This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 564 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 564 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When did the first planes fly in a military offensive for Britain, for an organised body which later became the Royal Air Force? A) January 1918. B) July 1914. C) January 1915. D) August 1914. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) August 1914. 2. In the southern hemisphere, the winds associated with a cyclone, a region of low pressure, blow in which direction? A) Clockwise. B) Anti-clockwise. C) North. D) South. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clockwise. 3. Which city is capital of the Republic of Cรดte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)? A) Abidjan. B) Yamoussoukro. C) Bouakรฉ. D) Abengourou. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yamoussoukro. 4. Horseshoe arches, or keyhole arches, are particularly characteristic of what kind of architecture? A) Gothic. B) Islamic. C) Bauhaus. D) Neo-classical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Islamic. 5. Which UK television series features a character called Mrs Bucket? A) Allo Allo. B) Father Ted. C) Keeping Up Appearances. D) The Good Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Keeping Up Appearances. 6. Where is the UNESCO World Heritage site known as Los Glaciares National Park? A) Mexico. B) Argentina. C) Peru. D) Venezuela. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Argentina. 7. A game popular in a number of countries and known variously as Belote, Boeuf, Vida, and other names is played with what? A) Checkers and dice. B) Racquet and ball. C) Cards. D) Counters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cards. 8. Which of these is in Nice? A) Champs Elysรฉes. B) Promenade des Anglais. C) Via Flaminia. D) Place de San Marco. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Promenade des Anglais. 9. The Altai Mountains for some of their range form part of the border between which two countries? A) China and India. B) Mongolia and China. C) China and North Korea. D) North and South Korea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mongolia and China. 10. What is the name for a defect of vision caused by deviation of eyes from parallel courses, giving the impression that the person is looking in two directions at once and meaning that the eyes cannot focus on a single point? A) Amblyopia. B) Presbyopia. C) Astigmatism. D) Strabismus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Strabismus. 11. What sign of the zodiac is represented by twins? A) Gemini. B) Cancer. C) Sagittarius. D) Leo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gemini. 12. What name was given to the accidental destruction caused to British trawlers and fishermen by ships from the Russian navy on 21 October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War? A) Pussy Bank Occident. B) Piggy Bank Accident. C) Dogger Bank Incident. D) Horsey Bank Underspent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dogger Bank Incident. 13. Which of these was a dance popular in the 1920s? A) Plymouth. B) Jamestown. C) Georgia. D) Charleston. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charleston. 14. During Norodom Sihanouk's term as Prime Minister of Cambodia beginning in 1955 (after abdicating as King) he did what? A) All of these. B) Extended suffrage to women. C) Adopted Khmer as the sole official language of Cambodia. D) Made Cambodia a constitutional monarchy, with policy-making power vested in the prime minister. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of these. 15. From 2010 to 2019, Chile was the world's leading miner of ..... ? A) Copper. B) Cobalt. C) Lithium. D) Gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Copper. 16. What ore is the chief source of aluminium? A) Iron. B) Bauxite. C) Manganese. D) Lead. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bauxite. 17. What is the James Webb, launched into space in 2021 by a partnership between the space agencies in the US, Europe and Canada? A) A telescope. B) A new international space station. C) A weather balloon. D) An orbiting advertising screen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A telescope. 18. What is the nearest still living relative of the giraffe? A) Eland. B) Zeabra. C) Okapi. D) Central African rabbit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Okapi. 19. In 1938 Orson Welles, who was 22 at the time, wrote, produced, and narrated a radio play adaptation of what work, the US broadcast of which sparked widespread upheaval and panic? A) I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. B) The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. C) The War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells. D) The War of Words by Fight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells. 20. The naval base Pearl Harbour is in which US state? A) Hawaii. B) California. C) Colorado. D) Vermont. 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