This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 837 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 837 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the subject of the "Zhou Bi Suan Jing", one of the oldest and most famous Chinese texts dating from the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC-256 BC), and added to into the Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 BC)? A) Mathematics. B) Medicine. C) Psychology. D) Architecture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mathematics. 2. During the 16th century Christian priests together with Spanish or Portuguese soldiers and adventurers destroyed almost all of the written "paper" records of what civilisation? A) Mayan. B) Spanish Muslim. C) Mozambique Bantu. D) Tamil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mayan. 3. What was the capital of the Portuguese empire from 1808 to 1815? A) Madeira. B) Lisbon. C) Oporto. D) Rio de Janeiro. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rio de Janeiro. 4. Benedict Cumberbatch appears as the eponymous hero, created by Steve Ditko, in what 2016 superhero film? A) Dr Strange. B) Daredevil. C) Dr Octopus. D) Blade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dr Strange. 5. Which British prime minister resigned as a result of the Suez Crisis? A) Anthony Eden. B) Harold Macmillan. C) Clement Attlee. D) Harold Wilson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthony Eden. 6. What make of car is associated with Trevor Wilkinson? A) TVR. B) Morgan. C) Noble. D) Lotus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TVR. 7. What temperature is the equivalent of 0 degrees Kelvin? A) -273.15 degrees Celsius. B) 800 degrees Fahrenheit. C) -273.15 degrees Fahrenheit. D) 800 degrees Celsius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -273.15 degrees Celsius. 8. The Cocos, Andaman and Nicobar Islands are an extended archipelago stretching north between the north-western tip of Indonesia and what other country? A) Myanmar/Burma. B) Thailand. C) Bangladesh. D) Malaysia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Myanmar/Burma. 9. The earliest work of Japanese history is attributed to Prince Shลtoku, who is said to have written the Tennลki and the Kokki in what century? A) 19th BCE. B) 7th BCE. C) 7th CE. D) 19th CE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7th CE. 10. Who was the author of "Around The World In 80 Days" and "20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea" ? A) H G Wells. B) Jules Verne. C) H Rider Haggard. D) Jonathan Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jules Verne. 11. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play US Marshalls investigating the disappearance of a psychiatric patient in the 1950s in which 2010 film directed by Martin Scorsese? A) Shutter Island. B) Gangs of New York. C) The Aviator. D) Blood Diamond. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shutter Island. 12. What was the height achieved at the 2012 Olympic Games, an Olympic record, by Reynaud Lavillennie to win the men's pole vault? A) 5.05 m (16 ft 6 3โ4 in). B) 5.97 m (19 ft 7 in). C) 5 m (16 ft 5 in). D) 4.95 m (16 ft 3 in). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5.97 m (19 ft 7 in). 13. What do Bruce Banner, James Howlett and Selina Kyle have in common? A) They are alter-egos for superheroes. B) They were the team of scientists which developed synthetic insulin. C) They are chess grand masters. D) They started Gay Pride parades in their respective cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are alter-egos for superheroes. 14. In 1907 American anthropologist and ethnographer Frances Densmore began fifty-plus years of studying and preserving what? A) South-eastern African music. B) American Indian music. C) Inuit musical tradition. D) Indigenous Central American music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American Indian music. 15. In the "Harry Potter" books, students board the train to Hogwarts at Platform 9+3โ4. Which London railway station has erected a sign at a wall between tracks 9 and 10 to commemorate this? A) Euston. B) Paddington. C) St Pancras. D) King's Cross. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) King's Cross. 16. When this trophy was first offered for award in the 1871-72 season of its sport, how many teams competed and what was the trophy? A) The Auld Mug (America's Cup), 3 teams. B) FA Cup, 5 teams. C) FA Cup, 15 teams. D) Ryder Cup, 24 teams. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) FA Cup, 15 teams. 17. A type of behaviour characterised by living together in mutigenerational colonies headed by one productive female, cooperative brood care, individuals with specialised non-transferable skills, is known as what? A) Hymenopteric. B) Parasociality. C) Eusociality. D) Batroid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eusociality. 18. Where is the National Monument known as McLear's Beacon, first established in 1844 and still used as a triangulation station by cartographers? A) Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. B) Atacama Desert, Peru. C) Plaine des Sables, Ile de la Rรฉunion. D) The Great Karoo, Western Cape province, South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. 19. Which of these is not one of theatres that make up the British National Theatre complex on the South Bank, London? A) Olivier. B) Cottlesloe. C) Gielgud. D) Lyttelton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gielgud. 20. What is the choking didymo, didymosphenia geminata, in waterways better known as? A) Darwin's barberry. B) Oxygen weed. C) Rock snot. D) Blue-green algae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rock snot. โ PreviousNext โRelated 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 ๐ Back to Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books