This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 245 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 245 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name of the style of roasting meat, whereby it is skewered on a spit and slowly rotated over a flame? A) Rotisserie. B) Flambé. C) Sauté. D) Terrine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rotisserie. 2. Dakar is the capital city of which West African country? A) The Gambia. B) Senegal. C) Sierra Leone. D) Guinea-Bissau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Senegal. 3. Which of these countries became independent from Britain on 9 December 1961? A) Tanganyika. B) Tasmania. C) Timbuktu. D) Taiwan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tanganyika. 4. In Greek legend, who was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter? A) Videophone. B) Persephone. C) Sousaphone. D) Mobilphone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Persephone. 5. What is an old abbreviation for Shropshire? A) Staffs. B) Kenyon. C) Salop. D) Shrove. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Salop. 6. What followed the Weimar Republic in 1933? A) Federal Republic of Germany. B) "The Reich that will last 1, 000 years". C) The Age of Freedom. D) Garbo Days. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The Reich that will last 1, 000 years". 7. What name is given to a substance which, when swallowed, injected or inhaled, will induce vomiting? A) Emetic. B) Enema. C) Endemic. D) Epidemic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emetic. 8. When and where was the television game known as "Big Brother" first broadcast? A) 1999, the Netherlands. B) 2000, UK. C) 2000, United States. D) 2001, Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1999, the Netherlands. 9. What is the English name for what the French call "crème anglaise" ? A) Mayonnaise. B) Apple sauce. C) Custard. D) Worcestershire sauce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Custard. 10. Who was shot dead on 9 October 1967 while trying to organise a revolution in Bolivia? A) Bernardo O'Higgins. B) José de San Martín. C) El Cid. D) Che Guevara. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Che Guevara. 11. What did Texas adopt in 1995 as its state insect? A) Tarantula Hawk Wasp. B) Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly. C) Queen Honeybee. D) Monarch butterfly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monarch butterfly. 12. Which country left the British Commonwealth in 1949? A) Rhodesia. B) Pakistan. C) Australia. D) Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ireland. 13. This 1993 film won Oscars, Bafta and Golden Globe Awards despite its sometimes harrowing portrayal of hardships and stress, including the butchering of its heroine's hand; which film was it? A) Schindler's List. B) The Piano. C) The Fugitive. D) Farewell My Concubine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Piano. 14. The Malacca Strait lies mainly between which of these? A) Malaysia and Indonesia. B) The islands of Sumatra and Java. C) India and Sri Lanka. D) Mozambique and Madagascar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malaysia and Indonesia. 15. Sitting Bull was chief of what group? A) Sioux. B) Mohawk. C) Cheyenne. D) Blackfoot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sioux. 16. Which of these battleships did not return to service after being attacked at Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941? A) Arizona. B) California. C) Nevada. D) West Virginia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arizona. 17. Joseph Conrad's semi-autobiographical 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" speaks of happenings during a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, comparing what with what? A) Trading practices on the west and east coasts of Africa. B) The "civilised" West, and African natives. C) The success of colonialism in Africa and in India. D) British and African navigation practices. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The "civilised" West, and African natives. 18. Rogaining, a sport of long distance cross-country navigation or orienteering, is recognised as originating where? A) USA. B) Sweden. C) Australia. D) Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Australia. 19. Which of these was a rocket physicist and astronautics engineer who was involved in the development of rocket technology in Germany during World War II? A) Bertolt Brecht. B) J. Robert Oppenheimer. C) Albert Speer. D) Wernher von Braun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wernher von Braun. 20. What country is the world's largest producer of Tobacco? A) China. B) Brazil. C) Cuba. D) United States of America. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) China. ← 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