This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 871 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 871 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What fluid results from lachrymation? A) Milk. B) Blood. C) Sweat. D) Tears. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tears. 2. What contest takes place when two teams pull at opposite ends of a rope? A) Pull a Thon. B) Tug o War. C) Yank e Gohome. D) Haul a Weigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tug o War. 3. Where is the muscle group called "quads" found? A) Round the farm. B) In front of universities. C) In the thighs. D) At a fertility clinic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the thighs. 4. Which of these mountains is in the Swiss Alps? A) McKinley. B) Everest. C) Kilimanjaro. D) Matterhorn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Matterhorn. 5. What is the popular name of light green apples that originated in Australia in 1868 from a chance seedling propagated by Maria Ann Smith? A) Braeburn. B) Granny Smith. C) Golden Delicious. D) Gravenstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Granny Smith. 6. What word best describes a triangle where all angles are less than 90 degrees? A) Scalene. B) Isosceles. C) Acute. D) Equilateral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Acute. 7. In medicine, the suffix "-itis" means the presence of what? A) Suppuration. B) Cancer. C) Inflammation. D) Bleeding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inflammation. 8. In 1936, prototypes of a car called "strength through joy", with a round shape and air-cooled, flat-four, rear-mounted engine, appeared and was developed to become which car that is still recognisable? A) Volkswagen Beetle. B) Morris Oxford / Morris Isis. C) BMW Z series. D) Fiat 500 Bambina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Volkswagen Beetle. 9. What genre is the UK TV series "8 Out Of 10 Cats" ? A) Wildlife. B) Veterinary advice. C) Comedy panel game. D) Sitcom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comedy panel game. 10. Who composed, and sang, the love song "My Heart Will Go On" which was featured in an epic American film in 1997? A) BjΓΆrk. B) Madonna. C) The Spice Girls. D) Celine Dion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Celine Dion. 11. The cocktails Algonquin, Blood and Sand, Bronx, Crystal Bronx, Chocolate Soldier, Gibson, Income Tax, Man O'War, Martinez, Martini, Manhattan, Mephisto, Pall Mall, Rob Roy and Satan's Whiskers all contain what? A) Vodka. B) Gin. C) Whisky. D) Vermouth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vermouth. 12. The government in the UK 1935 to 1945, leading up to the partition of India in 1947, and from 1951 afterwards was Conservative; what was the UK government which saw the partition into effect and who led it? A) Anthony Eden, Conservative. B) Neville Chamberlain, Conservative. C) Winston Churchill, Conservative. D) Clement Attlee, Labour. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clement Attlee, Labour. 13. Where in the human body is the coccyx? A) In the ear. B) At the base of the skull. C) At the base of the spine. D) In the ankle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At the base of the spine. 14. What is the component in grasses, wood, and algae which is used to produce ethanol as a biofuel? A) Lignin. B) Chlorophyll. C) Cellulose. D) Sap. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cellulose. 15. In the 1984 Winter Olympics Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean set what never-to-be-repeated record? A) Winning the Nordic Combined for the fourth Olympics. B) Winning both the singles and the team luge competitions. C) Perfect 6s for artistic impression in the free programme of the ice skate dance. D) Sharing between them all 9 speed skating gold medals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perfect 6s for artistic impression in the free programme of the ice skate dance. 16. Which country was proclaimed a People's Republic on 1 October 1949, following the defeat of forces led by Chiang Kai-shek? A) Hawaii. B) East Germany. C) Poland. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) China. 17. AndrΓ©-Jacques Garnerin carried out what feat on 22 October 1797 at Parc Monceau, Paris? A) Made the first jump with a silk parachute. B) Cured a sheep with foot and mouth disease. C) Flew a balloon above 10, 000 metres. D) Gave the first blood transfusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Made the first jump with a silk parachute. 18. Wild Bill Hickok is a character in which musical? A) Calamity Jane. B) Paint Your Wagon. C) Annie Get Your Gun. D) Annie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calamity Jane. 19. In which decade was Queen Elizabeth II born? A) 1910s. B) 1940s. C) 1930s. D) 1920s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1920s. 20. Who led his troops to victory against Guthrum the Dane's Great Heathen Army at the Battle of Edington? A) Canute. B) Alfred the Great. C) Ethelred I. 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