This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 274 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 274 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which studio produced the computer-animated 2001 film "Shrek" ? A) 20th Century Fox. B) Pixar. C) Dreamworks. D) Plastic Wax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dreamworks. 2. Over 99.9% of an atom's mass is concentrated in what part of the atom? A) Nucleus. B) Periphery. C) Cranium. D) Orbitals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nucleus. 3. What is the technical term for heart burn? A) Pyrosis. B) Epistaxis. C) Alopecia. D) Aneurism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pyrosis. 4. Twin English playwrights, the play of one of whom famously starred in 2007 a graduate of the Harry Potter film series, share what family name? A) Stoppard. B) Collinson. C) Shaffer. D) Fournier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shaffer. 5. What did Napoleon Bonaparte I establish in 1804, a measure which has had worldwide effect? A) Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr. B) Treaty of Amiens. C) Banque de France. D) Napoleonic Code. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Napoleonic Code. 6. The Dominican Republic and Haiti are the two countries that occupy which island? A) Cuba. B) Bermuda. C) Hispaniola. D) Crete. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hispaniola. 7. Where is the volcanic Tibesti mountain range? A) Argentina. B) Tibet. C) Sahara. D) The Philippines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sahara. 8. Why did Soviet Union athletes not receive any medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics? A) Limited opportunities for international competition in the preceding two years. B) Training programmes had been depleted by Russian military action in Afghanistan. C) Their nations boycotted the Games. D) Drug contraventions by the winners. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Their nations boycotted the Games. 9. James Dyson revolutionised what product in the 1980s and 1990s? A) Vacuum cleaner. B) Refrigerator. C) Electric toaster. D) Hair dryer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vacuum cleaner. 10. Which body of water borders the state of Washington, USA? A) Gulf of Mexico. B) Atlantic Ocean. C) Lake Michigan. D) Pacific Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pacific Ocean. 11. In what field was Samuel Bellamy (1689-1717) known? A) Politician. B) Pirate. C) Manufacturer. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pirate. 12. The yellow, brown and red pigments known as ochres are oxides of which metal? A) Chlorine. B) Magnesium. C) Iron. D) Aluminium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iron. 13. Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer invented the notation which uses superscripts to show powers or exponents (e.g. the 2 used in x² to indicate squaring)? A) René Descartes. B) Isaac Newton. C) Johannes Kepler. D) Nicholas Mercator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) René Descartes. 14. What relationship is Marla to Donald Trump? A) His second wife. B) A colleague on "The Apprentice". C) His aunt. D) His mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His second wife. 15. When was the World Darts Council (later the Professional Darts Corporation) formed? A) 1997. B) 1992. C) 2001. D) 1987. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1992. 16. Tony and Maureen Wheeler began publishing what travel publications in the early 1970s? A) Baedeker Travel Guides. B) Let's Go. C) Rough Guides. D) Lonely Planet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lonely Planet. 17. At which racecourse would you find Beecher's Brook and Canal Turn? A) Brand's Hatch. B) Aintree. C) Silverstone. D) Epsom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aintree. 18. What tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats, trousers and other garments, traditionally made from worsted wool fibre, was patented by Thomas Burberry in 1888? A) Gabardine. B) Worsted. C) Tweed. D) Twill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gabardine. 19. In West Africa what is a griot? A) A large calabash. B) An oral historian, conveyor of religious text, and storyteller poet and/or musician. C) A two or more storeyed thatched dwelling. D) A bell which calls people to prayer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An oral historian, conveyor of religious text, and storyteller poet and/or musician. 20. A clown fish creates a home for itself inside what? A) Shell. B) Rock cave. C) Whale's mouth. D) Anemone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anemone. ← 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