This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 63 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 63 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where is the Cape Verde, or Cap-Vert, Peninsula? A) Portugal. B) Senegal. C) Goa. D) Brazil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Senegal. 2. Who was instrumental in defeating the Mahdi at Omdurman in 1898, and was British Secretary for War from 1914 until he died on the cruiser "Hampshire" when it struck a mine on 5 June 1916? A) Bernard Freyberg. B) Horatio Herbert Kitchener. C) Charles George Gordon. D) Lord Cardigan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Horatio Herbert Kitchener. 3. In 1972 Dr Ananda Chakrabarty became the first to do what? A) Define the Gaia hypothesis. B) Engineer a bacterium to produce human insulin. C) Use the immunosuppressive effect of ciclosporin after organ transplant surgery. D) Design a genetically modified microbe which was patented. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Design a genetically modified microbe which was patented. 4. Which NFL player sparked the protest in the USA known eventually as taking the knee? A) Colin Kaepernick. B) Gyree Durante. C) Tom Brady. D) John Carlos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colin Kaepernick. 5. Which of these was an aircraft designer? A) Alec Issigonis. B) Antoine Herman Gerard Fokker. C) Dr Ferdinand Porsche. D) Sir Robert Watson-Watt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antoine Herman Gerard Fokker. 6. Where are the Balkans, or the Balkan Peninsula? A) Indonesia. B) Scandinavia. C) Europe. D) Malaysia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Europe. 7. London's Shaftesbury Avenue is known for what type of establishment? A) Men's tailors. B) Museums. C) Dress shops. D) Theatres. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theatres. 8. Which of these is synthesised in bacteria, fungi, and plants, but not animals (to whom it is essential) whose only source is what they eat? A) Aneurin. B) Biotin. C) Vitamin K. D) Vitamin D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aneurin. 9. If you were at a hoedown what would you do? A) Clear weeds. B) Dance. C) Stop clearing weeds. D) Eat a lot and fast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dance. 10. What were the Quebec Nordiques known for? A) Icebreaking. B) Ice cream. C) Ice hockey. D) Ice sculpture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ice hockey. 11. Not all human digits are the same length; which is usually the shortest in any person? A) Ring finger. B) Thumb. C) Little toe. D) Little finger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Little toe. 12. Which Austrian composer, whose works include 104 symphonies, 84 string quartets and 42 piano sonatas, received a D Mus degree at Oxford University, England? A) Engelbert Humperdinck. B) George Handel. C) Gustav Holst. D) Franz Joseph Haydn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Franz Joseph Haydn. 13. Who would use an orange stick? A) Orchardist. B) Manicurist. C) Scrapbooker. D) Martial arts practitioner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manicurist. 14. When the Winter Olympics in Italy ended in 2006, how many times had curling been an Olympic sport? A) 20. B) 8. C) 16. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 15. Why was Eric Fishl's sculpture "Tumbling Woman", a memorial to those who jumped from the World Trade Centre on 11 Sept 2001, removed from the Rockefeller Centre in New York City? A) CBS brought an injunction for copyright infringement. B) Poor workmanship. C) It was too disturbing to the public. D) It collapsed under its own weight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was too disturbing to the public. 16. What were first established by St Bel at Lyons, France, in 1762, and at London in 1790? A) Children's health clinics. B) Veterinary colleges. C) Nurses' training colleges. D) Academies for the study of African animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Veterinary colleges. 17. What does a mycologist study? A) Plant diseases. B) Myxomycetes. C) Eye diseases. D) Fungi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fungi. 18. Whicht football (soccer) teams played in the last game at the historic Boleyn Ground, London, UK, on 10 May 2016? A) Argentine v Croatia. B) West Ham v Manchester City. C) West Ham v Swansea City. D) West Ham v Tottenham Hotspur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) West Ham v Manchester City. 19. Which of these is a characteristic of the Joshua Tree? A) All of these. B) The leaves are dormant during the day, and respire (exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen) at night. C) It can have a life span of considerably more than 500 years. D) New stems can grow from underground rhizomes that spread out around the parent tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of these. 20. Which English classic horse race for 3 year olds held at Doncaster every September began in 1776? A) St Leger Stakes. B) Epsom Derby. C) 1, 000 Guineas Stakes. D) Independence Day Derby. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) St Leger Stakes. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books