This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 40 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where is Loch Ness? A) Scotland. B) Switzerland. C) Swaziland. D) Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scotland. 2. In the film "Pink Floyd-The Wall" (released in 1982) what role did Bob Geldof, at the time lead vocalist of the Boomtown Rats, play? A) Rock Manager. B) Pink. C) Lover. D) Floyd. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pink. 3. Matsuri, festivals of religious worship and celebration, are a feature of life in what country? A) China. B) The Philippines. C) Japan. D) Mongolia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Japan. 4. According to the Bible, what did Samson kill 1, 000 Philistines with? A) A club. B) His bare hands. C) A sword, 3 cubits long. D) An ass's jawbone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An ass's jawbone. 5. A bean bag is a substitute for what item of furniture? A) Wardrobe. B) Desk. C) Chair. D) Table. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chair. 6. In April 2010, what word used by Robin Williams on "The Late Show with David Letterman" caused the Australian Prime Minister to respond in such a way that Alabama newspapers demanded he apologise? A) Galah. B) Wombat. C) Antipodes. D) Redneck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Redneck. 7. Where was the Chacaltaya glacier, one of the highest in South America, which was 0.22 km2 (0.085 sq mi) in 1940 and effectively gone in 2009? A) Colombia. B) Bolivia. C) Venezuela. D) Peru. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bolivia. 8. Where is the Arafura Sea? A) Between Jamaica and Cuba. B) Between Greece and Italy. C) Between Finland and Russia. D) Between Australia and New Guinea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Between Australia and New Guinea. 9. What does the Chytrid fungus particularly affect? A) Chronically damp toes. B) Potatoes. C) Wild cats. D) Amphibians. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amphibians. 10. During the cycling road race at the Rome Games of 1960, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen fell from his bicycle. Which of these was not a result of that? A) Lance Armstrong won. B) He later died. C) He was found to be under the influence of amphetamines. D) The first Olympic death linked to doping. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lance Armstrong won. 11. What term is familiarly applied to the university where one received one's education? A) Mater Misericordiae. B) Alma Fudd. C) Alma Mater. D) Mater Mundi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alma Mater. 12. What is a description of the process of frying an egg? A) Endothermy. B) Exothermy. C) Enthalpy. D) Combustion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Endothermy. 13. At what age did James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, Ireland and Wales as well, succeed to the Scottish throne? A) 50. B) Two months before he was born. C) 70. D) 13 months. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 13 months. 14. Canadian-born Lionel Blair was particularly known in which discipline? A) Swimming. B) Dance. C) Boxing. D) Ice hockey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dance. 15. Which of these countries lie along, beside and close to the Scandes? A) Algeria and Peru. B) Australia. C) Japan. D) Norway and Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Norway and Sweden. 16. What is the name for a wasps' nest? A) Hive. B) Vespers. C) Apiary. D) Vespiary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vespiary. 17. Brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier were the inventors of a style of what? A) Hot air balloon. B) Dancing. C) Handbag. D) Telephone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hot air balloon. 18. Where would you find a person called a seamer? A) On a sports pitch. B) In a clothes factory. C) In a factory for tin cans. D) In a coal mine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On a sports pitch. 19. Where was the 1994 earthquake, magnitude MW of 8.2, resulting from the Nazca plate's being pushed beneath the mantle of the South American continent? A) Bolivia. B) Chile. C) Sumba. D) Northern Peru. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bolivia. 20. The holocaust carried out by Hitler during World War II is frequently described solely in terms of the death of nearly 6 million Jews. However, in addition to this appalling figure the holocaust included the focussed slaughter of many other non-combatants; which of these is not recorded as part of this? A) 5.5 to 7m Ukrainians. B) Quarter to half a million Romany. C) Close to half a million Moroccan negro. D) 3 million Poles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Close to half a million Moroccan negro. ← 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