This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 436 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 436 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Mastitis is a complaint affecting what? A) Dairy cows. B) Hydroelectric dams. C) Automated production lines. D) Broadcasting aerials. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dairy cows. 2. Swiss legendary hero William Tell was instrumental in rescuing his land from the tyranny of which country in 1307? A) Mongolia. B) Turkey. C) Austria. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Austria. 3. The score for the Broadway musical "Kismet" was adapted from the music of which composer? A) Borodin. B) Beethoven. C) Bartók. D) Bizet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Borodin. 4. What does a ceilometer measure? A) Composition of vehicle exhaust fumes. B) Height of ceiling surfaces in a room. C) Thickness of fish scales. D) Cloud height and overall cloud thickness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cloud height and overall cloud thickness. 5. In what sport would one use a jigger board? A) Travelling chess. B) Surfing. C) Darts. D) Woodchopping. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Woodchopping. 6. The enclosed inland saltwater body of water, the Caspian Sea is estimated to contain what proportion of the world's inland surface water? A) 0.10%. B) One tenth. C) One third. D) Seven eighths. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One third. 7. What is the term for playing a piece of music in a key other that in which it is written? A) Disposition. B) Perfect Pitch. C) Allocation. D) Transposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transposition. 8. What word is traditionally applied to clothes and linen collected by a woman before her marriage? A) Trousseau. B) Gateau. C) Poncho. D) Trudeau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trousseau. 9. What contest, held between 24 teams, was played in Dubai between 5 and 7 March 2009, and was won by Wales? A) World Underwater Hockey Championship. B) Orienteering World Cup. C) Rugby Sevens World Cup. D) World Baseball Classic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rugby Sevens World Cup. 10. Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the start of World War I? A) Herbert Asquith. B) Andrew Bonar Law. C) Stanley Baldwin. D) David Lloyd George. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Herbert Asquith. 11. Lake Neuchatel is in which country? A) France. B) Germany. C) Switzerland. D) Austria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Switzerland. 12. What word best describes the form of government in which all power is vested in one person? A) Autocracy. B) Democracy. C) Anarchy. D) Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autocracy. 13. Which recording plays as the first song of the new year in Times Square? A) "New York, New York" by Frank Sinatra. B) "Auld Lang Syne" by Guy Lombardo's The Royal Canadians. C) "Sunday in New York" by Peter Nero. D) "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Auld Lang Syne" by Guy Lombardo's The Royal Canadians. 14. Ayahuasca, a tea prepared from a flowering vine in the Amazon and used for healing ceremonies, contains which of these? A) THC. B) DMT. C) Quinine. D) Acetylsalicylic acid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) DMT. 15. Erik Satie's three Gymnopédies were written in 1888 for which musical instrument? A) French horn. B) Clarinet. C) Viola. D) Piano. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Piano. 16. Only certain cheeses can be called "Stilton"; one of the factors is in which English counties it is made. Which of these is NOT one of them? A) Staffordshire. B) Derbyshire. C) Nottinghamshire. D) Leicestershire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Staffordshire. 17. The character created by O. Henry in his 1907 short story "The Caballero's Way" formed the basis, although considerably softened, for the main character in what 1950s US TV series? A) Fury. B) Buffalo Bill, Jr. C) Casey Jones. D) The Cisco Kid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Cisco Kid. 18. Which English all-female pop trio based in London, consisting of Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen, was formed in 1998 by original members Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan? A) Destiny's Child. B) The Dixie Chicks. C) Beverley Sisters. D) Sugababes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sugababes. 19. What is the name of Morocco's capital, which is 60 miles north of Casablanca? A) Tobruk. B) Tripoli. C) Rabat. D) Cairo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rabat. 20. During a speech in January 1992, then-president George H. W. Bush mentioned that he wanted to "make American families a lot more like ..... which family? ..... and a lot less like the Simpsons" . A) The Partridge Family. B) The Cowsills. C) The Brady Bunch. D) The Waltons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Waltons. ← 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