This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 302 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 302 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was the name given to the irregular mounted troops raised for service in Cuba by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American war? A) Roughriders. B) Teddy's Cavalry. C) Chindits. D) Cossacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Roughriders. 2. Who was Shakespeare's wife? A) Sandra Putaway. B) Mary Runaway. C) Anne Hathaway. D) Sheila Sendaway. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anne Hathaway. 3. Where does the Black Current flow? A) East across the Atlantic Ocean. B) Southwards underneath the English Channel/La Manche. C) Northwards on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean. D) Round the South Georgia Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Northwards on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean. 4. What is the name of the special type of glass in which champagne should be served? A) Flute. B) Piccolo. C) Fife. D) Clarinet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flute. 5. What is the name for the vast flat lowlying grasslands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil? A) The Lowlands. B) The Great Plains. C) The Flatlands. D) The Pampas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Pampas. 6. Where is the palace called Istana Nurul Iman? A) Saudi Arabia. B) Oman. C) UAE. D) Brunei. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brunei. 7. The northernmost point in South America is in which country? A) Paraguay. B) Chile. C) Colombia. D) Peru. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colombia. 8. The USA established marginal income tax rates of 77% in 1916 to fund the war effort in World War I. What were they reduced to by 1929, shortly before the Wall Street crash? A) 24%. B) Nil. C) 50%. D) 2%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 24%. 9. What is the source of the company name "Xerox" ? A) An adaptation of the Greek word for "dry writing". B) A marketing change to the word "zero", to mark the absence of printer's ink. C) The name of the company's founder. D) The village in Cyprus where the inventor of the process lived. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An adaptation of the Greek word for "dry writing". 10. Lake Titicaca is on which continent? A) Europe. B) Africa. C) Australia. D) South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South America. 11. In the 2022 United Nations General Assembly, Russia's Foreign Minister described US response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier that year as "grotesque" and an expansion of what 19th century (and current) US policy? A) The Munroe Effect. B) Marilyn's Diktat. C) The Monroe Doctrine. D) Monroe Cannon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Monroe Doctrine. 12. What is the character "George" from the UK TV series "Rainbow" ? A) Human. B) Monkey. C) Hippopotamus. D) Bear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hippopotamus. 13. What was heavyweight boxer Joe Louis' nickname? A) Spirit of St Louis. B) The Brown Bomber. C) Muhammad Ali. D) Tricky Dicky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Brown Bomber. 14. The fans of which band were called "deadheads" ? A) The Grateful Dead. B) Dead or Alive. C) Radiohead. D) Lemonheads. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Grateful Dead. 15. What waxes and wanes every 28 days? A) Drawbridge. B) Advent calendar. C) Weaving loom. D) Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moon. 16. What Latin-American word means "foreigner" ? A) Zorro. B) Senor. C) Gringo. D) Moro. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gringo. 17. In 1864, as retaliation for an incident the previous year which involved death or injury to about 5 Spanish citizens, Spain took the first tangible aggressive steps in what became what? A) The Battle of Ica. B) The Spanish-South American War. C) The Wars of Independence. D) The Guano Wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Spanish-South American War. 18. What is the Hindu custom "suttee" that was prohibited by law in 1829? A) Herding cattle in the street. B) A widow being incinerated on her husband's funeral pyre. C) Forcing women to wear clothing that fully covered the body. D) Eating spiced food in public. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A widow being incinerated on her husband's funeral pyre. 19. In the film "Scream", what was Drew Barrymore doing while she was on the telephone? A) Making popcorn. B) Making the bed. C) Making love. D) Making a model aeroplane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Making popcorn. 20. Which of these cult ideas first surfaced in 1987? A) Commander Keen. B) Wasgij. C) Frogger. D) Where's Waldo, or Where's Wally. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Where's Waldo, or Where's Wally. ← 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