This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 309 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 309 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is another name for oedema? A) German measles. B) Hiccoughs. C) Dropsy. D) Mumps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dropsy. 2. Which of these diseases can appear 40 to 50 days after the bite of an affected dog, fox or wolf? A) Poliomyelitis. B) Tetanus. C) Athlete's Foot. D) Rabies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rabies. 3. Which is the oldest identified era of activity by homo sapiens and relatives? A) Bronze Age. B) Palaeolithic. C) Iron Age. D) Jurassic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Palaeolithic. 4. What was the name of the meeting that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787? A) The Philadelphia Convention. B) The Berne Convention. C) The Pelican Brief. D) The Washington Conference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Philadelphia Convention. 5. Who succeeded Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, after he was shot and killed on 27 June 1844? A) Tom Cruise. B) Brigham Young. C) Mark Simpson. D) Billy Graham. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brigham Young. 6. An original copy of which book was sold at auction at Sotheby's auction room in London in December 2010 for £7.3 million, a record price for the sale of a book? A) "Birds of America" by John James Audubon. B) "Martin Chuzzlewit" by Charles Dickens. C) "Goldfinger" by Ian Fleming. D) The King James Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Birds of America" by John James Audubon. 7. The small insect Marchalina hellenica is important for production of the almost unique pine honey in which of these countries? A) Albania. B) France. C) California, USA. D) Turkiye. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turkiye. 8. What was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948, "as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations" ? A) Declaration on the conversion to peaceful needs of the resources released by disarmament. B) Declaration of the Rights of the Child. C) Declaration on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear and Thermonuclear Weapons. D) Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 9. The Rashtrakuta, Pala and Prathihara dynasties vied for rule during the second half of the first millennium in what present day country? A) India. B) Mongolia. C) Sri Lanka. D) Iran. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) India. 10. Copenhagen stands on what 39 mile (63 kilometre) long strait between Sweden and Denmark that leads from the Baltic Sea to the Kattegat? A) Great Belt (Storebælt). B) The Sound (Øresund). C) Little Belt (Lillebælt). D) The Denmark Strait. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Sound (Øresund). 11. What became a popular description, following the success of a machine sold by E. Remington and Sons from 1873? A) Funicular railway systems. B) Vacuum cleaners. C) Qwerty. D) Wristwatches. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Qwerty. 12. Which is a usual habitat of the mugger and the gharial, two of the three species found there? A) Vietnam. B) Australia. C) Afghanistan. D) Bangladesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bangladesh. 13. Roughly what does Juliet mean when she says "Wherefore art thou Romeo" ? A) Why don't you call me?. B) Where are you?. C) What a great painting!. D) Why are you a Montague?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Why are you a Montague?. 14. Where are bascules found? A) In embroidery. B) In trouser design. C) In typefaces. D) In bridges with a span which can be swung upwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In bridges with a span which can be swung upwards. 15. The character of Mary Alice Young is heard but does not appear in which US TV series? A) Happy Days. B) Charlie's Angels. C) Desperate Housewives. D) Mad Men. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Desperate Housewives. 16. Which theory is French-American mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot known for developing? A) Chaos. B) Fractals. C) Game. D) Proof of the Continuum Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fractals. 17. Who was the American poet who worked for Mussolini to broadcast propaganda to the USA, was tried for treason in 1945 and was judged to be insane? A) Lord Haw Haw. B) Tokyo Rose. C) Ezra Pound. D) Julius Rosenberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ezra Pound. 18. Coney Island, the pleasure resort off Long Island, is part of which New York borough? A) Brooklyn. B) Queens. C) Manhattan. D) Jersey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brooklyn. 19. What phrase is used to explain the resorting to supernatural causes to explain phenomena that are not able to be explained by natural means? A) Deus ex machina. B) Mon dieu et mon droit. C) Photokineticism. D) Daguerreotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deus ex machina. 20. In 1991 a performance was broadcast on US TV which, when released separately and then re-released in 2001, was certified platinum? A) First concert of the Judas Priest "Painkiller" tour in honour of the US forces in the Gulf War. B) Lady Gaga performing, with jumping, during the Super Bowl LI Halftime show. C) The Live Aid concert "USA for Africa". D) Whitney Houston singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" pre-game for the Super Bowl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whitney Houston singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" pre-game for the Super Bowl. ← 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