This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A modified version of which type of weapon was designed by US frontiersman Jim Bowie? A) Spear. B) Rifle. C) Pistol. D) Knife. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Knife. 2. The body of writings contained in the Ayurveda-life science, or knowledge-dealing in lifestyle and therapy interventions to gain human health, is understood to have originated in India how long ago? A) 1, 000 years. B) 5 millennia. C) Close to 3 millennia. D) 1, 200 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Close to 3 millennia. 3. What event led to a US grand jury indicting E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy for conspiracy, burglary and violation of federal wiretapping laws? A) Lewinsky scandal. B) Iran contra scandal. C) Watergate. D) ABSCAM. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Watergate. 4. A cubit, an ancient unit of measurement, was derived from what? A) As far as the human eye can see. B) 1, 000th of the distance from the Sphinx to the mouth of the Nile. C) Three long paces. D) The distance of the forearm from index fingertip to elbow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The distance of the forearm from index fingertip to elbow. 5. During World War II, most of the collection of the National Gallery of British Art was put into storage. How was protection given to a very large painting by Stanley Spencer? A) An iron shed was built around it. B) A pit was dug and it was lowered into it. C) It was taken through a tunnel to the Victoria Underground station on the Victoria Line. D) A brick wall was built in front of it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A brick wall was built in front of it. 6. Literally, what old French word translates approximately as "white food" ? A) Blancmange. B) Crème brûlée. C) Ossobuco. D) Brioche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blancmange. 7. The excavation of what city, destroyed in 79AD, was begun in 1748? A) Carthage. B) Athens. C) Pompeii. D) Troy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pompeii. 8. When the Olympic flame is about to be taken to the venue for the next Olympic Games, it is lit in which city? A) Rome. B) Athens. C) London. D) Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Athens. 9. What are "Libiamo ne' lieti calici", "O soave fanciulla" and "Parle-moi de ma mère" ? A) Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. B) Operatic duets for tenor and soprano. C) Mottoes of Italian army regiments. D) The opening words of all papal speeches since 1275. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Operatic duets for tenor and soprano. 10. What is toasted bread, rubbed with garlic, drizzled with olive oil, seasoned with salt and pepper and served warm, called? A) Tarantino. B) Flaminia. C) Bruschetta. D) Focaccia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bruschetta. 11. Celebrated merchant Marco Polo 1254-1324, adventurer Francisco Pizzaro c.1475-1541, African-American activist Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumtree) c.1797-1883, and White Sox player Joe Jackson 1887-1951 shared what? A) They were assassinated. B) They had epilepsy. C) They were illiterate. D) They are not known to have had any children. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were illiterate. 12. How many black keys are there on a standard modern piano? A) 36. B) 52. C) 88. D) 72. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 36. 13. What countries apart from Thailand surround the Gulf of Thailand? A) Cambodia and Vietnam. B) Cambodia and Laos. C) China and Malaysia. D) Myanmar (or Burma) and Sumatra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cambodia and Vietnam. 14. Which of these is not one of the islands that makes up Malta? A) Sardinia. B) Gozo. C) Malta Island. D) Comino. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sardinia. 15. Why was Captain William Kidd hanged in 1701? A) Bigamy. B) Treason. C) Theft. D) Piracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Piracy. 16. In 1952, Jonas Salk invented a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infection by which disease? A) Mumps. B) Measles. C) Polio. D) Sleeping sickness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polio. 17. How many different people were Prime Minister of Canada in the first 100 years after the first was appointed in 1867? A) 20. B) 14. C) 25. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14. 18. What can describe a phlegmatic person? A) Even-tempered. B) A person with a throaty cough. C) Excited. D) A student of Greek. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Even-tempered. 19. Where are the Huron Falls? A) Michigan. B) North of Lake Huron. C) Between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. D) Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania. 20. The second studio album of which band or artist was certified triple platinum by the RIAA in 2003, 7 years after it was released? A) Fugees. B) Tupac Shakur. C) Tool. D) Beck. 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