This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 795 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 795 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In which British TV series did the lead character refer to his wife as "she who must be obeyed" ? A) To The Manor Born. B) Minder. C) The Good Life. D) Rumpole of the Bailey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rumpole of the Bailey. 2. Which US city has the same name as the state that it is in? A) New York. B) Denver. C) Buffalo. D) San Francisco. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New York. 3. The Republic of China (ROC) did not compete at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 because the People's Republic of China (PRC) pressured the organisers to stop it competing under that name. What name did the ROC use when it next competed in 1984? A) Island China. B) Taiwan. C) Chinese Taipei. D) Free China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chinese Taipei. 4. Which points on the Earth can see a total eclipse of the sun? A) Those inside the moon's penumbra. B) Those completely inside the Moon's umbra. C) All points on the daylight side of the Earth. D) All points from 3 hours after dawn to 3 hours before sundown. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Those completely inside the Moon's umbra. 5. What is typically used to grind a telescope mirror to the surface wanted? A) Sand and pumice in water. B) Shark skin. C) Purbeck clay. D) Loess. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sand and pumice in water. 6. Which of these quotes is ascribed to the Swiss physician, Paracelsus (1493-1541)? A) The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. B) The patients are your textbook, the sickbed is your study. C) Medicine rests upon four pillars-philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 7. Among these stars of the early American film scene, Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn, which is the odd one out in terms of their early life and career? A) Douglas Fairbanks. B) Mary Pickford. C) Errol Flynn. D) Cary Grant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Douglas Fairbanks. 8. What word would you use to describe someone who sees sound? A) Syncretist. B) Synchronous. C) Synaesthetic. D) Synthesiser. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synaesthetic. 9. According to a song by Marvin Gaye, released in 1968, he "Heard It Through The ..... '' what? A) Potato patch. B) Apple tree. C) Rose bush. D) Grapevine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grapevine. 10. Food poisoning is an umbrella term covering foodborne illness from what source or sources? A) Bacteria. B) A virus. C) Parasites. D) Any of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any of these. 11. What is a pistachio? A) An ablution block. B) A sculptured moustache. C) A nut. D) A snow field. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A nut. 12. In the UK, what is the formal name for the testimony by a criminal against fellow criminals? A) King's or Queen's Evidence. B) Grass. C) Treason. D) Covert information. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King's or Queen's Evidence. 13. Where is the Atlas Moth usually found? A) Southeast Asia and the Malay archipelago. B) Madagascar. C) Argentina. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Southeast Asia and the Malay archipelago. 14. In golf, who presents the traditional green jacket to the US Masters winner? A) The previous year's winner. B) The chairman of Augusta National. C) The president of the USA. D) The PGA Championship winner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The previous year's winner. 15. Where are the Snowy, Murray and the Darling? A) Australia. B) India. C) South Africa. D) Montserrat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Australia. 16. Respiration in many arachnids is through book lungs, which are generally situated where? A) In a pocket on the underside of the abdomen. B) On the sides of the torso. C) In pockets on the side of the head. D) In a pocket beside the spinnerets or tail. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a pocket on the underside of the abdomen. 17. Where are the Beth Chatto Gardens? A) Kyoto, Japan. B) Oakland, California, USA. C) Pennsylvania, USA. D) Essex, UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Essex, UK. 18. Where was agreement reached in November 1995 for the document formally signed in Paris on 14 December 1995 called "The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina", which ended the 3.5 year long war in Bosnia? A) Manchester, England. B) Dayton, Ohio, USA. C) Turin, Italy. D) Rheims, France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dayton, Ohio, USA. 19. What play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie reverses the rankings of the classes in British society when aristocrats and servants are shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island? A) What The Butler Saw. B) The Admirable Crichton. C) Northanger Abbey. D) Peter Pan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Admirable Crichton. 20. The popularity of extreme sports has led to several world games; when and where were the X Games Asia (now KIA X Games) first held? A) 1998, Phuket, Thailand. B) 2002 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. C) 1995 Seoul, South Korea. D) 2002 Tokyo, Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1998, Phuket, Thailand. ← 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