This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 825 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 825 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name for the negative pressure generator invented by Robert Henderson and used extensively by Phillip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw? A) Flight simulator. B) Decompression chamber. C) Wind tunnel. D) Iron lung. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iron lung. 2. Where were the Commonwealth Games held in 2014? A) London, UK. B) New Delhi, India. C) Glasgow, Scotland. D) Sydney, Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glasgow, Scotland. 3. What is the name for a type of man-made well where the water is raised by natural pressure rather than pumping? A) Artesian. B) Petrifying well. C) Persian well. D) Tube well. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Artesian. 4. Which composer wrote the "Water Music" ? A) McCartney. B) Handel. C) Mahler. D) Beethoven. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Handel. 5. What was the first Paréage of Andorra (1278)? A) Building of major fortifications. B) A charter establishing dual rule over the country. C) Charter establishing freedom of all citizens. D) The adoption of Catalan as the official language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A charter establishing dual rule over the country. 6. What film genre has a plot that takes place during a journey, which has resonances from tales of epic journeys such as the "Odyssey" and the "Aeneid" ? A) Tour movie. B) Road movie. C) Heroic movie. D) Moving picture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Road movie. 7. In the book "Treasure Island", what did Ben Gunn dream of? A) A bungalow at Palm Springs. B) Cheese. C) Jeannie. D) Less taxation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cheese. 8. Which of the films has nothing to do with dancing? A) Dirty Dancing. B) Poltergeist. C) Footloose. D) Billy Elliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poltergeist. 9. According to the old saying, what "is a virtue, possess it if you can, seldom found in women and never in a man" ? A) Good taste. B) Patience. C) Fashion sense. D) Loyalty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Patience. 10. Ounjougou in Mali in Africa is believed to be one of the earliest regions (along with East Asia) in which what occurred? A) Trepanning was practised. B) Tools were deliberately made. C) The independent development of pottery. D) Barley and other grains were cultivated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The independent development of pottery. 11. Brazil is the largest country on which continent? A) North America. B) South America. C) Asia. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) South America. 12. Which of these bands is not from Sweden? A) ABBA. B) Aqua. C) Ace of Base. D) Benny Anderssons Orkester. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aqua. 13. Bezique is what kind of game? A) Card game. B) Guessing game. C) Board game. D) Throwing game. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Card game. 14. What event applies to Charles II of England in 1660 and the Bourbons in 1814 and 1815? A) Regency period. B) Execution. C) Abdication. D) Restoration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Restoration. 15. What sort of creature is a lurcher? A) Bird. B) Butterfly. C) Dog. D) Rabbit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dog. 16. Which Australian, a winner of Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild and Australian Film Institute awards, became, in 2009, one of 17 people to have won an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award? A) Tom Cruise. B) Olivia Newton-John. C) Mel Gibson. D) Geoffrey Rush. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geoffrey Rush. 17. According to Cole Porter's song, who regretted not being able to come to lunch? A) Miss Otis. B) Marjorie Dawe. C) Maria. D) Baby Jane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Miss Otis. 18. Whose 4 sons were an astronomer, a botanist, an army engineer who went on scientific explorations, and the head of a scientific instrument manufacturing company? A) Charles Darwin. B) René Descartes. C) Nicholas Mercator. D) Heinrich Rudolph Hertz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Darwin. 19. Red Gauntlet is a type of climbing what? A) Rose. B) Strawberry. C) Crab. D) Snail. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strawberry. 20. Who was the merchant sea-captain who made the first American circumnavigation of the world in 1790, and is known for trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the fur trade in that region? A) Alan Harvey. B) Sidney Franklin. C) Gordon Diggle. D) Robert Gray. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Gray. ← 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