This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 415 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 415 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is Malay for "man of the woods" ? A) Chimpanzee. B) Orang Utan. C) Gorilla. D) Manatee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Orang Utan. 2. The most famous statement of which 17th century French philosopher is "Cogito ergo sum" ? A) David Hume. B) René Descartes. C) Gottfried Leibniz. D) Baruch Spinoza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) René Descartes. 3. Whose was the first vaccine against the pandemic disease, COVID-19, to be approved for use? A) Gamelaya. B) Pfizer-BioNTech. C) Sinovac. D) Moderna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sinovac. 4. Which of the soil types described by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is most common world-wide? A) Leptosol. B) Cambisol. C) Arenosol. D) Acrisol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leptosol. 5. Who married British actress and producer Trudi Styler in 1992? A) Edge. B) Sting. C) Slash. D) Pavarotti. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sting. 6. According to Tennyson in "The Passing of Arthur", which knight stayed with the dying King Arthur to the end and threw the sword Excalibur into the lake? A) Bedivere. B) Lancelot. C) Kay. D) Gawain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bedivere. 7. Canadian composer André Gagnon, known for fusion of classical and pop and for composing for television, theatre and film, composed which opera which premiered in 1990? A) Nelligan. B) Mario and the Magician. C) Erewon. D) The Iron Road. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nelligan. 8. What is the "litmus" which is used in litmus paper to detect acids or alkalis? A) Lapis lazuli. B) Seaweed. C) Sap in certain barks. D) Dyes extracted from lichens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dyes extracted from lichens. 9. A major Middle Eastern city is ..... ? A) Bayreuth. B) Beirut. C) Beira. D) Bayrakh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beirut. 10. What best describes the majority of land in Peru? A) Coastal marshland. B) Foothills and flat land covered with jungle, east of the Andes mountain range. C) Desert. D) Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foothills and flat land covered with jungle, east of the Andes mountain range. 11. In medicine, which suffix denotes "inflammation of" ? A) -itis. B) -ology. C) -opsy. D) -ectomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -itis. 12. Who founded the 1960s R 'n' B group "Steam Packet" with vocalist Rod Stewart and went on to form "Trinity", who Julie Driscoll sometimes sang with? A) Alan Price. B) Georgie Fame. C) Graham Bond. D) Brian Auger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brian Auger. 13. At the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, what initially distinguished the Japanese Prime Minister's introduction of the next Olympic host city? A) His suit was made from a Japanese flag. B) He came from a large green pipe dressed as the video game character Super Mario. C) He wore a cape printed with an image of Fujiyama. D) He balanced the Olympic rings on a red ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He came from a large green pipe dressed as the video game character Super Mario. 14. Glenn Miller, famous as a band leader in the 1930s & 1940s, played which instrument? A) Trombone. B) Clarinet. C) Trumpet. D) Guitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trombone. 15. Which playwright and screenwriter, particularly known for the play "Antigone" (1944), was considered for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, and in 1980 was the first recipient of the newly established Grand Prix du Théâtre de l'Académie française? A) Jean Paul Sartre. B) Jean Anouilh. C) Antoine de St Exupéry. D) Albert Camus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jean Anouilh. 16. It a pig is termed "tantony" what is meant? A) One ear sits differently from the other. B) It is the runt of the litter, or the one who follows people around. C) It is particularly large and well-grown. D) It is multi-coloured. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is the runt of the litter, or the one who follows people around. 17. Since the start of the present ice age about 2.5 million years ago at least how many severe glacial periods have there been? A) 2. B) 5. C) 10. D) 17. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 17. 18. The term "Teutonic" means relating to what country? A) Germany. B) Norway. C) Spain. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Germany. 19. How did the Balfour Declaration of 1926 affect Canada, New Zealand, Australia and other dominions of the British Empire? A) Set out trading protocols between the dominions. B) Established the Commonwealth of Nations. C) Declared them to be autonomous communities within the British Empire equal in status with the UK. D) Set out supremacy of the UK Privy Court in their legal systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Declared them to be autonomous communities within the British Empire equal in status with the UK. 20. What are looming, towering, stooping, and sinking? A) Mirages. B) Refraction phenomena. C) Architectural design features. D) Cloud formations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refraction phenomena. ← 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