This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 675 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 675 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979? A) Brother Grimm. B) Sister Act. C) Mother Teresa. D) Father Ted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mother Teresa. 2. What is or are Araucaria? A) Dung beetles. B) Pain in the ankle. C) Conifers first known in the Middle Jurassic. D) Crystalline secretions in caves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conifers first known in the Middle Jurassic. 3. Who was the Greek goddess of wisdom, war and the liberal arts? A) Pallas Athene. B) Hera. C) Barbara. D) Jennifer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pallas Athene. 4. What is the overall name for a branch of applied mathematics used to study behaviour in strategic situations, in which an individual's success in making choices depends on the choices of others? A) Game theory. B) Von Neumann's examination of mixed strategy equilibria. C) Logarithmics. D) Minimax mixed strategy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Game theory. 5. From where on the body does the Leopard slug extrude its reproductive organ when mating? A) Slugs are hermaphrodite and self-fertilising, and do not use reproductive organs. B) The side of its head. C) The centre of its underside. D) The end of its tail. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The side of its head. 6. In which state of Australia would you find the area known as Kimberley? A) Northern Territory. B) South Australia. C) Queensland. D) Western Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Western Australia. 7. When was the phrase "under God" included in the American Pledge of Allegiance? A) 1892. B) 1954. C) 1924. D) 1923. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1954. 8. Tierra del Fuego sits in the southernmost curl of which continent? A) Australia. B) Europe. C) South America. D) North America. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South America. 9. When war was declared on Germany on 3 September 1939, at the start of what was to become World War II, who were the Allies? A) Poland and the UK. B) France, Poland, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. C) France, Poland and the UK. D) The UK on its own. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) France, Poland, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. 10. Who has been a game show host on US television for "The Neighbors" (1975), "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (from 1999), "Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire" (from 2004), "America's Got Talent" (2006) and "Million Dollar Password" (2008 to 2009)? A) Regis Philbin. B) Donny Osmond. C) David Letterman. D) Jack Palance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Regis Philbin. 11. The administrative units of Pakistan are:a federal capital territory, two autonomous and disputed territories, a group of federally administered tribal areas, and four provinces. Which of these is one of the provinces? A) Karachi. B) Balochistan. C) Gilgit-Baltistan. D) Islamabad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Balochistan. 12. What was created by the Lateran Treaty signed by Italy in 1929? A) Fascism. B) Israel. C) Ethiopia. D) Vatican City. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vatican City. 13. Which of these is a variety of leather? A) Sweet. B) Swede. C) Suede. D) Suite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suede. 14. What is the official language of Liechtenstein? A) Italian. B) Spanish. C) Dutch. D) German. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) German. 15. Who was on the British throne when Balmoral Castle was bought for their use? A) Henry VIII. B) George III. C) James II. D) Victoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Victoria. 16. Which 20th century US novelist wrote "Of Mice and Men", "The Grapes of Wrath" and "East of Eden" ? A) Ernest Hemingway. B) John Steinbeck. C) Wilbur Smith. D) Stephen King. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Steinbeck. 17. Who was the heroine who rescued 9 people from the wreck of the "Forfarshire", taking them to the lighthouse on the Longstone, one of the Farne Islands, on 7 September 1838? A) Naomi Campbell. B) Florence Nightingale. C) Margaret Thatcher. D) Grace Darling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grace Darling. 18. Which of these items of the British crown jewels is the most recent? A) The Imperial State Crown. B) St Edward's Crown. C) The Imperial Crown of India. D) The ampula and anointing spoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Imperial Crown of India. 19. In what kind of building would a nave be found? A) Orangery. B) Ship's dockyard. C) Christian church. D) Maternity ward. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christian church. 20. The reporter and amateur detective Rouletabille appears in a series of novels by which author? A) Thรฉophile Gautier. B) Georges Simenon. C) Frรฉdรฉric Dard. D) Gaston Leroux. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gaston Leroux. โ PreviousNext โRelated 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 ๐ Back to Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books