This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 279 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 279 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What note is in the centre of a standard piano keyboard? A) C# major. B) High T. C) Low A. D) Middle C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Middle C. 2. Isabella Kauakea Yau Yung Aiona Abbott, from Hana on Maui, became the first native Hawaiian woman to do what? A) Stand for election to Congress in the USA. B) Win the Miss America competition. C) Become a surfing world champion. D) Receive a PhD in science. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Receive a PhD in science. 3. On Christmas Day 1914 during World War I, there was an unofficial truce between British and German troops at various places along the lines. In sub-zero temperatures in no-man's land near Armentieres, France, the soldiers played what game? A) Baseball. B) Football. C) Cricket. D) Lacrosse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Football. 4. What ampihibia are native to Europe and Asia, with 4 fingers and five toes, one species of which ejects a white poisonous fluid from the glands in the skin? A) Cobra. B) Tuatara. C) Salamander. D) Tapir. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Salamander. 5. What is the most frequently used indigenous language of Mozambique? A) Bambara. B) Yoruba. C) Njebi. D) Makhuwa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Makhuwa. 6. The ozone molecule is made up of three atoms of which gas? A) Xenon. B) Hydrogen. C) Neon. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxygen. 7. What name was given to the conflict between Great Britain and Spain from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742? A) The War of Lord Uxbridge's Leg. B) The War of Jenkins' Ear. C) The Armada. D) The War of the Roses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The War of Jenkins' Ear. 8. Which of these garments originated on the continent of Asia? A) Poncho. B) Kaftan. C) Bloomers. D) Y fronts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kaftan. 9. What is Judge Judy's last name? A) Epstein. B) Sheindlin. C) Begin. D) Schwartz. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sheindlin. 10. A painting by Sandro Botticelli that depicts a goddess, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore on a sea shell is called "The Birth of ..... '' who? A) Mars. B) Venus. C) Neptune. D) Pluto. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus. 11. What are the 26 areas called that make up The Swiss Confederation? A) States. B) Iller. C) Cantons. D) Departments. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cantons. 12. British playwright, broadcaster, and children's author, Roger McGough, is also widely known for what? A) Sailing solo round the world. B) Directing Broadway plays. C) His poetry. D) Establishing a new breed of hamsters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His poetry. 13. A drake is the adult male of which bird? A) Turkey. B) Goose. C) Eagle. D) Duck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Duck. 14. What is the reputed 13th century burial place of Genghis Khan? A) The Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain. B) Gūr-i Amīr (or Guri Amir) mausoleum, Samarkand. C) Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, Ukraine. D) Hagia Sophia, Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain. 15. Bile is made in the liver and discharged into the duodenum. Where is it stored and concentrated on this journey? A) Kidneys. B) Liver. C) Spleen. D) Gall bladder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gall bladder. 16. What is a khukri? A) Turkish stew. B) Inwardly curved knife. C) Type of fish. D) Bullock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inwardly curved knife. 17. What was the family name of the Annie of the musical "Annie Get Your Gun" ? A) Leibovitz. B) Cody. C) Dillard. D) Oakley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oakley. 18. Which of these vitamins is found in quantity in sunflower oil? A) B12. B) C. C) B9. D) E. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) E. 19. For what did William Kemmler, then at New York's Auburn Prison, become famous on 6 August 1890? A) The first person to be executed via the electric chair. B) The first person to break out of a prison ringed with barbed wire. C) The first warder to be convicted of murdering a prison inmate. D) The first prison manager to allow conjugal visits. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The first person to be executed via the electric chair. 20. The national flag of which of these countries does not have a Union Jack in the corner? A) Fiji. B) New Zealand. C) Australia. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South Africa. ← 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