This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 327 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 327 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What kind of ship was the British ship HMS Hermes, laid down in January 1918, launched on 11 September 1919 but not commissioned until 1923, the first ship of its kind to be designed and built anywhere in the world? A) Floating helicopter base. B) Submarine. C) Aircraft carrier. D) Battleship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aircraft carrier. 2. Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner starred in what TV series, first broadcast from 1966 to 1969? A) Star Trek. B) Blakes 7. C) Red Dwarf. D) Star Wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Star Trek. 3. What is the name for the individual leaves of the calyx or outer whorl of a flower? A) Sepal. B) Stamen. C) Seed. D) Stalk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sepal. 4. In both Greek and Roman mythology, who was the twin of Castor? A) Goblets. B) Bollocks. C) Trollopes. D) Pollux. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pollux. 5. The Team sprint track cycling event is, in the men's event, a three-man team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome. What makes up the women's event? A) Three women over three laps. B) Three women over two laps. C) Two women over three laps. D) Two women over two laps. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two women over two laps. 6. The common choko is what colour when ripe? A) Black. B) Red. C) Brown. D) Green. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Green. 7. What did the development called Project Purple 2, and begun in 2005, result in? A) IBM's "greenest" data center in Boulder, Colorado. B) Android. C) The first iPhone. D) ARPANET. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The first iPhone. 8. What is the Nakba? A) A Muslim religious festival. B) The 1948 expulsion and flight of the Palestinians from their land. C) The third Mughal emperor. D) An Indian suspense thriller film (2007). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 1948 expulsion and flight of the Palestinians from their land. 9. When was the first Vatican Radio broadcast? A) 1897. B) 1939. C) 1971. D) 1931. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1931. 10. From 1964 to 2005 British American Alan Truscott was the daily, and then weekly, columnist for the New York Times in what field? A) Economics. B) Bridge. C) Banking. D) Theatre. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bridge. 11. In game fishing what kind of restrictions are put by the International Game fishing Association on fighting chairs? A) Type of devices included. B) Size. C) Construction. D) Placement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Type of devices included. 12. The House of Bourbon, a European royal house one of whose monarchs was famously guillotined in France in 1792, has descendants currently on the throne of which country or countries? A) Andorra and Monaco. B) Belgium. C) Spain and Luxembourg. D) The Netherlands and Norway. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spain and Luxembourg. 13. Where would one find a kibbutz? A) Ethiopia. B) Israel. C) Australia. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Israel. 14. In 1896 the final collaboration by W.S.Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan was staged at the Savoy theatre, London, UK. What was it called? A) The Gondoliers. B) Utopia Limited. C) The Grand Duke; or, The Statutory Duel. D) The Fortune Hunter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Grand Duke; or, The Statutory Duel. 15. In chess, what piece can only move diagonally? A) Bishop. B) Rector. C) Pope. D) Cardinal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bishop. 16. Where would a cobbler be usually found A) Roughly mending socks. B) Building street surfaces. C) Cooking dessert pies. D) Mending footwear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mending footwear. 17. If Prince William of Wales, the elder son of Charles and Diana, Prince and Princess of Wales, becomes "King William", what number will he be? A) William I. B) William V. C) William II. D) William III. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William V. 18. Who led the expedition that successfully made the first ascent of Mt Everest in 1953? A) Colonel H C J (John) Hunt. B) Sir Edmund Hillary. C) Tenzing Norgay. D) Eric Shipton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colonel H C J (John) Hunt. 19. What year did the US Congress authorise the USA officially to fight in World War I? A) 1920. B) 1914. C) 1947. D) 1917. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1917. 20. What is the name for Government House, Canberra, the official residence of the Governor-General of Australia? A) Yarralumla. B) Chequers ACT. C) Ballarat Gold. D) Uluru. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yarralumla. ← 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