This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 668 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 668 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ceramic items are made from what material? A) Flax. B) Wood. C) Metal. D) Clay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clay. 2. Which of these was an heiress to a publishing fortune who became internationally famous in 1974 when, following her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), she joined them to further their cause? A) Demi Hamlyn. B) Mary Murdoch. C) Jenny Pulitzer. D) Patty Hearst. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Patty Hearst. 3. What is the second northernmost state of the USA on the Pacific coast? A) Idaho. B) Oregon. C) California. D) Washington. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Washington. 4. The Orinoco River in Guyana, Venezuela and Colombia is home to which critically endangered species? A) Masdevallia apparitio. B) Atelopus zeteki. C) Crocodylus intermedius. D) Cyanopsitta spixii. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crocodylus intermedius. 5. What is the name for the inherent property of matter to retain its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by external forces? A) Inertia. B) Momentum. C) Vector. D) Friction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inertia. 6. The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich became internationally memorable for what? A) A boycott by 29 countries, mostly African. B) A terrorist attack. C) It was the first Games which exclusively used electronic timekeeping equipment. D) A boycott by 63 countries because of the Soviet-Afghan War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A terrorist attack. 7. Which was the first city in the southern hemisphere and the second in the world after Philadelphia to integrate electric street lights into its infrastructure in September 1882? A) Johannesburg, South Africa. B) Sydney, Australia. C) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. D) Kimberley, South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kimberley, South Africa. 8. Which of these was painted by Claude Monet in 1891? A) Haystack. B) The Starry Night. C) Water Lilies. D) Le Moulin de la Galette. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haystack. 9. Where was the race horse Phar Lap, who was bred in New Zealand and trained in Australia and whose string of successes made him an icon in Depression-laden Australia during his short career, when he died suddenly at the age of 5 and a half in 1932? A) Cambridge, New Zealand. B) Melbourne, Australia. C) California, USA. D) Newmarket, UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) California, USA. 10. For what are neums, or neumes, used? A) Written music. B) Cooking. C) Shoeing horses. D) Playing a guitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Written music. 11. Michael J Fox played which character in the "Back to the Future" trilogy (1985-1990)? A) Mickey McMouse. B) Marty McFly. C) Morris McAustin. D) Maurice McKee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marty McFly. 12. Umberto II was the last king of which country? A) India. B) Mexico. C) Italy. D) Thailand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Italy. 13. How many times has croquet been an Olympic sport? A) 5. B) 1. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1. 14. Which of these cities is the furthest from London? A) Brussels. B) Athens. C) Paris. D) Rome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Athens. 15. What, due to happenings in the 1960s and 1970s, became known as the Yellow Fleet? A) Cargo ships trapped in the Suez Canal in 1967. B) Craft involved in building the first four major dams on the Yellow River, China. C) The fleet carrying American soldiers to fight in Vietnam. D) Hospital ships dealing with the "Asian flu" pandemic, which all flew a yellow flag. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cargo ships trapped in the Suez Canal in 1967. 16. In conditions where oxygen is in short supply the East African naked mole rat can switch from metabolising the usual source of energy to metabolising what other source? A) Sucrose. B) Glucose. C) Fatty acids. D) Fructose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fructose. 17. In which sport is there a hog line, and sometimes a hogger? A) Cheese rolling. B) Gumboot throwing. C) Curling. D) Caber tossing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Curling. 18. The electrically neutral particle known as a neutrino has three forms which partner with similar but charged particles. Which is NOT one of those charged particles? A) Muon. B) Electron. C) Proton. D) Tau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proton. 19. What is the capital of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada? A) St John's. B) Corner Brook West. C) Grand Falls. D) Halifax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) St John's. 20. Where is South Georgia Island? A) Atlantic Ocean. B) South Atlantic Ocean. C) Southern Ocean. D) The Caribbean. 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