This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 381 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 381 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In which state of the USA is the private research university known as M. I. T.? A) Michigan. B) Massachusetts. C) Indiana. D) Tennessee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Massachusetts. 2. The Treaty of Kiel, between the UK, Sweden and Denmark-Norway was intended to ease hostilities relating to which war? A) The Great Northern War. B) Crimean. C) WW I. D) Napoleonic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Napoleonic. 3. Which is one of the materials recommended for caviar serving spoons? A) Gilded card. B) Silver. C) Pewter. D) Mother of pearl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mother of pearl. 4. Which author is the ex-wife of British designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer Sir Terence and the mother of designers Sebastian and Jasper? A) Daphne du Maurier. B) Barbara Cartland. C) Georgette Heyer. D) Shirley Conran. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shirley Conran. 5. How many sides does a trapezoid have? A) 6. B) 2. C) 4. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 6. When was the first public passenger train run in India? A) 1949. B) 1928. C) 1853. D) 1832. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1853. 7. Which French singer and actress was in a relationship with American actor Johnny Depp from 1998 to 2012, with whom she has a daughter and a son? A) Jacqueline du Pré. B) Vanessa Paradis. C) Françoise Hardy. D) Yvette Mimieux. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vanessa Paradis. 8. Which of these is not one of the Hindu Trinity? A) Shiva (Destroyer). B) Dhoti (Provider). C) Brahma (Creator). D) Vishnu (Preserver). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dhoti (Provider). 9. Who discovered Uranus in 1781? A) Charles Darwin. B) Edwin Hubble. C) William Herschel. D) Fred Hoyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Herschel. 10. When was the first Zeppelin, of which the Hindenburg was the last disastrous example in 1937, first successfully flown? A) 1934. B) 1918. C) 1900. D) 1850. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1900. 11. What links American Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) and James Wyld (1812-1887) MP for Bodmin, UK? A) They claimed their spirits mutually manifested during spiritualist séances. B) Papers discussing the acceptability of Darwin's theories of evolution in religious movements. C) An exchange of letters concerning experiments in homeopathy. D) Giant scale models of the Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Giant scale models of the Earth. 12. Which of these was a 14th century Mongol emperor who chose Samarkand as his capital? A) Kublai Khan. B) Saladin. C) Che Guevara. D) Tamburlaine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tamburlaine. 13. What is the name for an argument presented in logical form, containing 2 premises and a conclusion? A) Syllogism. B) Anachronism. C) Home truth. D) Paradigm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syllogism. 14. A 1982 film directed by Ingmar Bergman, initially prepared for television as a 4 part serial, was what? A) Smiles of a Summer Night. B) A Little Night Music. C) The Magic Flute. D) Fanny and Alexander. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fanny and Alexander. 15. What is Britain's richest horse race? A) Epsom Derby. B) Cheltenham Gold Cup. C) Grand National. D) 1, 000 Guineas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epsom Derby. 16. In which country is the city of Tangier? A) Sierra Leone. B) Morocco. C) Ghana. D) New Guinea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Morocco. 17. What was the first general-purpose electronic computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems which, though designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the US Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, was first used in calculations for the hydrogen bomb? A) DORA. B) The Flowers Colossus. C) ENIAC. D) Z3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ENIAC. 18. In Morse code, what letter is represented by "dash dash dash" ? A) F. B) S. C) D. D) O. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) O. 19. In April 1969, Pope Paul VI approved the "new Order of Mass" (promulgated in 1970), which included radical changes to Catholic Church rituals. Which of these was not one of them? A) 3 new Eucharistic Prayers to what was up to then a single Roman Canon. B) Banning of genuflection. C) Approval for the use of languages other than Latin. D) Reintroduction of prayers that had become disused (e.g. the Prayer of the Faithful). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Banning of genuflection. 20. What is a method of preserving and sterilising food, in which a product is processed under very high pressure, leading to the inactivation of certain microorganisms and enzymes in it? A) The Fleming Process. B) Pasteurisation. C) Pascalisation. D) The Curie Curing Method. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pascalisation. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books