This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 805 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 805 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does commensalism between two organisms imply about them? A) One benefits while the other is harmed. B) Both benefit from each other. C) One is harmed while the other is unaffected. D) One benefits from the other without affecting it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One benefits from the other without affecting it. 2. What is the product marketed as Fisherman's Friend intended to do? A) Transport worms or bait fish. B) Control pain from arthritis. C) Help ease respiratory problems, or throat strain or ache. D) Gut and/or fillet fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Help ease respiratory problems, or throat strain or ache. 3. When was the sculpture of the four faces on Mount Rushmore begun? A) 1947. B) 1907. C) 1927. D) 1937. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1927. 4. For what does Greek legend generally agree that Prometheus received eternal punishment? A) Going AWOL. B) Getting blind drunk. C) Stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mankind. D) Tripping Zeus with a skipping rope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mankind. 5. For what was Thomas Bewick renowned in the 18th century? A) Metal sculpture. B) Ceramics. C) Oil painting. D) Wood engraving. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wood engraving. 6. Passiflora edulis, a vine native to South America, is also called passionfruit, maracujá or maracuyá in South America, lilikoʻi in Hawaii and by what name in South Africa? A) Granadilla. B) Kumquat. C) Avocado. D) Protea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Granadilla. 7. Sir Edwin Henry Landseer's painting "Monarch of the Glen" featured what animal? A) Giraffe. B) Sheep. C) Deer. D) Bat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deer. 8. What does the "D" stand for in the acronym "PDA", that refers to a small computer that has the ability to connect to the internet? A) Drumkit. B) Digital. C) Devolved. D) Dissolute. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Digital. 9. What was the name of the two spacecraft that photographed the planet Saturn in 1980 and 1981? A) Magellan. B) Voyager. C) Mariner. D) Viking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Voyager. 10. Which of these establishments is based in Washington, D.C.? A) FBI. B) CIA. C) The Pentagon. D) Harvard University. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FBI. 11. When was the North Atlantic Treaty which established NATO signed? A) 1919. B) 1939. C) 1949. D) 1989. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1949. 12. Until Lewis Hamilton's win at Spain in 2007, who held the record for being the youngest driver to lead the Formula One Championship? A) Denny Hulme. B) Bruce McLaren. C) Chris Amon. D) Mike Hailwood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bruce McLaren. 13. From 1797 to 1805 and from 1814 to 1866, the city of Venice was part of what country? A) Greece. B) Turkey. C) Austria. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Austria. 14. What shape is a meat or cake roulade? A) Cube. B) Triangle. C) Flat circle. D) Cylinder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cylinder. 15. The Koran is the sacred book of which religion? A) Judaism. B) Buddhism. C) Islam. D) Mormon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Islam. 16. The Gunpowder Plot, by discontented Catholics including Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby, was to blow up the British parliament as it was being opened by whom? A) Elizabeth I. B) Charles I. C) James I. D) Charles II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James I. 17. What are Marimo, a form of Aegagropila linnaei, filamentous algae which grow in or beside water? A) Large green velvety balls. B) Toxic red algae. C) Frilled short-leafed free-drifting "seaweed". D) Algae mats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Large green velvety balls. 18. Which of these connects the cities of Accra, Bordeaux, Lleida, London and Valencia? A) They were birthplaces of ground-breaking explorers of the 18th century. B) At various times they have been ruled by Muslim dynasties. C) They lie on or very near the prime meridian. D) English is one of their official languages. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They lie on or very near the prime meridian. 19. In 1991 he was given the National Medal of the Arts by President George H. W. Bush, in 2003 was inducted posthumously into the American Tap Dance Hall of Fame, and in 1987 had appeared in which film? A) Footloose. B) Born to Dance. C) Dirty Dancing. D) Flashdance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dirty Dancing. 20. What was the name of the computer in Stanley Kubrick's "2001:A Space Odyssey" ? A) Wang. B) Fuji. C) Dave. D) HAL. 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