This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 421 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 421 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. On 29 March 2017 the United Kingdom did what? A) Opened the XXX Summer Olympics. B) Held a general election. C) Triggered article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, starting formal talks with the EU for the UK to leave it. D) Declared a nation-wide emergency due to extreme summer temperatures. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Triggered article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, starting formal talks with the EU for the UK to leave it. 2. "Gastric" applies to which part of the body? A) Hand. B) Head. C) Stomach. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stomach. 3. What is most likely to be food for a tenrec? A) Durian fruit. B) Krill. C) Termites. D) Antelopes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Termites. 4. From what game is the Yoshi video game series a spinoff? A) Final Fantasy. B) Super Mario Bros. C) Tomb Raider. D) Spyro:Year of the Dragon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Super Mario Bros. 5. Which country declared itself to be independent from Great Britain on 2 July 1776? A) Australia. B) India. C) Canada. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) USA. 6. What is the Great Karoo, or Karroo? A) A giant kangaroo which lived in Australia during the Pleistocene. B) A desert in central Australia. C) A religious statue reputed to be found in central Ethiopia. D) A high, semi-arid plateau basin in South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A high, semi-arid plateau basin in South Africa. 7. Who married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones in 2000? A) Douglas Bader. B) Jack Douglas. C) Kirk Douglas. D) Michael Douglas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Michael Douglas. 8. By what name is an Ornithorhynchus better known? A) Grumpy person. B) Wombat. C) Platypus. D) Bird fancier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Platypus. 9. In a 2022 British TV series written by Chris Lang dramatising a real-life situation and attempt to claim life insurance, one of the characters fakes his death in what? A) A train crash. B) A fire. C) A war. D) A canoeing accident. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A canoeing accident. 10. What does the Tokyo-based Project Persephone focus on? A) Interpretation of Greek mythology in the light of UFO culture. B) Evolvable biotechnology in space. C) Genetically modified rice varieties. D) Women in business. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evolvable biotechnology in space. 11. What date is famous for four co-ordinated terrorist attacks in the USA on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the United States Capitol? A) September 11 2005. B) September 11 2001. C) September 11 2009. D) September 11 2012. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) September 11 2001. 12. On 27 April 2010, the debt rating of which country was decreased to 'junk' status by Standard & Poor's, amidst fears of default by the government? A) Portugal. B) Greece. C) Brazil. D) Zimbabwe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greece. 13. What is Valerie Adams's profession? A) Handbag designer. B) Singer. C) Athlete. D) Politician. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Athlete. 14. On Monday 20 July 2015 what happened in Washington, USA, for the first time in 54 years? A) The Cuban flag was raised over the newly re-opened Cuban Embassy. B) A student scaled the Washington Monument. C) A chimpanzees' tea party on the White House lawn. D) A lightning strike on NASA headquarters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Cuban flag was raised over the newly re-opened Cuban Embassy. 15. Who was the female lead in the film "Casablanca" ? A) Ingrid Bergman. B) Katharine Hepburn. C) Greta Garbo. D) Lana Turner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ingrid Bergman. 16. Which of these is made from the liver of a goose? A) Lapsang souchon. B) Pâté de foie gras. C) Canelloni. D) Nasi goreng. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pâté de foie gras. 17. Lúcio Costa was the principal urban planner, Oscar Niemeyer was the principal architect, and Roberto Burle Marx was the landscape designer for which purpose-built capital city? A) Abuja, Nigeria. B) Washington D.C., USA. C) Canberra, Australia. D) Brasilia, Brazil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brasilia, Brazil. 18. The statistical study of human populations is known as what? A) Demography. B) Demology. C) Demotics. D) Demoscene. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Demography. 19. In which of these sports would you encounter a "baulk line" ? A) Bowls. B) Billiards. C) Darts. D) Table tennis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Billiards. 20. What is the coastal region of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Israel known as? A) The Gold Coast. B) The Levant. C) The Riviera. D) Devon. 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