This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 877 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 877 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Western nations allied with the United States to intervene between warring countries and defend the border at the 38th Parallel in which country? A) Vietnam. B) Korea. C) Iraq. D) East Timor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Korea. 2. What is the national government body for scientific research in Australia that was founded in 1926 as the "Advisory Council of Science and Industry" ? A) CSIRO. B) FAO. C) ANZUS. D) ACT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CSIRO. 3. The minute and critically endangered Lemur Leaf Frog, found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia, has unusually long thin legs and what other unusual feature? A) The females are half the size of the males. B) No webbing between its toes. C) Transparent skin. D) Live birth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No webbing between its toes. 4. What does the "B" stand for in the acronym "FBI" ? A) Bureau. B) Blame. C) Banishment. D) Bluster. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bureau. 5. When someone is cold they say that they are "chilled to the ..... '' what? A) Pumpkin. B) Cauliflower. C) Marrow. D) Cucumber. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marrow. 6. Rhabdomyolysis, the degradation and disintegration of striated muscle, can be an acute and possibly fatal effect of what? A) Eating toxic quail. B) Picking up a cane toad. C) Rolling in nettles. D) Drinking bleach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eating toxic quail. 7. What country would you travel through in going from Honduras to Costa Rica? A) Mexico. B) Nicaragua. C) Cuba. D) Colombia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nicaragua. 8. Who knighted Christopher Wren, the architect responsible for rebuilding 55 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including St. Paul's Cathedral? A) George V. B) George III. C) Charles II. D) Victoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles II. 9. He was the fourth of 6 children and the oldest surviving, was a choir singer, a painter, a writer, an admirer of Martin Luther, a decorated soldier and a politician. Who was he? A) Pope Francis 1. B) Claude Monet. C) Niccolò Machiavelli. D) Adolf Hitler. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adolf Hitler. 10. Which can be a demonstrative pronoun, a determinative adjective, and an adverb? A) This. B) The. C) Another. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) This. 11. Which of these countries is on the Gulf of Finland? A) Australia. B) Turkey. C) Ghana. D) Estonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Estonia. 12. What can the Valsalva manoeuvre be used for? A) To treat symptoms of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. B) To clear an airway of obstruction. C) To relieve muscle cramp. D) To clear or equalise pressure between ears and sinuses after change of pressure, e.g. after diving. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To clear or equalise pressure between ears and sinuses after change of pressure, e.g. after diving. 13. Which 1929 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock is considered to be the first all-talkie feature British film? A) Vertigo. B) Blackmail. C) Strangers on a Train. D) Rebecca. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blackmail. 14. For the 2020 BBC Sports Personality of the Year why was the Unsung Hero award made posthumously? A) The award recognised a person from 100 years ago. B) The recipient had been killed 3 months earlier. C) The recipient had just died from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). D) The recipient was killed in a vehicle crash on the way to the awards. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The recipient had been killed 3 months earlier. 15. The double and triple rings on a dartboard are alternative sections of red and what colour? A) Yellow. B) Blue. C) Green. D) Black. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Green. 16. Which of these is a word for the irrational fear of women? A) Gynophobia. B) Glossophobia. C) Venustraphobia. D) Ephebiphobia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gynophobia. 17. Which of these is a method of preserving milk? A) Micturition. B) Maturation. C) Pasteurisation. D) Homogenisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pasteurisation. 18. Daniel O'Connell did what in 1828 and 1829 as part of a campaign to remove the restrictions on Roman Catholics in the UK? A) He stood for election. B) He broke windows in the Houses of Parliament. C) Tried to hang himself in prison. D) Attempted assassinations of the Prime Minister. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He stood for election. 19. What is the next in the series:Williamsburg Bridge, Rutgers Street Tunnel, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge? A) Joralemon Street Tunnel. B) Clark Street Tunnel. C) Montague Street Tunnel. D) Cranberry Street Tunnel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cranberry Street Tunnel. 20. America's Cup races are competed in or on what? A) The deep sea. B) The air. C) Up mountains. D) The seas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The seas. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books