This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 243 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 243 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Arctic Council, established in 1996, consists of 8 member states, which are Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, the United States of America and which other? A) Japan. B) Greenland. C) The Kingdom of Denmark. D) Faroe Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Kingdom of Denmark. 2. Two tectonic plates and small corners of two others lie under the African continent. These are the African Plate, part of the Eurasian and the Arabian Plates and which other? A) Antarctic Plate. B) Nazca Plate. C) Atlantic Plate. D) Somali Plate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Somali Plate. 3. A Canadian-American adventure and military scifi TV series which first screened in 1997 was one of the longest lasting. What was it called? A) The Big Bang Theory. B) Star Trek. C) Battlestar Galactica. D) Stargate SG-1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stargate SG-1. 4. Where is the city of Medellin? A) Ecuador. B) Venezuela. C) Brazil. D) Colombia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colombia. 5. The Rio Grande forms the border of Texas with what other area? A) Oklahoma. B) Mexico. C) Arkansas. D) Louisiana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mexico. 6. Which of these is NOT a type of weaving? A) Dobby. B) Pigpen. C) Inkle. D) Leno. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pigpen. 7. What sport does IFOCE, set up in 1997, govern? A) Curling. B) Competitive eating. C) Orienteering. D) Obstacle course racing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Competitive eating. 8. Which teams contested baseball's American League Championship series in 2009? A) Milwaukee Brewers and Oakland Athletics. B) Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians. C) Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox. D) New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels. 9. In 1954 Obninsk, USSR, was the place for what? A) Launch of Sputnik 1. B) A devastating earthquake, killing over 200, 000. C) Coming online of the world's first grid-connected nuclear power plant. D) A meteor strike. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coming online of the world's first grid-connected nuclear power plant. 10. "Hamlet" is largely set where? A) Elsinore. B) Glamis. C) Verona. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elsinore. 11. Which is most likely to be seen wild in Laos? A) Armadillo. B) Pangolin. C) Aardvark. D) Echidna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pangolin. 12. What was King George VI's first name? A) George. B) Frederick. C) Arthur. D) Albert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Albert. 13. Where is the Topkapi Palace? A) Istanbul, Turkey. B) Baghdad, Iraq. C) Granada, Spain. D) Alexandria, Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Istanbul, Turkey. 14. What is the capital of Algeria? A) Casablanca. B) Tunis. C) Cairo. D) Algiers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Algiers. 15. What was remarkable about Kathrine Switzer's competing as runner no.261 in the 1967 Boston Marathon? A) She was physically disabled. B) She won the Marathon. C) She was found to have run only part of the course. D) Women were not allowed to compete officially at the time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Women were not allowed to compete officially at the time. 16. What is the name of a spectacular group of six canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the southwestern part of Chihuahua, northwestern Mexico, a name derived from the colour of the walls? A) Copper Canyon. B) Painted Chasm. C) Black Canyon. D) Red Gorge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Copper Canyon. 17. What Royal residence in London, originally part of St James's Palace, was used as the London residence of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh from 1949 to 1952? A) Hampton Court. B) Kensington Palace. C) Balmoral. D) Clarence House. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clarence House. 18. Whose germ theory led to his devising a means to heat-treat milk to reduce disease? A) Priestley. B) Vickers. C) Padré. D) Pasteur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pasteur. 19. The Billabong Pro Teahupoo, Tahiti, founded in 1999, is a professional competition in what? A) Surfing. B) Surf Life Saving. C) Channel surfing. D) Building sandcastles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surfing. 20. Australopithecus sediba, an early hominid, whose only discovered remains date to 1.78 to 1.95 million years ago, is known from two partial skeletons discovered where? A) France. B) Australia. C) South Africa. D) Arizona, USA. 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