This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 408 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 408 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which US television series created by Rod Serling was released from 1959 to 1964 to continuing critical acclaim (and revived later), with themes drawn from the surreal, science fiction and from Kafka-esque situations? A) Star Trek. B) The Twilight Zone. C) The Invisible Man. D) The Prisoner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Twilight Zone. 2. What is the common name of the endangered Techmarscincus jigurru, usually found above 1400 m on the slopes of Queensland's highest mountains, which was discovered in 1981? A) The McKee Sœur butterfly. B) The Atalie Colman salamander. C) The Bartle Frere skink. D) The Sheana Marjoram. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Bartle Frere skink. 3. The city was capital of the 17th century Dutch Brazil and is known for the reefs protecting its harbour; which is it? A) Porto Alegre. B) Rio de Janeiro. C) São Paulo. D) Recife. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Recife. 4. The 19th century British caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank was popular and widely known for his satire and his book illustrations, in particular of the books of which author? A) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. B) Wilkie Collins. C) Charles Dickens. D) Lewis Carroll. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Dickens. 5. Who received the first Nobel prize for literature to be awarded to a British writer? A) George Bernard Shaw. B) J M Barrie. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) W B Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rudyard Kipling. 6. The first overseas property owned by the government of the USA, a US legation (consulate), was in which city? A) London, England. B) Paris, France. C) Tangier, Morocco. D) Dublin, Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tangier, Morocco. 7. When was Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the Northern Territory of Australia declared a World Heritage Site? A) 1945. B) 1987. C) 2001. D) 1973. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1987. 8. What is the Mufti of Jerusalem? A) A form of dress. B) A day of celebration. C) An Islamic official. D) A restaurant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An Islamic official. 9. What competition was introduced into the 1912 Summer Olympics? A) Cheese rolling. B) Street sports. C) Roller skating. D) Art. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Art. 10. Steel is made mainly of iron, but although the alloy can include other elements like nickel, molybdenum, manganese, titanium, boron, cobalt, or vanadium, what element must it also have in order to be steel? A) Chromium. B) Carbon. C) Coke. D) Calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carbon. 11. An optometrist is concerned with what part of the body? A) Heart. B) Eyes. C) Liver. D) Feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eyes. 12. What is sclerosis? A) Paralysis. B) Destruction of fatty tissue surrounding nerves. C) Hardening or thickening of tissue. D) Tingling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hardening or thickening of tissue. 13. In which general direction do the rivers in Chile flow? A) Northwards. B) Eastwards. C) Westwards. D) Southwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Westwards. 14. Who was the first person to sail through the North East Passage north of Russia from Europe to the Pacific Ocean in 1878/79? A) James Burrough. B) Baron Adolf Nordenskiöld. C) William Barents. D) Henry Hudson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baron Adolf Nordenskiöld. 15. John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their famous "bed ins" for peace In which two cities in 1969? A) Gibraltar and Chicago. B) London and Sydney. C) Amsterdam and Montreal. D) Delhi and Johannesburg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amsterdam and Montreal. 16. What is the common name for Herpes Zoster? A) Cat scratch fever. B) Cold sores. C) Shingles. D) Croup. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shingles. 17. Which of these terms comes from drag racing? A) Wipeout. B) Flame out. C) Bowl out. D) Strike out. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flame out. 18. What was the name given to actions by Timothy McVeigh on 19 April 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building? A) Black Friday. B) The Oklahoma City bombing. C) The Philadelphia Sniper. D) The Bungee Spectacular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Oklahoma City bombing. 19. What is the disorder OCD? A) Ormond-Callaghan Disorder. B) Over Compensating Drive. C) Orderly Conduct Demonisation. D) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. 20. The work of French playwright Racine appears in which modern English classic by A.S. Byatt? A) The tetralogy The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. B) The Game. C) Ragnarok:The End of the Gods. D) The Biographer's Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The tetralogy The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. ← 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