This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 634 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 634 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What 1963 political scandal in the UK involved the Secretary of State for War, after he had a brief relationship with the mistress of a Russian spy (a showgirl named Christine Keeler), and lied to the House of Commons about it? A) The Bay of Pigs Incident. B) The Mystery of Lord Lucan. C) "The Cambridge Five". D) The Profumo Affair. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Profumo Affair. 2. Venus and which other planet in our solar system have no moon? A) Saturn. B) Neptune. C) Mars. D) Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mercury. 3. Which of these is a designer of hats? A) David Bailey. B) Billy Apple. C) Roger Daltrey. D) Philip Treacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Philip Treacy. 4. Who was the first president of the Turkish Republic after the overthrow of the Sultan in 1922? A) Mustapha Kemal Ataturk. B) Cemal Gürsel. C) Fahri Korutürk. D) Cevdet Sunay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mustapha Kemal Ataturk. 5. Moroni is the capital of which African country? A) The Republic of Mozambique. B) The Republic of The Gambia. C) The Union of the Comoros. D) The Republic of Benin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Union of the Comoros. 6. Which is the preposition in the tongue twister "She sells sea shells by the sea shore" ? A) She. B) The. C) By. D) Sells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By. 7. In March 2016, the European Union agreed an arrangement with what country to reduce an increasingly overwhelming flow of migrants to EU countries? A) Libya. B) Turkey. C) Egypt. D) Syria. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Turkey. 8. The ancient city of Carthage is in which modern day country? A) Morocco. B) Libya. C) Tunisia. D) Algeria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tunisia. 9. Which venue hosted the Winter Olympics in both 1964 and 1976? A) Pyongyang. B) Hawai'i. C) Qatar. D) Innsbruck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Innsbruck. 10. The Holy Roman Emperor Francis Ii did what in 1806? A) Granted Napoléon Bonaparte rule over Corsica. B) Resigned his crown and dissolved the Empire. C) Added Italy to his Empire. D) Became the first European to receive a vaccine against cholera. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resigned his crown and dissolved the Empire. 11. What can "obverse" mean? A) Insensitive or wilfully blind to a fact, or something seen by others as a truth. B) "Tails" side of a coin. C) Back of a page in a book. D) The opposite aspect of a fact. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The opposite aspect of a fact. 12. Which cakes were named after a baker who lived in Bath? A) Neenish. B) Eccles. C) Anzac. D) Sally Lun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sally Lun. 13. If you travelled downstream along the main outflow from Lake Victoria, which forms part of the borders of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, which city would you be closest to when you reached the mouth of the river? A) New York. B) London. C) Cairo. D) Calcutta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cairo. 14. What bridge, completed in the 12th century, is on the Rhone? A) Ponte Vecchio. B) Pont d'Avignon. C) Pulteney Bridge. D) Pont Neuf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pont d'Avignon. 15. Which island has belonged to Carthage, Rome, the Saracens, the King of Aragon, the Dukes of Savoy, United Italy under Victor Emmanuel and was granted autonomous government in 1947? A) Corsica. B) Malta. C) Crete. D) Sardinia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sardinia. 16. One of the books by the English monk Byrhtferth (c. 970-c. 1020), among the most learned scholars of the 10th and 11th centuries, was his Manual or Enchiridion documenting what? A) Flora and fauna of Scotland. B) The basic science of the Anglo-Saxon period. C) Sacred architecture in France and England. D) Musical instruments in Anglo-Saxon England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The basic science of the Anglo-Saxon period. 17. The pineapple express is a Pacific jetstream that runs from Hawaii to where? A) West coast of Chile. B) East coast of Japan. C) East coast of New Zealand. D) West coast of the USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) West coast of the USA. 18. Under what name was the short-lived 1991 TV series based on the "Where's Wally" books released in America? A) Where's Waldo. B) Where's Walter. C) Where's Wallace. D) Where's Wal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where's Waldo. 19. The modern version of what code-breaking board game for two players, that resembles an old pencil and paper game called "Bulls and Cows" , was invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert? A) Boggle. B) Cluedo. C) Mastermind. D) Scrabble. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mastermind. 20. The function of the human lymphatic system includes stimulating immune response, taking white blood cells to and from bones, removing interstitial fluid from tissues and what else? A) Regulating the body's excretory system. B) Generating white blood cells. C) Absorbing and transporting fatty acids and fats from the digestive system. D) Mitigating extreme nerve responses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absorbing and transporting fatty acids and fats from the digestive system. ← 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