This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 352 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 352 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the first President of the French Fifth Republic? A) Alain Pohen. B) Georges Pompidou. C) Charles de Gaulle. D) Michel DebrΓ©. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles de Gaulle. 2. Who played the title role in Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" ? A) Susan Sarandon. B) Mia Farrow. C) Diane Keaton. D) Julia Roberts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diane Keaton. 3. Where in Africa is the sandstone tableland known as the Tegama? A) Ethiopia. B) South Africa. C) Namibia. D) Niger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Niger. 4. What links the satire of manners, the play "Lady Windermere's Fan", and the Queensberry Rules for boxing? A) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" in the play was about a boxer. B) Lady Windermere's husband in the play fights under the new rules. C) The playwright was married to the sponsor's daughter. D) A relationship between the playwright and the son of the man who sponsored the rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A relationship between the playwright and the son of the man who sponsored the rules. 5. Who designed both the obverse and reverse of the twenty-dollar gold coin, or double eagle, produced by the US Mint from 1907 to 1933? A) Augustus Saint-Gaudens. B) George Segal. C) Jack Kershaw. D) Samuel Murray. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Augustus Saint-Gaudens. 6. The Sinai Peninsula is part of which country? A) Afghanistan. B) None-it is a self-governing republic. C) France. D) Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Egypt. 7. Which of these is the name of part of Ethiopia which became independent In 1993? A) Aberfan. B) Eritrea. C) Abysinnia. D) Aberystwyth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eritrea. 8. About how much of the human body is composed of water? A) 60 per cent. B) 40 per cent. C) 75 per cent. D) 10 per cent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 60 per cent. 9. What is the name of a family of satellites launched since 1995 and operated by Eutelsat, located at 13$^\circ$E over the Equator (orbital position) with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East? A) WorldCom. B) Hot Bird. C) Telstar. D) Intelsat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hot Bird. 10. In the surveying method called LIDAR, what does the acronym stand for? A) Light inspection, diversion and ranging. B) Light inversion and distant review. C) Light detection and ranging. D) Light detecting radiowaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light detection and ranging. 11. Cautley Spout, Gocta, Hannoki, ShirAbad, and Shoshone are the names of what? A) Rivers. B) Mountains. C) Waterfalls. D) Coastal regions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Waterfalls. 12. What is the deepest lake in the world, and the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume? A) Lake Baikal. B) Caspian Sea. C) Titicaca. D) Superior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lake Baikal. 13. Of four balloons filled respectively with ozone, carbon dioxide, oxygen and ammonia, which gas will make its balloon float? A) Ozone. B) Oxygen. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Ammonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ammonia. 14. Who was elected President of the USA in 1860? A) Ulysses S. Grant. B) James Buchanan. C) Andrew Johnson. D) Abraham Lincoln. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abraham Lincoln. 15. In the nursery rhyme, a carving knife was used for amputation on who? A) Humpty Dumpty. B) Three Blind Mice. C) Jack Sprat. D) Jill's boyfriend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three Blind Mice. 16. Which of these islands is not in the Mediterranean Sea? A) Zanzibar. B) Corsica. C) Sardinia. D) Malta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zanzibar. 17. Snuff is made of a powdered form of what? A) Heroin. B) Tobacco. C) Morphine. D) Sugar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tobacco. 18. In Alaska in the 18th century and prior to USA's purchasing it from Russia in 1867, the UK and what other European country laid claim to the land? A) Greece. B) Japan. C) Norway. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spain. 19. Where is Rapa Nui? A) Cook Islands. B) New Zealand. C) Hawaii. D) Off the coast of Chile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Off the coast of Chile. 20. How is a rebec usually played? A) On a board. B) Blown. C) With a bow. D) Plucked. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With a bow. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books