast on 30 July 2006 after running for 41 1/2 years? A) Six-Five Special. B) UK Top 40. C) Oh Boy!. D) Top of the Pops. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Top of the Pops. 8. What is the next in the series:Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Gambia, Botswana, Lesotho, Mauritius A) Swaziland. B) Zimbabwe. C) Tanzania. D) Ghana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Swaziland. 9. From 2008 Ferrari provided cars (a modification of the F1 Ferrari F2004 chassis) with a V8 engine for which 'single make' motor racing series? A) NASCAR. B) Australian Touring Car Championship. C) Indycar Racing. D) A1 Grand Prix. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A1 Grand Prix. 10. Which film is the story of Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) who starts with well meaning ambition to enter politics, is corrupted by power on his way to becoming a US state governor, and is assassinated? A) The Struggle. B) The Grapes Of Wrath. C) Mr Deeds Goes To Washington. D) All The King's Men. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All The King's Men. 11. On the Jewish calendar, what is Rosh Hashanah? A) Festival of Lights. B) Day of Atonement. C) Passover. D) New Year. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Year. 12. Block, Fan, Horsetail, Plunge, Punchbowl and Segmented are types of what? A) Lake. B) Waterfall. C) Estuary. D) Volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Waterfall. 13. The Hudson River forms the boundary between the states of New York and what other? A) Rhode Island. B) Massachusetts. C) Pennsylvania. D) New Jersey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Jersey. 14. In what were the Umayyad and Abbāsid dynasties early leaders? A) Reaching agreement with invading European Crusaders in the 11th and 12th centuries. B) Opposing the Ottoman Empire. C) Weapon design. D) Muslim faith. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Muslim faith. 15. Which group of 6 women in ancient Rome each had a term of office of 30 years (10 to be trained, 10 to work, including keeping a flame alive, and 10 to educate others)? A) Oracles of Delphi. B) Vestal Virgins. C) Mothers of the Flame. D) Little Sisters of Mercy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vestal Virgins. 16. Which river flows through the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA? A) Hudson. B) Rio Grande. C) Amazon. D) Colorado. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colorado. 17. Whose song inspired the classic Australian line dance known as the Nutbush? A) Tim Finn. B) Tina Turner. C) Beyoncé. D) Michael Jackson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tina Turner. 18. When did cheerleading become eligible to be included in Olympic Games? A) 1975. B) 2005. C) 2021. D) 1925. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2021. 19. Who is quoted as writing "Hell is other people" ? A) Greta Garbo. B) Jean-Paul Sartre. C) George Bernard Shaw. D) Oscar Wilde. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jean-Paul Sartre. 20. Who wrote the book "Studies in Hysteria" and "Interpretation of Dreams" ? A) Clement Freud. B) Ernst Ludwig Freud. C) Sigmund Freud. D) Lucian Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sigmund Freud. ← 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