This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 423 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 423 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to Virgil's Latin epic poem "The Aeneid", who, during the Trojan War, made a wooden horse and filled it with soldiers that the Trojans took through the gates of Troy? A) Scots. B) Greeks. C) Mexicans. D) Zulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greeks. 2. How many sides does a dodecahedron have? A) 200. B) 20. C) 12. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12. 3. When was Dartchery accepted as a Paralympic sport? A) 1984. B) It has never been accepted. C) 1954. D) 1960. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1960. 4. If someone wanted to cook a custard or terrine, what could they use to provide a gentle and uniform heat? A) Colander. B) Baster. C) Mandoline. D) Bain-marie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bain-marie. 5. What does British sculptor Sir Antony Gormley's work, "Another Place", consist of? A) Granite sculpture of a man's figure standing in the sea, Ranfjord, Norway. B) Tetrahedral units assembled using a random walk algorithm. C) 100 iron sculptures of men, installed along Crosby Beach near Liverpool. D) 100 iron sculptures of men, installed at 2, 039 m above sea level in the Austrian Alps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 100 iron sculptures of men, installed along Crosby Beach near Liverpool. 6. In 2017, SpaceX, the company headed by the inventor Elon Musk, did what? A) Sent a spacecraft to the International Space Station. B) Went into receivership. C) Conducted the first successful re-launch and landing of the first stage of an orbital class rocket. D) Launched a commercially viable nitrogen-powered vehicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conducted the first successful re-launch and landing of the first stage of an orbital class rocket. 7. Under what name is Company Bahadur better known? A) The British East India Company. B) The Dutch East India Company. C) The Royal African Company. D) The South Sea Company. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The British East India Company. 8. "Easter Parade" (1948), starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, featured songs by whom? A) Irving Berlin. B) Cole Porter. C) Burt Bacharach & Hal David. D) Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irving Berlin. 9. What name did Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe perform under? A) King Oliver. B) Dizzy Gillespie. C) Jelly Roll Morton. D) Prince. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jelly Roll Morton. 10. In 2003, Rebecca Wade became the first female editor of which British newspaper? A) Daily Mail. B) Daily Telegraph. C) Sun. D) Guardian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun. 11. Where would a sports competitor use a snaffle? A) In a horse's mouth, attached to reins. B) To secure firearms not currently in use. C) Hidden in their team uniform, to identify the person to whom it belongs. D) On skates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a horse's mouth, attached to reins. 12. Who was in charge of the ransacking of much of northern Italy in 452 AD? A) Kublai Khan. B) Attila the Hun. C) Genghis Khan. D) Hannibal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Attila the Hun. 13. Why was the theme sung at the opening of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona delivered in pre-recorded form? A) There was an epidemic of flu and laryngitis among the performers. B) It proved impossible to assemble the full orchestra in time. C) One of the singers died 8 months earlier. D) The Olympics organisers preferred the video. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One of the singers died 8 months earlier. 14. What is a cyclotron? A) A city built in a circle pattern. B) A bicycle park. C) One revolution of a planet around its sun. D) Accelerator for atomic particles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Accelerator for atomic particles. 15. How far north does Canadian-governed territory extend? A) 41o North of the equator. B) 66o North of the equator. C) 84o North of the equator. D) 30o North of the equator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 84o North of the equator. 16. Which town on the Isle of Wight has hosted an annual Regatta since 1851? A) Bournemouth. B) Cowes Bay. C) Cowes. D) Gosport. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cowes. 17. Which 19th century French artist is best known for his illustrations for the "Bible", "Paradise Lost", Dante's "Inferno", "Don Quixote" and the works of Rabelais and Balzac? A) M C Escher. B) Gustave Doré. C) Aubrey Beardsley. D) Heath Robinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gustave Doré. 18. Attila the Hun died on which auspicious day in 453CE? A) Christmas Day. B) His wife's birthday. C) His wedding night. D) The day his son was born. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His wedding night. 19. What was a Roman name for France? A) Lutetia. B) Gallia. C) Franca. D) Francus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gallia. 20. Which of these is a park in Sydney, Australia? A) Green Park. B) Hyde Park. C) St. James's Park. D) Kensington Gardens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyde Park. ← 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