This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 445 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 445 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. For more than 200 years Hatchards in the UK has sold what? A) Bicycles. B) Biscuits. C) Banners. D) Books. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Books. 2. A German naturalist and artist, working latterly in the Netherlands, creating seminal paintings of flora and fauna including the full cycle of an insect in its plant and other context, was who? A) Pedanius Dioscorides (c. 40-90 AD). B) Ephraim Chambers (c.1680-1740). C) Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). D) Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). 3. What was the purpose of explorer Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776? A) Claim possession for Britain of as many Pacific islands as possible. B) Observe the transit of Venus. C) Investigate volcanic activity on the Hawaiian islands. D) Discover a northern passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Discover a northern passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic. 4. Where was the Dust Bowl, the period of prolonged dust storms and severe drought in the 20th century? A) Mexico. B) The prairies of central and southern USA and of Saskatchewan, Canada. C) Algeria. D) Northern Territory, Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The prairies of central and southern USA and of Saskatchewan, Canada. 5. What comedy farce by English playwright Joe Orton was first staged at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1969, after his death in 9 August 1967? A) Loot. B) The Good and Faithful Servant. C) What the Butler Saw. D) Entertaining Mr Sloane. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What the Butler Saw. 6. Which of these is an independent country? A) Costa Blanca. B) Costa del Sol. C) Costa Brava. D) Costa Rica. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Costa Rica. 7. What was the name of the man who was pictured facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, in 1989? A) Vladimir Putin. B) Hu Yaobang. C) Deng Xiaoping. D) It has not been confirmed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It has not been confirmed. 8. What was a notable event at the 1990 Australian Open tennis tournament? A) World number 9 John McEnroe was disqualified in his 4th round match. B) Steffi Graf achieved the Golden Slam. C) The tournament was held for the first time at Flinders Park, later Melbourne Park. D) The tournament was played for the first time on hard court instead of lawn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) World number 9 John McEnroe was disqualified in his 4th round match. 9. What is the national flower of Malaysia? A) Hibiscus. B) Jasmine. C) Lotus. D) Bougainvillea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hibiscus. 10. What is Stickler Syndrome? A) Abnormal attention to minute detail. B) A congenital disorder of connective tissue in the body, specifically collagen. C) Chronic muscle rigidity. D) Disorder of platelet function. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A congenital disorder of connective tissue in the body, specifically collagen. 11. Who played Ava Gardner in "The Aviator" ? A) Keira Knightley SP. B) Kate Winslet. C) Kate Beckinsale. D) Catherine Zeta-Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kate Beckinsale. 12. Which Saint's Day is 1 March? A) St Patrick. B) St Andrew. C) St George. D) St David. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) St David. 13. Ordo Virtutum composed in 1151 and thought to be one of the oldest pieces of liturgical drama, set to music and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, was written by whom? A) Odo of Cluny. B) Pope Gregory I. C) Hildegard of Bingen. D) Hucbald. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hildegard of Bingen. 14. Which TV series had the slogan "The Truth Is Out There" ? A) The X Files. B) Tales of the Unexpected. C) Lost. D) Big Brother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The X Files. 15. Which series of films were numbered 11, 12 & 13, without any "episodes" numbered 10 or below? A) The French Connection. B) Charlie's Angels. C) Star Wars. D) Oceans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oceans. 16. What is a mandoline? A) A kitchen utensil used for slicing and cutting. B) A musical instrument in the lute family. C) A village in the Rajasthan state of India. D) A type of Chinese popular music. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A kitchen utensil used for slicing and cutting. 17. In which decade was John F Kennedy born? A) 1930s. B) 1940s. C) 1920s. D) 1910s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1910s. 18. According to a short story by Washington Irving (1819), who escaped his nagging wife by wandering into New York's Catskill Mountains, fell asleep, and returned to his village, where he found that 20 years had passed? A) Johnny Appleseed. B) Rumpelstiltskin. C) John Brown. D) Rip Van Winkle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rip Van Winkle. 19. According to John Dalton (1766-1844) chemical reactions happen between what to form new substances A) Atoms. B) Elements. C) Isotopes. D) Neutrinos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atoms. 20. What word is used to mean the dead skin at the base of a fingernail? A) Clavicle. B) Reticule. C) Cubicle. D) Cuticle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cuticle. ← 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