This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 356 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 356 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Tumuc-Humac Mountains are between Brazil and where else? A) Guyana. B) Suriname and French Guiana. C) Venezuela. D) Colombia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suriname and French Guiana. 2. Which drama series starring Dervla Kirwan and Stephen Tompkinson centred on a farming community in Ireland? A) Murphy's Law. B) Ballykissangel. C) Patrick Kielty Almost Live. D) The Hanging Gale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballykissangel. 3. Which animal was specially bred to scent, chase, and flush out badgers and other burrow-dwelling animals? A) Dachshund. B) Wirehaired terrier. C) Ferret. D) Glutton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dachshund. 4. Among several athletes who have run barefoot in the history of Olympic Games, who ran barefoot in the 1986 Summer Olympics? A) Herb Elliott. B) Mary Decker. C) Zola Budd. D) Abebe Bikla. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zola Budd. 5. In which sport is a contest called honbasho or basho? A) Sumo wrestling. B) Curling. C) Judo. D) Lacrosse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sumo wrestling. 6. Which of these is a type of sponge dessert? A) Limbo. B) Rumba. C) Bongo. D) Rum baba. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rum baba. 7. Which of these is an alternative medicine based on examining the condition of the eyes? A) Homeopathy. B) Iridology. C) Graphology. D) Speleology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iridology. 8. An Australian needs a passport to enter which of these areas? A) New South Wales. B) Tasmania. C) New Zealand. D) Sydney. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Zealand. 9. Which film, directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, was about a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas? A) The Big Sleep. B) Stage Coach. C) The Ox-bow Incident. D) Red River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red River. 10. Whose film career began in 1993 with "The Piano" and whose roles have included Jane Eyre, Queen Isabella II of Spain, a teenage mutant, and a human in a vampire TV series? A) Cate Blanchett. B) Halle Berry. C) Anna Paquin. D) Anna Camp. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anna Paquin. 11. Which 60 hour annual race of 100 to 130 miles (161 to 209 km) through mountains, with an elevation gain of around 63, 000 ft (19, 200 m), is so hard that when three contestants finished in 2023 it was the first time anyone had finished in 6 years? A) Addo Elephant Trail Run. B) Iditarod Trail. C) Barkley Marathons. D) Canadian Death Race. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Barkley Marathons. 12. In the initials or acronym SMS what does the first "S" stand for? A) Standard. B) Service. C) Short. D) Static. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Short. 13. Which of these is a disease caused by a coronavirus? A) Some types of common cold. B) SARS. C) MERS. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 14. Which of these bones is the lowest in the human body (when it is standing up!)? A) Cranium. B) Sternum. C) Patella. D) Pelvis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Patella. 15. In tuning a snare drum, the resonant head is generally tuned more loosely than what? A) The batter head. B) The drum head. C) The front head. D) The bottom head. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The batter head. 16. Which of these is a film production company founded in 1934? A) 18th Century Boll-weevil. B) 21st Century Squirrel. C) 19th Century Badger. D) 20th Century Fox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 20th Century Fox. 17. What was the fictional family with children called Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan and Cindy, that first came to US TV screens in 1969? A) The Cowsills. B) The Partridge Family. C) The Waltons. D) The Brady Bunch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Brady Bunch. 18. The region of Kashmir is claimed in part or completely by India, Pakistan and what other country? A) Russian Federation. B) Republic of Afghanistan. C) Kyrgyz Republic. D) People's Republic of China. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People's Republic of China. 19. What did the Snyder Act of 1924 in the US provide for? A) Giving women the right to vote. B) Rejecting membership of the League of Nations. C) Indigenous peoples of the US to be declared citizens. D) Protection of tailors from overseas competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indigenous peoples of the US to be declared citizens. 20. Some lorises are popular for the pet trade, although most species are endangered and one particularly popular loris can deliver a poisonous, even life-threatening, bite. Which one is this? A) Bush baby. B) Mouse lemur. C) Potto. D) Slow loris. 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