This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 796 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 796 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Belgian artist Georges Remi is better known by what name? A) Albert Uderzo. B) El Greco. C) Edvard Munch. D) Hergé. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hergé. 2. Who was the author of "Jurassic Park" ? A) Tom Clancy. B) Michael Crichton. C) John Grisham. D) Clive Cussler. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Michael Crichton. 3. Which of these words means spraying or dusting a chemical on plants to cause their leaves to fall off? A) Disparagement. B) Deregistration. C) Disenchantment. D) Defoliation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Defoliation. 4. Which actor is a link between the outstanding psychological UK crime series, "Cracker", and the eight Harry Potter films? A) Christopher Eccleston. B) Dame Maggie Smith. C) Robbie Coltrane. D) Dame Judi Dench. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robbie Coltrane. 5. Who has played (on film) Queen Elizabeth I twice, Galadriel three times, Katharine Hepburn and Veronica Guerin? A) Cate Blanchett. B) Helen Mirren. C) Judi Dench. D) Penelope Cruz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cate Blanchett. 6. What country, with a population of around 12, 000, is the third-least-populated sovereign state in the world behind Vatican City and Nauru, and at 26 square kilometres (10 sq miles) is the fourth smallest country in the world, behind those two and Monaco? A) Samoa. B) Tonga. C) Vanuatu. D) Tuvalu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tuvalu. 7. With what tradition are Theravada chants associated? A) Wicca. B) Sikh. C) Yoga. D) Buddhist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Buddhist. 8. In which of these countries is it possible to find lithium in quantity? A) Northern Siberia. B) Bolivia. C) Greenland. D) Saudi Arabia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bolivia. 9. Pictures of a babirusa are seen in cave paintings of more than 30, 000 years ago; what is it? A) An antelope. B) A swine usually called a deer-pig. C) It is extinct, but was a cat-like carnivore. D) A porcupine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A swine usually called a deer-pig. 10. What country surrounds the self declared "Principality of Hutt River" (founded in April 1970 by His Royal Highness Prince Leonard who rules with his family including his wife Princess Shirley and their son, Crown Prince Ian), which issues its own car registrations and currency and pays no taxes? A) Australia. B) France. C) Spain. D) Wales. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Australia. 11. In Texas, what is known as "Ole Sparky" ? A) Lightning. B) Electric chair. C) Hydroelectric dam. D) St Elmo's Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Electric chair. 12. The year of 1820 was busy on the coast of Antarctica, with at least two sailing expeditions which are thought to have good claim to be the first from the West to sight the mainland; who led one of these? A) Nathaniel Palmer. B) Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. C) Captain John Davis. D) Alexander von Tunzelmann. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. 13. How many verbs are in the following sentence: "Roger told his dog not to jump on the furniture with muddy feet" ? A) None. B) 3. C) 1. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 14. John Adams, second President of the newly independent United States of America, was also which of these? A) Author of "Watership Down" and "The Plague Dogs". B) President of Sinn Féin. C) Pitcher in American National League baseball. D) First American Ambassador to Great Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) First American Ambassador to Great Britain. 15. What was notable about the jobs held by Ann Hays and Elizabeth Hoisington at the end of May 1970? A) It was the first time NASA had appointed "Shuttle Director" as a job-share. B) They were the first women fire fighters in the USA. C) They were the first women generals in the US Army. D) They were the first female bishops appointed in the Presbyterian Church. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were the first women generals in the US Army. 16. What is name for the holistic, global, comparative study of humans (the comprehensive study of human beings and of their interactions with each other and the environment), which has its intellectual origins in both the natural sciences and the humanities? A) Political studies. B) Entropy. C) Anthropology. D) Econometrics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anthropology. 17. When did the United Kingdom convert to decimal currency? A) 25 March 1949. B) 29 December 1963. C) 15 February 1971. D) 1 January 1988. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 15 February 1971. 18. Under what conditions is a midwife given dispensation by the Roman Catholic Church to baptise a child? A) If the child might die before it left the birthing room. B) If the parents asked. C) If the priest was indisposed. D) If there was no priest available within a 100 km radius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If the child might die before it left the birthing room. 19. Who was the main illustrator for the Tintin series of books? A) Albert Uderzo. B) René Goscinny. C) Hergé. D) Aubrey Beardsley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hergé. 20. A 1924 enterprise in tourism in South Dakota, USA, resulted in what? A) A campaign to save the Golden Eagle. B) A gold rush. C) Setting up Yellowstone National Park. D) Carvings of four Presidents' heads on Mt Rushmore. 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