This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 317 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 317 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. By what name was netball previously known? A) Women's basketball. B) Rounders. C) Skittles. D) Women's rugby. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Women's basketball. 2. Who wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" ? A) The Brothers Grimm. B) Washington Irving. C) Hans Christian Andersen. D) Jonathan Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Washington Irving. 3. What is a keloid? A) A bump on the head. B) A bone in the human finger. C) A type of cancerous growth. D) An overgrowth of scar tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An overgrowth of scar tissue. 4. The Andes mountain range lies roughly north to south along the west coast of where? A) South America. B) USA. C) Canada. D) Greenland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South America. 5. What age (in years) does a horse have to be to run in the Epsom Derby? A) Six. B) Four. C) Five. D) Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Three. 6. What word refers to theatre that is made up on the spot? A) Improv. B) Disco. C) Extra. D) Devolve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Improv. 7. Which of these particularly promotes the explosion of learning in the first two to three years of a child's life? A) Growth of axions. B) Myelination in the brain. C) Increase in nerve cells. D) Increase in glial cells in the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Myelination in the brain. 8. Who was a first baseman in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox who is famous for his 49-game hitting streak in 1915, while playing in the Pacific Coast League, a league record until it was broken by Joe DiMaggio? A) Jack Ness. B) Willie Keeler. C) Chick Gandil. D) Jack Fournier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jack Ness. 9. In 1953, what was announced about the discovery in 1911 to 1915 of the bones of Piltdown Man, who was believed to represent the oldest human race in Europe? A) Even older bones were found nearby. B) It was exposed as an elaborate hoax. C) Radiation tests proved that they were older than first thought. D) The skeleton was constructed in a new way, proving that he was shorter than first thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was exposed as an elaborate hoax. 10. What is a stanza or poem consisting of four lines? A) Strophe. B) Refrain. C) Trope. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quatrain. 11. Which territory has abandoned its capital city of Plymouth and has Brades as a de facto capital? A) Falkland Islands. B) Montserrat. C) Anguilla. D) Pitcairn Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Montserrat. 12. Which of these crosses the Hudson River in New York City? A) Brooklyn Bridge. B) George Washington Bridge. C) Manhattan Bridge. D) Williamsburg Bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George Washington Bridge. 13. Which of these rivers flows into the Dead Sea? A) Indus. B) Tigris. C) Jordan. D) Danube. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jordan. 14. Teams from 16 countries or colonies competed in the first World Bowls Championship in 1966; how many competed in 2023? A) 44. B) 20. C) 18. D) 196. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 44. 15. What film concerns the life story of 18 year old Jamal Malik, a former street child from the Juhu slums in Mumbai? A) A Star is Born. B) The Jewel in the Crown. C) Slumdog Millionaire. D) Never Say Never Again. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slumdog Millionaire. 16. In 1990, the first democratic elections were held in which country, the subject of tug-of-war for at least three centuries between Russia (later the USSR) and China? A) Kazakhstan. B) Mongolia. C) Afghanistan. D) Siberia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mongolia. 17. What is the natural habitat of the electric eel? A) The rivers of Brazil and Guiana. B) The larger rivers in Africa. C) The warmest parts of the Pacific Ocean. D) The Great Lakes of North America. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rivers of Brazil and Guiana. 18. Which children's book series talking of concepts of computer programming and the internet, was first published in 2015? A) What's Up. B) Hello Ruby. C) Ladders and the Python. D) Charlotte's Web. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hello Ruby. 19. Where does a wombat usually nest? A) Beside a termite mound. B) Up a tree. C) Under water. D) In a burrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In a burrow. 20. What is symploce? A) A rhetorical figure of speech. B) Diagnosis. C) A tuber similar to sweet potato. D) The grinding action which produces flour. 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