This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 648 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 648 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What do anthropologists study? A) Human beings. B) Coal. C) Monkeys. D) Minerals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human beings. 2. Who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize? A) Nelson Mandela. B) Desmond Tutu. C) F. W. de Klerk. D) Lech Wałęsa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desmond Tutu. 3. Bob Fosse won a "Best Director" Oscar in 1972 for which film? A) Cabaret. B) Sweet Charity. C) All That Jazz. D) Lenny. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cabaret. 4. What genre is the masala film "Sholay" (1975), ranked top Indian film of all time in the 2002 British Film Institute's poll, and named the Best Film of 50 Years in the 2005 Filmfare Awards honouring Indian cinema? A) Romantic comedy. B) Action, adventure, dacoit western. C) Musical comedy. D) Psychological thriller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Action, adventure, dacoit western. 5. What system was added in 1858 to boost communication via the transatlantic telegraph cable between the USA and the UK? A) Morse signal. B) Mirror galvanometer. C) Telegraph recorder. D) Repeaters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mirror galvanometer. 6. What is the name for the principle that "Anything that can go wrong, will-at the worst possible moment" ? A) Finagle's Law. B) Murphy's Law. C) Boyle's Law. D) Parkinson's Law. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Finagle's Law. 7. Traditionally, horses were kept in a what? A) Coop. B) Sty. C) Mews. D) Alley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mews. 8. What is chalcedony? A) A liquid used for cleaning diamonds. B) Bankruptcy. C) The "waiting room" for Heaven. D) Semi-precious stone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Semi-precious stone. 9. Jerrymunglum is a name for a what? A) Chameleon. B) Cane toad. C) Camel spider. D) Coconut crab. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Camel spider. 10. With the exception of the last two segments, how many legs does a centipede have on each segment? A) 8. B) 4. C) 6. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 11. According to Greek legend, who was the muse of Music? A) Calliope. B) Clio. C) Euterpe. D) Urania. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euterpe. 12. Where is the oldest whiskey distillery still operating, which was established in 1608? A) Scotland. B) Northern Ireland. C) Wales. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Northern Ireland. 13. What infectious disease, caused by a virus, is characterised by the eruption of successive crops of blisters? A) Chickenpox. B) Measles. C) Mumps. D) Whooping cough. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chickenpox. 14. What sport was reputedly introduced to England by the 10th Hussars in 1869? A) Darts. B) Croquet. C) Polo. D) Chess. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polo. 15. Which of these was a song released by the Beatles in 1967? A) Fallow Fields. B) Paddy Fields. C) Cotton Fields. D) Strawberry Fields. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Strawberry Fields. 16. The Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics published in 1910, 1912 and 1913, with a second edition In 1927, was co-written by Bertrand Russell and who else? A) Alfred North Whitehead. B) Immanuel Kant. C) Charles Graves. D) George Edward Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alfred North Whitehead. 17. Which British boxer lost the WBA world lightweight title in 1972? A) Jim Watt. B) Charlie Magri. C) Ken Buchanan. D) Mike Tyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ken Buchanan. 18. What, in relation to an eye, is sometimes called a haw? A) The tear duct. B) The iris. C) A third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. D) A blink. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. 19. The first of which make of car came off the assembly line at Fisherman's Bend in September 1948? A) Morgan. B) Lotus. C) TVR. D) Holden. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Holden. 20. If something is described as picayune, what is meant? A) It is dainty. B) It is small and insignificant. C) It is almost non-existent. D) It does not matter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is small and insignificant. ← 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