This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 375 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 375 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How long is a year on the planet Mercury? A) 500 days. B) 365 days. C) 88 days. D) 426 days. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 88 days. 2. What is an expression used to describe across a number of different sports the apparent loss of certain fine motor skills seemingly without explanation? A) The jerks. B) Dartitis. C) The staggers. D) The yips. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The yips. 3. In 1978, Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was found dead where? A) In his office. B) In bed. C) In the boot of a car. D) In the Coliseum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the boot of a car. 4. Which of these countries fought on Germany's side in World War II? A) Canada. B) Belgium. C) USA. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Italy. 5. Who, styling himself "Witch-Finder General" conducted witch-hunts mainly in the counties of Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk and occasionally in other eastern counties of England during the English Civil War? A) Perkin Warbeck. B) Matthew Hopkins. C) Jethro Tull. D) Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Matthew Hopkins. 6. September 1999 marked the formal end of what in Canada? A) Daylight Saving. B) Conscription. C) Dominion status. D) Capital punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Capital punishment. 7. In "The Merchant of Venice", what is demanded by Shylock? A) 100 guineas. B) A pound of flesh. C) A slave girl. D) A severed head. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A pound of flesh. 8. Who was or were baptised into the Christian Church, in "the Baptism of Poland" in 966? A) All the women and children of the tribes in what was becoming Poland. B) The ruler of the Polish state and most of his court. C) The ruler's favourite war horse. D) The leaders of all the tribes in the area and their wives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The ruler of the Polish state and most of his court. 9. In November 1963, a place called Dealey Plaza become famous for what event? A) Dr Martin Luther King Jr delivered his "I have a Dream" speech. B) The National Guard shot and killed anti-war demonstrators. C) The site of the Woodstock Music Festival. D) The assassination of John F Kennedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The assassination of John F Kennedy. 10. Which railway, covering 9, 289 km (5, 772 miles) from Moscow to Vladivostok, was officially opened in July 1904? A) Tranz Alpine. B) Trans-Siberian. C) Trans-Mongolian Line. D) Romanoff line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trans-Siberian. 11. Where did the Simon Commission start sitting in 1928 to consider constitutional reform in that country? A) India. B) Northern Ireland. C) New Zealand. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) India. 12. What everyday items are graded on "B" and "H" scales? A) Screws. B) Pencils. C) Light bulbs. D) Envelopes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pencils. 13. Where is the 337, 000 km2 Taklamakan Desert? A) South America. B) China. C) Africa. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) China. 14. John Sholto Douglas sponsored the rules for which sport in the 19th century? A) Boxing. B) Polo. C) Badminton. D) Hammer throw. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boxing. 15. Mikhail Baryshnikov who starred in the HBO series, "Sex and the City", has a long and illustrious career as what? A) Singer. B) Ballet dancer, and choreographer. C) Film director. D) Economist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballet dancer, and choreographer. 16. Which of these words means "a military display" ? A) Collage. B) Tapestry. C) Applique. D) Tattoo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tattoo. 17. Who became president of Syria in July 2000? A) Bashar al-Assad. B) Abdul Halim Khaddam. C) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. D) Jalal Talabani. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bashar al-Assad. 18. What do the US Declaration of Independence, Captain Cook's sailing to discover the North-West Passage, the publication of economist Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, and the first St Leger Stakes horse race at Doncaster, UK, have in common? A) Horses were a important element in all of them. B) They were extremely popular with all concerned. C) They became the source for nursery rhymes. D) They happened in 1776. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They happened in 1776. 19. A royal edict and a set of 17 laws emancipated Russian serfs in 1861; when were the last provisions made in order to put the freedom fully in place? A) 1940. B) 1935. C) 1870. D) 1905. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1905. 20. The source of what river did Scottish physician and explorer Dr David Livingstone set out to find in 1866? A) Nile. B) Limpopo. C) Niger. D) Zambezi. 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