This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 363 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 363 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many pieces are on a chessboard at the start of a game? A) 8. B) 32. C) 16. D) 64. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 32. 2. Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the prize for, among other things, determining the chemical structure of what in 1945? A) DNA. B) Benzene. C) Penicillin. D) Vitamin B12. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Penicillin. 3. Which of these is a type of omelette originating from Spain? A) Picador. B) Tortilla. C) Hacienda. D) Cannelloni. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tortilla. 4. The phrase "treble bob major" is associated with which of these activities? A) Darts. B) Camping. C) Dog training. D) Bell ringing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bell ringing. 5. Which body or object has consistently the highest average density currently known in the universe? A) White hole. B) Black hole. C) White dwarf. D) Neutron star. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neutron star. 6. In bridge, the four players are referred to as what? A) Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. B) William, Mary, Elizabeth and George. C) Up, Down, Across and Sideways. D) North, East, South and West. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) North, East, South and West. 7. What field of activity does the phrase "on tenterhooks" refer to? A) Preparing canvas for oil painting. B) Camping. C) Making woollen cloth. D) Theatre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Making woollen cloth. 8. What is the name for a musical work primarily designed to develop the technique of an instrumentalist? A) Cantata. B) Sonata. C) Symphony. D) Etude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Etude. 9. There is a "famed Tahiti Beach" on the ..... A) French Riviera, in Saint Tropez, France. B) Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. C) Abu Dhabi, a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf. D) Devon, on Britain's south coast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) French Riviera, in Saint Tropez, France. 10. The phrase "beyond the pale" refers to the history of which country? A) Ireland. B) India. C) Wales. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ireland. 11. A famous US trial in 1950 involved Whittaker Chambers and who else? A) Alger Hiss. B) John Thomas Watkins. C) Otto Olesen. D) Rockwell Kent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alger Hiss. 12. In 2012 an annual international event, GODZone, was established in New Zealand for competitors in what? A) Mountain biking. B) Combined kayaking, swimming and cycling. C) Adventure and multi-discipline racing. D) Distance open sea swimming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adventure and multi-discipline racing. 13. In what situation would an aubade be played? A) Outside somebody's window or door at dawn as a courtly love song to wake them up. B) By a shepherd in hills of the Auvergne. C) By a rooster first thing in the morning. D) In the brass section of an orchestra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Outside somebody's window or door at dawn as a courtly love song to wake them up. 14. Who are most likely to perform a "pas de deux" ? A) Bullfighters. B) Ballet dancers. C) Horses. D) Opera singers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballet dancers. 15. Which river rises in dense forest in Zambian highlands, then flows through Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and into the Indian Ocean? A) Okavango. B) Niger. C) Zambezi. D) Limpopo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zambezi. 16. Which country had, at various times, included areas known at various times as Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Vojvodina, Kosovo, Istria and Rijeka? A) Yugoslavia. B) Bulgaria. C) Algeria. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yugoslavia. 17. What natural effect is only visible during a total eclipse of the sun? A) Aurora Borealis. B) St Elmo's fire. C) Will o' the Wisp. D) Baily's Beads. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baily's Beads. 18. Which was the first of the Baltic states to be occupied, and then absorbed as a constituent republic, by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)? A) Poland. B) Latvia. C) Estonia. D) Lithuania. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lithuania. 19. According to the nursery rhyme, how much was the Pieman selling his pies for when Simple Simon met him going to the fair? A) Sixpence. B) One penny. C) One groat. D) One farthing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One penny. 20. Which of these, the most popular spectator sport in Ireland, is a form of football played mainly in Ireland by teams of 15 on a rectangular grass pitch with H-shaped goals at each end? A) Curling. B) Gaelic football. C) Taoiseach. D) Eisteddfod. 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