This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 852 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 852 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where are the Endorois people indigenous? A) Kenya. B) Algeria. C) North-eastern Canada. D) New Caledonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kenya. 2. What kind of animal is the endangered Turkmenian kulan? A) Butterfly. B) Swan. C) Ass. D) Goat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ass. 3. Which of these people had victories in battle at Marston Moor, Naseby, Preston, Dunbar and Worcester? A) Winston Churchill. B) Oliver Cromwell. C) Joan of Arc. D) King Arthur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oliver Cromwell. 4. Many of the alkaline and saline lakes in and around the complex of rift valleys known collectively as the Great Rift Valley running down eastern Africa, are notable for what? A) Any or all of these. B) Geysers and hot springs. C) Nesting flamingos. D) Abundant cyanobacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Any or all of these. 5. What does the Mohs scale measure? A) Earthquake magnitude. B) Wind strength. C) The hardness of minerals. D) Volume of fluid flow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The hardness of minerals. 6. The two main branches of the River Nile are known as what? A) White and Blue. B) Black and Indigo. C) Black and Chartreuse. D) Red and Grey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White and Blue. 7. Burkina Faso and which other country have declared the Sourou Valley as a Transboundary Ramsar Site? A) Mali. B) Mauritania. C) Guinea-Bissau. D) Gabon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mali. 8. Someone who is frightened of blood is suffering from what? A) Mysophobia. B) Pteromechanophobia. C) Cynophobia. D) Haemophobia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haemophobia. 9. Most protozoa, or single-celled organisms, are harmless to humans but a few cause diseases; which of these is one? A) Influenza. B) Dysentery. C) Rabies. D) Gonorrhoea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dysentery. 10. According to Forbes as at June 2014, which was the second richest football club in the world? A) Manchester United. B) Real Madrid. C) Barcelona. D) Bayern Munich. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Barcelona. 11. Which screen actor, well-known for roles in fiction work, switched genres in 2016 to appear in a world-wide famous television series celebrating cars and driving? A) Matthew McConaughey. B) Matthew Perry. C) Matt LeBlanc. D) Matthew Macfadyen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Matt LeBlanc. 12. At the 1912 Olympic Games Serbia competed as an independent nation, but did not do so again until when? A) 1948. B) 2008. C) 1920. D) 2016. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2008. 13. Which cartoon character was born at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm? A) Snoopy. B) Goofy. C) Snowy. D) Scooby Doo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Snoopy. 14. Which of these is a home video game console launched in 2006 by Nintendo that has a wireless controller for use as a handheld pointing device, and detects movement in three dimensions? A) Poi. B) Wo'. C) Eeek. D) Wii. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wii. 15. What takes place every evening at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium? A) A chess tournament is played. B) The roll of the dead in the Ypres salient in World War I is spotlighted. C) The Last Post is sounded. D) A blessing is pronounced by the Bishop of St. Martin's Cathedral for the dead of World War I and II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Last Post is sounded. 16. The story of which 1944 film starring Elizabeth Taylor involved a horse called "The Pie" ? A) Mary Poppins. B) Black Beauty. C) The Railway Children. D) National Velvet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) National Velvet. 17. Which of these is an anthology film released in 1988, a collection of short films about Michael Jackson several of which are long-form music videos from his "Bad" album? A) Ghosts. B) The Wiz. C) Moonwalker. D) This Is It. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moonwalker. 18. The tiny Socotra archipelago, inhabited since the early stone age and once an integral part of trade networks in the area, lies where? A) 24 kilometres (15 mi) east of Somalia. B) 380 kilometres (240 mi) south of the Arabian Peninsula. C) 24 kilometres (15 mi) west of Gibraltar. D) 380 kilometres (240 mi) south of Sri Lanka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 380 kilometres (240 mi) south of the Arabian Peninsula. 19. Which of these musicals is set during World War II? A) South Pacific. B) Carousel. C) Hair. D) West Side Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South Pacific. 20. The Polisario Front disputes which country for control of the Western Sahara? A) Algeria. B) Mauritania. C) Spain. D) Morocco. 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