This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 432 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 432 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Danny and Sandy are the main characters in which musical? A) Grease. B) Oklahoma!. C) Hair. D) The Rocky Horror Show. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grease. 2. Whose motto is "Je Maintiendrai" ? A) New Caledonia. B) Burkina Faso. C) The Netherlands. D) The Louvre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Netherlands. 3. The game of Rummikub, invented in Israel in the 1930s, can be played with either tiles or cards; which describes best how many are needed? A) 32. B) 53 pairs. C) 106. D) 12 sets of 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 53 pairs. 4. Where is the incus found in the human body? A) The big toe. B) The ring finger. C) Ear. D) The base of the spine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ear. 5. Where in the human body can a Phrygian Cap be found? A) On the elbow. B) At the tip of the appendix. C) In some gall bladders. D) In the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In some gall bladders. 6. What function does a pistil serve? A) It is the female reproductive part of a flower. B) A pipeline for digital bio-information data. C) It fires a flower's dehiscent seeds. D) It protects a plant from parasites and other enemies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is the female reproductive part of a flower. 7. A sabre is what type of weapon? A) Rifle. B) Spear. C) Sword. D) Crossbow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sword. 8. The mandrill is the word's largest what? A) Monkey. B) Cat. C) Dog. D) Eagle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monkey. 9. Which Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under a parabola, and provided formulas for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and a system for expressing very large numbers? A) Cicero. B) Pythagoras. C) Euclid. D) Archimedes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Archimedes. 10. What function do rhizomes perform for a plant? A) Store a plant's starches and proteins underground. B) Extract nutrient for a plant from dry earth. C) Establish horizontal connection between plants. D) Store a plant's seeds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Store a plant's starches and proteins underground. 11. Alfonso de Albuquerque took areas of which modern day country for Portugal in the early 1500s? A) Vietnam. B) USA. C) Mexico. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) India. 12. Which of these would you expect never to be prescribed for someone suffering from haemophilia? A) Warfarin. B) Tincture of arnica. C) Aspirin. D) Antihistamine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Warfarin. 13. Which of these darts scores is the lowest? A) Inner bull. B) Double top. C) Treble ten. D) Outer bull. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outer bull. 14. In the 1960s, Margaret Rutherford starred in four films as which famous detective? A) Cordelia Gray. B) Maude Silver. C) Kay Scarpetta. D) Miss Marple. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Miss Marple. 15. What mechanical device allows the wheels of a vehicle to turn at different speeds when cornering? A) Distributor. B) Differential. C) Anemometer. D) Gearbox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Differential. 16. What word is applied to the cutting down of trees in, e.g., the Amazon basin? A) Deforestation. B) Deforestkelley. C) Deflowering. D) Treefenestration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deforestation. 17. Where is the term leitmotif traditionally used? A) In music and books to refer to a recurrent theme. B) In a fraud investigation. C) As one of the details in a Reichsbanknote. D) In stage lighting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In music and books to refer to a recurrent theme. 18. In the 17th century, who invented the measurement called the "chain" used in surveying, which is made up of 100 "links" ? A) Edmund Gunther. B) Francis Beaufort. C) Robert Trollope. D) Walter Raleigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edmund Gunther. 19. What links the UK television programmes Dr Who and Lewis? A) They were both commissioned by BBC Wales. B) Kevin Whately, one of the leads in Lewis, played a dalek in an early Dr Who episode. C) The theme tunes were composed by the same person. D) Respective leads in the two series, Billie Piper and Laurence Fox, were married. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Respective leads in the two series, Billie Piper and Laurence Fox, were married. 20. Which of these was a Swiss painter of German nationality whose style was influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealism, who taught at the German Bauhaus school of art and architecture? A) Peter DΓΌrt. B) Paul Klee. C) Mathew Urth. D) Luke Loame. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paul Klee. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books