This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 751 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 751 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. American college student Otto Warmbier died in 2017 after returning from 17 months prison in which country? A) Turkey. B) Afghanistan. C) North Korea. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) North Korea. 2. When did Genghis Khan fight and lead in Asia and Europe? A) 3, 000 years ago. B) 1st century BCE. C) 12th and 13th centuries. D) 18th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12th and 13th centuries. 3. Which of these is the branch of internal medicine and pediatrics dealing with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney? A) Nephrology. B) Phrenology. C) Pharmacology. D) Narcolepsy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nephrology. 4. In Germany, what is an autobahn? A) Self-service cafeteria. B) Retail car sales outlet. C) Motorway. D) Automated milking shed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motorway. 5. The saiga, around since the Pleistocene, are what kind of animal? A) Rodent. B) Cattle. C) Antelope. D) Rabbit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antelope. 6. What is the name of the city known before 1936 internationally as Tiflis? A) Tashkent. B) Tobruk. C) Tbilisi. D) Tqibuli. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tbilisi. 7. Which UK TV series (first screened in 2021), centres on a young New Zealander living in Hackney, London, working jobs in a cinema and as a nanny, who, after a one-night stand on New Year's Eve, discovers she slept with a famous movie star? A) The Kissing Booth. B) Locked Down. C) The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. D) Starstruck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Starstruck. 8. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe were better known as what when they hit #1 in 1984 in the UK, Canada and the USA? A) Pet Shop Boys. B) Tears For Fears. C) Milli Vanilli. D) Bananarama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pet Shop Boys. 9. What was Cleopatra's favourite colour? A) Green. B) Purple. C) Blue. D) White. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Purple. 10. South African-born English cricketer Kevin Pietersen was dropped from the England team in August 2012. What was the reported reason? A) For texting while waiting at the crease. B) For using his official bat as a prop for runner beans. C) For sending controversial messages about his team mates to an opposing team. D) For not moderating his South African accent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) For sending controversial messages about his team mates to an opposing team. 11. The name of the Doukhobor religious sect means what? A) Universal brother. B) Christian. C) Spirit wrestler. D) Son of freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spirit wrestler. 12. In Dover in the UK, what nearly complete Bronze Age relic from about 1500 BCE was discovered in 1992? A) A wrought filigree bronze diadem. B) A sewn-plank seagoing craft. C) A granite slab carved in Indus script. D) A funeral cart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sewn-plank seagoing craft. 13. American social worker Doria Ragland is the mother of what American actress who in 2018 adopted British citizenship and married a notable British figure? A) Anna Eberstein. B) Princess Eugenie. C) Priyanka Chopra. D) Meghan Markle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meghan Markle. 14. Which of these is an American bandmaster and composer of marches such as "Stars and Stripes Forever" ? A) John Philip Sousa. B) Irving Berlin. C) Leonard Bernstein. D) George Gershwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Philip Sousa. 15. When the Badminton World Federation was first formed in 1934 (initially as the International Badminton Federation) the nine founder nations were Canada, Denmark, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Scotland, Wales and which other? A) Malaya. B) Australia. C) New Zealand. D) Malta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Zealand. 16. What is quinsy? A) A rash on the lining of the throat. B) Inflammation of the frenulum under the tongue. C) Inflammation of one or both of the tubal tonsils. D) An abscess behind one or both of the palatine tonsils. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An abscess behind one or both of the palatine tonsils. 17. Artist, professional football player (American and Canadian), actor and author Ernie Barnes was named "Sports Artist" of which Olympic Games? A) 1984. B) 2012. C) 1968. D) 1996. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1984. 18. What is the language most commonly spoken in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan? A) Punjabi. B) Urdu. C) Sindhi. D) Hindko. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urdu. 19. Who or what was the plant, the dahlia, named after? A) Anders Dahl, student of botanist Carl Linnaeus. B) Roald Dahl, writer. C) An Indian food, the staple food of the botanist at the time he discovered the plant. D) A Luxembourg village where the plant was cultivated after being introduced to Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anders Dahl, student of botanist Carl Linnaeus. 20. When alum (potassium aluminium sulphate) is used in dyeing, it is a what? A) Thinner. B) Darkening agent. C) Mordant. D) Softener. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mordant. ← 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