This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In 1935 Count Basie, composer, jazz pianist and band leader, with his newly formed band developed his signature tune, which was what? A) Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. B) Animal Crackers in My Soup. C) Bess, You is My Woman Now. D) One O'Clock Jump. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One O'Clock Jump. 2. What do sinologists study? A) The causes of adultery. B) China. C) The evolution of the Greek alphabet. D) Bone diseases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) China. 3. What describes the names for a type of talking bird, someone who digs underground for e.g. coal, and someone under legal age? A) Synonyms. B) Homophones. C) Opposites. D) Onomatopoeic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homophones. 4. What do the initials "c.c." stand for when used in the address of a letter or e-mail? A) Carry carefully. B) Courtesy copy. C) Carbon copy. D) Cold collation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon copy. 5. Carcinoma is a type of what? A) Dance. B) Motor vehicle. C) Turtle shell. D) Cancer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cancer. 6. The north of which country falls within the Sahel? A) Burkina Faso. B) South Africa. C) Libya. D) Zimbabwe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Burkina Faso. 7. What was the objective of "Operation Chastise" carried out by the British in 1943 during World War II? A) To firebomb Dresden. B) To bomb German dams, vital to industry. C) To prepare for the Allied landings in Normandy. D) To obliterate Dortmund city centre. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To bomb German dams, vital to industry. 8. A nectarine is a shiny-skinned variety of what? A) Orange. B) Apple. C) Peach. D) Plum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peach. 9. The yellow-brown South American fruit maracuya is more widely known in Europe and Australasia as what? A) Guava. B) Rumberry. C) Passionfruit. D) Pineapple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Passionfruit. 10. For what is the annual Dobloug Prize awarded, two former prize winners being Inger Hagerup and Stig Larsson? A) Swedish and Norwegian fiction literature. B) Norwegian detective fiction. C) New Zealand timbersports. D) Danish football (soccer). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Swedish and Norwegian fiction literature. 11. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, the official mistress of Louis XV of France from 1745 to 1750, lent her titled name to what hairstyle? A) Beehive. B) Pompadour. C) Quiff. D) Bangs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pompadour. 12. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) established in 1985 has eight members, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and which other country? A) Afghanistan. B) Myanmar (Burma). C) Mauritius. D) South Korea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afghanistan. 13. Janet Reger is known as a designer of what? A) Handbags. B) Shoes. C) Hats. D) Underwear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Underwear. 14. Romulus, co-founder of Rome, was deified after his death and worshipped as which God? A) Boadicea. B) Apollo. C) Thor. D) Quirinus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quirinus. 15. In Norse mythology what does Ratatosk do? A) Makes the armour of the gods. B) Produces an endless supply of mead for warriors in Valhalla. C) Blows, as a wind, from the north. D) Fans bitter enmity between the eagle at the top of Yggdrasil and the dragon at one of the roots. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fans bitter enmity between the eagle at the top of Yggdrasil and the dragon at one of the roots. 16. Where is the headquarters of the International Red Cross? A) London. B) Paris. C) The Hague. D) Geneva. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geneva. 17. In biology, what word is given to the change in the genetic material of a population of organisms from one generation to the next? A) Absolution. B) Devolution. C) Revolution. D) Evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evolution. 18. Under what name is Sarah Marianne Corina Lewe better known? A) Lewis Baloue. B) Marianne Faithfull. C) Sarah Connor. D) Corinne Bailey Rae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarah Connor. 19. Which of these islands are the furthest south? A) The Prince Edward Islands. B) The Kerguelen Islands. C) The Falkland Islands. D) The Chatham Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Falkland Islands. 20. Which of these is a slender-billed wading bird related to the stork? A) Ibis. B) Ibex. C) Ibanez. D) Isis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ibis. ← 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