This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 918 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 918 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The root of the word "carotid", as used for arteries carrying blood to the head, is the Greek for what? A) Throat. B) Throb. C) Crown. D) Stupor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stupor. 2. What are the Roaring Twenties, also known as Années Folles and Golden Twenties? A) A Canadian national park for moose and deer. B) Strong trade winds. C) Period after the teenage years. D) The 1920s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The 1920s. 3. "Aegrotocatellus jaggeri", an extinct marine arthropod which disappeared about 250 million years ago, is named after whom? A) A German rifleman. B) Jagger Cates. C) Mick Jagger. D) A native American tribe from the Florida coast. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mick Jagger. 4. What is the capital of the province of Manitoba, Canada? A) Fredericton. B) Brandon. C) St Boniface. D) Winnipeg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Winnipeg. 5. A July 2016 Oxford University study as well as a 2021 study for the Council of Foreign Relations focussed on the costs, or the cost/benefit, of what international enterprise? A) Formula One racing. B) The British Stock Market. C) Olympic Games. D) Wimbledon Tennis Championship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Olympic Games. 6. How many members are there in the German Federal Council, the Bundesrat? A) 630. B) 577. C) 69. D) 315. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 69. 7. Where are the Wahibah Sands? A) Algeria. B) Namibia. C) Oman. D) Chile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oman. 8. Which African country is the largest in area? A) South Africa. B) Sudan. C) Algeria. D) Sierra Leone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Algeria. 9. What is the capital of Malta? A) Valetta. B) Stanley. C) Birkirkara. D) Mdina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Valetta. 10. A "Howitzer" is a type of what? A) Aeroplane. B) Dog. C) Gun. D) Cooked duck. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gun. 11. Which lake, the largest in Central Europe, is sometimes referred to as the "Hungarian Sea" ? A) Taferlklaussee. B) Irrsee. C) Balaton. D) Vadkert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Balaton. 12. According to the Bible's old testament, what was deciphered by Daniel? A) The Rosetta stone. B) The writing on the wall. C) The Da Vinci Code. D) The Dead Sea Scrolls. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The writing on the wall. 13. During 2017 and 2018 there were tit-for-tat expulsions of large numbers of diplomats between, on the one hand, the USA and later the UK and 20 other countries, and on the other hand which country? A) Mexico. B) Canada. C) Russia. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Russia. 14. Who is the outspoken English judge on "American Idol" ? A) Simon Cowell. B) Ronnie Barker. C) Elton John. D) Fred Hoyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simon Cowell. 15. A type of simple gentle profile portrait popular in the 18th century in Europe was called a silhouette, deriving the name from what? A) An example from studies in Irish literature nd history. B) Sulh, an Arabic word for "peace" as opposed to war. C) Étienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister with an 18th century austerity budget. D) Sylhet, a major city in north-eastern Bangladesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Étienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister with an 18th century austerity budget. 16. What pollinates the tubular, bright red flowers of the Salvia coccinea (known as Texas Sage, Scarlet Sage, or Blood Sage), a species of flowering plant native to the south of North America, the Caribbean, and the north of South America? A) Tsetse flies. B) Killer bees. C) Hummingbirds. D) Prairie dogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hummingbirds. 17. Living examples of one of the rarest and most primitive flowering plants, the Idiot Tree, are found where? A) Amazon rainforest, South America. B) Queensland, Australia. C) Lappland, north Sweden. D) Central Borneo, Indonesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Queensland, Australia. 18. During WW II German official policy was developed to eliminate all Jews and all Gypsies, as well as actively eliminate homosexuals and those deemed mentally defective. As well as 6 million Jews it is generally accepted that the Nazi regime was responsible for a further how many deaths under these policies? A) 1.5 million. B) Half a million. C) 100, 000. D) About 10 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) About 10 million. 19. A major canal link between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was named what? A) Trilby. B) Boater. C) Panama. D) Pork pie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Panama. 20. Kyūdō is the Japanese martial art of what? A) Swordsmanship. B) Archery. C) Use of the jitte. D) Bayonet fighting. 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