This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 435 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 435 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In a card game, what is "taking a trick" ? A) Sneaking a look at other players' cards. B) Deceiving a player into not playing their winning card. C) Playing the winning card in a round where all players have played their card. D) Doing cartwheels while waiting for a turn to play. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Playing the winning card in a round where all players have played their card. 2. Where is a lunula found? A) Circling a small planet. B) At the base of the nails of a person's hands and feet. C) On a bean. D) In the back of the mouth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the base of the nails of a person's hands and feet. 3. How many years lapsed after Pierre de Fermat formulated his "Last Theorem" in 1637, until the last part of an accepted proof was published? A) 358. B) None, a proof has not been published yet. C) 378. D) 363. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 358. 4. What is the Australian English word that means a small lake, such as is formed when the path of a creek or river changes, leaving a dead end? A) Billabong. B) Coodgee. C) Coolibah. D) Murrumbidgee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Billabong. 5. After appearing in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", Jennifer Grey starred opposite Patrick Swayze as Frances "Baby" Houseman in what 1987 film? A) National Velvet. B) Avatar. C) Gone With the Wind. D) Dirty Dancing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dirty Dancing. 6. The urethra in the female human body is a channel to drain what? A) Faeces. B) Bile. C) Urine. D) Gall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Urine. 7. What is next in the series:London, Orlando, Toronto, Sydney ..... ? A) Reykjavik. B) Dubai. C) Vila Real de Santo António. D) The Hague. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Hague. 8. Indycar sportsman Scott Dixon, who won his first Indy championship in 2000 and whose ratio of wins to career starts is the best of all-time regular drivers in the IRL, comes from where? A) Japan. B) New Zealand. C) Alaska. D) New Guinea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) New Zealand. 9. Which lighthouse, the fourth to be built on the site since 1698, is 9 statute miles (14 km) south west of Rame Head on the Cornish / Devon coast of Britain? A) Eddystone. B) Bishop Rock. C) Beachy Head. D) Trinity House. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eddystone. 10. Who was the "fourth man" in the scandal that rocked the British Government between 1951 and 1963 when it was discovered that members of the Foreign Office and Intelligence Services were spies for the Russians? A) Donald MacLean. B) Kim Philby. C) Guy Burgess. D) Anthony Blunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anthony Blunt. 11. What does actor Idris Elba credit with providing an special impetus to starting his professional career? A) London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art. B) His uncle. C) Ghana Union. D) The Prince's Trust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Prince's Trust. 12. What city, founded around 1048 by King Harald III, was largely destroyed by fire and rebuilt from 1624 by King Christian IV and named Christiania, and reverted to its original name in 1925? A) Brussels. B) Oslo. C) Copenhagen. D) Bergen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oslo. 13. The English cities of Gloucester and Worcester are on which river? A) Avon. B) Thames. C) Hudson. D) River Severn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) River Severn. 14. What is a term for bodily movements, often unconscious, made seemingly to influence the path of an object after it has left the control of the mover? A) Stream flux. B) Follow through. C) Body English. D) Kinetic suggestion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Body English. 15. Scurf is another name for what? A) Scrape mark or abrasion. B) Scurvy. C) Dandruff. D) Sea spray. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dandruff. 16. Which of these was named after Thomas Lord? A) The Lord Chamberlain. B) The Lord's Prayer. C) Lord's Cricket Ground. D) The Lord of the Isles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord's Cricket Ground. 17. Which of these countries does not play test cricket? A) Australia. B) Sri Lanka. C) China. D) Pakistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) China. 18. According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of epic poetry? A) Polymnia. B) Urania. C) Calliope. D) Erato. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calliope. 19. Which of these is not one of 4 kinds of bacteria? A) Spirillum. B) Coccus. C) Bacillus. D) Gladiolus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gladiolus. 20. What is Coade stone? A) A green form of topaz. B) A tinted granite found in northern Norway. C) A fired mix of clay and minerals used to create "stone" statuary. D) A volcanic glass. 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