This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 835 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 835 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is a hairstyle popular in the late 1950s and 1960s? A) Beehive. B) Anthill. C) Maresnest. D) Dovecote. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beehive. 2. According to legend, on which event is the sport of hammer throw based? A) A snake spitting venom. B) David's fight with Goliath. C) A throw in the Tailteann Games in Ireland about 2000 BCE. D) A battle exploit by Leonidas (540-480 BCE), king of Sparta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A throw in the Tailteann Games in Ireland about 2000 BCE. 3. What is a plectrum used for? A) Plucking eyebrows. B) Pickling. C) Pilchard gutting. D) Plucking strings on a stringed instrument. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plucking strings on a stringed instrument. 4. What do the notes for the "euro" have on the front (recto)? A) Bridges. B) Windows or gateways. C) Historical figures. D) Forms of transport. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Windows or gateways. 5. What song title has been recorded by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse, Steve Winwood, Bad Company, Reel Big Fish, and Louisiana Red? A) Eye of the Tiger. B) Valerie. C) Mondays. D) Down, down, down. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Valerie. 6. What is gossypiboma? A) The cotton genus. B) Stray forceps after an operation. C) Matter grown round a mass of cotton or sponge left behind in a body cavity after an operation. D) A type of natural or organic yoga clothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Matter grown round a mass of cotton or sponge left behind in a body cavity after an operation. 7. English Quaker and businessman John Cadbury (1801-1889) founded a company making what? A) Sails. B) Clocks. C) Drapery. D) Chocolate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chocolate. 8. The London market at Smithfield deals in what? A) Flowers. B) Meat. C) Fish. D) Fruit and vegetables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meat. 9. How would a redingote usually be treated? A) Worn. B) Planted. C) Drunk. D) Shot at. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Worn. 10. In a civilisation which flourished for about 700 years, until the Kingdom was annexed by Rome in 106 CE, and which left internationally known city ruins in Petra, what are the people known as? A) Nabateans. B) Qaḥṭānites. C) Sabaeans. D) Parthians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nabateans. 11. Raph Koster, Brad McQuaid, Mark Jacobs, Brian Green and J. Todd Coleman are influential in MMORPG design. What is MMORPG? A) Multiplayer Methods Online Records to Prohibit Gambling. B) Multiple Mazes in Organically Roped Poursuivant Gardens. C) Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. D) Mad Men Out-takes Requiring Parental Guidance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. 12. Which scholar and lawyer who became Speaker of the House of Commons and Treasurer of the Exchequer was beheaded for treason in 1534 after disagreeing with Henry VIII being head of the church? A) Sir Francis Drake. B) Sir Toby Belch. C) Sir Thomas More. D) Sir Edmund Hillary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sir Thomas More. 13. Desultory activity is marked by what? A) Making unexpected jumps. B) Lack of plan or obvious purpose, interest or effort. C) Sultry desire. D) Deseeding fruit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lack of plan or obvious purpose, interest or effort. 14. Why is the Calcutta Cup, a rugby union trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Six Nations Championship match between England and Scotland, so called? A) It was donated by a Rajah. B) Calcutta is the HQ for the Board of Control for Cricket in India. C) The inside has a black finish. D) It is made of rupees from the Calcutta Rugby Club. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is made of rupees from the Calcutta Rugby Club. 15. A web serial comedy dealing with the running of the world, first uploaded to the web in 2006, is called what? A) The God Life. B) Business As Usual. C) The Office. D) God, Inc. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) God, Inc. 16. How did Eric Robert Rudolph, an American terrorist, try to disrupt the Summer Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta? A) Detonated a bomb at the Centennial Olympic Park. B) Took a rifle into the shooting venue and threatened spectators. C) Hi-jacked a plane and threatened to fly it into the stadium. D) Took 13 competitors hostage and asked for the release of 12 Israeli prisoners. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Detonated a bomb at the Centennial Olympic Park. 17. The name "vadose" for one of the Earth's soil layers comes from a Latin word meaning what? A) Shallow. B) Marshy. C) Granular. D) Shifting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shallow. 18. Which film starring Steve McQueen featured a car chase through the streets of San Francisco? A) Zabriskie Point. B) Vanishing Point. C) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. D) Bullitt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bullitt. 19. What is most likely to be seen at the World Freestyle Championships, held in white water venues? A) Swimmers. B) Kayakers. C) Water polo competitors. D) Rowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kayakers. 20. Where and when was the first international High Speed Telegraphy (HRT) World Championship held? A) Beatenberg, Switzerland in 2012. B) Moscow, Russia in 1983. C) Herceg-Novi, Montenegro in 1932. D) Siófok, Hungary, in 1995. 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