This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 838 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 838 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Zurich SC Lions have been European Champions in which sport? A) Ice hockey. B) Baseball. C) Basketball. D) Water polo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ice hockey. 2. Which musical was based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce "The Merchant of Yonkers", which he revised and retitled "The Matchmaker" in 1955? A) Kiss Me Kate. B) Hello, Dolly!. C) Aspects of Love. D) Damn Yankees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hello, Dolly!. 3. Which of these buildings is in Chicago? A) Willis Tower. B) Petronas Towers. C) Sathorn's Robot Building. D) Chrysler Building. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Willis Tower. 4. Which ancient people with a confederacy of 5 cities (Ekron, Ashdod, Gath, Askalon and Gaza) came into conflict with Israel under Samson, Samuel and David? A) Philippians. B) Persians. C) Philistines. D) Macedonians. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Philistines. 5. What occasioned the death of Mumtaz Mahal in 1631, at the age of 37? A) A heart attack while dancing for her husband. B) Poison administered by other wives in the harem. C) Fall from horseback while hunting with her husband. D) Childbirth, while accompanying her husband in a military campaign. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Childbirth, while accompanying her husband in a military campaign. 6. Who was the first Swiss citizen and the first surgeon to win a Nobel Prize? A) Antonio Egas Moniz (1874-1955). B) Alexis Carrel (1873-1944). C) Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917). D) Joseph E. Murray (1919-2012). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917). 7. What became, In July 1959, the first socialist state in the Western Hemisphere? A) Venezuela. B) Haiti. C) Mexico. D) Cuba. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cuba. 8. In chemical terminology what is a mole? A) An unexpected chemical reaction. B) The smallest unit of molecules in a substance. C) A hostile agent. D) A (specified) very large number of units. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A (specified) very large number of units. 9. Which of these North American deserts is the driest on average? A) Mojave Desert. B) Yuma Desert. C) Great Basin Desert. D) Chihuahuan Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mojave Desert. 10. Young Australian test and ODI cricketer Phillip Hughes died in November 2014 after an incident during an Shield match in Australia; what was the cause of his death? A) He was struck on the neck by a ball bowled to him. B) He had a heart attack while waiting to bat. C) He was struck in the throat by a ball while he was fielding behind the stumps. D) He was struck over the heart by a bowled ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was struck on the neck by a ball bowled to him. 11. Emperor Pedro II, Deodoro da Fonseca, Floriano Peixoto, Manuel Vitorino Pereira and Prudente de Morais are names that crop up in the politics of what country in the 19th century? A) Argentina. B) Mexico. C) Brazil. D) Philippines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brazil. 12. Which of these, father and son, between them over the period 1486 to 1548 explored first the east coast of the Americas from parts of Canada to Uruguay, including parts of Argentina, and later the west coast? A) Amerigo and Julius Vespucci. B) Ferdinand and Marco Magellan. C) John and Sebastian Cabot. D) Christopher and Diego Columbus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John and Sebastian Cabot. 13. The European Union has buildings in Strasbourg, Brussels and which of these cities? A) Ankara. B) Luxembourg. C) The Hague. D) Antwerp. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Luxembourg. 14. The port of Izmir in Turkey is on which sea? A) Sea of Marmara. B) Black Sea. C) Caspian Sea. D) Aegean Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aegean Sea. 15. Charles Perrault, an influential 17th century government servant in the reign of Louis XIV and leading member of the Académie Française, has most long-lasting renown as the author of what? A) "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones". B) "Children's and Household Tales". C) "Tales of Fairies". D) "Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals-Tales of Mother Goose". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals-Tales of Mother Goose". 16. What is the main ingredient in "yellowcake" ? A) Golf balls. B) Heroin. C) Lemon. D) Uranium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uranium. 17. Who was World Superbike Champion in 1994, 1995, 1998 and 1999? A) Troy Corser. B) Mark Webber. C) Paul Hogan. D) Carl Fogarty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carl Fogarty. 18. What miners' oil lamp, invented in 1815, had a wire cylinder to enclose the flame, preventing the explosion of coal-gas? A) Night Light. B) Davy Lamp. C) Black Light. D) Canary Lamp. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Davy Lamp. 19. What is a scalar quantity? A) A stage in the measure of tornadoes. B) A measure of the bulk of a fish. C) A quantity in a geometric progression. D) A quantity in mathematics or physics that is completely described by its magnitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A quantity in mathematics or physics that is completely described by its magnitude. 20. What are pinking shears usually used for? A) To clip wool round a sheep's head. B) To cut material, so as to minimize fraying. C) To make Christmas decorations. D) To cut pink flowers. 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