This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 254 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 254 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The highest measured waterfall in North America, among the highest 7 in the world, is in California and is known as what? A) Ribbon Fall. B) Yosemite Falls. C) Nevada Fall. D) Bridalveil Fall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yosemite Falls. 2. Who was the magistrate in Athens who codified its laws around 600 BC? A) Draco. B) Dionysius. C) Simon de Montfort. D) Shah Jahan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Draco. 3. What is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2, 430 metres (7, 970 ft) above sea level, on a ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru? A) Acapulco. B) Machu Picchu. C) Lima. D) Angkor Wat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Machu Picchu. 4. With what revolutionary movement was the Chinese physician, writer, philosopher and calligrapher Sun Yat-sen associated at the time of his death in 1925? A) People's Republic of China. B) Chinese Communist Party. C) Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party. D) People's Revolutionary Party. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party. 5. Which of these was born first? A) G K Chesterton. B) Arthur Conan Doyle. C) Agatha Christie. D) Edgar Allan Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edgar Allan Poe. 6. The Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, is also partly in which of these states? A) Nevada. B) Colorado. C) None:It is all in Arizona. D) Utah. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) None:It is all in Arizona. 7. Who voices the two characters in "Beavis and Butthead" in the series 1993-97, 2011? A) Mike Judge. B) Joe Stillman. C) Hank Azaria. D) Karl Wiedergott. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mike Judge. 8. In what language was the chivalric romance "Primaleon of Greece" (published 1516) written? A) French. B) English. C) Italian. D) Castilian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Castilian. 9. Who was the Greek god of medicine who brought dead people back to life, angering Zeus who killed him with a thunderbolt? A) Hippocrates. B) Aesculapius. C) Codines. D) Haenoptysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aesculapius. 10. Wealthy Quaker Richard Tapper Cadbury, a linen and silk draper, had a son John who founded a business in what? A) Mustard. B) Chocolate. C) Biscuits. D) Tea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chocolate. 11. What is the only known example of the plant species Lapageria? A) Chilean bellflower, or copihue. B) Philesia. C) Araucaria. D) Belladonna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chilean bellflower, or copihue. 12. What can the discriminant equation be used for in relation to a quadratic or cubic equation? A) To determine the type of equation. B) To solve it. C) To factorise it. D) To determine how many solutions, if any, it has. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To determine how many solutions, if any, it has. 13. What is a young swan called? A) Duckling. B) Gosling. C) Cygnet. D) Chicken. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cygnet. 14. When are the events surrounding the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin supposed to have taken place? A) 18th century. B) 16th century. C) 13th century. D) 20th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 13th century. 15. Which author was born Jozef Korzeioloski in Ukrainian Poland in 1857, joined the French merchant marine, served on French and British ships, and became a naturalised British subject in 1886? A) Neville Shute. B) Georges Sand. C) Thomas More. D) Joseph Conrad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joseph Conrad. 16. Who played Mrs Robinson in the 1967 film "The Graduate" ? A) Anne Bancroft. B) Katharine Ross. C) Katharine Hepburn. D) Vivien Leigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anne Bancroft. 17. What is the generic name for all of the greater festivals of the Christian Church? A) Sacraments. B) Red letter days. C) Stations of the Cross. D) Annunciation days. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red letter days. 18. Chitose, Kisarazu, Ashiya and Komatsu are popular Japanese what? A) Fishing spots. B) Airshows, or air festivals. C) Poetry competitions. D) Styles of kite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Airshows, or air festivals. 19. A non-SI unit of radioactivity is named after ..... ? A) James Watt. B) James Prescott Joule. C) Henri Becquerel. D) Marie and Pierre Curie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marie and Pierre Curie. 20. Publicity for which 1998 film reads: "Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people." ? A) The Song. B) A Star is Born. C) The Wedding Singer. D) Begin Again. 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