This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 386 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 386 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What did FISU organise, held in Almaty and Taipei City in 2017? A) The Winter and Summer Universiades. B) World University Championship in orienteering and biathlon. C) International Weaving Expo. D) Freeclimbing World Championship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Winter and Summer Universiades. 2. Philippe Croizon was the first quadruple amputee to achieve what on 18 September 2010, at the age of 42? A) Be elected to the House of Commons. B) Have a #1 hit record in the UK. C) Swim the English Channel. D) Sail singlehandedly around the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swim the English Channel. 3. In 2015 the IDA designated a 36, 000 hectare site in the Elqui Valley of northern Chile as what? A) An info-communications hub and digital city. B) A target for development funding to enable tourism. C) A Dark Sky Sanctuary. D) An international research centre for water re-use and recycling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Dark Sky Sanctuary. 4. Roger Federer failed to reach the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 2010. When was the previous time that he had failed to do so? A) 2000. B) 2002. C) 1998. D) 2006. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2002. 5. Which of these is a soup that is served cold? A) Broth. B) Tartare. C) Vichyssoise. D) Gruel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vichyssoise. 6. Who discovered Uranus and one of its moons, Titania, between 1781 and 1787? A) Huygens. B) Cassini. C) Herschel. D) Asaph Hall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Herschel. 7. The Babylonians invented the clepsydra. What was it? A) A pump for a well. B) Fine-bladed surgical knife. C) Water clock. D) Swivelling hook for hanging baskets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water clock. 8. The 2010 film "The Tooth Fairy", starring Dwayne Johnson, Julie Andrews and Billy Crystal, concerns a player of which sport? A) Baseball. B) Ice hockey. C) American football. D) Chess. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ice hockey. 9. What nationality was architect Oscar Niemeyer, prominent in the team which designed the United Nations headquarters in New York City and later chief architect of the public buildings for the new Brazilian capital Brasilia? A) Brazilian. B) German. C) Belgian. D) American. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brazilian. 10. Lake Erie is connected to Lake Ontario by which canal? A) Trent-Severn Waterway. B) Caledonian Canal. C) Welland Canal. D) Kiel Canal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Welland Canal. 11. Eddie Murphy starred in a remake of which Jerry Lewis comedy? A) The Doorman. B) The Nutty Professor. C) Bowfinger. D) The Delicate Delinquent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Nutty Professor. 12. What is the most populous country that has English as an official language? A) India. B) Singapore. C) Ghana. D) Belize. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) India. 13. What is the term for a section of a building that runs at right angles to the main body, giving the shape of a "T" or a cross? A) Vestry. B) Chancel. C) Transept. D) Ingle nook. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transept. 14. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, served in what service in World War II? A) Army. B) Navy. C) Air Force. D) Paratroopers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Navy. 15. In November 1983 a bomb was exploded in the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C. What was the reason given? A) Retaliation for US military actions in Grenada and Lebanon. B) Protest at the US-supported bombing of Laos. C) A call for independence for Puerto Rico. D) A claim that the US was plagued by cannibalism and a fictional disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Retaliation for US military actions in Grenada and Lebanon. 16. What style of American Football founded in 2003 is a full-contact 7 a side game where uniforms consist of helmets, shoulder pads, elbow pads, knee pads, bras, and panties? A) AFL Seven a Side. B) Lingerie Football League. C) Gaytime Football. D) The Super Bowl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lingerie Football League. 17. What caused a fire in 1937 in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility? A) Arson. B) A dropped cigar. C) Decaying nitrate film. D) A magnifying glass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decaying nitrate film. 18. What is a popular, although not fully accurate, name for carnotite? A) Brooke-Miller ore. B) Pitchblende. C) Torbern's Toy. D) Yellowcake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yellowcake. 19. The TV series "The Bletchley Circle" (2012-2014) centres on four women reuniting shortly after the end of the Second World War to use their, now longer recognised, skills honed in what field during the war? A) Nursing. B) Driving tractors. C) Making bomb parts. D) Code-breaking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Code-breaking. 20. What is the sclera? A) Connective tissue. B) The insulating cover of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. C) Organic tissue. D) The opaque, fibrous, protective, outer layer of the eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The opaque, fibrous, protective, outer layer of the eye. ← 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