This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 35 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 35 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. John Wayne appeared as a centurion in the film "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965). What was his famous line? A) Jerusalem isn't big enough for the both of us. B) OK Judas, go for your spear. C) Truly this man was the son of God. D) Stay away from me, you kisser of men. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Truly this man was the son of God. 2. What tool was developed by a company founded by Eric Yuan in 2011? A) BGAN. B) Skype. C) Teambox. D) Zoom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Zoom. 3. Which of these is a song by Lennon-McCartney that has been covered on record by more singers than any other song? A) Nessun Dorma. B) Hound Dog. C) White Christmas. D) Yesterday. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yesterday. 4. Peter Snell, who set 5 individual world running records, was part of a team that set a new four by 1 mile relay record and won 2 Olympic golds for 800 metres (1960 Rome & 1964 Tokyo) and a gold for 1500 metres (1964 Tokyo), represented which country? A) Austria. B) New Zealand. C) Kenya. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) New Zealand. 5. Persia is the former name of which country? A) Iran. B) Burkina Faso. C) Palestine. D) Myanmar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iran. 6. Who, in 1916, was the first woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives, the first female member of the Congress, and the only woman to be elected to Congress from Montana? A) Eleanor Roosevelt. B) Hillary Clinton. C) Jacqueline Bouvier. D) Jeannette Rankin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jeannette Rankin. 7. What is the mistral? A) A wind. B) A type of oyster. C) A waterfall. D) An amphibious ship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A wind. 8. Ashgabat is the capital city of which country? A) Afghanistan. B) Uzbekistan. C) Azerbaijan. D) Turkmenistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turkmenistan. 9. What is the name of the closed, double-layered membrane containing the heart and the roots of the great vessels? A) Endocardium. B) Cardiovasculum. C) Pericardium. D) Cardial sac. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pericardium. 10. Which Austrian, a pioneer in psycho-analysis, died in London in 1939, a refugee from Nazi persecution? A) Carl Jung. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Heinz Kohut. D) Otto Rank. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sigmund Freud. 11. In police tradition in the USA and the UK, an unnamed person or person whose name is being concealed is referred to as John or Jane what? A) Pen. B) Cow. C) Doe. D) Sow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Doe. 12. The islands of Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes are in which sea? A) Aegean. B) Black. C) Arabian. D) North. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aegean. 13. In which context is the word "agistment" most likely to be used? A) Meteorology. B) Athletics training. C) Retirement homes. D) Cattle farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cattle farming. 14. Which of these was a famous Australian dancer? A) Robert Helpmann. B) Joan Sutherland. C) Peter Carey. D) Rowena Jackson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Helpmann. 15. The countries of Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe are all what? A) Watered by the River Nile. B) Mostly uninhabited desert. C) Partly snow-bound for some of each year. D) Landlocked. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Landlocked. 16. What were the weapons used mainly by infantrymen in the American Civil War? A) Rifles. B) Spears. C) Swords. D) Slingshots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rifles. 17. At what location was the US Transcontinental Railroad completed? A) Las Vegas, NV. B) Promontory Summit, UT. C) Boulder, CO. D) Salt Lake City, UT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Promontory Summit, UT. 18. Which of these is or are associated with developing the hot air balloon? A) NapolΓ©on Bonaparte. B) Orville and Wilbur Wright. C) Benjamin Franklin. D) Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier. 19. In 1899 Jim Jeffries, the champion at the time, competed against Tom Sharkey on Coney Island, New York, in what discipline? A) Boxing. B) Fencing. C) Craps. D) Poker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boxing. 20. What was the 1911 Xinhai Revolution directly intended to achieve? A) Overthrow of China's last imperial dynasty. B) Removal of Sun Yat-sen from the Kuomintang. C) Establishment of Chiang Kai-Shek and the Chinese Communist Party in power in China. D) The independence of Mongolia. 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