This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 344 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 344 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In 2008, Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton began dating Nicole Scherzinger, who made her name with which American pop/R & B girl group and dance ensemble? A) Atomic Kitten. B) Pussycat Dolls. C) Spice Girls. D) Girls Aloud. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pussycat Dolls. 2. In its first 32 years which was the first time the 4-yearly Rugby World Cup was hosted in an Asian country? A) 2007. B) 2003. C) 2023. D) 2019. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2019. 3. The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film 1987, Babette's Feast, was set in, and filmed by, what country? A) Belgium. B) France. C) Denmark. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denmark. 4. "Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. Go, bid the soldiers shoot." are the last lines of which play? A) The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. B) A Midsummer NIght's Dream by William Shakespeare. C) Hamlet by William Shakespeare. D) The Country Wife by William Wycherley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet by William Shakespeare. 5. Which of these British rulers is from the House of Hanover? A) Queen Victoria. B) Queen Elizabeth II. C) Queen Elizabeth I. D) Edward VII. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Queen Victoria. 6. What colour is associated with jaundice? A) Yellow. B) Blue. C) White. D) Grey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yellow. 7. Lise Meitner with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered what, for which Hahn (only) received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944? A) Laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions. B) That the uranium atom splits when bombarded by neutrons. C) The use of radioactive isotope tracers to study chemical processes. D) The structure of proteins, especially that of insulin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That the uranium atom splits when bombarded by neutrons. 8. Where is the strait known as the Bocca Tigris? A) In the River Tigre, Peru. B) At the mouth of the River Tigris in the Persian Gulf. C) In the Pearl River delta, South China. D) At the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the Pearl River delta, South China. 9. Which of these is not a name given to the period in the history of the Papacy during the first half of the tenth century, beginning with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasting for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964? A) Anni sinistri. B) Saeculum obscurum. C) The Pornocracy. D) The Rule of the Harlots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anni sinistri. 10. What was the nickname of ski jumper Michael Edwards, who first represented Great Britain at the 1987 World Championships and, as the sole British applicant, qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics where he finished last in both the 70m and 90m events? A) Mick Jumper. B) Jake the Peg. C) Winnie The Pooh. D) Eddie the Eagle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eddie the Eagle. 11. What aspect of the Japanese surrender that ended World War II occurred on 2 September 1945? A) Singapore returned to the British. B) Emperor ordered a cease fire. C) Surrender document signed in Tokyo Bay. D) General MacArthur entered Tokyo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surrender document signed in Tokyo Bay. 12. Who, after marrying in 1791, and living in Naples, became the mistress of Lord Nelson, having his child, Horatia, in 1803? A) Sophia Baddeley. B) Alice Keppel. C) Lady Emma Hamilton. D) Harriette Wilson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lady Emma Hamilton. 13. In 2009 what was the world's biggest car maker by sales? A) Ford. B) Nissan. C) Toyota. D) General Motors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Toyota. 14. What nationality is composer and pianist Philip Glass? A) British. B) American. C) New Zealander. D) Australian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American. 15. Which Scotsman took out a patent in 1876 that was the nucleus of the telephone? A) Alexander Fleming. B) Thomas Edison. C) George Stephenson. D) Alexander Bell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alexander Bell. 16. Currently, The Heart of Midlothian is NOT which of these? A) A mosaic in the pavement in Edinburgh. B) A scottish dog breed. C) A scottish Football Club. D) A novel by Sir Walter Scott. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A scottish dog breed. 17. How many digits are there in the number 2020? A) 4. B) 3. C) 1. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 18. The game of Roulette was created by which mathematician, physicist, and Catholic philosopher in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine? A) Humphry Davy. B) Isaac Newton. C) Blaise Pascal. D) Charles Babbage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blaise Pascal. 19. What are cytokines? A) Cell signalling proteins. B) Cells which foster cell to cell binding. C) Chemicals which fight the growth of cancerous tumours. D) Muscles controlling the movement of hairs or spines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cell signalling proteins. 20. About which conflict did Winston Churchill say "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" ? A) Battle of the Somme. B) Battle of Bannockburn. C) Battle of Trafalgar. D) Battle of Britain. 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