This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 83 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 83 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the company Faber and Faber Ltd do? A) Dig ditches. B) Publish books. C) Run beauty contests. D) Stage mediaeval jousts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Publish books. 2. The Dalton Minimum (roughly 1790-1830) and the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715) are associated with periods of cooler temperatures around the world, and refer to what? A) Reduction in seismic activity. B) Lower tree growth. C) Reduced sunspot activity. D) Drought level. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reduced sunspot activity. 3. Which of these is a board game? A) Go. B) Come. C) Stay. D) Sit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Go. 4. Which of these famous scientists could escape the schoolyard nicknames of Copperknickers, The Great Newt, or The Eddystone Lighthouse? A) Thomas Edison. B) Nicolaus Copernicus. C) Isaac Newton. D) Robert Brown. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Brown. 5. What genus of grass is also known as kaffir corn, dhurra, Guinea corn and Indian millet? A) Alfalfa. B) Saffron. C) Spinifex. D) Sorghum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sorghum. 6. Which of these parts of a horse's harness is the rear-most? A) Blinkers. B) Girth. C) Tug. D) Breeching. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Breeching. 7. What are Halley's, Hale-Bopp, Kohoutek, West, Hyakutake and McNaught? A) Stars. B) Comets. C) Planets. D) Black Holes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comets. 8. What was the first nation to recognise the USA as an independent nation? A) Great Britain. B) Morocco. C) France. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Morocco. 9. What fruit gets its name from its similarity to the locally native word for testicle? A) Avocado. B) Tangelo. C) Amarillo. D) Quince. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Avocado. 10. In the UK TV series "Coronation Street", which of these were the last to be married? A) Carla and Tony. B) Ken and Dierdre. C) Alec and Bet. D) Curly and Raquel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carla and Tony. 11. What game requires 6 hoops and 2 posts set up on a ground around 35 yards by 28 yards? A) Bowls. B) Boules. C) Rounders. D) Croquet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Croquet. 12. What is the name for someone who engages in the scientific study of fermentation? A) Ziggurat. B) Zoologist. C) Zymurgist. D) Zanzibarian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zymurgist. 13. Which of these establishments is based in Langley, Virginia? A) CIA. B) The Pentagon. C) Harvard University. D) FBI. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CIA. 14. Duck or goose feathers, from the left wing only, are used in what? A) Fletching arrows for archery. B) Feathered shuttlecocks. C) Fletching darts. D) Quills for calligraphy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feathered shuttlecocks. 15. Where is Luxor? A) Australia. B) London. C) Moscow. D) Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Egypt. 16. What is the main ingredient, apart from icing sugar, in Royal icing? A) Walnut oil. B) Softly beaten egg white. C) Champagne. D) Earl Grey tea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Softly beaten egg white. 17. Where is Komodo National Park? A) The Lesser Sunda Islands. B) Kalimantan. C) Sumatra. D) Java. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Lesser Sunda Islands. 18. An oenophile is fond of what? A) Baseball. B) Steak. C) Mathematics. D) Wine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wine. 19. Who won a Nobel prize in 1918 "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta", established a major Law of Radiation and sparked the development of Quantum Theory from 1900? A) Van Allen. B) Fred Hoyle. C) Ernest Rutherford. D) Max Planck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Max Planck. 20. The 2011-12 and 2015-16 World Champion in men's individual archery, Kim Woo-Jin, represents what nation? A) South Korea. B) UK. C) USA. D) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South Korea. ← 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