This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 457 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 457 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Tinnitus affects which part of the body? A) Lungs. B) Feet. C) Ears. D) Knees. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ears. 2. Which of these is a book by Jacqueline Susann? A) The Female Eunuch. B) Valley of the Dolls. C) 84 Charing Cross Road. D) Barbarella. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Valley of the Dolls. 3. Which of these states of the USA extends the furthest West? A) California. B) New Mexico. C) Texas. D) Nevada. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) California. 4. In which year did George Bush succeed Ronald Reagan as US President, the US ratified the Berne convention on copyright, Time Inc and Warner Communications merged to form Time-Warner, and the Exxon Valdez spilled oil in Alaska? A) 1989. B) 1991. C) 1987. D) 1985. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1989. 5. The ratio of the input voltage to the output voltage of a transformer is directly proportional to what? A) The size of the container that it is in. B) The number of turns in the windings of the input and output coils. C) The humidity at the time. D) Altitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The number of turns in the windings of the input and output coils. 6. What is 52 pick up "played" with? A) A lacrosse ball. B) A pack of playing cards. C) A pelota basket. D) Scrabble tiles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A pack of playing cards. 7. Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret ( 1879-1957), composer, musicologist, and author, was most closely associated with what region? A) Auvergne. B) Rhône-Alpes. C) Aquitaine. D) Languedoc-Roussillon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Auvergne. 8. Who released the albums "Hounds of Love" and "The Red Shoes" ? A) Enya. B) Annie Lennox. C) Chrissie Hynde. D) Kate Bush. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kate Bush. 9. Ed Moses (United States) and Martina Moravcová (Slovakia) won World Cups for which sport in 2001/2002 and 2003/2004? A) Swimming. B) Tennis (mixed doubles). C) Rowing (coxless pairs). D) Pairs Figure Skating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Swimming. 10. First held in 1603, a contest takes place annually in Musselburgh, Scotland, in what sport? A) Caber tossing. B) Archery. C) Bowls. D) Shove ha'penny. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Archery. 11. What is the longest continuously-serving state capital in the USA? A) Santa Fe, New Mexico. B) Annapolis, Maryland. C) Boston, Massachusetts. D) Providence, Rhode Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boston, Massachusetts. 12. On 20 April 2020 the oil market in the USA saw what historic occurrence? A) Oil's selling price was negative. B) US oil producers agreed to cease production totally for a fortnight. C) The US joined OPEC. D) A power blackout stopped trading for 24 hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oil's selling price was negative. 13. What is the name of the capital city of Bermuda? A) Nassau. B) Saint John's. C) Saint-Pierre. D) Hamilton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamilton. 14. When were the French and Indian Wars (or the Intercolonial Wars), of which Queen Anne's War was one, fought in North America? A) 1700 to 1713. B) 1754 to 1763. C) Between 1688 and 1763. D) Between 1701 and 1776. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Between 1688 and 1763. 15. What live in an artificial environment known as a formicarium? A) Reptiles. B) Fish. C) Ants. D) Gerbils. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ants. 16. According to tradition, elephants have good what? A) Eyesight. B) Manners. C) Memories. D) Skin tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Memories. 17. Which is the film, about canine reincarnation and the relationships between father and son and master and dog, based on an Alan Sharp adaptation of a short novel by Irish author Lord Dunsany? A) Lady and the Tramp. B) Danny, Champion of the World. C) Dean Spanley. D) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dean Spanley. 18. Scottish stonemason, architect and civil engineer, Thomas Telford is well-known for designing the Menai Suspension Bridge and also for a design known as the "Telford ..... " what? A) Screw. B) Aqueduct. C) Church. D) Pump. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Church. 19. Where is Oakland? A) California, USA. B) New Zealand. C) Sherwood Forest, UK. D) Norway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) California, USA. 20. James, son of Mary Queen of Scots (who was executed for treason during the reign of Elizabeth I) was the first to use which title? A) King of Great Britain. B) Defender of the Faith. C) Prince of Wales. D) Black Watch. 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