This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 476 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 476 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word means to move a camera, lighting effect or sound effect from side to side? A) Tilt. B) Pan. C) Fade. D) Cut. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pan. 2. Polydactyly in people means someone has what? A) Many freckles. B) Fingers fused together. C) Multiple three-syllable feet in their poetry. D) Extra fingers and/or toes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extra fingers and/or toes. 3. Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) composed a large body of sacred and secular music, particularly noted for the development of the chorale prelude, the fugue and what other music? A) Counter tenor vocal quartet. B) Piano. C) Baroque string quartet. D) Organ. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organ. 4. In USA, Canada and New Zealand, days highlighted in May, November and April respectively all commemorate what? A) Emancipation from rule by Great Britain. B) Members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty. C) Decimalisation. D) Treaty with indigenous peoples. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty. 5. In which award-winning 1985 film do the two protagonists fall in love and then are hired to kill each other? A) Witness. B) Prizzi's Honor. C) Out of Africa. D) Places in the Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prizzi's Honor. 6. Which American explorer claimed to have been the first person, on 6 April 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole? A) Ernest Shackleton. B) Roald Amundsen. C) Robert Falcon Scott. D) Robert E Peary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert E Peary. 7. What is the result if an acid is added to an alkali? A) Hydrogen and oxygen gas. B) A salt + water. C) Loud fizzing and nothing else. D) The mixture turns brown. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A salt + water. 8. Mount Toubkal, 4, 165 m (13, 665 ft), is in what country? A) Afghanistan. B) Morocco. C) Kenya. D) ESwatini. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Morocco. 9. Who ordered the execution of Catherine Howard in 1542? A) Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. B) Elizabeth I. C) Sir Robert Walpole. D) Henry VIII. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry VIII. 10. What can be described as a "stout cotton fustian made with a pile so cut as to leave a ridged surface in the direction of the warp" ? A) Tulle. B) Velvet. C) Corduroy. D) Denim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Corduroy. 11. The 9th Marquess of Queensberry sponsored the rules for which sport? A) Boxing. B) Rugby Union. C) Badminton. D) Tennis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boxing. 12. In which country did student protest leader Steve Biko die while in police custody in 1977? A) Afghanistan. B) Iran. C) South Africa. D) Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South Africa. 13. Under what name is the longest river in the region of the European Union mostly known? A) Severn. B) Volga. C) Danube. D) Ganges. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Danube. 14. Which is the name of a Goddess that personifies retribution? A) Diana. B) Nemesis. C) Inowotudid. D) Gonnagetu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nemesis. 15. Which British journal of political and social satire was first published in June 1841? A) Horse and Hounds. B) Private Eye. C) Tatler. D) Punch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Punch. 16. What structure was designed by John A Roebling, who supervised construction until his death when the project was taken over by his son, Washington? A) Brooklyn Bridge, New York. B) Empire State Building, New York. C) Sears Tower, Chicago. D) Cable car system, San Francisco. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brooklyn Bridge, New York. 17. Who wrote "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ? A) Florence Nightingale. B) Agnes Baden-Powell. C) Mary Baker Eddy. D) Phoebe Buffay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mary Baker Eddy. 18. In mediaeval England and other European countries how was the price of a loaf of bread determined? A) By the price of wheat at the time. B) By annual regulation. C) By market forces. D) By the type of flour used. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By the price of wheat at the time. 19. Which of these is a prefix that means "false" ? A) Pseudo. B) Rhino. C) Midi. D) Mega. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pseudo. 20. What name is given to the neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person holds a belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs? A) Zombie Disorder. B) Necropsy. C) Therianthropy. D) The Cotard Delusion. 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