This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 760 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 760 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Adriatic Sea lies along the shores of Italy and a number of other countries; which of these is not one? A) Greece. B) Croatia. C) Bosnia-Herzegovina. D) Albania. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greece. 2. After discovering a new planet, Herschel named it Georgium Sidus (George's Star), or the "Georgian Planet" in honour of King George III. The scientific community did not like the name, and decided to call it what? A) Uranus. B) Saturn. C) Pluto. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uranus. 3. Which of these has a style called "fly on the wall" ? A) Documentary. B) Fashion shoes. C) Architecture. D) Painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Documentary. 4. South African professional golfer Ernie Els is known by what nickname? A) The Body. B) The Fat Budgie. C) The Bald Eagle. D) The Big Easy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Big Easy. 5. A waterbear or moss piglet, otherwise known as a tardigrade, is a minute extremophile organism. Which one of these can it survive? A) Complete vacuum. B) Water temperature ranging from absolute zero to boiling point. C) Pressure 6 times greater than in the deepest ocean, radiation 100-fold higher than lethal for humans. D) All of these, and more. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these, and more. 6. Which are among the ancient Egyptian remedies given in the 16th or 17th century BCE medical treatise known as the Edwin Smith papyrus? A) Preventing and curing infection with honey. B) Closing wounds with sutures (for wounds of the lip, throat, and shoulder). C) All of these. D) Immobilisation for head and spinal cord injuries. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of these. 7. Which company bought the Daimler, Lanchester, Jaguar and Land Rover brand names in March 2008? A) Tata Motors, India. B) Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea. C) Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan. D) Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW), Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tata Motors, India. 8. Which of these is not the name for a theoretical short cut in space? A) Worm hole. B) Time warp. C) Black Hole. D) Einstein-Rosen Bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Black Hole. 9. Which of these is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts? A) FBI. B) Harvard University. C) CIA. D) The Pentagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harvard University. 10. The Muslim leader Saladin recaptured which city from the Crusaders in 1187? A) Baghdad. B) Constantinople. C) Jerusalem. D) Troy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jerusalem. 11. Who created the character of Doctor Finlay in the British TV series (1962-1971) "Dr Finlay's Casebook" ? A) TK Samuels. B) J B Priestley. C) G K Chesterton. D) A J Cronin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A J Cronin. 12. What theory originated in the 1930s with the work of Rózsa Péter, Kurt Gödel, Alonzo Church, Stephen Kleene, and Emil Post? A) The continuum hypothesis. B) Recursion theory. C) Peano arithmetic. D) The Fregean and Russellian intensional logics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recursion theory. 13. Where did the 2014 Umbrella Revolution happen? A) India. B) Japan. C) Hong Kong. D) UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hong Kong. 14. Which Australian actor, singer-songwriter, model and philanthropist started her singing career in Britain with the release of "Torn" ? A) Selena. B) Missy Elliott. C) Natalie Imbruglia. D) Foxy Brown. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natalie Imbruglia. 15. In the original Star Trek TV series that aired from 1966 to 1969, who played Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy? A) Leonard Nimoy. B) DeForest Kelley. C) James Doohan. D) Walter Koenig. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) DeForest Kelley. 16. What word was coined by Charles Richet to denote a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorised" by physical mediums, said to be associated with formation of ghosts? A) Spectrometer. B) Poltergeist. C) Doppelgänger. D) Ectoplasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ectoplasm. 17. Which of these sports is not represented in the modern pentathlon, contested in Olympic Games? A) Long jump. B) Shooting. C) Swimming. D) Fencing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long jump. 18. Where did the borzoi dog breed originate? A) Russia. B) Mexico. C) Egypt. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Russia. 19. Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea is bordered by Poland and which other country or countries? A) Germany. B) Russia and Estonia. C) Lithuania. D) Belarus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lithuania. 20. What does the term "to spend a penny" mean? A) To have a haircut. B) To make a bad bargain. C) To make a down payment on a purchase. D) To urinate. 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