This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 676 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 676 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is dysplasia? A) A missing organ or part of it. B) Misalignment. C) Increase in number of cells. D) Abnormal development of cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abnormal development of cells. 2. What purpose were the Thames Embankments in London, UK, built to serve? A) Military manoeuvres. B) To provide flat land for court processions and access to royal boats. C) To house sewers and a tube train. D) To enable promenades by the river in Georgian London. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To house sewers and a tube train. 3. Who, in 1842, became the first US President's wife to die in the White House? A) Alice Roosevelt. B) Rachel Jackson. C) Sarah Polk. D) Letitia Tyler. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Letitia Tyler. 4. Talk-show host Jack Paar once welcomed which actress to The Tonight Show by saying, "Here they are, ..... ", that became the title of her biography by Raymond Strait A) Jayne Mansfield. B) Marilyn Munro. C) Gina Lollobrigida. D) Jacqueline Onassis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jayne Mansfield. 5. A cummerbund is worn on which part of the body? A) Hand. B) Head. C) Waist. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Waist. 6. The Messel Pit was bought by the state of Hesse, Germany, and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 as being the single best site for plant and animal fossils from which period? A) Cyclic glaciations including the most recent glacial period. B) Immediately before the dinosaur extinction. C) When early amniotes diversified into groups of mammals, turtles, lepidosaurs, and archosaurs. D) When the first modern mammals emerged. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When the first modern mammals emerged. 7. Which of these was the title of a 1966 play by Joe Orton? A) Swag. B) Loot. C) Nicked. D) Grass. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loot. 8. Tāufaʻāhau I, later known as George Tupou I, finally united what country under his rule in 1852? A) The Cook islands. B) Hawaii. C) New Guinea. D) Tonga. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tonga. 9. In 1884 Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical "Humanum Genus", which denounced a number of beliefs and practices such as popular sovereignty and the separation of church and state, in relation to which group in particular? A) Falun Gong. B) Seventh Day Adventists. C) Freemasons. D) Composers of light operas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Freemasons. 10. What is the tang of a chisel? A) Its cutting edge. B) The narrow haft which attaches to the handle. C) The angled convex shape on its reverse surface. D) The tempering of its metal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The narrow haft which attaches to the handle. 11. What is it called when all the pins fall on the first bowl of an Indoor Bowling game? A) Strike. B) Wipeout. C) Break. D) Bully. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strike. 12. Who was jailed for 150 years in June 2009 for investor fraud after being reported to federal authorities by his sons? A) Soapy Smith. B) Charles Ponzi. C) Bernie Madoff. D) Titanic Thompson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bernie Madoff. 13. British scientist Silvanus Thompson (1851-1916), a professor of Physics, talented lecturer and writer, recognised authority in electricity, magnetism and acoustics and the first President of the British Institute of Radiology, developed what in 1891? A) A practical electric road vehicle. B) X-ray. C) The viral theorem as applied to heat. D) A telegraph submarine cable with much increased speed in transmission. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A telegraph submarine cable with much increased speed in transmission. 14. What was the fate of Lucia di Lammermoor in Donizetti's opera? A) She was stabbed to death by her lover. B) She went mad and committed suicide. C) She jumped to her death. D) She died of consumption. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She went mad and committed suicide. 15. Bodyboarding was recorded among Hawaiians when? A) 1810. B) 1778. C) 1893. D) 1920. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1778. 16. What was the title of Kylie Minogue's tenth album, released in 2007? A) 10. B) TEN. C) X. D) Net returns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) X. 17. What is the name of the blocks that support rails for railway tracks? A) Sleepers. B) Snoozers. C) Dozers. D) Nappers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sleepers. 18. What word is used in relation to an aircraft moving around an airport? A) Bus. B) Taxi. C) Train. D) Automobile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taxi. 19. Who was the Cornish inventor who is famous for building a high pressure non-condensing steam engine for general industrial use in 1797, and in 1801 for building a steam car that carried passengers? A) George Churchward. B) George Stephenson. C) Isambard Kingdom Brunel. D) Richard Trevithick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Richard Trevithick. 20. Who wrote the piece of music recognised in much of the Western world as "The Wedding March" ? A) Mendelssohn. B) Handel. C) Beethoven. D) Strauss. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mendelssohn. ← 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