This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 623 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 623 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the common name for a soft dull greenish brown or grey variety of clay that falls to a powder in water? A) Grey's allergy. B) China clay. C) Fuller's earth. D) No man's land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fuller's earth. 2. Where is the benthic zone? A) The surface of the ocean. B) Between intoxication and sobriety. C) The state of a supersaturated liquid just before it precipitates its solids. D) At the lowest level of a body of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) At the lowest level of a body of water. 3. Which British political party led by John Hargrave wore green shirts as a uniform? A) Social Credit. B) National Socialists. C) Falange EspaΓ±ola Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista. D) British Union of Fascists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social Credit. 4. Where are the Shere Hills, a range of undulating hills and rock formations in western Africa? A) Jos Plateau, Nigeria. B) The Great Escarpment, southern Africa. C) The Nguruman Escarpment, Kenya. D) The East African Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jos Plateau, Nigeria. 5. What is another name for shingles? A) Hermes zoroastra. B) Herpes zoster. C) Sprach zarathustra. D) Mild catoniasta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herpes zoster. 6. What land forms characterise the western regions of Siberia abutting the Ural mountains? A) Small mountain ranges. B) Plains and swampland. C) Volcanoes. D) Gorges. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plains and swampland. 7. The grandson of Sigmund Freud, Jewish and taken to Britain from an increasingly dangerous Germany in 1933, specialised later in what kind of work? A) Still life. B) German landscape. C) Depictions of dreams. D) Portraiture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Portraiture. 8. A decade covers how many years? A) 100. B) 5. C) 10. D) 50. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 9. Who sang while Ray Manzarek, Robbie Kreiger and John Densmore played? A) Jim Morrison. B) Neil Young. C) Bob Marley. D) Eric Burdon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jim Morrison. 10. Which of these "Catherine/Katherine"s was never a queen or empress? A) Born 1729, the daughter of a German prince. Married Peter, Duke of Holstein. Died 1796. B) Born 1684 in Lithuania. Married a Swedish soldier. Died 1727. C) Catherine of Siena, born 1347. Persuaded the Pope to return to Rome from Avignon. Died 1389. D) Daughter of Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain, born 1485. Married the Prince of Wales, 1501. Died 1536. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Catherine of Siena, born 1347. Persuaded the Pope to return to Rome from Avignon. Died 1389. 11. In both Chinese Checkers and Draughts, players can do what? A) Jump one piece over another. B) "Queen" pieces. C) Checkmate the opponent. D) Double the bid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jump one piece over another. 12. What is used as a measure of inflation in a country's economy? A) Change in prices in an agreed basket of household goods and services. B) People's lung capacity. C) Elasticity of the waistband of clothes sold. D) Change in prices of rubber goods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Change in prices in an agreed basket of household goods and services. 13. When F.W.de Klerk, State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994, left office which of these was NOT an achievement of his presidency? A) The official end of apartheid in South Africa. B) Nuclear disarmament in South Africa. C) Nelson Mandela's release from prison. D) The Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 14. Which of these crops is produced most world-wide? A) Wheat. B) Rice. C) Maize. D) Alfalfa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maize. 15. What was the name of the monumental exhibit by Israeli artist Ron Arad displayed in the Annenberg Courtyard throughout the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2016? A) 20:50. B) Spyre. C) This House Will Burn. D) Neither White, nor Warm, nor Cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spyre. 16. What sport that began in WΔnaka, New Zealand in 1867 is popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, the USA and Australia? A) Gumboot tossing. B) Sheepdog trialling. C) Cow milking. D) Bungee jumping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sheepdog trialling. 17. Who is the patron saint of England? A) St Andrew. B) St David. C) St George. D) St Patrick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) St George. 18. What is Ethiopia's main port city? A) It does not have a port. B) Doraleh. C) Assab. D) Mombasa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It does not have a port. 19. Who, at the age of 50, had become the world's richest man through the activities of the Standard Oil Company? A) John Davison Rockefeller. B) David Rubenstein. C) Larry Ellison. D) J. Paul Getty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Davison Rockefeller. 20. What would you do with a fricassee? A) Sit on it. B) Eat it. C) Wear it. D) Drive it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eat it. 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