This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 346 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 346 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. On 4 October in 1883 while the Boys' Brigade was having its inaugural meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, what else was also happening? A) William Gladstone became prime minister in the UK for the second time. B) The Orient Express made its inaugural run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail. C) James Garfield was elected President of the USA. D) Australian outlaw Ned Kelly was hanged. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Orient Express made its inaugural run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail. 2. The short-lived Federation of the Autonomous States of where, was constituted in 1922? A) Yugoslavia. B) Syria. C) Australia. D) Argentina. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syria. 3. In which ocean are the Scilly Isles? A) Indian. B) Pacific. C) Atlantic. D) Arctic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atlantic. 4. The World Flying Disc Federation, formed in 1984, governs what? A) Helicopters. B) Conferences of UFO observers. C) Crockery smashing for weddings. D) International Ultimate Frisbee Championships. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) International Ultimate Frisbee Championships. 5. What did Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, a character in a series of 19th century stories, do? A) Swash buckles. B) Solve mysteries. C) Keep bees. D) Travel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solve mysteries. 6. The Iditarod and similar races have increasing challenges to their survival in the 21st century, for what reason? A) A prolonged epidemic of distemper. B) Erratically warmer temperatures, disappearing ice and snow, fiercer storms, new growth of vegetation. C) Sponsors are using their funding elsewhere. D) Indigenous people are closing usual routes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Erratically warmer temperatures, disappearing ice and snow, fiercer storms, new growth of vegetation. 7. What was the theatre term "box office" used for originally? A) A place or facility where people could buy "box seats" in the theatre. B) The ticket office or box at the entrance to the theatre. C) A box used to store income from ticket sales. D) The office where props were stored. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A place or facility where people could buy "box seats" in the theatre. 8. Where is the submarine, 70 km long and 30 km wide, Marsili volcano? A) In the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the southwestern coast of Italy. B) In the central Pacific Ocean. C) In the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Libya. D) In the Indian Ocean, off the south-eastern coast of Somalia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the southwestern coast of Italy. 9. What number, when multiplied by itself, has the same answer when it is added to itself? A) 1. B) 10. C) 2. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 10. The coxae, a trochanter, a femur, a short patella, the tibia, and the tarsus are the six parts of what, found in some arthropods? A) Antennae. B) Hind legs used for aggressive display. C) Palps. D) Spinnerets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Palps. 11. What was first demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell at the Philadelphia Exhibition in 1876? A) Teleprinter. B) Television. C) Telephone. D) Telepathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Telephone. 12. Chicago, Illinois, U S A, is on the shores of what body of water? A) Lake Michigan. B) Atlantic Ocean. C) Lake Huron. D) Hudson River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lake Michigan. 13. How far away from Earth is the nearest star which is approximately the same size as the Sun? A) About 8.6 light years. B) About 4.4 light years. C) About 6 light years. D) 12 light years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) About 4.4 light years. 14. Which were the first Summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch? A) 1988. B) 1980. C) 1984. D) 1976. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1984. 15. What is the name for the five long bones in the foot that are numbered from the big toe (the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth) and are analogous to the metacarpal bones of the hand? A) Synapses. B) Phalanges. C) Metatarsals. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metatarsals. 16. Which team won the inaugural Fast5 World Netball Series, first contested in October 2009, which had modified rules (and was compared to Twenty20 cricket and rugby sevens)? A) Jamaica. B) Australia. C) New Zealand. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Zealand. 17. Paul Newman starred as a heroically serial prison escaper in the film "Cool Hand Luke" (1967); what was he sent to prison for? A) Cutting the heads off some parking meters one night. B) Putting up a poster of Martin Luther King. C) Refusing conscription for the war in Vietnam. D) Jaywalking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cutting the heads off some parking meters one night. 18. Abdus Salam, Sheldon Lee Glashow and Steven Weinberg were awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to what? A) The theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles. B) The discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons. C) The discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. D) The development of laser spectroscopy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles. 19. Areas of South America are rich in mineral deposits; one major area is the Andean tin-tungsten-silver belt of about 2, 000 km, extending from where to where? A) North to mid-Peru. B) Southern Argentina into Tierra del Fuego. C) North to mid-Colombia. D) The Peruvian border through south western Bolivia into northern Argentina. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Peruvian border through south western Bolivia into northern Argentina. 20. In what country is the white wine grape Pinot grigio, a clone of Pinot gris, traditionally grown? A) Spain. B) France. C) Italy. D) Portugal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Italy. ← 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