This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 5 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the minimum number of members to sit in the German Bundestag? A) 598. B) 709. C) 315. D) 622. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 598. 2. Ellen Page and Ian Daniel are journalists and presenters for which television channel? A) Viceland. B) PBS. C) BBC4. D) Channel 4 Wales. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Viceland. 3. What are traditionally kept in a humidor? A) Cigars. B) Tropical fish. C) Grapes. D) Bread. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cigars. 4. What is the fourth planet from the Sun? A) Mars. B) Earth. C) Venus. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mars. 5. In which century did Henry VIII, king of England, die? A) 18th. B) 17th. C) 16th. D) 19th. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 16th. 6. Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from laryngitis? A) Feet. B) Eyes. C) Back. D) Throat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Throat. 7. Which city, since the 14th century BC, has been controlled by Israelites, Judaeans, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Hasmoneans, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Mamluks, Turks, and the British and for a short time after World War II was occupied by Israel and Jordan? A) Jerusalem. B) Tyre. C) Carthage. D) Athens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jerusalem. 8. Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya and Natalia Makarova, artists from what was the Soviet Union, have what else in common? A) They have exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, UK. B) They have premiΓ¨red roles in plays by Chekhov. C) They defected to the West in 1988, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. D) They are each recognised as prima ballerina assoluta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are each recognised as prima ballerina assoluta. 9. Which of these is closest to the Equator? A) Canada. B) South Africa. C) Ethiopia. D) Falkland Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethiopia. 10. In terms of atomic radius, which is the smallest known atom? A) Helium. B) Hydrogen. C) Francium. D) Lavencium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Helium. 11. Where is Lake Coipasa and its bordering salt flats, 20 km north of the world's largest salt flats (Salar de Uyuni)? A) Paraguay. B) Brazil. C) Bolivia. D) Peru. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bolivia. 12. What structural element of a building protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface, creating usable space in the roof by adding headroom and usually enabling addition of windows? A) Sash. B) Dormer. C) Dado. D) Gable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dormer. 13. For which song did Irish singer-songwriter Magda Davit (under a previous name) become first well-known? A) Orinoco Flow. B) Mandinka. C) Closer. D) Zombie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mandinka. 14. Which of these was a famous economist? A) Milton Keynes. B) John Maynard Keynes. C) Quentin Keynes. D) Richard Darwin Keynes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Maynard Keynes. 15. In which country did Queen Isabella secure the throne when her opponents (Carlists) were defeated in 1868, following a civil war between those who wanted a king and those who wanted a queen? A) Portugal. B) Netherlands. C) Sweden. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spain. 16. Why is the ship the "Mayflower" famous? A) It won the America's Cup 5 consecutive times from 1830. B) It was one of the 3 ships used by Christopher Columbus to reach North America in 1492. C) It helped to sink the German battleship "The Bismarck" in 1941. D) It carried settlers to North America in 1620. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It carried settlers to North America in 1620. 17. What is the Spanish word for "house" ? A) Casa. B) Calle. C) Senorita. D) Gringo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Casa. 18. What is stuxnet? A) Social media. B) Badminton equipment. C) Computer worm. D) A governmental alliance in an episode of the film "Star Wars". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Computer worm. 19. What is regarded as the second largest parasitic killer in the world? A) Leishmaniasis. B) Malaria. C) Chagas Disease. D) Dengue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leishmaniasis. 20. Which description best fits an enzyme? A) Antibiotic. B) Metabolic process. C) Macromolecular biological catalyst. D) Protein. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macromolecular biological catalyst. β PreviousNext βRelated QuizzesGeneral QuizzesGeneral Knowledge Quiz 1General Knowledge Quiz 2General Knowledge Quiz 3General Knowledge Quiz 4General Knowledge Quiz 6General Knowledge Quiz 7General Knowledge Quiz 8General Knowledge Quiz 9General Knowledge Quiz 10 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books