This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 603 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 603 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name of a measure that is equal to 42 US gallons, 158.9873 litres, or 34.9723 Imperial (UK) gallons? A) Hogshead. B) Bushel. C) Firkin. D) Barrel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Barrel. 2. In the film "The Reader" (2008) Michael Berg and Hanna Schmitz were played by which actors? A) John Malkovich and Kim Pfeiffer. B) Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet. C) Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. D) Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet. 3. Who ordered the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza? A) Khufu. B) Sneferu. C) Khafra. D) Minkhaf I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Khufu. 4. What BBC documentary film, screened in high definition and featuring narration and live orchestral accompaniment conducted by its composer George Fenton, had its world premiΓ¨re in Dallas in June 2010? A) The Beautiful Game. B) The Tudors. C) Gandhi. D) Planet Earth Live. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Planet Earth Live. 5. When were the Women's Freestyle Wrestling championships first staged? A) 1987. B) 1957. C) 1997. D) 2001. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1987. 6. A country-wide law establishing an Assize of Bread in England was passed in 1266, and similar laws continued in effect until the 19th century. What did the law regulate? A) The size of a loaf. B) The relative prices, weights and quality of bread sold. C) Provision of bread to the needy in a parish. D) The price of wheat used for bread. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The relative prices, weights and quality of bread sold. 7. Who captained the "Endeavour" and the "Resolution" on 3 voyages to the Pacific in 1768-71, 1772-75 and 1776-79? A) John Butler. B) James Cook. C) Jeffrey Valet. D) Jack Maid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Cook. 8. What is the first geological period of the Paleozoic era? A) Cumbrian. B) Cambrian. C) Umbrian. D) Lifeobrian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cambrian. 9. Which of these games has 64 squares on a standard board? A) Scrabble. B) Snakes and Ladders. C) Chess. D) Noughts and Crosses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chess. 10. Which author wrote: " ..... whatever [women] ask for they had first given to us. They create Love in our natures. They have a right to demand it back" ? A) Seamus Heaney. B) Simone de Beauvoir. C) Oscar Wilde. D) Benjamin Disraeli. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oscar Wilde. 11. Which of these is a palindrome? A) Racecar. B) Crunch. C) Motel. D) Awesome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Racecar. 12. Which country shares a 530 km border with Saudi Arabia on the west, south, and southeast, a 450 km border with Oman on the southeast and northeast, and a smaller border with Qatar in the northwest? A) Kuwait. B) Iran. C) United Arab Emirates. D) Iraq. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) United Arab Emirates. 13. Which of these is a sudden and irrational fear of time? A) Ephebiphobia. B) Chronophobia. C) Chemophobia. D) Christophobia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chronophobia. 14. If a person has pieces of metal in his body, such as from shrapnel, a bullet injury or any implanted devices e.g. a pacemaker or artificial joint, which procedure is particularly difficult or may be impossible? A) MRI scan. B) EEG test. C) Colonoscopy. D) Ultrasound examination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) MRI scan. 15. Francis Crick and James Watson did their research into DNA at what institution? A) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. B) Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. C) Cambridge, England. D) Oxford, England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cambridge, England. 16. The painter Pablo Picasso was born in which country? A) Vietnam. B) Greece. C) Australia. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spain. 17. What name is give to a tax minimisation deal whereby a profitable company makes a payment to a loss-making company in the same group? A) Ransom payment. B) Subversion payment. C) Cash payment. D) Subvention payment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subvention payment. 18. With what sport does one associate sponsor's trade names "Ping" and "Titleist" ? A) Rugby Union. B) Tennis. C) Golf. D) Cricket. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Golf. 19. What is the name given to the code of Roman law that was "published" with the approval of the Roman Republic in 450 BC? A) The Twelve Times Table. B) Hammurabi's Code. C) The Tribunal. D) The Twelve Tables. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Twelve Tables. 20. A broad plain formed by the joining of very gently sloping, and typically concave, inclined bedrock surfaces is known as what? A) Planation surface. B) Pediplain. C) Pasture land. D) Prairie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pediplain. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books